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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

Superconductors: zero resistivity, critical Summative 60%
field, Meissner effect, BCS model, Assessment:
Examples of superconducting materials, Continuous 40%
high temperature superconductors. Assessment:

Assessment Method: SIF3012 COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS (3
Summative 60% CREDITS)
Assessment:
Continuous 40% Ordinary Differential Equations: boundary-
Assessment: value and eigenvalue problems.
Matrices: matrix eigenvalue problems.
SIF3009 PLASMA PHYSICS AND Partial Differential Equations: Elliptic,
TECHNOLOGY(3 CREDITS) parabolic and hyperbolic equations.
Probabilistic Methods: Random numbers,
Fundamentals of Plasma Physics, random walks, Metropolis algorithm,
introduction to plasma theory. Methods of Monte Carlo simulation, Ising model.
plasma generation in direct current,
alternating current and pulsed mode. Assessment Method:
Plasma diagnostics. Physics and technology Summative 0%
of non-thermal plasmas and pulsed Assessment:
plasmas. Application of plasma Continuous 100%
technology: Plasma processing, plasma- Assessment:
based lighting systems, and plasma fusion.
SIF3019 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES (3
Assessment Method: CREDITS)
Summative 60%
Assessment: Discussion related to semiconductor: p-n
Continuous 40% junction. Semiconductor devices and their
Assessment: operation principles: p-n diodes, Metal-
semiconductor junction: Schottky & Ohmic
SIF3011 QUANTUM MECHANICS II (3 contact, Schottky diode, Field Effect
CREDITS) Transistor, LED, Solid state Laser,
photodiode & Solar cell, Microwave
Formal framework: Hilbert space, devices & diodes (Tunnel diode, IMPATT
symmetries and conservation laws, diode, etc), Device fabrication
propagators and Green’s function. (photolithography, metallization, etc).
Approximation methods: Time-dependent
perturbation theory, variational principle, Assessment Method:
WKB approximation, adiabatic Summative 60%
approximation. Assessment:
Scattering theory: Partial wave analysis, Continuous 40%
Born approximation, S matrix. Assessment:
Relativistic quantum mechanics: Klein-
Gordon equation, Dirac equation and SIF3020 QUANTUM OPTICS AND
electromagnetic interaction. TECHNOLOGY (3 CREDITS)

Assessment Method: Atom-photon Interactions: Interaction
Hamiltonian; Unitary transformation;

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