This Department is recently funded by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, under “Fund for Improvement of S & T Infrastructure in Universities and Higher Educational Institutions" (FIST) for five years (2008-2012)
Projects sanctioned during the period 2013 to 2019 can be seen in the individual faculty webpages.
Details of the Projects sanctioned during the period: 2000-2012
| Name of the Investigator | Title of the project and duration | Funding Agency |
| Dr. T. Balasubramanian | Development of a Stable Six Degree Platform (Stewart’s Platform) for Motion in Unstructured Environment. (2004-2007) Study of protein drug interaction- a computational approach (1999-2002) |
MHRD |
| Dr. D. Sastikumar | Design of Thickness and Micro - displacement Photonic Sensors. (2001-2003) | MHRD |
| Laser Surface Alloying of Aluminium - silicon Alloy with Silicon Nitride (2002-2004) | MHRD | |
| Metal Carbide composite layer formation on aluminium alloy by laser processing (2003-2005) | DST | |
| Laser surface Alloying of Aluminium alloy and stainless steel with Cr and SiC. (2002-2005) | CSIR | |
| Modernization of Non-Destructive Testing Laboratory. (2004 -2006 ) | MHRD | |
| Design of fiber optic sensors for measuring thickness of thin transparent materials and on-line monitoring of refractive index of liquids. (2004-2006) | MHRD | |
| Dr. A.R. Ganesan | Development of a Phase sensor for Adaptive Optics Applications (2000-2002) | IRDE, DRDO |
| Closed Loop Laser Beam Setting Steering system with Tip-Tilt Mirror for Adaptive Optics. (2002-2003) | IRDE, DRDO | |
| Investigations in Optical Wave front Sensing Schemes (2003-2006) | IRDE, DRDO | |
| Dr. S. Parthasarathy | Bifurcations and Chaos in periodically pulsed Nonlinear Electronic Circuits. (2002-2005) | DRDO |
| Non linear dynamics of pulsed chaotic circuits – Application to chaotic secure Communication. (2004-2007) | CSIR | |
| Dr. M. Ashok | Nano-Porous Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposite For Tissue Engineering Applications. (2006-2009) | DST-SERC |
| Dr. A. Chadra Bose | Development of Micro plasma spraying Technique for the preparations of Nanomaterials (2007-2010) | DST-SERC |
| Dr. N. V. Giridharan | Realization of crack free thick film PZT for the Application to Piezo Cantilever Fabrication ( 2007-2010) | DST |
| Dr. R. Justin Joseyphus | Development of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Detoxification and Drug Delivery (2008-11) | DST-SERC |
| Dr. A. Chandra Bose | Development and Characterization of one-dimensional oxide nanomaterials for gas sensing applications (2008-11) | NRB |
| Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan | Co-doping and bandgap engineering in ZnO thin films for optoelectronic applications (2008-11) | DRDO |
| Dr. S. Gokul Raj | Exploration of Multiferroism in Rare Earth Manganites for Electric and Magnetic Storage Applications (2008-11) | DST-SERC |
| Dr. A. Chandra Bose Dr. R. Justin Joseyphus (Co-investigators) | Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for engineering applications (2009-2012) | DST-Nanomission |
| Dr. B. Karthikeyan | Synthesis and exciton dynamic study on semiconductor quantum dot nanocomposite particles (2009-2012) | DST-SERC |
