1. Dept of Physics

2. 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.

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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 ) – Dr. Raghu. C
“Cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy for trace gas pollutant monitoring” Funded by DST (Rs. 22 Lakhs) – Dr. M. K. Ravi Varma (2011)

13. 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

14. PhD Awarded
Two

15. 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