School of Physical Sciences, Central University of Kerala (CUK)

The School of Physical Sciences, Central University of Kerala is committed to undertake innovative and pioneering research and contribute to development of basic and applied sciences through its academic and research programmes. The school currently mic and research programmes. The school currently houses four departments i) Department of Physics, ii) Department of Mathematics, iii) Department of Chemistry and iv) Department of Computer Science. All the Departments offer Master of Science and PhD programmes in their respective disciplines. The Departments are equipped with high-end laboratory equipment such as Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS), Fluorescence, FTIR, and UV-VIS spectrophotometers, CHNS Elemental analyzer, Gas chromatograph, Thermal system (TGA & DSC), electrochemical work stations, Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, Table top XRD system, thin film fabrication facilities including RF sputtering, nuclear data acquisition system etc. Additionally, the Departments also possess computer lab facilities such as Computational laboratory and Signal Processing and Intelligent Systems Lab for high-end computing needs. The departments have access to analytical tools such as Matlab, Mathematica, VASP (Materials Design), Gaussian, Comsol etc., to facilitate research and academic programmes. The Departments under the school are recipients of prestigious research grants such as DST FIST, DST-SERB, IUAC and DST-RFBR. In the last five years, the Departments cumulatively had more than five patents, and published more than 400 journal publications. Additionally, the students of the school regularly qualify in competitive examinations such as GATE & CSIR-JRF. ...view more