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TThe Department of Physics was established in 1961. In the first year, teaching was confined to the students of the Agriculture Department. Undergraduate Honours course teaching started in 1962 and the first graduates came out in 1965. The first batch of M.Sc. students also passed out in 1965.
The Department initially operated from various other buildings. It moved into its own building at the present location in 1969-70. Since then the original building has undergone some extensions - the last one being in the mid eighties.
The Department initially started with only two full time permanent teachers. Up to the end of the sixties, there were only a handful to teachers. The number of teachers increased substantially in the seventies. The number of sanctioned faculty posts became a stable 19 in the early eighties. Currently, 10 of these 19 positions are vacant.
Research work started in the Department from the early seventies and the first Ph.D. was awarded in 1976. Till date 50 students have received their Ph.D. degrees from this Department. Teachers of this Department have all been actively engaged in research regardless of whether they have graduate students or not.
Professor D.P. Ray Chaudhuri, a renowned teacher, was the first Professor and Head of the Department. He retired in 1967. After him there were no Professor as Head of the Department till 1970 when Prof. D.C. Sarkar came from Alligarh to join as Professor and Head of the Department. Since 1980, the Headship has become rotational between the Professors and the Readers of the Department with a term of two years.
Head of the Department
Dr.Yatra Mohan Jana
Departmental Phone No.
091 033 2582 0184 (direct line)
091 033 2582 8220/8275/8286/8293/8378/8750/9356 (Ext. 299,300, 301, 302 (EPABX))
Degree and Course Offered
M.Sc. in 'Physics'- a two-year Post-Graduate degree (4 semester system).
Specializations:
- Nuclear & Elementary Particle Physics
- Solid State Physics
- Electronics
Intake Capacity : 45 students
UGC Refresher Course
A Refresher Course was organised jointly by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Department of Mathematics in January 2008
Infra-structural Facilities
Special Laboratories
The Department has a research laboratory for fabrication and study of properties of High Tc materials. It is also setting up a Materials Science Laboratory and has already acquired some very sophisticated equipment for this purpose.
Special Equipments
- ORTEC EG&G Lock in Amplifier
- ORTEC EG&G Multichannell Analyser
- 4 windows 1.5 KVA Cu Target X-Ray machine
- Rigaku Miniflex make X-Ray Diffractometer
- Shimadzu make UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
- Hitachi make UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer
- Solartron Computing Voltmeter
- HP make Low Frequency Impedance Analyser
- Oxford make Liquid N2 Vacuum Cryostat with Optical Windows
- Janis make closed cycle He Cryostat with Temperature Controller
- HINDHIVAC make Versatile Thin Film Deposition Unit
- Oxford make Intelligent Temperature Controller
- Hydraulic Ceramic Tablet Making Press
- Programmable Furnace (up to 1200 degree C).
Computer Facility
The department has very good computer facilities. There are 18 desktops in the Central Computer facility which serve as terminals or can be used as independent PCs. The teacher's offices have also been provided with PCs. All the PCs in the department are connected through a LAN with each other. There are also an adequate number of printers, scanners and other accessories. The department has two multimedia projectors for regular use in seminar, class lecturer.
Library
The Department Library has currently about 2500 volumes. In the Central Library there are currently about 4500 Physics books.
Internet facility
24 hour internet facility is available to all computers of the department through LAN.
Research Interests of the Department
- Total Number of Scholarships (URS) Available : 8
- Total Number of Ph. Ds awarded : 50
Research Activities
Departmental Projects :
- Fist Project : The Department of Physics was selected by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India under the Scheme "Funds for Infrastructure in Sciecne & Technology" (FIST) in 2001. It was sanctioned a total grant of Rs. 20.00 lakhs for setting up central computer facilities in the department and for networking. This money has been fully utilised and most of the facilities are in place and are working. This centre is not only used by the teachers, scholars and students of this department, but has been thrown open to all university personnel for academic activities.
- DRS (SAP) Scheme : The UGC has selected the Physics department this year (2002) under the departmental Research Scheme of the Special Assistance Programme. A total of Rs. 36.00 lakhs has been sanctioned under this scheme for the purchase of (i) a thin film deposition unit with electron gun and sputtering facility, (ii) a closed cycle He cryostat with temperature controller and (iii) for setting up of an Astronomical Telescope with mount, drive CCD camera, filters, and other accessories.
Research Interests of the Department
Currently research work is going on in Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Cosmology and General Relativity, Astrophysics and Radio Meteorology. Broad headlines of topics of current research in various fields are :
- Fabrication of copper oxide based high temperature superconductivity materials and study of their structure and optical, transport and magnetic properties at room temperature and at liquid nitrogen temperature.
- Study of impurities in solids and transition matal silicidation with heavy ions.
- Theoretical studies of magnetic and electrical properties of solids, transport and localisation properties of disordered and aperiodic systems, metal insulator interface studies, field delocalisation, hierarchial lattice, symmetries, study of heavy fermion systems.
- Nuclear matter calculations, theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear reaction mechanisms, halo nuclei.
- Study of electron ion collisions and the resulting ionisation.
- Structure functions and chiral dynamics, strange quark matter, quark gluon plasma.
- Studies on dense stellar matter and the early universe, study of magnetically deformed neutron stars, gravity wave and global properties of magnetars.
- Study of both classical and quantum cosmology, particularly canonical quantisation of higher order gravity, decoherence, particle production and evolution of the early universe.
- Study and analysis of solar spectrum, atmospherics and radio meteorology
- Theoretical studies of pairing mechanism and thermodynamic properties of high Tc materials.
- Spin-frustrated systems and intermetalic systems
- Liquid Crystals,
- Nanostructured thin films
Research Interests of the Department
Currently research work is going on in Condensed Matter Physics, Material Science, Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics, Elementary Particle Physics, Plasma Physics, Cosmology and General Relativity, Astrophysics and Radio Meteorology. Broad headlines of topics of current research in various fields are :
- Fabrication of copper oxide based high temperature superconductivity materials and study of their structure and optical, transport and magnetic properties at room temperature and at liquid nitrogen temperature.
- Study of impurities in solids and transition matal silicidation with heavy ions.
- Theoretical studies of magnetic and electrical properties of solids, transport and localisation properties of disordered and aperiodic systems, metal insulator interface studies, field delocalisation, hierarchial lattice, symmetries, study of heavy fermion systems using periodic Anderson Hamiltonian - specifically applied to Kondo insulator - metal transitions, use of Hubbard Hamiltonian to study the coexistence of superconducting magnetic order, charge and spin correlation functions, entropy and magnetisation, critical phenomena.
- Nuclear matter calculations, theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear reaction mechanisms, halo nuclei.
- Study of electron ion collisions and the resulting ionisation.
- Structure functions and chiral dynamics, strange quark matter, quark gluon plasma.
- Studies on dense stellar matter and the early universe, study of magnetically deformed neutron stars, gravity wave and global properties of magnetars.
- Study of both classical and quantum cosmology, particularly canonical quantisation of higher order gravity, decoherence, particle production and evolution of the early universe.
- Study and analysis of solar spectrum, particularly study of atmospherics in 21-28 KHz region, radio meteorology.
- Relaxation in magnetised plasma.
Collaborative Research Universities
- Calcutta University - Dept. of Physics, Dept. of Electronic Science, Institute of.
- Radiophysics & Electronics.
- Jadavpur University - Dept. of Physics.
- Delhi University - Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics.
- Hyderabad Central University - Dept. of Physics.
- Visva Bharati University - Dept. of Physics.
- Assam University, Silchar - Dept. of Physics
Research Institutes & Centres
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta
- Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta
- Inter University Consortium for DAE Facilities, Calcutta
- Inter University Centre for DAE Facilities, Indore
- Material Science Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam
- Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune
- Eastern Centre for Research in Astrophysics, Calcutta
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
- There has also been a foreign collaboration with RIKEN, Japan.
Seminars / Conferences / Workshops / Symposia organised in last 5 years
A one day seminar was held on 8th March ,2008 on “ Recent Trends in Physics Research”
Besides the Workshops and Symposia, regular one hour seminars are held in the department, usually on Thursdays. Every year around 20-25 such seminars are held. The speakers are teachers, research scholars of the department, visitors from nearly universities and research institutions, visiting alumni holding academic posts in other universities and institutes in both India and abroad, and in frequently visitors from abroad.
Alumni
There is an Alumni Association of the Physics Department. Every year reunion is organized by the Alumni Association. A large number of ex-students visit the department every year. Aside from joining the Annual Reunion, ex-students who are in academic line, give seminar lectures in the department. The department receives regular feedbacks and suggestions from its ex-students regarding syllabus, laboratory training etc. The department maintains a list of all its ex-students and has currently an updated address register of around 85% of its alumni.
Many students of this department have distinguished themselves in later life. Ex-students of this department are on the faculties of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Saha Institutions of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, and several Universities of India. Many are employed as Scientists in the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, Nuclear Science Center , New Delhi, the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta, Physical Research Laboratories, Ahmedabad, Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Calcutta, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore etc. Quite a few have also joined industrial and research organizations like the Indian of Telephone Industries, Bangalore, Semi-conductor Research Complex, Chandigarh, C-Dot organization, etc. Some of our ex-students are also working in research organizations and some universities in North America and Europe. Every year, an impressive fraction of our students join premier research institutions all over the country after passing out from here.
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Professors
• Dr. Asit Baran Bhattacharyya
• Dr. Amitava Sinha
• Dr. Bijan Modak
• Dr. Arunava Chakrabarti
Readers
- Dr. Chirantan Neogy
- Dr. Nanda Kumar Ghosh
- Dr.Yatra Mohan Jana
Lecturers
- Dr.Tapas Pal Majumdar
- Dr Sudipta Pal
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