Dr P.Viswarupachary
M.Sc.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,M.Tech.
Head, Department of Physics

The department of Physics was established in 2001 with the vision to build the foundation for technical excellence by providing critical thinking in all aspects of Physics as a part of curricula. Department is headed by Dr.P.Viswarupachary. There are eight experienced, enthusiastic and energetic teaching faculty and six of them have Ph.D’s and other two faculty pursuing in the field of Nuclear Physics, Materials Science, Space Physics, Spectroscopy, Nano structured Materials and thin films. The department is offered Engineering Physics theory and Lab, Materials Science, Applied Physics and teaching mandatory courses like, Human Values and Professional Ethics, Constitution of India & Intellectual property rights for B.Tech and Research Methodology and Intellectual Property Rights (RM & IPR) for M.Tech students. Apart from these subjects, department is also enhancing career opportunities by introducing emerging courses like Nano Technology and its applications, NDT and Fundamentals of Quantum Computing. There are two well-equipped Electricity - magnetism and Modern physics- optics labs with facilities for the entire class of 66 students to carry out experiments independently

The department offers M.Phil and Ph.D programmes under Andhra University and JNTU. The research work is being carried out in collaboration with Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Institute of Physics, IOP, Bhubaneswar and Institute of Frontier Technology, Regional Agricultural Research Station, ANGRAU, Tirupathi in the fields of

  1. Trace element analysis in geological, biological and medical samples using Particle Induced X- ray Emission technique
  2. Synthesis, material characterization, structural and electrical properties of ferroelectric, piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials for various device applications
  3. Single crystal, Spectroscopy and Lower Ionosphere studies

In various research fields and inter displanary research activities with the collaboration of. The department faculty members have been awarded four research projects to the tune of one funded by UGC worth of Rs: 4.45 lakshs completed and other three projects funded by our institution (ANITS) with an amount of Rs: 4.82 lakhs are going on. They publish their findings in internationally recognised SCI, SCOPUS, and Web of science and UGC care list journals and also have been granted patents. The department faculty published research articles over 100 Scopus indexed and more than 50 international and national conferences.

The department periodically conducts extension programs such as seminars, conferences and workshops on relevance topics.