Department of Physics

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Congratulations to Mr. Hemant S Hegde for successfully defending their PhD thesis
Congratulations to Mr. Abhiram K (3rd Year B. Tech in Engineering Physics) for 2024 Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) award by California Institute of Technology, California, USA
Congratulations to the following students for successfully defending their PhD thesis-

Mr. Arun Kumar (Experimental Material Science)

Ms. Sonia Rani (Experimental Material Science)

Mr. Kiran P (Quantum Information Theory)

Congratulations to Ms. Himani Sharma (PhD student) for PMRF award (2023 onwards)

Welcome to the Department of Physics

The Department of Physics at IIT Dharwad started functioning from July 2016 with an aim to train and support young Engineering undergraduate students on the basic topics in Physics through the courses like Modern Physics, Electromagnetism, and basic Physics Laboratory. The department has also provided an opportunity to learn several interdisciplinary and advanced topics in Physics like, Astrophysics for Engineers, Introduction to Quantum Information and Computation, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, etc, through elective courses at higher semesters. In 2018, the Department started its dedicated PhD program and at present several PhD students are working in various research fields. The institute has started a B.Tech. in Engineering Physics Program from 2021-22 academic year. It is an innovative collaborative program involving courses offered from the Department of Physics, Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering (EECE), Mechanical Materials, and Aerospace Engineering (MMAE) together with a choice of elective courses which give the student career and research options in Physics or Engineering. We have also started the Integrated and Interdisciplinary BS-MS dual degree program from Autumn 2022-23 semester. These two programs will allow the department to offer several advanced courses in Physics. There are ongoing research projects funded by external funding agencies in the department. The faculty in the department are regularly publishing research articles in Science Citation Index (SCI) Journals.

The broad areas of research activities in the department are as follows:

Astrophysics

Nonlinear optics, Optical parametric oscillators, Frequency combs, High-power coherent sources; Trace-gas sensing, Laser physics and systems, Laser-matter interactions

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Quantum Information Theory and its interface with Quantum Optics; Many-Body Physics; Relativistic Quantum Information; Quantum Communication; Quantum Computation.

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Single Crystal Growth;

Materials Science: Thin films and Photovoltaics

Students Achievements

PhD viva of Mr. Hemant S Hegde

PhD student Ms. Debajani Rout (Supervisor Prof. Santosh Kumar) from the Department of Physics won the award for best oral presentation in the third international conference on Materials Science and Technology (ICMST 2025) held at St. Thomas college Palai, Kerala during 12-14 Mar 2025. She presented her research work related to the single crystal growth of a rare-earth transition-metal carbide.

PhD student Ms. Harsha Miriam Reji (Supervisor Prof. R Prabhu) from the Department of Physics won the award for Best Paper/Best Poster in the competition held at the 16th edition of the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS – 2024 (www.photonics2024.in), which was organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, during the period 12th-15th December 2024.

PhD student Mr. Gopal Sahu (Supervisor Prof. Kavita Devi) from the Department of Physics won the award for Best Paper/Best Poster in the competition held at the 16th edition of the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS – 2024 (www.photonics2024.in), which was organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, during the period 12th-15th December 2024.

PhD student Mr. Ashish Malik (Supervisor Prof. Dhriti Sundar Ghosh) from the Department of Physics won the award for Best Oral Presentation Award sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) at the 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Application Physics (FMAP 2024), held at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, from October 18 to 19, 2024.