HISTORY AND VISION

The programme has been started by the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, with a focus on research in the field of electronic, spintronic, nanoelectronic and quantum device technologies, made of different solid state materials ranging from bulk to nano systems. Earlier the name of the programme was M. Tech. in Solid State Electronic Materials (SSEM). This programme has received fundings from the Government agencies like MHRD, DST, DIT (formerly DoE), and DoT. The programme carries research in the various experimental and theoretical areas. Such research and development work has attracted considerable international collaboration and has led to commercialization of solid state batteries, supercapacitors, superconducting devices, optical sensors, and light emitting devices.

The faculties associated with the programme are experts in high temperature superconductors; functional nanomaterials and devices based on them such as magnetoelectric MEMS, magnetic sensors, flexible supercapacitors; multiferroics and ceramic nanocomposites; strongly correlated low dimensional quantum materials;  lithium, sodium and magnesium batteries; flexible energy storage devices; quantum many body systems; perovskite solar cells; organic solar cells; ferroelectric materials and devices; organic LEDs, FETs, sensors & detectors; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; single electron transistors; dopant atom transistors; single photon detectors; topological phases of matter;  glass systems and supercooled liquids; applied spintronics & nano-magnetism; ultrafast non-equilibrium dynamics in materials; spin-orbital/spin-lattice interactions in low-dimensional spin-orbit coupled systems; and nanoelectronics. 

The Programme is open to students having B. Tech (Engineering Physics, Electrical/Electronics/Metallurgical Engineering) or M.Sc (Physics) degree.