The PG & Research Department of Physics was established in the academic year 1982-1983 with Under Graduate Programme in Physics. Post Graduate Programme in Physics has been started in the academic year 2013-2014. 

The Department has been recognised as Research Centre by Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore from the Year 2015, and in the same academic year M. Phil., Course in Physics has been started. At Present, 12 Research Scholars are doing Research for their Ph.D., Degree, both in full-time and Part-time modes. 

This Department has produced eminent personalities in various fields. The faculty members have expertise in different areas of Materials Science and Theoretical Physics. The Department has well-equipped Laboratories separately for UG (Major & Allied) and PG Courses. Around 25 research articles have been published in highly reputed International Journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Sciences during recent years which are an ample proof of original Research being carried out in this Department. 

The Department has been conducting various Seminars/Conferences at National and International Levels. The Department has been functioning with a vision to bring out the latent talents of the students for the development of Science and Technology. Our Mission is to educate, illuminate and inculcate the spirit of social development in thoughts, words and deeds of the students; to impart knowledge to the students through innovative ideas and original research and to instil the truth behind the natural sciences in the minds of the students.