Courses and Lab News
Courses
- Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules, Code: CHM-113.7
- Lasers and Non-linear optics (jointly with Prof S Dutta Gupta), Code: PHY-305.7
- Experimental methods, Code PHY-108.7 (Jointly with TNN, GR, PKS)
- Advanced Experimental Methods Code PHY-208.7 (Jointly with KR, TNN, GR)
LAB NEWS
- Aug 2024: Our latest work on understanding CO2 dissociation dynamics on Cu(110) surface is available as a preprint
- June 2024: Avinash submits his thesis
- Feb 2024: Saurabh presents his synopsis seminar
- Feb 2024: Minali and Pranav present their work at SDMC 2024 meeting
- Dec 2023: Avinash presents his synopsis seminar
- Nov 2023: Pranav, Avinash, Saurabh and Ardra present participate in the iCOMET-2023 conference
- Oct 2023: Saurabh and Pranav presented their work on CO2 dissociation in the SDSS-2023 conference
- Sept 2023: Anushree Dutta (visiting student from IACS Kolkata) will be working with us to develop pulsed high-voltage switching systems for mass spectrometry and molecular beam applications
- Aug 2023: We have been awarded a grant by IHUB-QTF to further develop our wavemeter designs
- July 2023: Patent application for the cross fringe Fizeau interferometer based wavemeter developed in our lab is filed
- June 2023: Prof. Nabanita Deb (IACS) visits our lab and this visit kick starts our discussions on atomic/molecular collisions and chemical transformations in the cold regime
- June 2023: Geetika successfully defends her PhD thesis … Congratulations !!
- Feb 2023: Geetika submits her PhD thesis
- Feb 2023: Pranav gives a talk at the National conference on atomic and molecular physics 2023, Trivandrum
- Jan 2023: We had a great time demonstrating basic spectroscopy concepts to school students at the India science festival
- Jan 2023: We conduct the DIY spectrometer building session for school students at the Be a Scientist for a Day workshop at TIFR-Hyd
- Jan 2023: Ardra P.S. starts her work on developing stable ECDL systems in our lab as a part of her PhD
- Jan 2023: M. Balamurugan joins our group as a Post doctoral Researcher. He will be working on atom scattering microscopy experiments
- Jan 2023: Saurabh participates in the the Global Young Scientists Meeting in Singapore
- Dec 2022: Our proposal on developing QCL based excitation schemes for quantum state selected scattering experiments is accepted
- Nov 2022: Geetika, Avinash and Saurabh present their work in the 18th SDMC meeting
- Nov 2022: We see the first signal for the vibration state selected preparation of CO molecules using our home-built narrow line width and high intensity OPO/A system !
- Nov 2022: Our work on Neutral Atom Microscopy is recognized by the Indian Physics Association for this years award under the instrumentation category
- Oct 2022: An improved version of our stabilized red He Ne laser achieves ~ 0.42 MHz stability (3 std dev, 17 hrs). See details on https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09577
- Sept 2022: Geetika and Saurabh perform the first Helium reflectivity experiments in our new UHV chamber. Using the compact He source designed by Geetika, they are able to follow the oxidation of a Cu(110) surface in real-time !
- Sept 2022: Pranav and Avinash participate in the Scattering of atoms and molecules from surfaces meeting organized by Cambridge University, UK.
- Sept 2022: Measurements of Helium reflection and using it to measure reaction probability on surfaces using our compact ‘segmented needle based compact atom source’ shows very promising results.
- Aug 2022: Molecule surface scattering set up designed by us finally arrives in our lab
- July 2022: Geetika presents her thesis synopsis seminar successfully
- May 2022: Pranav gives a talk at the Lorentz Center workshop: Energy Dissipation at Interfaces: From Catalysis to Astrochemistry (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- April 2022: Pranav presents the work on atom scattering microscopy in SDMC online meeting
- July 2021: Geetika presents her work at International Symposium on Molecular beams as a part of the ‘Hot topic talk series’