Syllabus
- X-rays: X-ray diffraction: estimation of crystallographic parameters, X-ray fluorescence: elemental identification of given samples (9 hours)
- Optical absorption spectra of materials, estimation of (direct / indirect) band-gap (6 hours)
- Hall effect: estimation of carrier concentration, Hall voltage and carrier mobility (9 hours).
- Zeeman effect (6 hours)
- Temperature-dependent current measurements: estimation of activation energy (6 hours)
- Raman spectrometer: stokes and anti-stokes lines (6 hours)
- Rydberg constant: hydrogen spectrum – different series (6 hours)
- Curie temperature of a ferrite: Inductance technique (9 hours)
- Magnetic susceptibility measurement using Quincke's Method (6 hours)
- Electrical conductivity by two and four probe method of semi conducting crystals (6 hours)
- Band gap studies of LEDs using Newton’s rings method (6 hours)
- Vacuum techniques (6 hours)
- Virtual Instrumentation (6 hours)
- NMR spectroscopy of selected materials (9 hours)
- ESR Spectroscopy of selected materials (9 hours).
Text Books
Same as Reference
References
1.A Textbook of Quantum Mechanics, Mathews and Venkatesan, Tata- McGraw Hill Publications.
2.Quantum mechanics, Eugen Merzbacher, Wiley Publishing group.
3.Modern quantum mechanics, J. J. Sakurai, Addison-Wesley Publishing.
4.Quantum Mechanics, Leonard I. Schiff, McGraw-Hill Publishing.
5.Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Nanotechnology and information Science, Band and Avishai, Elsevier Publications.