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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2023/2024

Electro-optics effect; Acousto-optics effect; Pockels effect; Optical modulators: Phase,
polarization and amplitude; Bit rate and bandwidth; Transmitter and receiver modules types for
optical communications; Optical storage; Optical imaging (CCD and CMOS); Physics of Solar
Cells.

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

SIF3007 ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)

Feynman diagrams, electromagnetic and weak forces, fundamental particles and forces, natural
units; Leptons and neutrino oscillations; Quarks and hadrons; Symmetries : C, P and T, C, P
and CP violations, and CPT; Quark model: isospin symmetry and bound states; Relativistic
kinematics: four-vector and cross section; QCD: asymptotic freedom, jets and elastic lepton-
nucleon scattering; Inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering: parton model, structure functions and
scaling violation; Weak interaction: charged and neutral currents, quark mixing, electroweak
unification and Higgs boson; Experimental methods

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

SIF3008 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)

Conducting Materials (electronic & ionic conductivity, mobility, electron dispersion mechanism);
Semiconductors: band structure (Intrinsic and extrinsic properties); Electrical properties
(conductivity, mobility, electron dispersion mechanism); Optical properties; Photoconductivity;
Insulating Materials: dielectric constant, polarization; AC & DC conductivities; hopping
mechanism; Piezoelectric; Ferroelectric, Pyroelectric; Magnetic materials: basic theory;
magnetic susceptibility; types of magnetic properties, magnetic resonance; ferromagnetism;
spintronics. Superconductors: zero resistivity, critical field, Meissner effect, BCS model,
Examples of superconducting materials, high temperature superconductors.

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

SIF3009 PLASMA PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY(3 CREDITS)

Fundamentals of Plasma Physics, introduction to plasma theory. Methods of plasma generation
in direct current, alternating current and pulsed mode. Plasma diagnostics. Physics and
technology of non-thermal plasmas and pulsed plasmas. Application of plasma technology:
Plasma processing, plasma-based lighting systems, and plasma fusion.

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%

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