0.5 Syllabus of ec1419a_electrical and electronic materials science

EC 1x19A Electrical&Electronic Material

Revised Syllabus with effect from session 2011-12

L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3

1. Band Theory of Solids- Energy Band Diagram, E-k diagram, reduced E-k diagram, insulators, semiconductors and conductors [6 lectures]

2. Dielectric Behaviour of Materials: polarization, dielectric constant at low frequency and high frequency, dielectric loss, piezo electricity and ferro electricity [6 lectures];

3. Magnetic Behaviour of Materials- diamagnetism, para magnetism, ferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism; soft and hard magnetic materials and their applications [6 lectures]

4. Semiconductor- single crystal, polycrystal and amorphous; Fermi-Dirac Distribution; Hall Effect; Intrinsic and Extrinsic; N-type and P-type; Crystal Growth-(1) preparation of electronic grade polycrystal in Siemen‘s Reactor (2) Czochrarloski Method and Float Zone Method of bulk single crystal ingot preparation(3) mirror finished wafer preparation (4) Epitaxial Film Growth- Chemical Vapour Phase Deposition&Liquid Phase Epitaxy (5) Molecular Beam Epitaxy [12 lectures]

5. Concept of Phonons- quantization of lattice vibration [2 lectures]

6. Special classification of Semiconductor Materials- degenerate (semi-metal) and non-degenerate semiconductor; elemental and compound semiconductor; direct and indirect band gap material [3 lectures]

7. Superconductors- low and high temperature (YBaCuO) superconductors; Meissner Effect, applications [3 lectures]

8. Special Materials: Nano materials (ZnO, TiO2, buckeyball carbon and graphene), semiconducting polymers, flexible electronic materials, meta materials, smart materials.

Text Book:

References:

1. Principles of Electric Engineering Materials and Devices by S.O. Kasp, McGraw Hill;

2. Structures and Properties of Materials Vol VI, electronic properties by Robert M. Rose, Lawrence A. Shepherd and John Wulf, Wiley Eastern ltd;