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Assessment Method:
I-V characteristics of gaseous discharge, Townsend theory of gaseous Final Examination: 60%
discharge, Breakdown criterion, Paschen law, Breakdown potential, Continuous Assessment: 40%
Glowing gaseous discharge, Arc discharge, Corona discharge, Pulsed
discharge, The structure of glowing discharge, Cathode fall theory of References:
normal glow discharge, Negative glow, Positive column and its theory,
Hot cathode discharge. Plasma diagnostic technique. Electric probe. 1. Thomas L. Floyd, Digital Fundamentals, 11 edition (Pearson, 2014)
Thermodynamics of ionized gas. Real gas effect, Equation of state, The 2. R.L. Tokheim, Digital Electronics: Principles and applications, 8th
ed. (Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2013)
Law of Mass Action, Departure coefficient, Thermodynamic functions 3. W. Kleitz, Digital and Microprocessor Fundamentals: Theory and
expressed in term of z, Saha equation, Enthalpy equation. Survey of Applications, 4th ed. (Pearson Education Int’l, 2003)
plasma applications.
4. P.P.W. Chandana, Digital systems fundamentals (Prentice Hall,
Assessment Method: 2002)
Final Examination: 60% 5. Anant Agarwal, Jeffrey Lang, Foundations of Analog and Digital
Continuous Assessment: 40% Electronic Circuits (Morgan Kaufmann, 2015)
6. Charles A. Schuler, Electronics: Principles and Applications
References: (McGraw-Hill, 2019)
1. CS Wong & R Mongkolnavin, Elements of Plasma Technology
(Springer, 2016)
2. M. Keidar & II Beilis, Plasma Engineering (Academic Press, 2013) SIF3006 OPTOELECTRONICS (3 CREDITS)
3. YP Raizer, JE Allen (Ed), Gas Discharge Physics (Springer, 2001) Nature of light; Optical interferometer; Dielectric mirror; Diffraction
4. JR Roth, Industrial Plasma Engineering, Vol I (IOP, 1995)
5. B Chapman, Glow Discharge Processes (Wiley, 1980) gratings; P-N junctions; Principles and characteristics of photodetectors;
6. JR Roth, Industrial Plasma Engineering, Vol II (CRC Press, 2019) PIN and avalanche photodiodes; Photon counters; Single photon
detectors and Photo Multiplier Tube; Light emitting diodes;
Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Electro-optics effect; Acousto-optics effect; Pockels effect; Optical
SIF2020 ELECTRONICS II (3 CREDITS) modulators: Phase, polarization and amplitude; Bit rate and bandwidth;

The synopsis of Field Effect Transistors (FET) and various FET (JFET & Transmitter and receiver modules types for optical communications;
MOSFET). Small-signal A.C. equivalent circuits for BJT & FET. gm A.C. Optical storage; Optical imaging (CCD and CMOS); Physics of Solar
Cells.
small signal model. Input and output impedances calculation. Voltage
and current gains calculation. The frequency response of circuits. The Assessment Method:
capacitive effects. The definition of dB unit. Final Examination: 60%
The -3dB frequencies. The Bode plot. The operational amplifier topics Continuous Assessment: 40%
covering the basic building block circuits of operational amplifiers
including the inverting and non-inverting amplifiers. Current to voltage References:
and voltage to current converters. Subtracting and summing circuits. 1. S. O. Kasap, Optoelectronics and Photonics: Principles & Practices
Integrators and differentiators. Analysis and applications to comparators.
Oscillators. Active filters. Analogue computers. The power amplifiers (Pearson Education, 2013)
including the classification of A, B, AB, C and D. The A.C. load line. The 2. G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communications, 3rd ed. (McGraw-Hill
push and pull concept. Cross-over distortion. Efficiency calculations and Book Co., 2000)
comparison. Introduction to digital electronics. Basic gates. Multivibrator 3. J. Piprek, Optoelectronic Devices (Academic Press, 2013)
4. S. C. Gupta, Optoelectronics Devices and Systems, 2nd Ed. (PHI
circuits. Learning, 2014)

Assessment Method: 5. J. P. Dakin, R. Brown, Handbook of Optoelectronics: Concepts,
Final Examination: 60% Devices and Techniques, volume I (CRC Press, 2018)
Continuous Assessment: 40%
SIF3007 ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
References:
1. R. Boylestad & L. Nashelsky, Electronic Devices and Circuit
Theory, 11th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2012) Feynman diagrams, electromagnetic and weak forces, fundamental
2. T.L. Floyd & D. Buchla, Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, particles and forces, natural units; Leptons and neutrino oscillations;
Quarks and hadrons; Symmetries : C, P and T, C, P and CP violations,
Devices, and Applications (Prentice Hall, 2013) and CPT; Quark model: isospin symmetry and bound states; Relativistic
3. A.P. Malvino & D. Bates, Electronic Principles with simulation CD kinematics: four-vector and cross section; QCD: asymptotic freedom,
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
4. A.J. Diefenderfer & B.E. Holton, Principles of Electronic jets and elastic lepton-nucleon scattering; Inelastic lepton-nucleon
Instrumentation, 3rd Edition (Saunders Coll. Publ., 1994) scattering: parton model, structure functions and scaling violation; Weak
5. Y. Poplavko, Electronic Materials: Principles and Applied Science interaction: charged and neutral currents, quark mixing, electroweak
unification and Higgs boson; Experimental methods
(Elsevier, 2018)
Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
SIF2021 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS (3 CREDITS) Continuous Assessment: 40%

Digital number system: binary, octal, hexadecimal, binary coded decimal References:
Logic gates: AND, OR NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR; logic gates TTL 1. Brian R. Martin & Graham Shaw, Particle Physics (Wiley, 2008)
Logic circuits: Boolean algebra, truth table for Boolean expression, 2. D. Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles (Wiley, 1987)
derivation circuit from Boolean expression
Karnaugh map simplification with three, four and five variables 3. D.H. Perkins, Introduction to high energy physics (Cambridge Univ.
Press, 2000)
TTL chip specification, CMOS, interface, 4. Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics by Alessandro Bettini
Schmitt Trigger: Function and functional (2014)
Combinational logic circuit: half adders, full adder, binary multiplication 5. Modern Particle Physics by Mark Thomson (2013)
Sequential logic: SR, JK, D, T flip flops
Register: parallel, series, shifter, ring counter, frequency divider 6. Elementary Particle Physics, Volume 2 by Yorikiyo Nagashima
(2013)
Memory: RAM, ROM, PROM etc 7. Michael E. Peskin, Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics
Digital device, PLD, PAL, PLC, micro-controller (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Analog digital interface

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