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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2024/2025

laser, high voltage and high current discharge systems, rf ionization
plasma sources, pulsed neutron source, high dose radiation source
and materials testing laboratory.
Research topics currently active in the Physics Department include:

1. Studies on polymer electrolytes for lithium air proton batteries.
2. Studies on alkaline solid polymer electrolyte and mechanically
alloyed polycrystalline Mg2Ni for metal hydride-air batteries.
3. Studies on silicone-acrylic paints.
4. Fast pulsed capillary discharge as coherent XUV and soft X-ray
source.
5. Digital holography and speckle pattern interferometry.
6. Development and applications of vacuum UV excimer laser and
high-power industrial CO2 laser systems.
7. Development of nano-ribbons as thermoluminescence
dosimeters.
8. Use of Ge-doped optical fibre as radiation dosimeter.
9. Study of naturally occurring and technically enhanced naturally
occurring radioactive materials.
10. Particle production from high-energy electron–proton collision
(ZEUS collaboration at the HERA accelerator in DESY, Germany).
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11. Study on high Q refraction, resonance and decay of particles.
12. Mechanical studies of polymer based on polyurethane.
13. Design and characterization of super-capacitors.
14. Studies on composite materials.
15. Fabrication of fused couplers, fibre Bragg gratings.
16. Developing optical fibre preform and planar waveguides devices.
17. C-band and L-band erbium-doped fibre amplifiers.
18. Plasma focus as the pulsed radiation source.
19. Pulsed exploding wire for syntheses of nanoparticles.
20. RF ICP and AC capacitively coupled plasma sources and
applications.
21. Electronic and electro-optical properties of silicon and carbon-
based materials.
22. Organic light emitting device.
23. Solar devices based on organic semiconducting materials.
24. Stellar Astrophysics of Emission line stars.
25. Visibility study of a young crescent moon.
26. Nuclear reaction rates in astrophysics.
27. Condensed matter physics study of glasses.
28. Stellar and neutrino astrophysics.
29. Experimental Fabrication Techniques in Materials Science.
30. High power ion beam and X-ray source and their application.

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