The Department of Applied Physics has been providing quality teaching, research and expert advice. Our academic and technical staff members are well equipped with the best qualifications and experience to meet the University's expectations. The Department always strives to stay abreast of technology growth and development and recognizes the fact that learning is a multifacted continuous process. The Department has a number of excellent laboratories with advanced facilities for teaching and research and also shares other facilities within the College.
There are several active research groups within the Department, which have been producing a steady stream of research publications of international caliber and which maintain strong research collaborations with international institutions. All staff members are highly committed and they work together to achieve our common goal: the development of students' minds and skills as well as providing a basis for their personal, social and cognitive development.
To become one of the premier department in the state and country which is taking part to deliver excellent professionals and research scholars from the institute and to create such an environment where faculty, staff and students can conduct result-oriented research and meet societal needs.
In this research lab, the semiconducting, electron conducting, ion conducting, optical conducting, thermal conducting materials are modeled and simulated with the help of the Density functional theory based computational code-SIESTA (Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousand of Atoms) to analyze the following properties:
Total and partial energies, Atomic forces., Stress tensor, Electric dipole moment, Atomic, orbital and bond populations (Mulliken), Electron density, Geometry relaxation, fixed or variable cell, Constant-temperature molecular dynamics (Nose thermostat), Variable cell dynamics (Parrinello-Rahman), Spin polarized calculations (collinear or not), k-sampling of the Brillouin zone, Local and orbital-projected density of states, COOP and COHP curves for chemical bonding analysis, Dielectric polarization, Vibrations (phonons), Band structure., Ballistic electron transport (through TranSiesta).
There are 13 computers in the lab:
A computational code- SIESTA software. Software for structural modeling, ATK-Quantum Wise, GDIS, Avogadro. Software for structural analysis XcrySDen, Molden, Jmol, Xmgrace
Semiconducting films, phosphor materials and ionic materials are prepared.
Furnace, UV Lamp, Digital Weighing machine, Ball Mill, Hydraulic Pressure Set up, Distillation Assembly, Chemical Bath Deposition, Tubular Furnance, Dimmerstat, Magnetic Stirrer.
Analysis and measurements are done.
Particle size analyzer(Disc Centrifuge Model DC 12000), HIOKI LCR Meter (42Hz - 5MHz ) Model 3532, Digital Oscilloscope (DC1062CA), Digital Nanometer, Digital Pico ammeter, Digital Function Generator, Computer Interfaced multi meter, Digital Capacitance meter, Photo-luminescence Set-up, Photo-conductivity Set-up.