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35. Vacuum spark discharge as a EUV source for next commonly used in various medical fields, hence, Physics
generation lithography. graduates are suited to assist the medical officers in the
36. Complex dynamics in dusty plasmas. operation and management of these systems as well as in data
37. Anomalous transports in disordered materials. analysis.
38. Transports phenomena in nanostructures.
39. Quantum Brownian motion. There is great opportunity for Physics graduates to become
40. Stochastic field theories using fractional calculus. academicians and researchers in Institutions of Higher
41. Description of electroweak interactions of hadrons. Learning upon furthering their studies to the PhD level.
42. Transport mechanism, spectroscopic and morphological Besides, Physics lecturers and teachers are also in high
studies of gel polymer electrolytes. demand in schools, as well as public and private colleges.
43. Studies of ion conducting polymers.
44. Structural and electrical characterization of Langmuir- POST-GRADUATE DEGREE (FIELDS OF RESEARCH)
Blodgett organic thin films of photosynthetic biomaterials
(PBMs) reconstituted into “artificial membranes”. Post-graduate candidates may pursue the MSc and PhD
45. Development of biomaterials based nano-gaps, nano- programs (by research) in various areas such as Plasma
patterning and device fabrication. Physics, Laser Physics, Photonics, Semiconductor Physics and
46. Algae derived biophotovoltaic studies. Devices, Display Devices, Thin Film Technology, Materials
47. Hierarchical nanostructured metal oxide dye sensitized Science, Polymer Physics, Conducting Polymer, Environmental
solar cells Radiation, Neuron Network, Complex Systems, Elementary
48. Low defect density pristine graphene Particle Physics, Nuclear Theory, Condensed Matter Theory,
49. Graphene/metal oxide nanocomposites for solar energy Space Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology and Stellar
conversion. Astrophysics.
50. Magnetic properties of graphene.
51. Construction of noise measurement system for magnetic The Department of Physics also offers MSc (Applied Physics)
thin film samples. and MTech (Materials Science) programs by course work
52. Description of Electroweak Interactions of Hadrons. covering areas in Semiconductor Technology, Plasma
53. Epitaxial growth of III-V nitride-based semiconductors and Technology, Laser and Optoelectronics, Applied Radiation and
fabrications of nano-electronic devices. Materials Science.
54. Gravitational field around Galaxies, Stars and Planets with
Elliptical shape.
55. Femtosecond Laser Science.
56. DNA electronics research to enable detection of DNA base
pairs conductivity to enable genomic sequencing, detection B. Sc. (Physics)
of blood borne pathogens etc.
57. Preparation of graphene thin film for application as anodes SYNOPSES OF COURSES
for fuel cells and as transparent conductive film using the
Langmuir-Blodgett method.
58. Research into the antipathogenic/anticancer properties of
riboflavin.
59. Preparation of inorganic nanoparticles (Ag, Au etc) through CORE COURSES
the normal and green synthesis process and its
antimicrobial/anticancer properties. LEVEL 1
60. Biophotovoltaic (BPV) fuel cell research in production of
green energy.
SIF1001 MATHEMATICAL METHODS I (3 CREDITS)
JOB OPPORTUNITIES Matrices and solutions for sets of linear equations: matrix and row
reduction; vectors and their notation; matrix operations; linear
combinations, linear functions, linear operators; matrix operators, linear
Courses offered in the Department of Physics, University of transformations; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; special matrices.
Malaya are suited for those who wish to be scientists and Partial differentiation: power series in two variables; total differentials;
professional technologists in research institutions and the chain rule; implicit differentiation; application of partial differentiation to
industries. Physicists are in high demand especially those who maximum and minimum problems including constraints; Lagrange
are trained in the field of new and advanced materials, device multipliers, endpoint and boundary point problems; change of
fabrication, nano-technology, testing and measurements. The variables; differentiation of integrals, Leibniz rule.
industrial sector and research institution today need physicists Mutliple integrals: integrated integrals; applications of Integrations;
who are able to integrate new and advanced technology into single and multiple integrals; change of variables in integrals; Jacobian;
surface integrals.
existing system. Physics graduates are highly sought after in Vector analysis: applications of vector multiplication; triple products;
the electronics industries, space industry, computer and fields; directional derivative, gradient; some other expressions involving
information technology as well as telecommunication, and divergence; line integrals; Green’s Theorem in a plane; divergence and
various electrical and mechanical manufacturing industries. divergence theorem; Curl and Stoke’s Theorem.
They often serve as materials process engineers, quality Ordinary differential equations: separable equations; linear first-order
control engineers in the production division or researchers in equations; second-order linear equations.
the division of research and development (R&D). Many Physics
graduates have also made excellent marketing and sale Assessment Method: 60%
Final Examination:
executives for modern, sophisticated scientific equipment. Continuous Assessment: 40%

Other opportunities include those in the medical field. Laser Medium of Instruction:
technology, x-ray, NMR, radiation and ultra sound are English

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