The Department of Physics of Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune was established in 1952

The department today is an active beehive of research being carried out in a wide variety of frontier areas as well as high quality post-graduate and doctoral programs.

The department has flexibility in framing courses and conducting tests and examinations.

The research programs of the Department cover a number of areas like Materials Science, Solid State Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Cloud Physics, Thin/Thick Films, Diamond Coatings, Nuclear and Accelerator Physics, Lasers, Plasma Physics, Field Electron/Ion Microscopy, Biophysics etc.

Academic Programmes-

The following Academic Programmes offered at the Department

Masters Programmes

Masters Programme in Physics (M.Sc.)

M.Tech. in Atmospheric Physics

Master of Philosophy in Physics (M.Phil.)

Doctoral Programme

Ph.D. in Physics

Facilities-

Experimental facilities

Liquid Nitrogen Plant
Image Grabbing and Analysis (Software and Hardware)
Deposition Chambers with Vacuum Pumps
Scalar Network Analyser (10 MHz - 18 GHz)
LCR Vector Bridge
MOCVD System
Glove Chamber
EMI, RFI Sheilding Room
EXAFS
Thermoluminiscence Measurement System (-80oC to +50oC)
High Speed Refrigerated centrifuge
TL Glow Analysis Program
Extra-Cellular recording - PC based
14 MeV neutron generator
Microtron (electron accelerator upto 8 MeV)
Fields Emission Microscope and Atom Probe
Scanning Tunneling Microscope
High vacuum and UHV Systems
ESCA Machine
Scanning Electron Microscope
Atmospheric Cloud Chamber (-30oC)
ERG/VEP measurement system
Zeiss Axiovert Microscope (Inverted) with laser interface + CCD + Monitor
Excimer Lasers (two)
Nd: YAG (Oscillator + Amplifier)
Ruby Laser (Oscillator + Amplifier)
CO2 Laser (CW)
Optical Multichannel Analyzer
He- Ni Lasers
Low Angle X-ray Diffractometer
Bulk X-ray Diffractometer
UV - VIS. - IR Spectrophotometers
Photoluminiscence Apparatus
Magnetic Susceptibility
Tally Step
Ellipsometer
Toroidal Linear Plasma Devices

Computational facilities

SGI Altix 350 (250Gb, 24Gb RAM, 1.5GHz)
Several Pentium IV machines

Contact-

Department of Physics,
University of Pune,
Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007,
Maharashtra, India.
Phone: (+91-20-) 2569 2678, 2569 9072, 2569 1709