Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur was established in 2008, to foster technology education and research in India. The Institute is committed to technological thought and action to benefit the economic development of India. Scholarship in teaching and learning; Scholarship in research and creative accomplishments; and relevance to Industry are three driving forces for us at IIT Jodhpur.
IIT Jodhpur functions from its sprawling residential Permanent Campus of 852 acres on National Highway 65, north-northwest of Jodhpur towards Nagaur. This campus is meticulously planned and envisioned to stand as a symbol of academics – simple, but deep.
The Institute is committed to multidisciplinary approach of technology development. Hence, it has established state-of-the-art laboratories for basic and applied research, and has organized its academic degree activities through Departments and its coordinated research through Centers for Technologies.
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About Department of Physics
The Department of Physics at IIT Jodhpur came into existence in February 2015. Based on the available expertise with the faculties of the department there are six cohesive and focussed research groups working in broad areas viz. (i) Condensed Matter and Plasma Physics, (ii) High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, (iii) Optics & Photonics, and (iv) Quantum Physics. The focussed groups are helping the department in multiplying its academic and research outputs in terms of quality as well as quantity. At present there around 16 faculties and 68 PhD students pursuing research in different domains. Also, around 3000 citations per year are obtained for the research work published by the departmental faculties and students in reputed journals. During COVID-19 Pandemic, the faculties and students of the department developed three technologies which were successfully transferred to different industries/NGOs for mass production. Besides core teaching and research labs, four thematic labs in the areas of Cold Plasma Technologies, Energy, Photonics and Quantum Physics are being developed.
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