Dept of Physics

Profile

The Department of Physics at NITC is emerging as a major centre for teaching and research both in applied physics and technology. The department is offering a B.Tech course in Engineering Physics and a Masters course in Photonics (M.Sc.Tech). PhD programmes are also offered in a variety of cutting edge technology and multi disciplinary thrust areas. The department has acquired the distinction of having state of the art facilities in Research and Development with faculty attracting impressive external funding and publishing papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals.

• Prof. P. Predeep - Professor - Ph.D., Rajasthan

Faculty

• Dr. Chandrasekharan. K. - Associate Professor & HOD - Ph.D., IIT Madras

• Dr. Raghu Chatanathody – Associate Professor – Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore • Dr. M. K. Ravi Varma – Assistant Professor – Ph.D., University of Nevada, USA

• Dr. P. K. Madhavan Unni – Assistant Professor – Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore • Dr. Aji A. Anappara – Assistant Professor – Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy • Dr. Vari Sivaji Reddy – Assistant Professor – Ph.D., IIT Khragpur

• Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities

Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics and Photonics (UE&P Lab) – Coordinator: Prof. P. Predeep

– Electrochemical Workstation and Impedance Spectrometer – Pulsed Laser Deposition with Excimer Laser – Spectroscopic Ellipsometer – Temperature Depenndent Resistivity Setup and Cryostat – Keithly High Resistance Measurement Setup (upto 10 18 Ohms) – UV-Visible Spectrometer – Holography

Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities – Contd.

– Humidity and Microwave Detectors – Scanning Electrometry – Polymer Double Roll Mill – Physical Vapour Deposition – Plasma Polymerization Unit – Polymer Film Making Unit – Memory, Supercapacitor and Fuel Cell Characterization Unit

Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities – Contd.

• – Organic Electronic Device Soft and Melt Lamination Setup – Solar Cell and LED Characterization Unit – Device Fab Facilities

Computational Materials Science Lab – Coordinator: Dr. Raghu. C

– 8 core Linux based cluster

• • Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities – Contd.

Non-linear Optics Laboratory: Coordinator Dr. Chandrasekharan. K

– Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser with frequency doubling – Z-scan setup – UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

Organic and Nano Electronics Laboratory: Coordinator: Dr. V. Sivaji Reddy

– Thermal Evaporation with Co-evaporation Facility

Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities – Contd.

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Applied Optics and Instrumentation Laboratory Coordinator: Dr. M. K. Ravi Varma

– Avantes UV-VIS Spectrometer

Critical Phenomena and Polymer Dynamics Laboratory – Coordinator: Dr. P. K. Madhavan Unni Photonics Materials and Devices Laboratory – Coordinator: Dr. Aji A. Anappara

Recent Books/Papers/Patents (Last 5 Years) • Books: 3 • Book Chapters: >5 • International Journals: 37 • National Journals: 0 • International Conference: >20 • Invited Lectures: >20 • Patents – Filed and Published: 6 – Granted: 2

Funded Research Projects (Last 5 Years) • “Electronic Structure Studies of Adsorption of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons on Metal Catalysts” funded by CSIR (Rs 14 Lakhs) (w.e.f 01-01-2012) – Dr. Raghu. C • “Cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy for trace gas pollutant monitoring” Funded by DST (Rs. 22 Lakhs) – Dr. M. K. Ravi Varma (2011)

Conferences/FDP etc

• Optics’11: A Conference on Light – International Conference held during May 23 – 25, 2011 • FDP (by Prof. Predeep, June 2009) • FDP (by Dr. Chandrasekharan and Dr. V. Sivaji Reddy, Feb 2011) • INSPIRE-2010: DST Sponsored Winter Science Camp for 11 th standard school children, Dec 18 – 22, 2010

PhD Awarded

Two

Awards and Honours (Last 5 Years) • •

2006 Indian National Science Academy Visiting Fellowship – Prof. P. Predeep 2006 UGC Research Award in Physics – Prof. P. Predeep