ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS
 REGULATIONS – 2017

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

PH8252 PHYSICS FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE (Common to CSE & IT)

UNIT I ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Wiedemann-Franz law

Particle in a three dimensional box

Fermi- Dirac statistics

UNIT II SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS

Carrier concentration in N-type & P-type semiconductors

Carrier transport in Semiconductor

Variation of carrier concentration with temperature

UNIT III MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Domain Theory

Hard and soft magnetic materials examples and uses

UNIT IV OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS

Carrier generation and recombination processes

Laser diodes

UNIT V NANO DEVICES

Density of states in quantum well, quantum wire and quantum dot structure

Properties and applications of Carbon nano tubes