Research Facilities

• Central Laboratory Facilities

  Our Department has invested millions of dollars and great deal of manpower and resources to establish the Central Laboratory. This Laboratory not only provides top-grade experimental equipment for academic staff and graduate students to use, it also presents itself as a teaching laboratory for undergraduate students.
  
  

• Thin Film Deposition Facilities

  High vacuum coating system, low pressure chemical vapour deposition systems, sputtering thin film coating system, spin c oater, pulsed-laser deposition system, helium leak detector, RF ion source.
  
  

• Materials Characterization

  Transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer and cathodoluminescence system, variable pressure SEM, X-ray diffractometers, rotating anode X-ray source, EDAX X-ray microanalysis system, micro X-ray fluorescence, vibrating sample magnetometer, 1-300 kN loading machines, 100 kN hydraulic dynamic testing machine, impact tester, fatigue tester, hardness tester, wetting balance, atomic force microscope, scanning tunnelling microscope, surface profiler, differential scanning calorimeter, thermomechanical analysis system, thermogravimetric analysis system, dynamic mechanical analysis system, Mossbauer spectrometer, arc melting furnace.
  
  

• Equipment for Optical Measurement

  Stereo, inverted and ordinary optical microscope, Raman and microRaman spectrometers, FTIR spectrometer, UV-VIS-IR double beam spectrometer, Argon laser, nitrogen laser, excimer laser, DCR-2 Nd:YAG laser, Q-switched and mode-locked Nd:YAG laser, CW/Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire laser, optical parametric oscillator, intensified CCD detector.
  
  

• Computational Facilities

  The Physics Department provides a powerful computational environment for various research fields through its four well-equipped computational physics laboratories. As of 2001, there are nearly 80 high speed UNIX workstations, 8 UNIX, NT & Novell servers and many research PCs, including 3 DEC Alpha servers, 2 SUN Enterprise servers, 56 DEC UNIX workstations, 17 Intel P4 Linux workstations, 5 SUN workstations and a SGI workstation in the department. There are two fully AV-equipped multimedia computer laboratories with 52 Pentium-III PCs. Other computer accessories include 8 networked B/W and colour laserjet printers and colour deskjet printers, scanners and CDRWs, etc.
  
  All four computer laboratories are open 24-hour a day for research students. All hardwares are networked and provide a full range of application softwares for scientific computing and graphics.
  
  

• Others

  10 K closed cycle refrigerating system, thermolumine-scence dating system, 20 GHz digitizing oscilloscope, Tektronix logic system, pulse-echo ultrasonic detection system, laser doppler velocimeter.
  
  

Research Centres

• Centre for Scientific Analysis of Antique Artifacts (CSAAA)

  Currently operating in conjunction with the YSS Laboratory for Thermoluminescence of Ancient Ceramics, research activities will be enhanced with the recent establishment of CSAAA. The Centre houses a range of equipment including RISO autoloading TL/OSL dating system capable of handling 48 samples simultaneously, non-destructive CO2 laser-induced thermoluminescence system (home-built), Littlemore manual-loading TL system, and Canberra/Oxford high sensitivity radiation counter.
  (Centre Director: S.K.Hark)