Physics
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Physics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Physics (subject code 3110018) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 1 divides the course into 2 units, covering 24 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3110018)Unit 1 ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
- Free electron theory Density of states and energy band diagrams
- Kronig-Penny model (to introduce origin of band gap)
- Energy bands in solids
- Direct and indirect bandgaps
- Types of electronic materials: metals
- Density of states
- Occupation probability
- Fermi level
- Effective mass
Unit 2 SEMICONDUCTORS (10)
- Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors Dependence of Fermi level on carrier-concentration and temperature (equilibrium carrier statistics) Carrier generation and recombination
- Carrier transport: diffusion and drift
- Metal-semiconductor junction (Ohmic and Schottky)
- Semiconductor materials of interest for optoelectronicdevices 10 27% 3 MODULE 3: LIGHT-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERACTION Optical transitions in bulk semiconductors: absorption
- spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission
- Joint density of states Density of states for photons
- Transition rates (Fermi's golden rule) Optical loss and gain
- Photovoltaic effect
- Exciton Drude model. 6 17% 4 Module 4: Measurements Four-point probe and Van Der Pauw measurements for carrier density
- Resistivity and hall mobility Hot-point probe measurement
- capacitance-voltage measurements
- Parameter extraction from diode I-V characteristics
- band gap by UV-Vis spectroscopy
- absorption/transmission. 17% GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING SYLLABUS 1st Year
- Subject Code : 3110018 https://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Page 3 5 Module 5: Superconductivity Introduction of Superconductivity Properties of superconductor Effect of magnetic field Meissner effect Pressure effect Impurity effect Isotopic mass effect Mechanism of Superconductivity : BCS Theory Penetration depth : Magnetic field Josephson's junction and its application Application of superconductors