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LABORATORY OF PHYSICS III

Antonio DI BARTOLOMEO LABORATORY OF PHYSICS III

0512600016
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS "E. R. CAIANIELLO"
EQF6
PHYSICS
2022/2023

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 3
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017
FULL ACADEMIC YEAR
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
540LESSONS
784LAB
ANTONIO DI BARTOLOMEO T Curriculum
ARUN KUMAR Curriculum
Objectives
THE COURSE (12 CFU - 124 H) PROVIDES AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS. IT INTRODUCES THE PHYSICS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES (DIODES AND TRANSISTORS) AND THE PRINCIPLES OF DEVICE MODELING AND CIRCUIT DESIGN. IT FAMILIARIZES THE STUDENTS WITH THE USE OF LABORATORY INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE REALIZATION AND THE CHARACTERIZATION OF SIMPLE ACTIVE CIRCUITS. CIRCUIT DESIGN IS FACILITATED BY THE USE OF SIMULATION SOFTWARE SUCH AS SPICE AND VHDL.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
THE COURSE PROVIDES THE STUDENTS WITH THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS. THE EMPHASIS IS ON DEVICE PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. THE STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO DESIGN ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY FOR THE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING OF SIGNALS FROM SENSORS OR MORE COMPLEX EXPERIMENTAL SETUPS. THE COURSE BUILDS UP ON ELECTRIC CIRCUIT ANALYSIS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
AS A RESULT OF THIS COURSE, IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT SIMPLE ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND USE ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS. THE STUDENTS WILL GET FAMILIAR WITH DIODES, TRANSISTORS, OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS, AND SEVERAL LOGIC CIRCUITS. THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DESIGN ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY FOR THE ACQUISITION AND THE PROCESSING OF SIGNALS FROM SENSORS OR MORE COMPLEX EXPERIMENTAL SETUPS.
Prerequisites
BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL PHYSICS AND MASTERING OF ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES.
Contents
THE COURSE DEALS WITH SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED DEVICES SUCH AS DIODES AND TRANSISTORS FROM BOTH THE BASIC PHYSICS AND THE ANALOG AND DIGITAL APPLICATION STANDPOINTS. LARGE AND SMALL SIGNAL MODELS ARE USED FOR CIRCUIT ANALYSIS. THE COURSE COVERS ANALOG ELECTRONICS TOPICS SUCH AS AMPLIFICATION, IMPEDANCE MATCHING, FREQUENCY RESPONSE, FEEDBACK, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION AND GIVES WIDE SPACE TO BUILDING-BLOCK CIRCUITS FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND STORAGE.

ANALOG ELECTRONICS: LECTURES (30 HOURS):
- INTRODUCTION TO SEMICONDUCTORS (4H): CONDUCTORS, INSULATORS AND SEMICONDUCTORS. ENERGY BANDS. ELECTRONS AND HOLES. CARRIER DENSITY. ELECTRIC TRANSPORT.
- PN JUNCTION (4H): OPERATIONS. CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS. DIODE CIRCUITS.
- MOSFET (4H): OPERATIONS. CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS. LARGE AND SMALL SIGNAL MODELS. BIASING. AMPLIFIERS.
- BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (4H): OPERATIONS. CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS. LARGE AND SMALL SIGNAL MODELS. BIASING. AMPLIFIERS.
- OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS (4H): IDEAL MODEL. CIRCUITS WITH OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS. OP-AMP NONIDEALITIES.
- FREQUENCY RESPONSE (3H): FUNDAMENTALS. HIGH-FREQUENCY MODELS OF TRANSISTORS. ANALYSIS PROCEDURES.
- FEEDBACK (3H): FUNDAMENTAL TYPES OF FEEDBACKS. EFFECTS ON INPUT AND OUTPUT IMPEDANCES.
- A/D AND D/A CONVERTERS (4H): DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE SIGNALS. LOGIC LEVELS. BINARY NUMBERS. WAVEFORMS. DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS.

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS: LECTURES (26 HOURS)
- LOGIC GATES (4H): GATES NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR GATES. PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICES.
- COMBINATIONAL LOGIC (4H): BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS AND TRUTH TABLES. DEMORGAN'S THEOREMS. SUM OF PRODUCTS. KARNAUGH MAPS. INTRODUCTION TO VHDL.
- LOGIC FAMILIES (2H): CHARACTERISTICS AND PARAMETERS. TTL AND CMOS TECHNOLOGIES. DESIGN OF LOGIC CMOS CIRCUITS.
- SEQUENTIAL LOGIC (4H): LATCHES. FLIP-FLOPS. MULTIVIBRATORS. TIMERS. 555 TIMER.
- COUNTERS AND REGISTERS (2H): SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS COUNTERS. COUNTER DECODING. REGISTER DATA TRANSFER. SHIFT REGISTERS.
- DIGITAL ARITHMETIC (2H): BINARY ARITHMETIC. 1’S AND 2’S COMPLEMENT. ARITHMETIC CIRCUITS.
- MEMORIES (2H): MEMORY ARCHITECTURES. NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES: ROM, PROM, EPROM, FLASH. VOLATILE MEMORIES: SRAM, DRAM. MAGNETIC AND OPTICAL STORAGE.
- MICROCONTROLLERS (2H): PLC. SINGLE-BOARD COMPUTERS. ARDUINO. RASPBERRY PI.

LABORATORY PRACTICE (64 HOURS):
- CHARACTERIZATION OF A SILICON DIODE, AN LED, A SOLAR CELL (4H).
- DIODES IN RECTIFIER, LIMITING, AND CLAMPING CIRCUITS (4H).
- CURRENT-VOLTAGE AND CAPACITANCE-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (4H).
- MOSFET AMPLIFIER (4H).
- BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR: CURRENT-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS, SWITCH, AND AMPLIFIER (4H).
- FEEDBACK OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS (4H).
- OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER INTEGRATORS AND DIFFERENTIATORS (4H).
- ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL AND DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CIRCUITS (4H).
- LOGIC FUNCTION REALIZED WITH LOGIC GATES (4H).
- CMOS O TTL NAND GATE (4 H).
- NOT, AND, OR GATES REALIZED USING NAND AND OR NOR GATES (4H).
- ENCODERS, DECODERS, AND 7-SEGMENT DISPLAY (4H).
- IMPLEMENTING TRUTH TABLES WITH A MULTIPLEXER (4H).
- EXPERIMENTS USING FLIP/FLOPS AND LM555 TIMER (4H).
- EXPERIMENTS WITH COUNTERS (4H).
- DATA ACQUISITION PROJECT USING THE ARDUINO BOARD (8H).
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE IS ORGANISED IN LECTURES THAT INTRODUCE NEW TOPICS AND IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO PRACTICE WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED.
FOR THE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS, STUDENTS WILL BE ORGANIZED INTO GROUPS (3-4 STUDENTS PER GROUP). AT THE END OF ANY EXPERIMENT, EACH GROUP MUST SUBMIT A REPORT IN WHICH THEY DESCRIBE OBJECTIVES, METHODOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL TOOLS, AND DATA ANALYSIS.
Verification of learning
EACH LABORATORY EXPERIMENT IS FOLLOWED BY A LABORATORY REPORT DETAILING THE PERFORMED ACTIVITY AND THE ACHIEVED RESULTS. THE LABORATORY REPORTS CAN BE PREPARED BY GROUPS OF STUDENTS. TO BE ADMITTED TO THE FINAL EXAM THE STUDENT MUST SUBMIT AT LEAST 80% OF THE REQUIRED LABORATORY REPORTS.

THE EXAM CONSISTS OF AN ORAL TEST ON:
1. RANDOMLY CHOSEN TOPICS TO ASSESS THE STUDENT'S UNDERSTANDING; IN THIS PHASE, THE STUDENT MIGHT BE REQUIRED TO SOLVE ONE OR MORE EXERCISES CONSISTING OF THE ANALYSIS OF A SIMPLE ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT.
2. THE REPORTS OF THE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO VERIFY THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND THE SKILLS ACQUIRED TO MAKE SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS.

THE EVALUATION TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE QUALITY AND CLARITY OF THE PRESENTATION AS WELL AS THE COMPLETENESS AND ACCURACY OF THE ANSWERS.
THE MINIMUM LEVEL OF EVALUATION (18) IS ASSIGNED WHEN THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATES UNCERTAINTIES IN EXPLAINING SPECIFIC TOPICS AND IN MASTERING THE EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES.
THE MAXIMUM LEVEL (30) IS ASSIGNED WHEN THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATES A COMPLETE AND IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF ANY TOPICS AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES.
“CUM LAUDE” IS GIVEN WHEN THE CANDIDATE MASTERS BOTH THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONTENTS OF THE COURSE AND ALSO SHOWS THAT HE IS ABLE TO PRESENT A TOPIC WITH PROPER LANGUAGE AND PROFOUND AND CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE.
Texts
BEHZAD RAZAVI: FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROELECTRONICS, 2ND EDITION, JOHN WILEY & SONS, NJ, 2014, ISBN: 978-1118156322
WILLIAM KLEITZ: DIGITAL ELECTRONICS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH WITH VHDL, NINTH EDITION, PEARSON EDUCATION, NJ, 2013, ISBN:978-0132543033
THOMAS L. FLOYD: ELECTRONIC DEVICES, TENTH EDITION, PEARSON EDUCATION, NJ, 2016, ISBN: 978-1292222998
NEAL S. WIDMER, GREGORY L. MOSS, RONALD J. TOCCI: DIGITAL SYSTEMS, TWELFTH EDITION, PEARSON EDUCATION, NJ, 2018, ISBN: 978-1292162003
ADEL S. SEDRA, KENNETH C. SMITH CIRCUITI PER LA MICROELECTRONICA, 5A EDIZIONE, EDISES, IT, 2019: ISBN: 978-8833190549
RICHARD C. JAEGER, TRAVIS N. BLALOCK: MICROELETTRONICA, QUINTA EDIZIONE, MC-GRAW HILL EDUCATION, MILANO, 2018, ISBN: 978-8838694622
More Information
THE ATTENDANCE OF THE COURSE, ALTHOUGH NOT MANDATORY, IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED ESPECIALLY FOR THE LABORATORY ACTIVITIES.

TEACHER'S E-MAIL ADDRESS:
ADIBARTOLOMEO@UNISA.IT
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