UNIT 1:
Single Crystals; unit cell, crystal systems
Single Crystalline, Poly Crystalline and Amorphous materials
Bravais Lattice, Direction and planes in a crystal
Miller indices, Interplanar Distance
Coordination number &packing factor for Simple cubic and BCC structures
Crystal imperfections –point & line imperfections
Surface and Volume imperfections
UNIT 2:
Conductors: classical free electron theory – electrical conductivity
Success and failures of classical free electron theory
Fermi distribution function
Density of energy states for a metal
Superconductors and properties
Meissner effect – type I & II superconductors
UNIT 3:
Intrinsic Semiconductors, Energy band diagram
Photo detectors (PIN & Avalanche).
Direct and indirect band gap semiconductors
Carrier concentration in intrinsic semiconductors
Hall effect ,Determination of hall coefficient and application
UNIT 4:
Basic concepts, magnetic moment, susceptibility, permeability
Origin of magnetic moment, Bohr magneton
Dia,Para and Ferro magnetism
Domain theory of ferro magnetism
Soft and hard magnetic materials
Antiferromagnetic materials
Ferrites and its applications
Magnetic storage devices- magnetic hard disc Bubble memory.
