Dept of Physics

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Dept of Physics
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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.
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Faculty

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

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• 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

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• 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

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Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities

• Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics and
  Photonics (UEP 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

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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

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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

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Laboratory, Major Equipments and Facilities
Contd.

• Non-linear Optics Laboratory Coordinator - Dr.
  Chandrasekharan. K
• Pulsed NdYAG 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

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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

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Recent Books/Papers/Patents(Last 5 Years)

• Books 3
• Book Chapters gt5
• International Journals 37
• National Journals 0
• International Conference gt20
• Invited Lectures gt20
• Patents
• Filed and Published 6
• Granted 2

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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)

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Conferences/FDP etc

• Optics11 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

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PhD Awarded

• Two

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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