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

SEMESTER IV

Light sources and Detectors, Electro-Optics Devices, Modulation of Light, Fiber Optical Waveguides, Optical Fiber transmission, Optical Fiber Measurement, Passive Components for Optical Coupling, Optical Information Processing, Optical computing, Optoelectronic, Integrated Circuits.

THE 8088/8086 MICROPROCESSOR:  Pinouts and the Pin Functions, Clock Circuitry, Bus Buffering and Latching, Bus Timing, Ready and the Wait Sate,Minimum Mode Versus Maximum Mode.

MEMORY INTERFACING:  Memory Devices, Address Decoding, 8088/8086 Memory Interface, Dynamic RAM Controllers, Memory Testing.

BASIC I/O INTERFACE CIRCUITS:  Basic I/O interface,   I/O Port Address Decoding, The 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface, The 8279 Programmable Keyboard/Display Interface, 8254 Programmable Interrupt Controller.

INTERRUPTS:  Interrupt processing, Hardware Interrupts, Expanding the interrupt structure, 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller.

DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS:  Introduction to DMA, The 8257-5 DMA Controller, DMA Processed Printer Interface.

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS:  Introduction, Analog to Digital Conversion Basics, Major Considerations for Data Acquisitions systems, Analog to Digital Converters, ADC performance parameters, ADC code, Sample & Hold circuits, Analog Multiplexers, Analog Signal isolation, Designing of a Data Acquisition system.

MICROPROCESSOR BASED COMMUNICATION:  Introduction to Digital Communication, Serial Communication Interface Adapters, The 8251 Communications Interface Adapter, The RS-232C Interface Standard, Current Loops, Data Transmission Methods, Modems, IEEE-488 General Purpose instrumentation Bus (GIPB), NEC 7210 GPIB Communication Interface.

Perquisite : Appl. Phys. 653

TRANSMISSION LINES:   Fundamental of transmission lines, Characteristics impedance, Loss in transmission Lines,  Standing wave, Quarter and Half Ware length lines, Transmission Line Components.

RADIATION AND WAVE PROPAGATION:   Electromagnetic Radiation and Effects of Environment, ground Waves, Sky Waves, Space Waves, Tropospeheric scatter propagation, Extraterrestrial Communication.

MICROWAVE COMPONENTS:   Wave Guides, Types of wave guides, Microwave filters, Methods of exciting wave guides, Multiple junctions, Impudence matching and tuning, Microwave Tubes and circuits, Multi cavity Klystron and Magnetron, TWT.

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS:   Antenna Coupling, Directional High Frequency Antenna, Microwave Antennas, horn Antennas, Lens Antennas, Wide band Antennas, Helical Antenna, Loop Antenna, Phased Array Antennas.

Pulse communication, Digital communication and Broad Band communication systems

RADAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS:   Principles, Performance Factors, Pulsed systems, Antennas and scanning, Display methods, Moving Target Indication, Radar beacons, CW Doppler Radar, FM CW Radar, Phased Array Radar, Planar Array Radar.

MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE:   Data, Precession, Accuracy, Bias, Data Presentation Techniques.

ERRORS:  Statistical treatment of errors, Curve fitting techniques.

RELIABILITY:  Factors affecting equipment reliability, Exponential law of reliability, Failure, Redundancy.

MEASUREMENT SYSTEM:  Functional Elements of instruments.  I/O Configuration, Draper-Mckay and Lees Model, Correction methods of interfering and modifying inputs.

GENERALIZED PERFORMANCE EQUATION:  Static Characteristics, Calibration Dynamic Characteristics, Zero, First and Second Order Models, Testing with standard input models.

BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION:  Basic bio-physics, Cells, Membrane axon and mussels, Electrical Properties of Biomedical Systems, ECG and EEG Measuring systems.

RADIATION EFFECTS OF INSTRUMENTATION:  Radiation effect on biological systems, Sonic, RF, Infrared Optical (LASER), Ultraviolet and X-ray radiation production and instrumentation.

CLINICAL INSTRUMENTATION:  Bio-Signal Detectors, Electrodes, Blood Analyzers, Photometry and colorimetry.

Introduction, Digital Image Fundamentals , Image Transforms, Image Enhancement, Image Encoding, Image Segmentation, Image Representation and Description, Image Compression and Different Techniques of Image Processing  for Machine Aided Analyses, Image Processing Applications.

Mathematical models of Physics Systems, Transfer function and system response, Feedback control systems, Root locus Analysis and Design, Frequency Response Analysis and Design, State Space Analysis and Design, Analogue Control Systems, Digital Control Systems, Digital Control using Microprocessors, Computer Controlled Systems.

Introduction, Telecommunication Networks, Switching, Random Processes And Statistics, Filtering, Coding Modulation, Computer Engineering Module.

COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS:   III-V and II-Vi Compounds, Structural and Physical Properties.

IMPURITIES IN SEMICONDUCTORS:  Shallow and Deep impurities, Role of Impurities in Silicon and Gallium Arsenide, Deep Levels as Generation and Recombination Center and as Traps Electrical and Optical behavior of Deep Levels, Semi-insulating gallium Arsenide.

CHARACTERIZATION OF DEEP LEVELS:  Classification of Characterization Techniques, Optical Techniques and Electrical Techniques, Detail discussion to techniques based on current and capacitance measurements.

Physics of Hetro Structures, Physics of Quantum Wells, Super Lattice, Quantum wires and Dots, Electron Transport in Microstructures, Optical Properties of Microstructures, Application of Microstructure in electronic devices

DEVELOPMENT OF MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEM:  Clock Reset and Buffering Circuits, Interfacing of Memory circuits, Interfacing of I/O ports Circuits, Display and Keyboard Circuits Interfacing.

SYSTEM APPLICATION:  Stepper Motor Controller interface, RS232C Communication Interface, Data Acquisition System Interface (Temperature Controller), Interfacing of Speech Synthesizer Circuit with the microprocessor system, Fourier synthesis of Analog Signals, Signal Averaging.