Facilities in Department of Physics

UGC Instrument Maintenance Facility

With the support of UGC, IMF centre is operative in the department to look after maintenance of sophisticated electronic and computer based equipments. Students of M.Sc Physics and Electronics are also trained using these facilities.

University Internet Centre

University Internet Centre has been established in the department of Physics to design, install and maintain Sukhadia University Network of Computers to provide Internet and Intranet facilities to students and faculty members. Internet access to the campus is provided through a 512 Kbps SCPC VSAT (Under UGC Infonet programme) and 64 Kbps VSAT from ERNET, New Delhi. Internet facilities are available in all research laboratories and Post Graduate Laboratories. Departmental library and rooms of faculty members. Students are provided with free Internet accounts to access educational resources. Access to full text of all major research journals are also available free of charge from the computer network installed in the department. For more details contact Dr. K. Venugopalan, Coordinator of University Internet Centre.

Computational and Graphics Laboratory

Department has excellent computing facilities to cater computing requirement of various research groups and training of Post graduate students. SGI Octane Computer System, Compaq and Wipro make Pentium 4 based Servers, Alpha Workstations and more than 20 Pentium 4 computers are available in the Central Computational Laboratory of the Department.
 

X-ray Diffraction facility

Rogaku Model X-ray powder diffractometer is installed in the department as a central facility for characterization of various alloys, crystals and compounds developed by various research groups. This facility is also used by students for experiments an project work. This facility is also extended to other departments and institutions. For more details contact Dr. N. Lakshmi, Assistant Professor in Physics.

Thin Film Laboratory

A thin film Laboratory equipped with Electron Beam Gun and Closed Cycle Refrigerator with 4 Optical windows is established under central facilities for carrying out preparation of thin films, study of transport properties etc. for M.Sc students and faculty members.

Vibration Sample Magnetometer (VSM) facility

A Lakeshore make Model 7401 VSM facility is under installation in the department as a central facility under DST-FIST programme. This magnetometer is equipped with low temperature CCR and high temperature oven for measurement in the range of 10K- 1000K range. This research facility will be open to PG students for Specialization paper experiments and Project work. This facility will also be extended to other departments and institutions. For more details contact Dr. K. Venugopalan, Associate Professor in Physics

Library Facilities

Students and Faculty members of the Department can avail library facilities from following libraries
 Physics Student Library
 Departmental Library
 College Library
 University Central Library
All students admitted to the University are also eligible to get text books required fro the course from the Book Bank operative in the University College Library. In addition to books and Journals, a Digital Library and Internet Access facilities are also available in the college and Departmental libraries. Photocopier and Network Printing facilities are also open to students and faculty members.