The Department of Physics was established in 1995. The department offers Undergraduate (from 1995), Masters (from 2003) and Doctoral programs (from 2005). Since 2008, the department has emerged as full-fledged University department of PRIST Deemed to be University.  The department has a dedicated team of staff members and distinguished faculty, trained at renowned Institutes from India and abroad. Faculty members devote equal importance to research along with teaching. They attract financial support for their research activities from both government and non-government bodies.

Faculty, assisted by student-teams conduct regular seminars, conferences, workshops providing avenues for knowledge sharing and scientific inquiry.

 

Vision:

  • To provide superior quality education to the students
  • To enhance the creativity and innovating capability of the students in the areas of pure and applied physics

 

Mission:

  • To serve the society by advancing knowledge in Physics
  • To incubate the spirit of entrepreneurship
  • To support research in a multi-disciplinary setting
  • To turn out graduates with innovative thinking
  • To promote research by collaborating with industry
  • To increase the research infrastructure through sponsorship from funding agencies

To organize outreach programs for underprivileged students for knowledge enhancement

B.Sc.,  Physics (3 years Programme)

Programme Outcomes – POs

  • To understand basic facts and concepts in Physics
  • To develop the ability to apply the principles of Physics
  • To appreciate the achievements in Physics and to know the role of Physics in nature and in society
  • To improve problem solving abilities
  • To be familiar with the evolving areas of Physics and their applications in various domains of physical sciences
  • To gain skills in the appropriate handling of instruments
  • To get exposure to the diverse practises used in industries

M.Sc.,  Physics (2 years Programme)

Programme Outcomes – POs

  • Ponder judgmentally and analyse physical problems
  • Communicating scientific and technical data in both spoken and written formats
  • Work excellently and safely in a laboratory atmosphere
  • Use technologies/instrumentation to gather and analyse data
  • Ability to work independently and also as team.
  • Utilizing modern methods of analysis to physical systems related to establishing laboratory

Ph. D. Programme

The Ph. D. programme includes an integrated sequence of course work and research in various branches of Physics. The scholars are considered on clearing the entrance examination conducted by PRIST.

Add-on, Certificate and Diploma courses

Add-on level – Molecular physics

Certificate level – Nanophysics; Molecular physics

Diploma level – Medical physics; Spectroscopy techniques

More information on the above programmes may be had at www.prist.ac.in

The thrust areas of research of the department are Soft condensed matters, Energy storage materials, Thin films, Functional magnetic materials and Computational calculations, Bulk and nanocrystals for optical applications, Materials science and Crystal growth. The faculties of the department have published research articles in high impact journals of leading scientific publishers such as Wiley Interscience, Institute of physics, Taylor and Francis, Springer, American Chemical Society (ACS), Elsevier, and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), etc

RESEARCH GRANTS

Extramural Research grant

Faculty name Project Title

Amount

(Rs)

Funding agency  

Status

 

Duration

 

Dr. M. Sivanantham

 

Preparation of high energy electrode materials from ordered double hydrophilic block copolyelectrolyte nanostructures

21,72,000

DST- SERB- ECR

On-going

 

3 years

 

Seed Money:

Faculty

Academic Year

Amount Sanctioned,

Amount in Rs

Title of the Project

Dr. S. Subashchandrabose

2021-2022

1,15,000

Synthesis and characterization of poly indole ion Oxides and Biomedical Applications

Dr. S. Subashchandrabose

2019-2020

85,000

Tunable van der walls interactions in low dimensional Nanostructures

Dr. M. Sivanantham

2017-2018

80,000

Fabrication of Novel Polyion Complex Nanostructure

Dr. P. Parthiban

2019

80,000

Electronic Transitions, Inter- and Intra-Bond Interactions of an Azabicycle Single Crystal using DFT

Dr. D. Senthilnathan

2018

85,000

Metalloenzymes: Functional Model to Real Enzymes and vice versa – A Theoretical Study

Dr. J.S. Nirmal Ram

2017

95,000

Crystal Engineering of Nutraceuticals for Diabetes Management

PUBLICATIONS

Selected List of Publications in Journals

S.No. Name of the author/s Title Journal ISSN / ISBN No.
1 M. Murugan, G. Dineshkumar, K Chaitanya Kumar, Chetna Tewari, M. Ganesan, Nandagopal Sahoo and M. Sivanantham Development of mesoporous carbon composites with waste plastics derived graphene and MnO2 for supercapacitor applications Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 170, 040518, 2023. DOI 10.1149/1945-7111/acbf7b.

 

0013-4651
2 Jeeva P, Barathi D, Rajaboopathi Mani, David Stephen A, Marjatta Louhi-Kultanen, Vinitha G ,Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi Synthesis, structural, vibrational, molecular docking and nonlinear optical studies of (E)-N′-(2,3-dimethoxybenzylidene)-4-fluorobenzohydrazide Journal of Molecular Structure,1254,  132375, 2022 1872-8014
3 Alberto Ambrosetti, S. Subashchandrabose,  B. Liu, and Pier Luigi Silvestrelli Tunable van der Waals interactions in low-dimensional nanostructures Journal of Chemical Physics, 154, 224105, 2021

 

2405-8300
4 K Sathiyamurthy, C Rajeevgandhi, L Guganathan, S Bharanidharan, S Savithiri Enhancement of magnetic, supercapacitor applications and theoretical approach on cobalt-doped zinc ferrite nanocomposites Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 32, 11593–11606, 2021 0957-4524
5 Rajaboopathi Mani, Santosh Kumar Gupta Effect of hydrothermal temperature treatment on the variance of fluorescence in Ca2SiO4:Tb3+ Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices, 5, 2,  2020, 250-255 2468-2284
6 S Senthil, S Srinivasan, T Thangeeswari, B.J Madhu, M Silambarasan Enhanced dielectric, EMI shielding effectiveness, linear and nonlinear optical properties of CdO/SnO2 nanocomposites Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 24, 2020, 100554 2352-507X
7 Delphine, M. Murugan and M. Sivanantham Effects of phenolic resin on the self- assembly behaviors of polyethylene glycol-b-poly(β-benzyl L-aspartate) International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, 9, 852-855, 2020 2278-0181
8 K. Sathiyamurthy , C. Rajeevgandhi , S. Bharanidharan , P. Sugumar , S. Subashchandrabose Electrochemical and magnetic properties of zinc ferrite nanoparticles through chemical co-precipitation method Chemical Data Collections, 28, 2020, 100477 2405-8300
9 S Veeramanikandan, H Benita Sherine, A Dhandapani, S Subashchandrabose Synthesis, solid state structure, Hirshfeld surface, nonlinear optics and DFT studies on novel bischalcone derivative

 

Journal of Molecular Structure, 1180,  798-811, 2019 1872-8014
10 M. Sivanantham , H. Feng and F. Winnik Formation of novel thermo-responsive hybrid vesicles: influence of molar ratio of lipids and heating Journal of Polymer Research, 25, 251, 2018 1022-9760
  • 2019-20 Dr. M. Rajaboopathi, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from European Union under H2020-MSCA, Brussels, Belgium

 

  • 2019-20 Dr. S. Subashchandrabose, Post-doctoral fellowship from University of Padova, Italy

 

  • 2017-18 Dr. M. Sivanantham, Early career research award from Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science & Technology, India
  • Seminar on ‘Influences of functional materials in technology’ 16th November 2022 at 10:30 am. Resource person: A. Antony Joseph, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, St. Joseph’s College of Engg. & Tech., Thanjavur- 613403
  • D Pre-synopsis seminar of Mr. M. Murugan – ‘Fabrication of different mesoporous carbon-based composites for energy storage applications’ 20.09.2022
  • Seminar on ‘The periodic table of chemical elements and towards sustainable development’ 10th May 2022. Resource person: T. GANESH, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Raja Serfoji Government College, Thanjavur- 613005
  • D Pre-synopsis seminar of Mrs. P. Ponmani – ‘Investigations on polyaniline based conductive nanocomposites and their applications in energy conversion and storage’ 01.10.2021
  • PhD viva voce of Mrs. D. Nandhini – ‘Synthesis and characterization of cu and ni doped iron oxide alkali metals doped Ca(OH)2 nanoparticles for energy and biomedical applications’ 29.12.2020
  • Webinar on ‘Introduction to nanotechnology and its applications’, 28th October 2020
  • Industrial visit of UG & PG students to nRoot Technolgies Ltd, Thanjavur on 20th February 2020
  • Workshop on Experimental and Computational Methods in Advanced Material Science on 7th February 2020
  • PhD viva voce of Mrs. V. Vidhya – ‘Growth and characterization of organic and semi-organic functional non-linear optical single crystals’ 29.08.2018
  • PhD viva voce of Mr. Muraleedharan   – ‘Investigations of optical and thermal properties of solution growth organic semi-organic non-linear optical single crystals’ 09.08.2017

Head, Department of Physics, School of Arts and Science,

PONNAIYAH RAMAJAYAM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY(PRIST), Vallam, Thanjavur -613403.

Email:

hodphysics@prist.ac.in

Phone:

04362-265021

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