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Solid State Technology Lab I

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Course
Postgraduate
Semester
Sem. I
Subject Code
PH633

Syllabus

  1. X-rays: X-ray diffraction: estimation of crystallographic parameters, X-ray fluorescence: elemental identification of given samples (9 hours)
  2. Optical absorption spectra of materials, estimation of (direct / indirect) band-gap (6 hours)
  3. Hall effect: estimation of carrier concentration, Hall voltage and carrier mobility (9 hours).
  4. Zeeman effect (6 hours)
  5. Temperature-dependent current measurements: estimation of activation energy (6 hours)
  6. Raman spectrometer: stokes and anti-stokes lines (6 hours)
  7. Rydberg constant: hydrogen spectrum – different series (6 hours)
  8. Curie temperature of a ferrite: Inductance technique (9 hours)
  9. Magnetic susceptibility measurement using Quincke's Method (6 hours)
  10. Electrical conductivity by two and four probe method of semi conducting crystals (6 hours)
  11. Band gap studies of LEDs using Newton’s rings method (6 hours)
  12. Vacuum techniques (6 hours)
  13. Virtual Instrumentation (6 hours)
  14. NMR spectroscopy of selected materials (9 hours)
  15. 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.