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and mechanical methods – Sol-gel technique – Metals, Metal oxides – Carbon Nano Tubes. Sensors:
Types of Sensors – Chemical and Biosensors – Physical principles of function of Electrochemical and
Optical transducers.
Unit – IV: Thin Films: Formation of thin film – Vacuum evaporation, Sputtering, Gas plating,
Electroplating, Electroless plating, Silk-screening. IC Fabrication: Wafer preparation – Epitaxial growth,
Oxidation, Photolithography, Diffusion, Metallization. Etching Techniques: Surface preparation –
Resists, Photoresists – Etching Types and Processes.
Unit – V: Battery Technology: Primary Cells: Leclanche cell, Magnesium cell. Secondary Cells
(Storage Batteries): Lead-Acid accumulator, Edison Alkaline accumulator - Silver-Zinc accumulator.
Rechargeable Cells: Lithium batteries. Fuel Cells: Bischoff Fuel cell, Davtyan Water gas cell, Redox
cell, Hydrogen-Oxygen Fuel cell. Photogalvanic (Solar) cells and Micro Batteries: Materials,
functioning and applications.
Text Books:
1. Samuel Glasstone, ‘An Introduction to Electrochemistry’, Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd.,
New Delhi, 1999
2. V. Subramaniam, K. Ganesan, S. Ganesh, ‘Chemistry for Engineers’, Scitech, 1999.
3. Bahl B.S., Tuli G.D., Arun Bahl, ‘Essentials of Physical Chemistry’, S.Chand & Co. Ltd., New
Delhi, 2003
Reference Books:
1. Edmund C. Potter, ‘Electrochemical Principles and Applications’, Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd., 1961
2. Philip H. Rieger, ‘Electrochemistry’, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1987
3. A.J. Bard and L.R. Faulkner, ‘Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications’.
4. Terje A.Skothim, Ronald L. Elsenbaumer and John R Reynolds, ‘Hand Book of Conducting
Polymers’, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York.
5. R.M. Warner, ‘Integrated Circuits – Design, Principle an Fabrication’, McGraw Hill, 1984
6. Wang M.N., ‘Polymers for Electronic and Photonic Applications’, Wiley, New York, 1994
7. D.D. Sood & Sons, ‘Principles of Radio Chemistry’, Vol.1 & 2, Indian Society of Nuclear
Chemists and Allied Scientists, Mumbai, 1996
D26 Programming in C
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Unit I: Introduction to the C Language: Overview of Computer Languages - C Language and its
Advantages -The Structure of a C Program - Basic ‘C’ Programs - Debugging a C Program - Examining
and Running a C Application Program. Input/Output Management: printf() – scanf() Functions.
Unit – II: Data Types and Variables: Basic Data Types - Storage Classes. Control-Flow Statements: The
Control-flow Program Statements - Looping Statements - Expressions – operators - type casting - operator
precedence. Functions: The C Function – Argument Passing to Functions - C Standard Library Functions.
Unit III: Arrays & Structures: Arrays - Multidimensional arrays – Structures – Array of Structures –
Passing Structures to Functions – Nested Structures – Union. Strings: String –Strings operations