ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
REGULATIONS – 2017
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

PH8253 PHYSICS FOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

(Common to BME, ME, CC, ECE, EEE, E&I, ICE)

UNIT I ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Wiedemann-Franz law

Fermi- Dirac statistics

Bloch thorem

Energy bands in solids

UNIT II SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS

Carrier concentration in intrinsic semiconductors and extrinsic semiconductors

Hall effect and devices

Breakdown in p-n junctions

UNIT III MAGNETIC AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Microscopic classification of magnetic materials

Clausius-Mosotti relation

Dielectric breakdown

UNIT IV OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Classification of optical materials

Photo current in a P- N diode

Laser diodes

UNIT V NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES

Density of states in quantum well

Single electron phenomena and Single electron Transistor

Properties and applications of Carbon nanotubes