Department of Physics - About the Department

• To inculcate human and ethical values apart from the subjects in the young minds of the students and thereby improving the total personality of the students.
• To motivate the students to gain experimental, theoretical & computational skills in order to excel in various fields such as teaching, research, industry etc.
• The goal of the Department of Physics is to bring eminence and excellence in teaching learning process and to fetch ours as one of the Benchmark Department with “Potential for Academic excellence”.

To execute the teaching profession to bring the students as an asset for a productive and fascinating carrier, successful in their life and to realize learning with real world experience.

Department of Physics is one of the oldest department of the College.The department was established in the year 1973 with pre-university course. UG and PG programmes were started in the years 1978 and 1984  respectively.  In the year 2000 the research programmes MPhil and PhD  were also started as self financing courses . 

• The department has been recognized by sanctioning fund from Central and State Governments. 
• The department was also supported under the DST-FIST, CE,CPE programme worth ₹ 40 Lakhs for creating major facilities in PG and Research Laboratories. 
• Faculty members recieved major research projects from various funding agencies like UGC, CSIR, DST, TNSC for higher education worth ₹ 95 Lakhs
• Many counsultancy services such as UV-Visible, PL, etc are extended for research purpose.
• Courses having focus on  empolyability/entrepreneurship/skill development/moral values/ethics were introduced which will enable the students to excel successfully in their career and become a good citizen.
• Feedbacks are taken from alumni, parents, teachers and academic peers/employers  and they are analysed while designing the syllabus for the courses
• Many students after  graduation are placed in reputed industries and educational instituteons in national and international level.
• Various  activities such as Dynamic Physics Forum, Energy Conservation clubs, Association meetings, seminars, webinars, science day celebrations  are carried out with great interest and zeal by the staffs and students of our department

• Thin film Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Plasma Physics
• Luminescence and Nano- glasses 
• Permanent Magnets 
• Thermoelectrics 
• Energy storage devices

Milestones in teaching and learning 

• Produced More than 1300 PG and 1500 UG students 
• Revised Curriculum in every BOS
• Higher pass %
• Students achievements
• Internship/summer training in reputed institutions

Milestones in Research

• More than 400 research papers published in international journals
• More than 6000 Citations
• Produced more than 31 PhD’s & 100 M.Phil’s.
• Funded projects tuned to an amount of ₹ 95 Lakhs
• Additional facilities with the support of  UGC, DST, FIST, CE & CPE funds. 
• Many awards received by the faculty members
• Notable Alumni
• Upgradation of the research lab into Physical Synthesis lab, Chemical Synthesis lab and Characterization lab.