The faculty members of the Department of Physics, Pondicherry University are actively involved in experimental, theoretical and computational research areas divided broadly as follows. More details can be seen by visiting the webpages of individual faculty members.
Materials for battery applications • Development of super ionic conductors and Dielectric spectroscopy in solids
Theoretical nonlinear dynamics and optics • Optical solitons in fibers, bulk materials, EDFA fibers and photonic crystals • Theoretical and experimental verification of modulation instabilities • Dynamics of nonlinear electrical transmission lines
Computational fluid dynamics • Control of electrically conducting fluid flow using electric and magnetic fields • Heat transfer analysis in presence of magnetic field due to forced, natural and mixed convection in fluids • Novel high accuracy numerical schemes for incompressible fluid dynamics
Experimental nonlinear optics • Synthesis of nonlinear optical materials • Study of third order optical non linearities.
Cognitive and neuroScience • Cognitive Phenomena • Neural networks
Magnetic materials and nano materials • Soft ferrites – Structural, Magnetic and Electrical properties • Dilute magnetic semiconductors and Band-gap tailoring • Growth of single crystals • Study of elastic constants of nano materials • Magnetism and magneto-transport phenomena in nano materials
Computational biophysics • Computational studies on complex systems including biological systems • Molecular dynamics of materials and biomolecules
Quantum electronics, Lasers and Photonics • Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Computing • Developing effective schemes for decoding the messages • Secure optical communications • Photonic crystal fiber • Synthesis of soft glasses for mid-IR applications
Computational statistical mechanics • Computer simulations in Statistical Mechanics and Condensed Matter Physics • Development of novel algorithms for simulating interdisciplinary phenomena • Determination of electronic structure of materials