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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore
Int.M.Sc Second Assessment Examinations – Sep.2018
Third Semester
Chemistry
15PHY203 Basic Electronics
[Time: Two hours Maximum: 50 Marks]
Answer all questions

1. As a chemist, what are the elements do you prefer for p-type doping in silicon? Give reasons. (3)
2. What is carrier mobility ? (2)
3. Sketch the band diagrams of n-type and p-type semiconductors. What is ionization energy ? (3)
4. Discuss the junction formation and working of a p-n silicon diode. What is an ideality factor? (10)
5. Discuss the working principle of light emitting diodes. If a certain composition of InGaN alloy (4)
whose bandgap is 2.75 eV used in LED, what is the colour emitted ?

6. Discuss the half-wave wave rectifier using ideal diodes and explain the modifications in the (10)
output of the rectifiers if ideal diodes are replaced by commercial Si diode. If the turns ratio Np
: Ns = 8:1 and RL = 100  in the half - wave rectifier circuit, calculate the following: root mean
square voltage, Vdc, diode current, PIV for the diode and the frequency of the output waveform.
7. Germanium is doped with with 5 x 1015 donor atoms per cm-3 at T = 300 K. The dimensions of (8)
the sample are thickness, d = 5 x 10-2 cm, width W = 2 x 10-2 cm and length, L = 0.1 cm. The
current is Ix = 250 A , the applied voltage is Vx = 100 mV and the magnetic flux density is
Bz = 5 x 10-2 tesla. Calculate: (a) the Hall voltage, (b) the Hall field. and (c) the carrier mobility
8. Solve the load voltage and current in the figure below using the three diode approximations. (5)
Justify which diode approximation is not necessary for determining the load voltage and current.

9. In a bipolar transistor, why the collector region is wider and base is thinnest ? (2)

10. i) A transistor has a base current of 15 A. How much is the collector current if the transistor (1)
has a βdc of 150.
ii) The value of dc is 0.996, calculate the βdc . (2)
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