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ENEE203

Electrical Engineering Material

Syllabus

  1. Elementary Quantum Mechanics (6 hours)
    1. Wave particle duality and De-Broglie relation, wave number and wave function
    2. Schrodinger equation and its significance, operators and notation
    3. Quantum leak, effective mass of electron
    4. Crystalline structure, simple, body centered and face centered cubic structures
  2. Modern Theory of Solids (8 hours)
    1. Degenerated and density of states
    2. Fermi energy and significance, contact potential, Seebeck effect
    3. Boltzmann and Fermi-Dirac statistics
    4. Population density and number of electrons, conduction in metals
    5. Thermionic emission: Richardson Dushman equation, Schottky effect
    6. Molecular orbital bonding theory and band theory of solids
  3. Dielectric Materials (7 hours)
    1. Matter polarization and relative permittivity: Electric dipole moment, polarization, local electric field and Lorentz equation, Clausius-Mossotti equation
    2. Types of polarization: Electronic, Ionic, dipolar, interfacial
    3. Dielectric loss and frequency dependence
    4. Dielectric strength, dielectric breakdown in solids and gases
    5. Ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity
  4. Magnetic Materials (8 hours)
    1. Magnetization of matter: Magnetic dipole moment, atomic magnetic moment, magnetization, relative permeability
    2. Classification of magnetic materials: Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism and anti-ferromagnetism
    3. Magnetic domains, domain wall motion, magnetostriction
    4. Hysteresis and Eddy current loss, demagnetization and deperming process
    5. Soft and hard magnetic materials: Examples and applications
  5. Superconductivity (6 hours)
    1. Zero resistance, Meissner effect and isotope effect
    2. London equation and penetration depth
    3. Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory and cooper pairs
    4. Critical current density and Silsbee rule
    5. Types of superconductors: Type I and II
  6. Semiconductors (10 hours)
    1. Electron hole pair generation in semiconductors, generation and recombination
    2. Pure and impure semiconductors, types of doping and compensation doping
    3. Direct and Indirect band gap semiconductors, degenerate and non degenerate semiconductors
    4. Diffusion and Einstein relationship
    5. PN junction: Built in potential expression and depletion width, forward and reverse biased PN junction, band bending theory
    6. Introduction to wide band gap semiconductors: SiC and GaN