School of Engineering and Sciences
Department of Physics
Research Areas
Undergraduates get unprecedented support to conduct research in a wide range of fields including fabrication two-dimensional (2D) materials and their electronic devices,material genomics, applied photonics and optical communications, piezoelectricity and ferroelectricity, high-k dielectrics, thermoelectric devices, molecular electronics, photovoltaic devices and energy applications. The Department of Physics encourages research in experimental and .computational physics as well as future-oriented topics like renewable energies and supercapacitors.
Advanced materials and device physics
Group members: Dr. Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Pranab Mandal, Dr. Jatis Dash, Dr. L N Patro, Dr. Mallikarjuna Rao, Dr. Siddhartha Ghosh
Following research areas are explored under this group
- Interfacial Interaction at solid/liquid phase boundary to develop smart surfaces
- Fabrication of 2D Materials for Energy and Electronic Applications
- Synthesis of 2D Piezoelectric Materials for nanogenerators
- Charge transport through various Thin films
- Electron Transport across Multi-dimensional Molecular Junctions
- Development of solid electrolytes for all-solid-state Na and F-ion batteries
- CO2 reduction into useful fuels via photocatalytic process
*Pilot scale production of ethylene using gas diffusion electrodes
Laser Physics and Photonics
Group Members: Dr. Gangireddy Salla, Dr Ravi Jadav
Following research areas are explored under this group
- Optical information processing
- Digital Holography
- Computational optical imaging
High Energy Physics
Group Members: Dr. Amit Chakraborty, Dr Johannes Krischer
- High Energy Physics (HEP) is the study of the most fundamental building blocks of nature and to know how it works at the smallest and largest energy scales.
- Our research efforts aim to understand the nature of space and time, the fundamental forces governing the interactions at the sub-atomic level, and thereby look for new discoveries at various ongoing and proposed experiments.
Computational Materials and Soft Matter Physics
Group members: Prof Ranjit Thapa, Dr Soumyajyoti Biswas, Dr Supravat Dey, Dr Pankaj Bhalla, and Dr Debabrata Pramanik
- Theory of Catalysis: Quantum mechanics and Machine Learning
- Statistical physics of fracture of disordered materials; Complex systems: socio & econophysics
- Soft matter and biophysics, rare event sampling
- Topological quantum materials, transport/ optical properties of 2D materials