Physics and Photonics Science
The Physics & Photonics Science department at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur was established in in 2009 as Department of Physics. The department has 7 faculty members (5 regular and 2 on contract). National Institute of Technology Hamirpur is situated in the land of Gods i.e. Himachal Pradesh. The campus sits in the lap of scenic beauty and the snow-clad mountains of Dhauladhar range are vividly visible from the campus. The Department is providing world-class undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as research facilities for doctoral program in diverse areas of fundamental and applied Physics. The department is one of the few places offering a B.Tech. academic degree, in Engineering Physics from 2020. This unique course blends the best of contemporary physics and technology, to create professionals who are equally equipped with both science and technology. Department is equipped with latest world class equipments available to facilitate the fundamental understanding of different concepts to UG and PG students and to give them more exposure of experimentation.
The department also offers 2-year M.Sc. program in Physics and Ph. D. program in various specialized areas of research in experimental and theoretical Physics. At present, there are eight full time research scholars pursuing Ph. D. degree and more than 20 Ph.D. degrees have been awarded so far. The faculty members of the department have grants under different research projects sponsored by external agencies.
B.Tech. Engineering Physics student (Mr. Yash Upadhyay and Soumya Ranjan) participated in the IBM Quantum Challenge Fall 2021. It contained exercises related to Quantum Computing’s different industry applications using Qiskit’s application modules: Finance, Nature, Machine Learning and optimization. Student are doing internship/projects with research Institute and science societies. Mr. Uttam Kumar designed, developed and launched racket model (horizontal range 100m, vertical range 70m) under the guidance of Rocket Research Institute, Inc. affiliated to International Astronautical Federation.
Within a very short span of time, the department has made an impression of excellence in the field of academics and research. Our M.Sc. program started in 2017 and the graduated students have secured exceptionally good rankings/scores in competitive examinations like GATE, JEST, etc. and have been selected for Ph.D. programs at different Institutions like National University of Ireland Galway, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal and NIT Kurukshetra.
The department is actively involved in organizing activities like, Conferences, Workshops, Symposium, DST sponsored SERC School, Seminars, Short-term Courses etc. and planning to organize many more of such events in the near future. The department is proactive and would like to attract talented students.
Professor
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Associate Professor
Sl.No | Name | Area(s) of Interests | Profile | |
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1 | Dr. Subhash Chand | Condensed Matter Physics ( Experiments & Simulations) | schand@nith.ac.in | View |
2 | Dr. Arvind K. Gathania | Condensed Matter Physics | akgathania@nith.ac.in | View |
3 | Dr. Kuldeep Kr. Sharma | High Energy Physics & Materials Physics | kks@nith.ac.in | View |
4 | Dr. Rajesh Kumar | Theoretical Nuclear Physics | rajesh_phy@nith.ac.in | View |
5 | Dr. Vimal Sharma | Material science | vmlsharma@nith.ac.in | View |
Assistant Professor Grade-I
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Assistant Professor Grade-II
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Office Staff | ||||
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1 | Sh. Kehar Singh | Office Attendant SG-I | 254380 | - |
Technical Staff | ||||
1 | Sh. Bikram Singh | Technical Asstt. SG-II | 254110 | - |
2 | Sh. Surinder Singh | Sr. Technician | 254115 | - |
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Post graduate, Undergraduate and Research Laboratories
The Department has in total twelve UG and PG laboratories and three Research and Development laboratories. The UG and PG laboratories are well equipped for learning the various phenomena in Physics through experiments which leads to build a foundation for understanding basic concepts involved. Computer laboratory provides all of our students to complete academic work and as well as computational and simulation work. Detail list of all the UG and PG laboratories is as under:
S. No. | Name of the Laboratory |
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Engineering Physics Lab | |
Solid State Physics Lab | |
Electricity & Magnetism Lab | |
Spectroscopy Lab | |
Thermal Physics Lab | |
Numerical methods & Computational Physics Lab | |
Optics Lab | |
Modern Physics Lab | |
Digital Electronics Lab | |
Laser and Photonics Lab | |
Measurement and Instrumentation Lab | |
Fabrication and Assembly Lab |


The major facilities available in Research and Development labs are as under
S. No. | Equipment’s Name |
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Spectrofluorophotometer | |
Vacuum Thermal Coating System | |
Electron beam evaporation system | |
Close cycle helium refrigeration system with temperature controller | |
Dilatometer | |
Impedance analyzer | |
Olympus Polarizing Microscope | |
Optical microscope | |
Linkam Hot-stage cum Temperature controller | |
X-Ray Apparatus | |
Vacuum Furnace | |
Tubular Furnace | |
Source meter, picoammeter, electrometer, nanovoltmeter, LCZ meter | |
Vacuum Oven | |
Sonicator | |
Laminar air flow Cabinet | |
UV Visible spectrophotometer |
Dr. Kuldeep Kumar Sharma
Head of Department
Physics & Photonics Science
National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
Himachal Pradesh, Pin No. 177005, India.
Phone No. : 01972- 254117
HoD Email : head.pps@nith.ac.in
Office Email : office.pps@nith.ac.in