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facilities include TEM, FE-SEM, SEM-EDX, XRD, AFM, FT-IR, PL, TLD Reader, OMA, Co-
60 irradiator and HPGe Gamma spectrometer, TGA, DSC, DMA, UV-VIS-NIR
Spectrometer, Field Emission Auger Microprobe, Flame Hydrolysis Deposition system,
Mask Aligner, 1 m grazing incidence Spectrometer, DC sputtering system etc.

Other research facilities available in the Department include high-speed diagnostic
systems such as streak cameras, fast digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, thin film
preparation systems, clean room and gas handling facilities, high-power laser, picosecond
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).
11. Study on high Q refraction, resonance and decay of particles.
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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.

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