About

The Department of Physics, established in the year 2004, has been imparting teaching and research in emerging fields of Physics through regular M. Sc. and Ph. D. programmes. A certificate course was introduced in this Department in 2021. Also, courses on Indian Knowledge System and Life Skill were introduced since 2024. The syllabus of different courses has been made up-to-date incorporating subjects ascertained by the UGC.
The Department has been functioning in Academic Block-3 with adequate facilities namely ICT-enabled classroom, laboratories, Computer lab, girl’s common room, ICT-enabled seminar, and convention hall.
Faculty members of the Physics Department are Dr. Susmita Kar, Dr. Indrajit Naik, Dr. Pravanjan Mallick (HOD), Dr. Priyadarshini Sanghamitra Sahoo, Dr. Jyoti Ranjan Sahu, and one laboratory technician Dr. Srikrushna Mohanta. Each faculty member has more than 20 years of teaching experience.
The thrust areas of research in the department are High energy Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Nano-Science, etc. On average, 10-15 research articles are published in each academic year by the faculty members in different high impact factor journals of international repute. Various projects funded by different funding agencies like UGC, DST, UGC-DAE CSR, IUAC, etc are running by our faculty members.
Student progression in national institutions, namely IISc, IITs, NISER, IISER etc. is praise worthy.

500+

Total Students

30+

Faculty Members

20+

Research Projects

Mission
  • Through quality teaching and research, students can hone their scientific knowledge in physics and sense of social responsibility.
  • To have an exposure to embrace diversity, improved interpersonal skills and to collaborate with national and international institutions.
  • To keep the faculties and researchers abreast with the latest advancements in Physics through regular training programmes/workshops.
Vision
  • To emerge as a unique centre of learning and a pioneer in the field of material science and nanoscience research.
  • To ignite the young minds and arouse in them discover their hidden talents in the fields of experimental and theoretical Physics.
  • To groom the students as competent intellectuals and as human beings with a scientific bent of mind.

Prof. Pravanjan Mallick

Professor

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Profile

Programme

  • PG
  • Doctoral

Faculties

Exploration of Structural, Magnetic and Dielectric Behaviors by substituting Al & Mn in CoTiO3

Ongoing
Funding Agency: UGC-DAECSR, Mumbai Centre
Amount
₹ 45000/-
Duration
3 Years

Interfacial Coupling Induced Emergence of Properties in NiO based Bimagnetic Nanocomposites for Spintronics Application

Ongoing
Funding Agency: UGC-DAE CSR, Indore
Amount
₹ 6,84,360/-
Duration
3 Years

Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation Induced Emergence of Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles Embedded in PVA Matrix for Flexible Devices

Completed
Funding Agency: IUAC, New Delhi
Amount
₹ 6,79,960/-
Duration
3 Years

Tailoring the Magnetic Proximity Effect in Ferromagnetic Phase Embedded in NiO Matrix for Antiferromagnetic Spintronics Application

Completed
Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of Odisha
Amount
₹ 7.41 Lakhs
Duration
3 yrs (2021-24)

Effect of magnetic and non-magnetic element (Fe, Zn & Al) substitution on synthesis and characterisation of MnTiO3

Completed
Funding Agency: SERB, NEW DELHI
Amount
₹ Rs.39,78,000/-
Duration
3 years (27/12/2019 - 26/12/2022)

Investigation of magnetocaloric effect in various oxides .

Completed
Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of Odisha
Amount
₹ 9.36 Lakhs
Duration
3 yrs (2018-22)

Probing into the evolution of Magnetic Structure in Ni1-xAxO(A=Zn, Mg) by neutron scattering

Completed
Funding Agency: UGC-DAECSR Mumbai Center, BARC
Amount
₹ 12.39567
Duration
2017-20

Studying effect of non-magnetic element (A = Ti, Zn) substitution in spinel CuMn2O4 by employing neutron diffraction

Completed
Funding Agency: UGC-DAECSR Mumbai Center, BARC
Amount
₹ 8.71298
Duration
2016-19

Evolution of Properties of NiO/ZnO pn Junction Under SHI Irradiation

Completed
Funding Agency: IUAC/ UGC
Amount
₹ 6.03
Duration
2015-18

Weak and Rare decays of Bc Mesons in a Relativistic Independent Quark Model

Completed
Funding Agency: UGC, New Delhi
Amount
₹ 8.838
Duration
2013 -17

Synthesis and characterization of superconducting transition metal dichalcogenide

Completed
Funding Agency: UGC, New Delhi
Amount
₹ 1.31
Duration
2yrs 2009-11

Direct and Sequential breakup of loosely bound Projectiles

Completed
Funding Agency: BARC, Mumbai
Amount
₹ 18.275
Duration
3 yrs (2011-2014)

National Space Day Celebrations

Completed
Organised By:
Date
23/08/2024
Category
Orientation

“Scope of Experimental and Theoretical Research in Physics”

Completed
Organised By:
Date
25 – 27 February, 2026
Category
Workshop

Summer Internship Programme 2025 for UG Students

Completed
Organised By:
Date
08.05.2025 to 28.05.2025
Category
Workshop

“Emerging Aspects of Physics: New Directions and Societal Application”

Completed
Organised By:
Date
21-22 February, 2025
Category
Conference

“Innovations in Functional Materials”

Completed
Organised By:
Date
29th -30th May 2023
Category
Seminar

How things work: Phenomena in Physics

Completed
Organised By:
Date
24-28 May, 2023
Category
FDP

“Emerging Trends in Physics”

Completed
Organised By:
Date
23rd April, 2022
Category
Seminar

Unity in Particle Physics and Beyond: Enstein’s Dream

Completed
Organised By: Padmashree Prof. Jogesh Chandra Pati
Date
05.02.2020
Category
Seminar

Challenges & Prospects in Physics

Completed
Organised By:
Date
23rd & 24th Feb, 2018
Category
Seminar

Current Progress in Physics and its Applications

Completed
Organised By:
Date
3rd &4th March, 2017
Category
Seminar

Recent advances in Physics

Completed
Organised By:
Date
23-24 February, 2014
Category
Seminar

Current Developments in Physics

Completed
Organised By:
Date
18th March, 2012
Category
Seminar

Global warming and clean Energy

Completed
Organised By:
Date
13-14 February, 2010
Category
Seminar

Alumni

Event