The Department came into existence in 1958, ayear after the establishment of the University, with Professor Devendra Sharma,a renowned spectroscopes of his time, as Head of the Department. Professor Sharma laid the foundation and led the department to flourish in a multidimensional way with daunting support from colleagues. The department started undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and developed research facilities in areas like Spectroscopy, Electronics, Materials Science, X-rayCrystallography, Molecular Biophysics, Astrophysics, General Relativity and Cosmology. Over the years, the department earned high reputation in both teaching and research. The Physics Department continued to grow under the dynamic leadership of Prof. N. K. Sanyal and then the Professors R.M. Misra,R.C. Maheshwari, Maheshwar Misra, H.B. Lal, J.N. Rai, C.P.D. Dwivedi, JaiPrakash, S.L. Srivastava, J.P. Chaturvedi, D.C. Srivastava, Mihir Roychoudhury,S. N. Tiwari, Hari Saran (Dean), Shantanu Rastogi and Lallan Yadav. Professor RaviShankar Singh took the charge of the Head of the Department on August 19, 2022by Prof. Lallan Yadav, who attained superannuation on Aug. 18, 2022.
The department has a dynamic teaching programme based on NEP 2020/CBCS syllabi both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The postgraduate curriculum is divided into four semesters with six optional courses in the final year. The optional courses offered are: (a) Astrophysics,(b) Biophysics, (c) Electronics, (d) Solid State Physics, (e) Spectroscopy and Lasers and (f) X-rays. In addition, Diploma in Photography is also included in the departmental Programme.
In research the department has madesignificant and notable contributions in diverse fields such as Stellar, Solarand Galactic Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysics, Semiconductor Devices and Microelectronics, Nano materials, Thin Film and Thick Film gas sensors, Quantum Optics and Quantum computation & communication, Photo-voltaic, Super-ionic Solids, X-ray Crystallography, Molecular Biophysics, Thermoelectric, Optical Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of Solids, Optical Spectroscopy and Quantum Fields Theory etc. More than 150 students have been awarded Ph.D. degree. The department has MoU with ARIES, Nainital and collaborative programmes with IIA, Bangaluru; IUCAA, Pune; NCRA, Pune; TIFR, Mumbai; IPR, Ahmedabad and CEERI, Pilani etc. Financial supports in the form of project from almost all the national funding agencies like DST, UGC, CSIR, BRNS, DBT, UPCST etc. have been sanctioned to the department. The department has the privilege to get sponsored under DST-FIST programme.
The department has a dynamic teaching programme based on NEP 2020/CBCS syllabi both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The postgraduate curriculum is divided into four semesters with six optional courses in the final year. The optional courses offered are: (a) Astrophysics,(b) Biophysics, (c) Electronics, (d) Solid State Physics, (e) Spectroscopy and Lasers and (f) X-rays. In addition, Diploma in Photography is also included in the departmental Programme.
In research the department has madesignificant and notable contributions in diverse fields such as Stellar, Solarand Galactic Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysics, Semiconductor Devices and Microelectronics, Nano materials, Thin Film and Thick Film gas sensors, Quantum Optics and Quantum computation & communication, Photo-voltaic, Super-ionic Solids, X-ray Crystallography, Molecular Biophysics, Thermoelectric, Optical Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of Solids, Optical Spectroscopy and Quantum Fields Theory etc. More than 150 students have been awarded Ph.D. degree. The department has MoU with ARIES, Nainital and collaborative programmes with IIA, Bangaluru; IUCAA, Pune; NCRA, Pune; TIFR, Mumbai; IPR, Ahmedabad and CEERI, Pilani etc. Financial supports in the form of project from almost all the national funding agencies like DST, UGC, CSIR, BRNS, DBT, UPCST etc. have been sanctioned to the department. The department has the privilege to get sponsored under DST-FIST programme.