Subject Code: PH7L012 Subject Name: Accelerator Based Physics of Solids L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Need of accelerated particles in physics study; production of ion beams (ion sources and accelerators); Interaction of radiation with matter; Materials engineering using heavy ions – ion implantation; ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD); ion beam mixing (IBM), Materials analysis using heavy ions – Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS), Elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA); ion induced nuclear reaction; Nuclear reaction analysis (NRA); nuclear solid state physics – Microscopic magnetism using perturbed angular distributions (PAD).
Text Books/Reference Books: 
  1. Clarke D. R., Suresh S. and Ward I.M, Ion-solid interactions: fundamentals and applications, Cambridge Solid State Science Series, Cambridge University Press.
  2. Richard Patrick, Methods of Experimental Physics: Atomic Physics, Accelerators (Vol. 17), Academic Press.
  3. Griffiths D. J., Quantum Mechanics, Pearson Prentice Hall.
  4. Nastasi Michael Anthony, Mayer James W., Hirvonen James Karsten, Ion-solid interactions: fundamentals and applications, Cambridge University Press.
  5. Mozumder A. and Hatano Y., Charged particle and photon interactions with matter: Chemical, physicochemical, and biological consequences with applications, CRC Press.