Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology

Chikkarayapuram, Near Mangadu, Chennai – 600 069.

Academic Year 2023 – 2024 / Even Semester

MODEL EXAMINATION-QB
Semester: II
Subject Code/ Name: PH3256 / Physics for Information Science
Branch: Common to CSE/IT/AI&DS
PART – A
1. What is meant by Fermi energy of metals?
2. What is effective mass of an electron?
3. For a semiconductor laser, the band is 0.8 eV. What is the wavelength of light emitted from it.
4. What is meant by ohmic contact? Give its importance in semiconducting devices.
5. Define saturation magnetization?
6. Write a short note on Giant Magnetic Resistance?
7. What is holography? Mention the importance of holographic storage.
8. Differentiate between homojunction laser and heterojunction laser.
9. Define quantum tunneling.
10. Give any four applications of quantum computing.
11. How does the classical free electron theory lead to ohm’s law?
12. Distinguish between electron rest mass and effective mass.
13. For a semiconductor laser, the band is 0.6 eV. What is the wavelength of light emitted from it.
14. How does the carrier concentration in semiconductors vary with temperature?
15. Show the magnetic dipole alignment in ferro, anti-ferro and ferromagnetism.
16. What are the magnetic domains?
17. Discuss absorption of light by semiconductor.
18. Why organic LED is called so?
19. Define the term quantum confinement.
20. List out various low dimensional systems.
Part – B
11. (i)Mention any four postulates of the classical free electron theory.
(ii) Obtain an expression for the electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity of metals on the
basis of the classical free electron theory.
12. Deduce and describe that the effective mass of an electron moving in energy bands of solid
varies with the wave vector ǩ.
 13.Obtain an expression for the density of holes in the valance band of p-type semiconductors and
show that it is proportional to the square root of the acceptor concentration at low temperature.
What is Hall effect?
14. Give the theory of Hall effect experiment to determine the Hall coefficient of semiconductor.
Mention its applications.

15. (i) Explain the hysteresis effect of a ferromagnetic material, based on domain theory.
(ii) Differentiate between hard and soft magnetic materials.

16. (i) Describe saturation magnetization and Curie temperature in ferromagnetic material.
(ii)Explain shortly M-H curve.

17. Explain the Photo detectors. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Photo detectors.

18. Explain the construction and working of a OLED with energy band diagram. Give its advantages,
disadvantages and applications.
19. Derive an expression for density of states for different quantum confined structures.

20. Describe in detail about the single electron phenomena and single electron transistor (SET) with a
neat diagram.

20. i)Explain the classical free electron model of the materials and deduce an expression for the
electrical conductivity.
ii) List out the failures and success of this model

21. (i) Contrast the terms degenerate and non-degenerate states.

(ii) Derive the energy value of a particle in a three dimensional box.

22.(a) (i) Obtain an expression for intrinsic carrier concentration in an intrinsic semiconductor.
(ii) Silicon crystal is doped with atoms 5x1020 per m3. The donor level is 0.05 eV from the
edge of the conduction band. Taking the band gap to be 1.12eV, calculate the position of the Fermi
level at 200 k.
23. What is Hall effect? Give the theory of Hall effect experiment to determine the Hall coefficient of
semiconductor. Mention its applications.

24. (i) Categorize magnetic materials and tabulate its properties and applications .
 (ii)The magnetic susceptibility of silicon is -0.4x10-5,Calculate the flux density and magnetic
moment per unit volume when filed of intensity 5x105 A/m is applied.

25. (i)Draw the Hysteresis curve of typical ferromagnetic materials and explain it through domain
concept
(ii)Identify the relevant magnetic properties used for memory storage

26. Illustrate the working and I-V characteristics of Solar cell and laser diodes.

Explain the terms associated with optical materials

(1) Luminescence
(2) Kerr effect
(3) Recombination
27.Describe the construction and working of (i) Nano diodes (ii) SET (iii) Quantum dot lasers.