Contributors (Author(s), Editor(s), Translator(s), Illustrator(s) etc.)

Sanjay D Jain, Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, has been teaching physics to engineering students for the last twenty-seven years. His areas of research are nonlinear elastic and acoustic properties of solids, and physics education.

Girish G Sahasrabudhe, Professor of Physics, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, obtained his doctoral degree in the theory of permutation and unitary groups in many body problems. He has been teaching physics for the last thirty years and has set up a Mathematica lab in which educational material is developed.

Sunil M Pande, Professor of Physics, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, earned his doctoral degree for his work in the area of solid state ionics. He has helped to develop computer-based tools for teaching introductory physics. He has been teaching physics for the last twenty-nine years.

Table of Content

1. What is Light?
2. Interference
3. Polarisation
4. Quantum Physics
5. Semiconductor Physics
6. Diodes and Transistors
7. Crystal Structure
8. Charged Particles in Electric and Magnetic Fields
9. Lasers
10. Fibre Optics
11. Introduction to Nanotechnology