The Ph.D. program of the Department is uniquely designed to train students with required abilities viz. deep technical knowledge, technical communication skills (both oral and written), understanding of intellectual property issues and general writing skills so as to enable them to effectively manage their professional requirement at respective work places. Department has a unique combination of young and experienced faculty having high research profile in the respective domains. Department provides opportunities to the student to pursue advanced research in a wide range of new and emerging research domains including the following:

• Advanced Multi-functional Materials and Devices
• Astrophysics
• Computational Condensed Matter Physics
• High Energy Particle Physics
• Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage
• Materials & Technologies for Strategic Applications
• Molecular Devices
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
• Non-linear Optics
• Photonics
• Plasma Physics and Cold Plasma Technology
• Quantum Computing and Information
• Quantum Optics
• Soft Matter Physics

The high level of research is enabled by a motivated group of expert faculty members supported by a large pool of high-end advanced research equipments and computational facilities.

Some of the salient features of the Ph.D. program are as under:

• Opportunities to pursue multidisciplinary as well as transdisciplinary research
• Provision to have more than one supervisor from same or different subject streams
• Opportunities for participation in international collaborative projects
• Financial support to participate in International and National conferences
• Opportunity to use any laboratory facility of parent department as well as of any other department of the institute
• Access to equipment at Centre for Advanced Scientific Equipment (CASE)
• Access to Central Supercomputer for advanced computational work Access to large number of software resources including MATLAB, Mathematica, ANSYS, HFSS, etc.
• Compulsory Audit Course in IP Landscaping
• 24x7 Access to large volume of Journals and other technical literature through Institute Knowledge Centre
• Compulsory course on Technical Communication Skills

For queries regarding admission, please contact, Chairman, Department Admission Committee: Dr Satyajit Sahu (e-mail: satyajit@iitj.ac.in)