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The mission of the Department of Physics and Electronics is to impart education both at basic and advanced levels. The department has well equipped electronics laboratory, nuclear physics laboratory, and solid state physics laboratory apart from a basic physics and electronics laboratory where students not only hone their experimental skills but also learn and clear various concepts in basic physics and electronics. Further, eminent scientists and educationists from IITs and universities are invited every year to deliver a lecture series in basic and advanced topics in physics. The faculty of the department, besides teaching, is also engaged in front line research activities in the field of condensed matter physics, nuclear theory, microwave theory and nanomaterials. Some of these research activities are in collaboration with the premier research institutes in the country. Faculty members regularly contribute their research work in national and international conferences as well as in the peer reviewed international journals having high impact factor. A 14” telescope imported from Celestron, USA is an added attraction and is used regularly for observing various astronomical events.
Undergraduate courses:
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B. Sc. (Computer.
Sc., Physics and Maths)
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B. Sc.
(Information Technology, Physics and Maths)*
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B. Sc. (Physics,
Chemistry and Maths)
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B. Sc. (Physics,
Electronics and Maths)
*likely to start
Postgraduate
courses:
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M. Sc. (Physics)
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M. Sc.
(Electronics)
All the courses
are affiliated to Devi Ahilya University, Indore.
Scope for B.Sc. Students :
Academics:
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In Science : M Sc.
(Physics), M Sc. (Electronics), M Sc. (Astrophysics)
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In Computers : M
Sc. (Computer Science), M Sc. (IT), MCA, MCM.
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In Management :
MBA ( In all streams )
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In Research
Institutes as a Technical Officer/ Technical Assistance.
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Marketing
personnel in any company
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Computer Hardware
and Software Development
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Eligible for
appearing in any exam. related to Government / Private Jobs.
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IT companies, BPOs,
Banking , Railways
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Civil Services
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In science : as a
scientific officer in a Govt. research laboratory/ institutes
like BARC, RRCAT, IPR, PRL, NPL, SINP.
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in research
laboratories of multinational companies like GE (USA) in
Bangalore/ national companies like M&M, etc.
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in teaching: as a
lecturer in any Govt./ private/ autonomous college/ university
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further studies
like Ph. D. with scholarship up to Rs. 13000.00 per month /
M. Tech. with scholarship of up to Rs. 5000.00 per month.
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electronics and
instrumentation industries.
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Some of the research
Laboratories/ Institutes in India |
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Indian Space
Research Organization (ISRO)
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Department of
Atomic Energy (DAE): (a) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC),
(b) Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), (c)
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)
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Electronic
Corporation of India
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Department of
Meteorology
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DRDO / Defence
Services
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Department of
Telecommunication
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Mr. Prasant Das of
M. Sc. (Physics) – 2005 batch – secured first position in the
University.
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Ms. Kiran of M.
Sc. (Physics) – 2005 batch – secured second position in the
University.
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Mr. Praveen Dixit
of B.Sc. – II (Comp. Sc.) secured II Prize at inter-University
competition in western group song 2007.
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Mr. Sharique Khan,
B.Sc. – III (Comp. Sc.) secured Placement in IBM in 2007.
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Mr. Prasant Das of
M. Sc. (Physics) – 2005 batch – secured placement in ICICI
Bank in 2007.
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Nuclear Physics
Laboratory.
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Well equipped
Laboratory for Postgraduate & Undergraduate students.
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Departmental
Library for Postgraduate and Research students.
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LCD, Lap-Top &
Overhead Projector equipped seminar room.
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Laboratory
Equipment designing and Fabrication workshops.
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Machine workshop
is equipped with, Lathe Machine, Drill Machine, and Milling
Machine.
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Self designed and
Fabricated Foucault pendulum.
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14” Celestrone
telescope mounted atop the Institute building.
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Radioactive Source
Preparation Centre |
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This is our most
prestigious program, approved by Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
Govt. of India. It is worth mentioning that Department of
Physics at IPS Academy is the only place in the country
outside DAE centers, where permission to prepare laboratory
grade radioactive sources has been granted by the DAE. We
prepare low dose radioactive sources for use in Nuclear
Physics Laboratories & research activities under permission
from DAE.
Department of Physics has installed a 14 inch celestrone
telescope with fully computerized and auto tracking system.
The sky has opened up for the IPS Academy community as well as
for the general public from Indore and other nearby towns. We
regularly show the astronomical events to the students and
general public, whenever such events occur.
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Equipment Fabrication
Work |
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We design, develop and fabricate Laboratory equipment for
innovative and other experiments for under graduate, post
graduate and even research laboratories. The equipments
fabricated in our workshop have been supplied to many
Educational Institutions; notably among them are (a) Deptt. of
Physics, Univ. of Burdwan, (b) West Bengal, International
University Hyderabad, (c) Rajasthan University, Jaipur (d) Sylvan University, Hyderabad and (e) Department of Physics, Allahabad University, Allahabad. In
the past few years Department can boast of indigenously
designing & fabricating Foucault pendulum which is a big
achievement.
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Equipments developed and fabricated at ISLE |
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Microcontroller based equipments has been designed to understand the phenomena of Newton’s law of cooling and for charging & discharging of a capacitor.
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New equipment to evaluate ‘g’, acceleration due to gravity using microcontroller technique has been designed for the students.
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Some of the equipments are duplicated e.g. B-ray unit, an anharmonic Oscillator with certain modifications.
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Nuclear Physics Laboratory.
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Research and Development Activities |
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Dr.M.L.Sharma
Nuclear theory specially nuclear matter Hartree-Fock calculations for nuclear matter and finite nuclei.
Dr. S.B.Welankar
On effective nucleon-nucleon interaction and studies in finite nuclei
Dr. Lalit Gupta
Brief description of the research work conducted during his visit to Elettra, Trieste, 2009-10:
Because of some specific characteristics and wide applications of Free Electron Laser, he choose to do his research work in the development of a source of Free Electron Laser at Elettra. The following tasks performed by him during his visit to the elettra:
He concentrated on learning and modifying computer code which is very important and necessary for alignments of undulators and electron beam transportation in transfer line, is based on Beam Based Alignment technique. He learn the Graphical User Interface (GUI) technique in Matlab to calculate the energy of electron beam at the end of first Linear Accelerator. Moreover, he had modified an existing code (Matlab tool) used to match the beam optics as it is produced by the injector to the design optics of the magnetic lattice downstream of the injector. The code is now routinely used for this kind of electron beam manipulation and transport through the first part of the FERMI linac.
Brief description of the research work conducted during his visit to ENEA, Italy- 2008-09:
Some unique characteristics and wide applications of terahertz radiation he chose this area for his research work in the field of Terahertz radiation.
He participated in the experiments related to generation of Terahertz radiation by compact Free Electron Laser. He used the source of compact FEL for Imaging Technology in which we took images of several different objects. As an object we first took the image of 1 Euro, 2 Euro coin and an image of 20 Euro Note and study the reflection of laser light. Then we tested the High electron mobility transistors (HEMT) with terahertz radiation and observed images of different micro components of the electronic circuits. Then we characterize a very old wooden frame of ancient time of 600/ 700 century and took the reflection and transmission image of the object. We also analysed the new fibre material by THz radiation which is going to be used for the construction of new Air Planes instead of metals.
Dr. R.V.Nandedkar, Dr. Usha singh and Mrs. Anjali Jain Deotale
Setting up of a NANO MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY has been initiated. Initially the emphasis is on the preparation and characterization of nanoparticles and nanorods using chemical and high temperature methods, respectively. For this, essential chemicals and a high temperature TUBULAR FURNACE which can go up to 10000 C have been procured.. Using these methods nanoparticles of Nickel, Cobalt and Iron & nanorods of Copper oxide, Zinc oxide and Phosphor Bronze have been prepared. These particles and rods have been characterized using X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD), SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY. Preliminary results are interesting and efforts are been made to characterize them in detail and to explore possible applications of these materials.
All the preparation of samples is done at IPS ACADEMY, Indore and characterization is carried out at University Grant Commission-Department of Atomic Energy Consortium for Scientific Research (UGC-DAE-CSR), Indore Centre.
Dr. Shyam Naik
Presently we are studying the low dimensionality effects on the soft condensed matter thin films. We deposit the well defined single crystalline soft condensed matter thin film using LB technique. Using soft x-ray reflectivity (at synchrotron radiation source Indus-1, Indore, India), temperature dependent hard x-ray reflectivity and diffraction, temperature dependent Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements (at UGC-DAE-CSR, Indore, India), small angle x-ray scattering measurements (at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light source, California, USA ), in plane x-ray diffraction measurements (at ELETTRA, Trieste ITALY) we are studying the effect of surface interaction energy, effects of number of monolayers and effect of synchrotron irradiation on the structure of these films. This study is important to understand the basic physics of similar types of systems and the area of fundamental interest.
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Dr. M.L. Sharma |
M. Sc., Ph.D. (Nuclear Theory) |
Professor & Head, Director, ISLE |
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Dr.S. B. Welankar |
M. Sc., Ph.D. (Nuclear Theory) |
Professor |
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Dr.R.V. Nandedkar |
M. Sc., Ph.D. (Material Science) |
Professor |
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Dr. Usha Singh |
M. Sc., Ph.D. (Energy) |
Reader |
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Dr. Lalit
Gupta |
M. Sc., Ph.D. (LASER Physics) |
Lecturer |
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Dr. Shyam Naik |
M. Sc., Ph.D. (Material Science) |
Lecturer |
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Mrs. Anjali J. Deotale |
M.Sc., M.Phil, Ph.d (pursuing) |
Lecturer |
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Mr.Jaiveer Singh |
M.Sc. M.Tech(Laser) |
Lecturer |
Teaching Centre
Teaching Centre for M.Sc. Physics MP BHOJ Open University, Bhopal
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Dr. M.L.Sharma, Dr.S.B.Welankar, Dr.Usha Singh, Mrs. Anjali Jain Deotale are life member of IAPT
- Dr. M.L.Sharma is life member of IPA and American Physical Society
Awards & Honors
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Dr. B.L. Saraf
was honored as “Raman of Rajasthan” in 2006
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A documentary
“Master Experimentalist” on the Life and work of Dr. B.L.
Saraf was prepared by Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science
and Technology and was released by Prof. Yashpal ex-Chairman
ISRO on 11th July, 2007 in New Delhi.
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Dr. Netram
Kaurav was honored with “Young Scientist Award” by Indian
Science Congress Association for the year 2007.
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Dr. S. B.
Welankar has been nominated as the President of the regional
chapter of Indian Association of Physics Teachers.
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Dr.R.V.Nandedkar has been awarded Pt.Lajja Shankar Jha award by MP council for Science and Technology (MPCOST) for Engineering and Technology for the year 2007.
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Dr. usha singh was invited by University of Allahabad for an invited lecture on some laboratory based experiments in Feb 24-25, 2010.
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Dr. Shyam Naik has been invited by SINCROTRONE TRIESTE, Italy from May 15-24, 2010 to conduct experiment on the Electtra beam line at the Centre. The work is supported by the Indo- Italian P.O.C.
Research
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Dr. Netram
Kaurav Published his research paper at International
conferences held at ICTP Trieste, Italy in 2006 & in
International conference held at Paris, France in 2007.
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Dr. Ashwani
Kumar visited Trieste, Italy to carry out experiments at
Elettra Sincrotrone in May 2006 and April 2007.
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Dr. S.B.
Welankar & Dr. M.L. Sharma presented paper in National
Conference on “Current Trends in Physics” held at Holkar Sc.
College 2006.
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Ms. Geetanjali
Joshi and Dr. Netram Kaurav presented their research papers
in Department of Atomic Energy conference at Mysore,
Dec.-2007.
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Dr. Lalit Gupta
was awarded Ph.D. degree by DAVV 2007.
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Ms. Geetanjali
Joshi has been registered for Ph.D. degree with DAVV 2007.
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Dr. Netram
Kaurav is in Taiwan on Post doctorate fellowship for one
year since Dec. 2007.
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Dr. Lalit Gupta
presented his research work at International conference,
held at Nanjing China April 2008.
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Dr. Lalit Gupta
presented his proposal for the project before national
committee on plasma Research at IPR Ahemdabad April 2008.
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Dr. Lalit Gupta has been selected for an International Fellowship by ICTP (International centre for Theoritical Physics under TRIL ( Training and Research in Italian Laboratories) program for 9 months from October 2008 to July 2009 at ENEA (Institute of Atomic Energy), Frascati, Italy.
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Selected second time ICTP TRIL fellow from November 2009 to March 2010 at Elettra Synchrotron Laboratory, Trieste, Italy.
Resource person
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Dr. M.L. Sharma
was Resource Person in a seminar held at JAAL auditorium to
celebrate Einstein Centenary year – 2005.
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Dr. Ashwani
Kumar was invited by the M.P. State Education Board to edit
the science books for school students of Madhya Pradesh.
Research
Publication in National/ International Journals & Conference
Proceedings
Research Publications in peer reviewed journals (during 2007 –
10)
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Investigation of the spin state of Co in LaCoO3
at room temperature: ab initio calculations and
high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy of single
crystals
S. K. Pandey, A. Kumar, S. Patil, V. R. R.
Medicherla, R. S. Singh, K. Maiti, D. Prabhakaran, A. T.
Boothroyd, and A. V. Pimpale
Phys. Rev. B 77, 045123 (2008). |
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Electronic states in arsenic-decapped MnAs (1100)
films grown on GaAs (001): A photoemission study
M. Moreno, A. Kumar, M. Tallarida, K. Horn, A. Ney,
and K. H. Ploog
App. Phys. Lett. 92, 084103 (2008). |
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Doping and bond length contributions to Mn K-edge shift in
La1−xSrxMnO3 and their
correlation with electrical transport behaviour
S. K. Pandey, R. Bindu, A. Kumar, S. Khalid, and A.
V. Pimpale
Pramana - J. Phys. 70, 359 (2008). |
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Unoccupied electronic states of LaCoO3 and
PrCoO3 investigated using inverse photoemission
spectroscopy and GGA+U calculations
S. K. Pandey, A. Kumar, S. Banik, A. K. Shukla, S.
R. Barman, and A. V. Pimpale
Phys. Rev. B 77, 113104 (2008). |
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Electronic signature of MnAs phases in bare and buried
films grown on GaAs(001)
M.
Moreno,
A.
Kumar,
M. Tallarida, A. Ney, K. H. Ploog, and K. Horn
submitted |
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Phase transformation and elastic behavior of MgX
(X = S, Se, Te) alkaline earth chalcogenides
D.
Varshney, N. Kaurav, U. Sharma and R. K. Singh
J. Phys. Chem. Solids 69, 60 (2007). |
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Pressure induced B1 – B2 structural phase transition and
elastic properties of UxLa1-xS solid
solution
D.
Varshney, N. Kaurav, R. Kinge and R. K. Singh
J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 19, 246212 (2007). |
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Effect of electron/hole doping on the transport properties
of lanthanum manganites LaMnO3
D.
Varshney, I. Mansuri and N. Kaurav
J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 19, 246211 (2007). |
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The
effect of Al/Si ratio on the transport properties of the
layered intermetallic compound CaAl2Si2
Y. K.
Kuo, K. M. Sivakumar, J. I. Tasi, C. S. Lue, J. W. Huang,
S. Y. Wang, D. Varshney, N. Kaurav and R. K. Singh
J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 19, 17626 (2007). |
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B1-B2
structural phase transition and elastic properties of UX
(X = S, Se and Te) compounds at high pressure
D.
Varshney, N. Kaurav, R. Kinge and R. K. Singh
J. Phys.: Conden. Matter 19, 236204 (2007). |
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Numerical Analysis of Heat Transport Behavior in the
Ferromagnetic Metallic State of La0.80Ca0.20MnO3
Manganites
D.
Varshney and N. Kaurav
J. Low Temp. Phys. 147, 7
(2007). |
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Pressure induced
phase transition B3 → B1 and elastic properties in GaY
(Y=N, P, As)
D. Vasrshney, G.
Joshi and N. Kaurav
submitted |
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Pressure induced
structural phase transition and elastic properties of AlY
(Y=N, P, As)
D. Vasrshney, G.
Joshi and N. Kaurav
submitted |
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Development of 2 MW
Relativistic Backward Wave Oscillator
Y. Choyal, L. Gupta, P. Deshpande, K. P. Maheshwari,
K. C. Mittal, and S. C. Bapna
Pramana Journal of Physics, Vol 71, No 6,1301-1310, December-2008. |
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Development of a 300-kV Marx generator and its application to drive a relativistic electron beam.
Y. Choyal, Lalit Gupta, P. Vyas, P. Deshpande, A. Chaturvedi, K. C. Mittal and K. P. Maheshwari.
SADHNA Journal of engineering 30, Part 6, 757-764 (December 2005). |
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Effect of substrate on the melting behavior of Cd arachidate Langmuir-Blodgett films,
S. R. Naik, A. Gupta
Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 77 (2010), 150. |
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Soft x-ray VUV damage of soft condensed matter Langmuir-Blodgett film
S. R. Naik, M. H. Modi, P. Pandit, G. S. Lodha, A. Gupta, 2010
(Communicated in J. of Phys. Chem.). |
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Soft X-ray/Vacuum Ultra Violet Damage in Cd-Arachidate Langmuir Blodgett Multilayer
S. R. Naik, M. H. Modi, P. Pandit, G. S. Lodha, A. Gupta
Topical Conference on Interaction of EM Radiation with Atoms, RRCAT, Indore 2010. |
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Role of Interface Energy on the Phase Transition and Melting of Cd-Arachidate Multilayer
S. R. Naik, A. Gupta
International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN)- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2009. |
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X-ray reflectivity study on Cd-arachidate Langmuir Blodgett thin film
Aarti Pancholi, S. R. Naik
DAE- Solid State Physics Symposium, 54, (2009), 151. |
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Characterization of single layer Au and Mo films by x-ray reflectivity technique
Shilpa Vijay, S. R. Naik
DAE- Solid State Physics Symposium, 54, (2009), 149. |
LECTURES OR LECTURE SERIES CONDUCTED
Session 2002
| 1. |
Prof. S. Loknathan |
Rajasthan University |
Quantum Mechanics
(Oct 21st to 29th 2002) |
| 2. |
Prof. A.K. Arora |
Rajasthan University |
Electrodynamics & Plasma Physics
(Dec 25th 2002 to Jan 1st 2003) |
Session 2003
| 1. |
Prof. J.K. Sharma |
Jodhpur University |
Quantum Mechanics
(Nov 10 – Nov 15, 2003) |
| 2. |
Prof. J.C. Upadhyaya |
Agra University |
Crystal Structure
(Nov 21 – Nov 26, 2003) |
| 3. |
Prof. A.W. Joshi |
Puna University |
Condensed Matter Physics
(Dec 22 – Dec 28, 2003) |
Session 2004
| 1. |
Prof. A.K. Ghatak |
IIT, Delhi |
Quantum Mechanics & Fiber Optics
(Jan 30 – Feb 03, 2004) |
| 2. |
Prof. D.D. Bhawalkar |
CAT, Indore |
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| 3. |
Prof. K.P. Maheshwari |
DAVV, Indore |
Electrodynamics & Plasma Physics |
| 4. |
Prof. N.P. Lalla |
IUC, Indore |
4 Lectures |
| 5. |
Prof. G.C. Ganeshan |
IUC, Indore |
4 Lectures |
| 6. |
Prof. K.P. Joshi |
DAVV, Indore |
2 Lectures |
WORKSHOP CONDUCTED
Session 2004–05
One week workshop on experimental nuclear physics course for the M.S.C (Final year) student of Amolakchand Mahavidhyalaya, Yavatmal, Amravati University.(Maharashtra).
10 days workshop on experimental Nuclear Physics course for the postgraduate students for Govt. College Khandwa, Khargone, Dhar, Mandsour.
Session 2005–06
Workshop on Experimental Physics for School students organized by ISLE at Nandram Chopra Excellent Sr. Sec. School, Badnawar.
Session 2008–09
Use of Modern Techniques in Experimental Physics was held on 20th September 2008 in Collaboration with Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) and Department of Physics, IPS Academy. Around 25 participants attended the workshop.
Session 2009–10
All India Laboratory workshop in Physics for University teachers, 14-18 Dec,09, Department of Physics, IPS Academy, Indore ( Sponsored by IAPT). Around 35 participants attended the workshop.
Dr. M.L. Sharma
Director
Tel.: 0731- 4014581
Mob.: +91 98275 46696
e-mail: director.isle@ipsacademy.org
Dr. Usha Singh
Head, Department of Physics
Mob.: +91 99264 62275
e-mail: ushasingh@ipsacademy.org
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