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.

Faculty Prof. P. Predeep - Professor - Ph.D., Rajasthan Dr. Chandrasekharan. K. - Associate Professor & HOD - Ph.D., IIT Madras

Dr. Raghu Chatanathody Dr. M. K. Ravi Varma 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 Dr. Aji A. Anappara Dr. Vari Sivaji Reddy Assistant Professor Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Dr. Aji A. Anappara Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy Dr. Vari Sivaji Reddy 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 1018 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. 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) 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 11th 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