SYLLABUS FOR M.Sc. (APPLIED PHYSICS)
with specialization in ELECTRONICS OR SEMICONDUCTORS

SEMESTER II

Number Systems, Binary Arithmetic, Digital Signals and Switches, Boolean Algebra and Logic Systems, Logic Gates, Logic Gate Families and Specifications, Flip Flop, Shift Registers, Counters, Arithmetic Logic Operation, Memories, Multiplexing and Demultiplexing, Codes, Encoding, Decoding and Displays, D/A and A/D Conversion. Digital Systems

FUNDAMENTALS OF NUMERICAL METHODS:  Basic Recursion Formulas and Successive Approximation, Number Representation, Floating Point Arithmetic, Errors in Numerical Computation.

SOLUTION OF NON-LINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS:  Linear Interpolation, Bisection Section Method, Secant Method, Newton-Raphson Methods, Lin-Baristow Method.

SOLUTION OF LINEAR ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS:  Guass and Guass-Jordan elimination Methods, Crouts Method, Application to the evaluation of determinants and inversion of Matrices, Guass Siedel and Jacobi iteration Methods, Matrix equations, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.

AMPLITUDE MODULATION PRINCIPLES:   Modulation, Power Relationships, Component Phasors of the AM wave, Width Modulation, Low Level Modulation, Neutralization, Transmitter Adjustments, Trapezoid Patterns, Antenna Current, separation of Sidebands, Balanced Modulators, Ring Modulators, Filters.

AM RADIO RECEIVERS: Superheterodyne Receiver, Double-conversion Receivers, Receiver Circuits, The front End, IF Amplifiers, AM Detectors, Automatic Gain Control, Audio Amplifiers, Squelch, Receiver Schematics, Loudspeakers, Pilot Carrier Receivers, Independent Sideband Receivers, AM Stereo.

FREQUENCY MODULATION PRINCIPLES:   Modulated Wave, FM Radio, Frequency Band, Direct Frequency Modulation, Indirect Frequency Modulation (Phase Modulation), Carrier Phase in the Frequency-Modulated Wave.

FM TRANSMITTERS & RECEIVERS:   Carrier Oscillator, Frequency Changers, Power Amplifiers, Feedback Frequency Control, Phase Modulator, Carrier Null, Transmitter adjustments, RF Amplifier, Local Oscillator, Mixer Amplifier, IF Amplifiers, Limiters, FM Detectors, Stereo FM, FM Receiver Alignment.

ANTENNAS:  Half-Wave Dipole Antenna, Folded Dipole Antenna, Turnstile Antenna, Parabolic Reflectors, Parasitic Array Antenna.

TELEVISION:  Scanning Principles, Deflection Systems, Video Camera Tubes, Video Picture Signal, Vestigial Sideband Transmission, TV Receiver Front END, Color TV Receivers.

SEMICONDUCTOR STATISTICS:   Elemental and Compound Semiconductors, Structures, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors, Shallow and Deep Impurities, Non-degenerate and Degenerate Semiconductors, Calculation of Doping Densities and The Fermi Level, Mobility, Conductivity and Life Time of Carriers.

EXCESS CARRIERS IN SEMICONDUCTORS:  Thermal Equilibrium, Injection Phenomena, Decay o Excess Carriers, Generation and Recombination Mechanisms.

PN-JUNCTION:  Homo Junction, Abrupt and Linear PN Junctions, Depletion Region and Their Characteristics, PN Junction, Breakdown Mechanisms, PIN Diodes, SCR's, DIAC's and TRIAC's.

TRANSISTORS:  Bi-Junctions Transistors, Modes of Operations, Injection Efficiency, Gain etc., Transistors Modeling, Frequency Performance, HF Transistors.

SCHOTTKY BARRIERS:  Metal Semiconductor Contacts, Schottky Barriers, Parameters Affecting Barrier Height, Current Transport Theories.

FILED EFFECT TRANSISTORS:  FET's , MESFETS, MOS, Diode MOSFETS's, Frequ3ncy performance of the devices.

Direct Coupled Amplifier, RC Coupled Amplifier, Darlington Pair Amplifier, Differential Amplifier, Silicon Controller Rectifier Circuit, Logic Gates, Flip Flops, Registers & Counters. Encoder & Decoder Circuits, Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Circuits, Memory and Tri-sate Buffer Circuits.