Course credit: 3
This course broadly comprises (i) solid-state and device electronics, and (ii) digital electronics.
Course structure is given below and designed for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.
Semiconductors in Equilibrium: electron and hole statistics in intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors; PN diodes, bipolar junction transistors, field effect transistors (JFET and MOSFET); metal-semiconductor junctions; Ohmic and rectifying contacts; negative and positive feedback circuits; oscillators, operational amplifiers, active filters; basics of digital logic circuits, combinational and sequential circuits, flip-flops; timers, counters, registers, A/D and D/A conversion.
Course credit: 3
Course structure is designed for M.Sc. students to have hands on experience of different electronics experiments.
Course credit: 1 (my portion)
This course delivers basics of electronic devices.
Course structure is given below and designed for B. Tech first year students.
Semiconductor Diode, V-I characteristics of Diode, Half-Wave and Full-Wave Rectifier Circuits. Transistors: Bipolar Junction Transistor, MOSFET: Biasing, Small Signal model, Amplifiers Operational Amplifiers: Ideal Op-Amp, Application of Op-Amp.
Course credit: 3
This course delivers different aspect involved in science and technology of thin films.
Course structure is given below and designed for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.
Introduction to thin films and their relevance: Introduction to vacuum science and technology, gas transport and pumping systems, pressure measurements; Physics of thin film deposition: adsorption, surface deposition, nucleation, growth and structure development, surface structure, role of surfaces, epitaxial growth, lattice mismatch, strain and growth modes; Various thin film fabrication techniques: physical and chemical vapour deposition methods, electrospinning, dry and wet etching, electrodeposition, spray pyrolysis, spin-coating, Langmuir-Blodgett technique; Phase transformations in thin film