Powder X-ray Diffractometer

• PANalytical X’Pert PRO powder X-ray Diffractometer
• 15KVA UPS support

Micro Raman Spectrometer

• Imaging Spectrograph STR 500 mm Focal Length  Laser Raman spectrometer
• Flat field : 27 mm(W) × 14 mm(H)
• Resolution : 1 / 0.6cm-1/pixel

Photo Luminescence

• Varian Cary Eclipse Photo Luminescence
• Spectrophotometer
• Oxford Low temperature LN2 77K set up
• High temperature 100 373K arrangement

FTIR spectrophotometer

• Model: Thermo Nicolet 380 FTIR spectrophotometer
• Wavelength range is 4000 to 400 cm-1
• Detector: DLaTGS detector
• Resolution: 0.5 cm-1
• S/N ratio: 2000:1 ppm for 1 minute scan.
• Wavelength accuracy: 0.01 cm-1

Vibrating Sample Magnetometer

• Vibrating Sample Magnetometer with 4” (2.2 Tesla @ Room temperature) high temperature performance electromagnet

Atomic Force Microscope

• AFM 5100 Agilent Atomic Force Microscope with contact and non-contact modes, and tapping and mapping facilities

CH- Instrument – Electrochemical Work Station

• Electro chemical work station

Auto lab - Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

• Auto lab Frequency Response analysis
• (Interfaced)
• Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer

• UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer
• Ocean optics HR 2000
• Optical fiber based
• 280-1100nm range

Surface Profilometer - Thickness and surface roughness measurement

• SJ-301 Mitutoyo Surface Profilometer
• Thickness and surface roughness measurement

Four Probe Resistivity measurement

• Linear Four Probe Resistivity measurement
• Keithley 2000 multimeter

Solar Simulator I-V/C-V

• Solar Simulator I-V/C-V & Pulsed I-V characterization system

Scanning potentiostat/Galvanostat

• Scanning potentiostat/Galvanostat
• PAREG&G,USA

DC, RF & Pulsed sputtering

• DC, RF & Pulsed sputtering with mass flow control
• Advance Tech. with 5 KVA support
• Substrate heater up to 800°C
• PAREG&G,USA

Thermal & Electron beam evaporation

• Vacuum coating unit
• Thermal evaporation
• Electron beam evaporation

Spin coater

• Spin coater

Planetary Ball-miller

• Retsch - Planetary Ball-miller PM 100
• Type C grinding bowls
• Maximum feed volume 250ml
• Maximum feed grain size upto< 6 mm

Photoacoustic spectrometer

• Photoacoustic spectrometer
• Indigeneously integrated
• Xenon source
• Chopper
• Standard Lock-in-amplifier

Tubular Furnace

• Tubular Furnace
• Two zones
• Heating range upto 1200
• inert gas atmosphere

Glove box

• Glove box
• Inert atmosphere set up for Li-Battery fabrication
• < 6ppm H2O

Cryogenic constant temp. bath

• Computer controlled cryogenic constant temperature bath
• Temperature range 10°C to 75°C
• CFC refrigeration system

Czochralski Crystal Puller

• High Temperature (1200°C ) Czochralski Crystal Puller
• Pulling Speed : 0.3mm/hr to 15mm/hr
• Crystal Rotation Rate : 1 – 25rpm
• Growth Atmosphere – Argon and Oxygen – 2atm

Split tube single zone furnace

• THERMOLYNE- F 79440-33 Split tube single zone furnace
• Programmable (PID) with indicator controller backed by Thyrister control.
• Multi programmable 4 stored programmer of 8 ramp and 8 dwells.
• Working temperature range: 100 °C -1200 °C.

Optical Microscope

• ATC 2000 Model Optical Microscope with Photographic equipment.
• Trinocular optical microscope design
• Different optical lenses

High vacuum Furnace

• High vacuum Furnace
• Diffusion Pump: Size: 4 – ½ inch
• Pumping Speed: 500 lit/sec.
• Ultimate Vacuum: 10-6 millibar
• Heater Capacity: 500 watts
• Liquid nitrogen trap Valves
• High Vacuum cooler
• Analog Pirani and Penning Gauge.

Impedance spectrometer

• Frequency response analyser
• Impedance spectrometer
• Frequency range 0.1Hz - 40MHz
• Coretech

SOLAR SIMULATOR

• Lamp irradiance: 1000 watts/m² or above
• Type of lamp: LED Source
• Illumination area: 9 cm²
• I-V SYSTEM: Keithley system (model:2401)

SIMULTANEOUS DSC-TGA

• Ambient to 1500 Deg C
• Heating Rates from 0.1 to 100◦C/min up to 1000◦C & 25◦/min till 1500◦C
• DSC sensitivity: 4 Microwatts
• Weighing Accuracy /Precision: 0.005%/ 0.002%

INTERNET lab

• Fully air-conditioned INTERNET lab

Department Library

• Total Books- 2508
• Total Journals - 7

"He is first batch M.Sc. Physics student of our University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Pune. He worked as a Scientist in Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (ESSO-IITM), Pune during the year 1988 to 1997 in the field of Atmospheric Science. Later he moved to National Institute of Ocean Technology (ESSO-NIOT), Chennai in the year 1997. He joined as a Scientist at Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (ESSO-INCOIS) in the year 2001. Presently he is working in the field of Physical Oceanography, mainly dealing with ocean observing System and ocean modeling"

"He is first batch M.Sc. Physics student of our University. Presently Teaching: VLSI Architecture, Microprocessor Programming & Interfacing"

Research Interest : Digital Design, Embedded Systems &Computer Architecture.

Ph.D	2000	BITS - Pilani
M.E (Systems & Informations)	1990	BITS - Pilani
M.Sc Physics	1987	Alagappa University, Tamilnadu

"Dr. G. Pandithurai received his M.Sc. (Physics) from Alagappa University in 1987 and completed PGDCA in American college, Madurai. After completing his Ph.D. from University of Pune, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA during 1998-2000. Since then he has been holding various scientific positions at IITM. He received invitation fellowship from JSPS to work as a researcher in Centre for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Japan in 2008. He is an elected member as Vice Co-chair of International SKYNET committee; academic faculty of MoES Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) and serving as a committee member/reviewer for various national and international agencies/journals. He has guided 4 Ph.D. students and 15 M.Sc/M.Tech students and published about 95 research papers in peer-reviewed journals."

"Dr. J. Hemalatha received her Ph.D in the year 2000 from Alagappa University, Karaikudi. She joined CONCEPT research group, University of California, Berkeley, USA, as a visiting scholar. Her research interest is on Multiferroic materials, Polymer nanocomposites, multifunctional polymers, Nanofluids/Ferrofluids, Solid state Ionics, Ultrasonics etc. As per her perception, this University gives great values not only for academics and research, but also for every other aspects of life, including the culture, discipline, ethics and it makes the students into more responsible and cultured citizens."

"He has completed his schooling to Ph.D. from Alagappa Group of Institutions, Karaikudi, and Post Doctoral Fellow of National Chang-Hua University of Education, Taiwan. He has guided 6 Ph.D's, 14 M.Phil Scholars and guiding 8 Ph.D's in Physics. He has extensive publication records and three projects by UGC including a Major Research Project. He has many publications in International journals nearing 120 and 4 National Journals and is one of the outstanding resource people in Nanotechnology and nano Science. He has been awarded many Fellowships to Present Paper at International Conferences abroad at Singapore and Malaysia and has visited several countries."

"As an aluminus of school of Physics, Alagappa University, it gives him an immense pleasure and satisfaction on having seen the growth of this school from the infrastructural facility, the devotion to work of the committed faculty, the opportunity for the youngsters to grow in the world – class scientists. As mentioned by him, Alagappa University shaped his life and research carriers. He also pointed out that attained this height only because of this school of Physics. "

"Dr.M.Arivanandhan has completed M.Sc., (1999-2001) and M.Phil., (2001-2002) Physics in the Department of Physics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi. He started his research on the unidirectional growth of organic crystals and investigated the anisotropic properties of the unidirectional crystals during the doctoral studies at Alagappa University (2003-2006). During the doctoral research, he has received Alagappa University Research fellowship for pursuing his research. Later, he moved to IMR, Tohoku University, Japan as a COE Postdoctoral Fellow. After the PDF, he joined as Assistant Professor at Research Institute of Electronics (RIE), Shizuoka University, Japan. He has received two research grants of JSPS Young Scientist B (Kakhenki B (2010-2012)) and JSPS Young Scientist C (Kakhenki C (2014-2017)) from JSPS-MEXT. In December 2014, he moved to Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Anna University as an Associate Professor. Moreover, he has received an Early Career Research (ECR) Award from DST-SERB. As a outcome of his research, he has filed 3 patents in Japan, published 125 papers in International Journals."