Institute for Plasma Research
Plasma Physics | |
Director | Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi (from 5 Aug. 2016) |
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Staff | 700 (app.) (200 Scientists & Engineers) |
Location | Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 23°05′52″N 72°37′34″E / 23.09778°N 72.62611°E |
382428 | |
Affiliations | Department of Atomic Energy |
Website | www |
The Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) is an autonomous
History
In 1982, the Government of India initiated the Plasma Physics Programme (PPP) for research on magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas.
In 1986, the PPP evolved into the autonomous Institute for Plasma Research under the Department of Science and Technology.
With the commissioning of
Location
The institute is located on the banks of
Remote campuses
- Centre of Plasma Physics - Institute for Plasma Research(CPP-IPR)
- ITER-India
Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies
The
FCIPT works with national and international industries, such as
FCIPT developed technologies related to waste remediation and recovery of energy from waste, surface hardening, and heat treatment technologies such as
Ion irradiation-induced patterning of semiconductor materials and amorphous solids is another focus. To this end, a § Broad-beam ion sources are used to generate patterns such as nanoripples or nanodots and are coated with silver for research in plasmonics.
Center of Plasma Physics – Institute for Plasma Research (CPP-IPR)
The Centre of Plasma Physics is an autonomous institute that pursues basic research in theoretical and experimental plasma physics.
History
The government of Assam established the Centre of Plasma Physics in 1991.[7] The centre started functioning in April 1991 in a rented house located at Saptaswahid Pathi. The first chairman of the Governing Council was Professor Predhiman Krishan Kaw (died 18 June 2017,[8] a world-renowned plasma scientist. After its three-year term, the Governing Council was reconstituted by the Education Department with Prof. A.C. Das, Dean of Physical Research Laboratory as its chairman. The founding director of the centre, Prof. Sarbeswar Bujarbarua, is a distinguished plasma scientist and a recipient of the 'Vikram Sarabhai Research Award' in 1989 and Kamal Kumari National Award[9] in 1993.
Thereafter, the centre opened theoretical investigations in fundamental plasma processes such as nonlinear phenomena, instabilities,
The Centre of Plasma Physics, Institute for Plasma Research, Sonapur, Kamrup, Assam, became a new campus of IPR as the Centre of Plasma Physics, Sonapur, was formally merged with IPR effective 29 May 2009. CPP-IPR is headed by Centre Director Dr K. S. Goswami and is managed by a Managing Board headed by the director of IPR. It has twelve faculty members, fourteen other staff and research scholars and project scientists. The research is oriented towards essential plasma physics and programs that complement the significant programmes at IPR.
Campus
The institute's campus is at Nazirakhat, Sonapur, about 32 km from Guwahati, the headquarters of the Kamrup(M) district of Assam. Nazirakhat is a rural area surrounded by peace-loving people of diverse caste, religion, and language, yet it presents the unique feature of unity in diversity. Nazirakhat is linked by a PWD road from the National Highway No. 37. It is about 800 metres from NH-37. Nazirakhat is connected by road with the rest of the state and the country. The institute is surrounded by greenery near the Air-India flying base at Sonapur.
Publication
Research papers have been published in journals like Phys after the institute's establishment. Scr.,[10] Phys. Lett. A,[11] Phys. Rev. Lett.[12] and so on[13]
Collaboration
The Centre collaborates with the following institutes and universities:
The
Recognition
- S. Sen, Associate Professor, was awarded EPSRC Professorship Award (1998), UK; JSPS Professorship Award (1999), Japan; Junior Membership Award (1999), Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK; and Associateship Award (1999–2005), ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- S.R. Mohanty, presently assistant professor, was awarded PhD degree by the University of Delhi for his thesis entitled "X-ray studies on dense plasma focus and plasma processing".
- M. Kakati, Research Scientist, was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (1999–2001).
- K. R. Rajkhowa, was awarded the Plasma Science Society of India Fellowship in 1999.
- B.J. Saikia, Research Scientist, was awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post-doctoral fellowship for two years in 1999.
- B. Kakati, Research Scholar, was awarded the BUTI Young Scientist Award in 2011.[14][15]
ITER-India
ITER will be built mostly through in-kind contributions from the participant countries in the form of components manufactured delivered/installed at ITER.
ITER-India is the Indian Domestic Agency (DA), formed with the responsibility to provide ITER the Indian contribution.[16][17]
See also
- Aditya (tokamak)
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)
- Department of Atomic Energy
References
- ^ "Gravitational Waves Detection: How Indian Institutes Pitched in With Research". 12 February 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 February 2006. Retrieved 3 March 2006.
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- ^ "History of the Institute". Institute for Plasma Research. Archived from the original on 1 July 2007.
- ^ "Location". Institute for Plasma Research. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007.
- ^ "About Us". Institute for Plasma Research. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011.
- ^ a b List of institutions of higher education in Assam
- ^ "Staff Page, Institute for Plasma Research". Institute for Plasma Research. 1 February 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Hueiyen News Service (20 April 2009). "Syam Sharma selected for Kamal Kumari Award". New Delhi: e-pao.net. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- S2CID 250859263.
- ISSN 0375-9601.
- ^ D. Sarmah and S. Sen: Axial flow and Rayleigh-Taylor instability, Phys. Rev. Lett. (1999). Communicated.
- ^ "Centre of Plasma Physics/Research Publications". cpp.faithweb.com.
- ^ "List of people who got the award".
- ^ "Buti Young Scientist Award". pssi.in.
- ^ http://www.iter-india.org/ [bare URL]
- ^ "ITER-India". ITER.