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The Department of physics offers core courses and electives for the first and second year undergraduate and postgraduate engineering and technology programs (BChem, BTech, MTech, MSc).
Since 2014, the department has been successfully running a Masters' program in physics (MSc), with special emphasis on material science.
We are now a DST-FIST sponsored department. Using the funds sanctioned by the Department of Science and Technology, the postgraduate and research program will be further strengthened by improvement of reasearch and infrastructural facilities within the department.
The department presently consists of six core faculty members and two adjunct professors. Several distinguished people from industry and other reputed institutes and colleges are associated with the department as visiting faculty members, giving quality input to the education and training imparted to the students.
The faculty members are actively engaged in both teaching as well as research activities, and have active national and international collaborations. Faculty members have research projects from DST, BRNS and UGC (see Ongoing Projects).
Currently, thrust areas of research in the department broadly include:
Polymer nanocomposites
Plasma processing of materials
Nanomaterials (CNTs, Graphene)
Energy storage and Electrochemical Sensors
Supercapacitors and fuel cells
Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynaics of Complex Fluids
Magnetism and Transport in Quantum materials
Computational Soft matter research
Solar thermal applications
The deparment's infrastructure includes faculty offices, staff offices, undergraduate physics labs, postgraduate physics labs, research laboratories, dedicated classrooms cum seminar rooms.The department has upgraded and renovated its infrastructure and research facilities over the years using gransts received from TEQIP program (Phase I, II, III), Center of Advanced Studies (CAS) by UGC, and institutional funds. Also, faculty members have been able to visit National and International Academic Centers using these grants. The department has an endowment trust, under which, eminent scientists in areas of applied physics are invited to deliver series of lectures.
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