Introduction

University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC) was established in 1979 as level I USIC. It was upgraded by UGC to level II. Dr. R. K Puri is the Prof. and Head of this centre.

Following activities are carried out at USIC.

A) USIC (Workshop)

  • Repairs and Maintenance:-USIC provides the facilities of repairs, maintenance and fabrication of instruments through the following sections.
    • Mechanical
    • Electrical
    • Electronics
    • Glass Blowing
    • Optical
    • Welding
    • Drawing
    • Refrigeration and Air conditioning
    • Carpentry

    These facilities are provided to all University departments, affiliated colleges and also to outside agencies.

  • Training Programme USIC conducts training programmes on repairs and maintenance of Laboratory instruments for the Laboratory assistants of University departments, affiliated colleges and technicians from Industries. Workshop for college teaches on Analytical Instruments and the awareness programmes for students on these Instruments are also conducted.
  • Research Programme At USIC there is a Vacuum Techniques and Thin film Laboratory. At this Laboratory research and development work on different thin film deposition techniques of different dielectric materials is carried out.

B. USIC (CFC)

At this section the samples received from university PG Departments, affiliated colleges outside university/ Institutes and Industries are scanned on the following Analytical Instruments.

  X- Ray Diffractometer (RT/HT) Philips – PW 3710/PW 1710.  
  FTIR Spectrophotometer(4000-450 Cm-1 Perkin Elmer Spectrum One.  
  UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer (187-2500 mm) Hitachi-330  
  Microphotography (25 x,160x,240x) Leitz - Wetzlar.  
  HPLC (C 8/C 18) Water 2640 – Alliance  
  Ultracentrifuge (85000 RPM) Hitachi SCP 85 H  
   Thermal Analyser (TG-DTA-DSC)  TA Inc. SDT- 2790  
  Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer Perkin Elmer Aanalyst 300  
  FT RAMAN Spectrometer, Bruker - Multi RAM_-Department of Physics  
  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (FT NMR), Bruker, 300MHz -Department of Chemistry  
  Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) coupled EDAX Model-JEOI-SEM 6360 -Department of Physics