Materials Science detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the IEM students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Industrial Engineering & Management 2nd Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IEM 2nd Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of materials science is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 9 Crystal structures: BCC, FCC and HCP – directions and planes – linear and planar densities – crystal imperfections- edge and screw dislocations – grain and twin boundaries – Burgers vector and elastic strain energy- Slip systems, plastic deformation of materials -Polymorphism – phase changes – nucleation and growth – homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation.
Unit II
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Unit III
SEMICONDUCTORS AND TRANSPORT PHYSICS 9 Intrinsic Semiconductors – Energy band diagram – direct and indirect band gap semiconductors – Carrier concentration in intrinsic semiconductors – extrinsic semiconductors – Carrier concentration in N-type & P-type semiconductors – Variation of carrier concentration with temperature – Carrier transport in Semiconductors: Drift, mobility and diffusion – Hall effect and devices – Ohmic contacts – Schottky diode.
Unit IV
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Unit V
NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES 9 Quantum confinement – Quantum structures – quantum wells, wires and dots – Zener-Bloch oscillations – Resonant tunneling – quantum interference effects – mesoscopic structures -Single electron phenomena – Single electron Transistor. Semiconductor photonic structures – 1D, 2D and 3D photonic crystal. Active and passive optoelectronic devices – photo processes – spintronics – carbon nanotubes: Properties and applications.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- V.Raghavan. Materials Science and Engineering: A First Course, Prentice Hall India Learning Private Limited, 2015.
- S.O. Kasap, Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, Mc-Graw Hill, 2018.
- Jasprit Singh, Semiconductor Devices: Basic Principles, Wiley (India), 2007.
- Jasprit Singh, Semiconductor Optoelectronics: Physics and Technology, Mc-Graw Hill India (2019)
- G.W.Hanson. Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics. Pearson Education (Indian Edition), 2009.
Reference Books:
- R.Balasubramaniam, Callisters Materials Science and Engineering. Wiley (Indian Edition), 2014.
- Wendelin Wright and Donald Askeland, Essentials of Materials Science and Engineering, CL Engineering, 2013.
- Robert F.Pierret, Semiconductor Device Fundamentals, Pearson, 2006
- Pallab Bhattacharya, Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, Pearson, 2017
- Ben Rogers, Jesse Adams and Sumita Pennathur, Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems, CRC Press, 2017.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Industrial Engineering & Management, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit IEM 2nd Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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