Rajarshi Shahu Mahavidyalaya, Latur

Department of Physics & Electronics

Department of Physics was established in the academic year 1971-72 and introduced Electronics as one of the optional subjects at undergraduate level from the academic year 1980-81. The Department is running B.Sc. with Physics and Electronics as one of the optional subjects. The department started M.Sc. Physics with specialization Photonics in the academic year 2007-08 under UGC’s Innovative Programme Scheme. From 2006-07 the department was recognized as Star Department Under UGC-CPE scheme and DST-FIST sponsored department from the year 2014-15. From the year 2017-18 as a part of CBCS, the value added courses Applied Optics, Radiation Safety, Physics Workshop Skill, Renewable Energy Harvesting Skill in Physics and PCB designing, Domestic Electrical Appliances and their Maintenance, Electrical Circuits and Network Skills, Basic Instrumentation Skill in Electronics are offered. At PG level the department is running Photonics as specialization wherein courses related with Optics, Laser, Fiber Optics, Photonic Devices and Sensors, Thin Film and Nanotechnology, Industrial Photonics Engineering are offered. Also under CBCS the courses like Experimental Techniques and Energy Physics are offered as electives. At M.Sc. final year, a Research Project of 200 marks is offered wherein students are completing research projects in the fields of Thin Films, Material Science, Supercapacitor, Solar Cells, Nuclear Physics, Electronics, Modern Physics, etc.

Under NEP 2020, the department offers Introduction of Indian Astronomy as a part of the Indian Knowledge System. The department was recognized as a research centre in Physics by Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded in 2004-05. The major areas of the research are Thin Film, Graphene, Gas Sensors, Solar Cells, Supercapacitors. At present in the department 02 faculties are working as University recognized research guide under whom 05 scholars working for Ph.D. and 07 Scholars have completed their doctoral degrees. In the department 01 CSIR, 01 UGC Fellow and 01 DST Project fellow have worked. One faculty from the department has been awarded DST-FIST Track Scheme for Young Scientist with a project worth Rs. 24.55 Lakh in the year 2014. The faculties of the department have completed 01 Major Research Project sponsored by UGC, 01 Major Research project sponsored by DST and 05 Minor Research projects sponsored by UGC. The research output has been reflected in 175 papers in highly reputed international journals with maximum impact factor of 7.336 and 40 papers in Proceedings of National/International conferences and seminars. The Scopus h index of faculties is 26 with total citations of 1494 (Scopus) and 1994 (Google Scholar). The Google Scholar i10-index for the faculty is 43. The departmental faculties have received the Best Teacher Award (Urban Area) (2019-20) and Young Teacher Researcher Award (2021-22) from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded. One faculty has secured the place in the world’s top 2% most cited scientists published by Stanford University in PLOS Biology Journal and received IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellowship 2023.

The department has successfully organized 15 National/State Level Conferences/Seminars/FDPs. The department has signed an MOU with Sterlite Optical Technologies Aurangabad, Suresh Indu Lasers, Pune, C-Met Pune, and Vidya Pratishthan’s Arts Science College, Baramati. The department also has collaborative research work with Chonnam National University, South Korea, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Solapur University Solapur, Mumbai University, Savitribai Phule Pune University, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon and N. Wadia College, Pune.