Department of Physics

Physics Department at IIST has thirteen faculty members and twenty five Ph.D. students.

We have a Ph.D. programme in various areas of experimental and theoretical physics and two masters programmes in Optical Engineering and Solid State Technology. In addition, the department offers several courses that constitute the core of the B.Tech. Engineering Physics programme.

Research in the department focuses on the following areas:

• Applied and Adaptive Optics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Quantum Information
• Statistical Physics