The Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science carries out a wide range of frontier research activities which include:

• Superconductivity and Magnetism
• Spin Glasses
• Heavy Fermions
• Giant Magnetoresistance
• Single Crystal Growth of Rare Earth Intermetallics
• High Resolution Photoemisson Spectroscopy, XPS, UPS, ARPES
• Spin Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (SRPES)
• High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
• Transport properties in High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures
• Physics of Nanomaterials
• Semiconductor Quantum Well Structures
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Surface Studies using Scanning Probe Microscope
• Organic and Amorphous Semiconductors
• Ultrafast Optoelectronics Photonics, Plasmonics
• Tera Hertz Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Raman Spectroscopy
• Mossbauer Spectroscopy
• Soft Condensed Matter Physics

All these research activities are backed by many sophisticated equipments and measurement techniques. Though the main emphasis of our work is on fundamental aspects, many of the results have a potential for applications.