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21. Electronic and electro-optical proper-ties of silicon and are trained in the field of new and advanced materials, device
carbon based materials. fabrication, nano-technology, testing and measurements. The
22. Organic light emitting device. industrial sector and research institution today need physicists
23. Solar devices based on organic semiconducting materials. who are able to integrate new and advanced technology into
24. Stellar Astrophysics of Emission line stars. existing system. Physics graduates are highly sought after in
25. Visibility study of a young crescent moon. the electronics industries, space industry, computer and
26. Nuclear reaction rates in astrophysics. information technology as well as telecommunication, and
27. Condensed matter physics study of glasses. various electrical and mechanical manufacturing industries.
28. Stellar and neutrino astrophysics. They often serve as materials process engineers, quality
29. Experimental Fabrication Techniques in Materials Science. control engineers in the production division or researchers in
30. High power ion beam and X-ray source and their the division of research and development (R&D). Many Physics
application. graduates have also made excellent marketing and sale
31. Design and implementation of neuron networks. executives for modern, sophisticated scientific equipment.
32. Intelligent circuit.
33. IT usage and physics education. Other opportunities include those in the medical field. Laser
34. Vacuum spark discharge as a EUV source for next technology, x-ray, NMR, radiation and ultra sound are
generation lithography. commonly used in various medical fields, hence, Physics
35. Complex dynamics in dusty plasmas. graduates are suited to assist the medical officers in the
36. Anomalous transports in disordered materials. operation and management of these systems as well as in data
37. Transports phenomena in nanostructures. analysis.
38. Quantum Brownian motion.
39. Stochastic field theories using fractional calculus. There is great opportunity for Physics graduates to become
40. Description of electroweak interactions of hadrons. academicians and researchers in Institutions of Higher
41. Transport mechanism, spectroscopic and morphological Learning upon furthering their studies to the PhD level.
studies of gel polymer electrolytes. Besides, Physics lecturers and teachers are also in high
42. Studies of ion conducting polymers. demand in schools, as well as public and private colleges.
43. Structural and electrical characterization of Langmuir-
Blodgett organic thin films of photosynthetic biomaterials POST-GRADUATE DEGREE (FIELDS OF RESEARCH)
(PBMs) reconstituted into “artificial membranes”.
44. Development of biomaterials based nano-gaps, nano- Post-graduate candidates may pursue the MSc and PhD
patterning and device fabrication. programs (by research) in various areas such as Plasma
45. Algae derived biophotovoltaic studies. Physics, Laser Physics, Photonics, Semiconductor Physics and
46. Hierarchical nanostructured metal oxide dye sensitized Devices, Display Devices, Thin Film Technology, Materials
solar cells Science, Polymer Physics, Conducting Polymer, Environmental
47. Low defect density pristine graphene Radiation, Neuron Network, Complex Systems, Elementary
48. Graphene/metal oxide nanocomposites for solar energy Particle Physics, Nuclear Theory, Condensed Matter Theory,
conversion. Space Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology and Stellar
49. Magnetic properties of graphene. Astrophysics.
50. Construction of noise measurement system for magnetic
thin film samples. The Department of Physics also offers MSc (Applied Physics)
51. Description of Electroweak Interactions of Hadrons. and MTech (Materials Science) programs by course work
52. Epitaxial growth of III-V nitride-based semiconductors and covering areas in Semiconductor Technology, Plasma
fabrications of nano-electronic devices. Technology, Laser and Optoelectronics, Applied Radiation and
53. Gravitational field around Galaxies, Stars and Planets with Materials Science.
Elliptical shape.
54. Femtosecond Laser Science.
55. DNA electronics research to enable detection of DNA base
pairs conductivity to enable genomic sequencing, detection
of blood borne pathogens etc. B. Sc. Physics
56. Preparation of graphene thin film for application as anodes
for fuel cells and as transparent conductive film using the SYNOPSIS OF COURSES
Langmuir-Blodgett method.
57. Research into the antipathogenic/anticancer properties of
riboflavin.
58. Preparation of inorganic nanoparticles (Ag, Au etc) through
the normal and green synthesis process and its CORE COURSES
antimicrobial/anticancer properties. LEVEL 1
59. Biophotovoltaic (BPV) fuel cell research in production of
green energy. SIF1001 MATHEMATICAL METHODS I (3 CREDITS)
Matrices and solutions for sets of linear equations: matrix and row
reduction; vectors and their notation; matrix operations; linear
JOB OPPORTUNITIES combinations, linear functions, linear operators; matrix operators, linear
transformations; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; special matrices.
Courses offered in the Department of Physics, University of Partial differentiation: power series in two variables; total differentials;
Malaya are suited for those who wish to be scientists and chain rule; implicit differentiation; application of partial differentiation to
professional technologists in research institutions and the maximum and minimum problems including constraints; Lagrange
industries. Physicists are in high demand especially those who multipliers, endpoint and boundary point problems; change of
variables; differentiation of integrals, Leibniz rule.

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