Physics, IIT Kanpur

 The Department of Physics at IIT Kanpur may lay a fair claim to be India’s premier physics department. In the last five decades, it has produced a steady stream of brilliant scientists, who have gone on to win academic laurels in many fields of research. Perhaps more significantly, the Department has steadily been making important research contribution in various front- line areas of physics. Roughly half the faculties are studying the physics of Condensed Matter System, while the other Energy Physics, Laser & Quantum Optics, and Ion Beam and Nuclear Solid State Physics. With this highly desired combination of teaching and research, it is probably fair to say that the Department sets the standard for the discipline in the country.

The department has at present 34 faculty members and two Distinguished Honorary Professors. The faculty is assisted by a team of Senior Scientific Officers, Research Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the academic staff. Apart from research in the frontier areas of Physics, the Department has, over the years, produced physicists of the highest caliber who have made fundamental contributions to the subject.

Specific Areas of Research include Low Temperature Physics, Low Dimensional Systems, Amorphous semiconductors, Solid State Ionics, Physics of Photonic and Electronic Materials Laser and Plasma Applications, photonics and Biophotonics(BIOPSYL), Quantum and Nano- optics, Quantum Optics and Entanglement, Ion Beam Complex for Science, Engineering and Technology, Nuclear Solid State Physics, Waves and Beams, Condensed Matter Theory, High Energy Physics, Quantum Optics, and Computational Physics. The Physics Workshop forms the backbone of experimental research in the Department. Most fabrication, modification and maintenance of the experimental apparati and accessories are performed by well trained personnel. The Physics society IIT K promotes interactions between members of the Department-faculty, students and staff in both academic and non-academic fields. The society is run by the students under the guidance of faculty advisers.

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