The department is engaged in the following focused research areas.
Physics Research Areas:
Plasma Science and Technology: Atmosppheic pressure glow discharge, DBD sources, Plasma medicine, Plasma nitiding, Impurity transport in tokamak plasma.
Material Science & Technology: Plasma based material treatment, Materials testing and Analysis.
Micro-strip Antenna designs: Microstrip Antennas and Arrays, Broadband, Ultra-Wideband, Super Ultra-Wideband Antennas and RF communication technology.
Chemistry Research Areas:
Ground Water Analysis and Environmental Pollution
Industrial Water Pollution, Soil and Environmental Studies
Invironmental and Biological Sciences
Mathematics Research Areas:
Heat and Mass Transfer in Boundary Layer Flows
Fluid Dynamics
Recent Research project:
Project title: Studies of High Z impurity behavior using VUV spectral emissions from the tokamaks in IPR.
Funding Agency: BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India
Sanctioned Grant: 25.6 Lakhs
Duration: 2017-2020
Conference/workshop organized by the department:
- International Workshop on Cold Plasma Technology and Applications (CPTA-2025), 6-8 February 2025.
- IPR Scientific Outreach Programme on Plasma, Its Applications and Nuclear Fusion (PLASMA GYAAN -2022), 22-26 August 2022.
- 36th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA-2021), 13-15 December, 2021.
- IAEA International Workshop on Challenges in Plasma Spectroscopy for Future Research Machines (CPS-08), 20-22 February, 2008.
- One day workshop on Environment Friendly Plasma Nitriding Process for Surface Hardening of Industrial Components (Commemoration of National Science Day in Rajasthan), 11 May 2008.
Webinar/ Guest Lecturers/ Expert Talks Conducted:
1.Title: Surface Plasmons: Fundamentals and Applications in Fiber Optic Sensing.
Speaker: Dr. R K Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Central University of Rajasthan.
Date: 12th August 2022
2.Title: Solar Thermal Engineering for Sustainable Future.
Speaker: Dr. G D Agarwal-Professor, Mechanical Department, MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Date: 7th June 2022.