PHYSICS LABORATORY III
Stampa
Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic year
2020/2021
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
FIS/01 (EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Course
PHYSICS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (05/10/2020 - 20/01/2021)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
MARABELLI FRANCO (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Basic notions of electromagnetism are requested, in particular concerning the electronic transport in conducting materials. Some experiments will recover optics problems studied in the course of Electromagnetism II. Some quantum physics concepts will be taken from the parallel quantum mechanics course.
Learning outcomes
Learning of the physical working principles of the main microelectronics and optoelectronics devices.
The target of the course is to get the student aquainted with some common electronic and optoelectronic devices used in research laboratories.
Starting from this knowledge, applied to some simple optics esperiments, the student should become able to manage independently a laboratory task.
Course contents
Generalities about semiconductors. Fundamentals of electronic devices and their circuital properties: Junction diodes, bipolar transistor, field effect transistor. Elements of optics and optoelectronic and photonic applications, LEDs and semiconductor lasers.
The course will be developed with practical exercises on simple circuits and basic optical configurations including polarization and diffraction.
Teaching methods
frontal lessons, aimed at explaining the physics principles on the basis of the device working, will introduce the laboratory activities. These will consist in a series of proposed experiments performed independently by the students. The proposal is to make the students familiar with the practice and the problems of the laboratory work.
Reccomended or required readings
Specific notes regarding the treated topics will be uploaded on the Kiro platform. As for the electronic devices a reference book is:
Microelectronic Circuits (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering), A.S. Sedra, K.C. Smith, Oxford University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0195323033 |.
Assessment methods
Written and Oral examination.
The examination is based on a written report on the performed experiments and on a multiple choice test aimed at evaluating the acquisition and comprehension of the mere practical activities.
The oral test is devoted to verify the understanding of the physics of devices.
Further information
Due to the Covid emergency and in order to fulfill the requested distance constraints, during the AA 2020/21 the students will perform the laboratory activities independently. They will be assignd to groups correspponding to the scheduled tournover of the different lessons and experiments.
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