Research Labs
Keeping in mind international standards, the School of Natural Sciences houses state-of-the-art laboratories and computational facilities. The School, besides the four departments, also nurtures the Big Data Analytics Centre (BDAC), Centre for Advanced Materials, Centre for Informatics, the Institute for Inventions and Innovations, with Mathematics and IT (IIIMIT), and Centre for Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESE). The School is home to over 60 labs researching the fundamentals and frontier of natural sciences specialization.
Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI)
Bruker Model: Autoflex Max TOF/TOF MALDI Year of Installation: 2018 Specifications Resolution: 26000 Mass range: up to 500,000 Laser: Smart beam II Laser frequency(Hz):...
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS)
Make:- Agilent Technologies Model:- Agilent 6540 UHD Accurate-Mass Q-ToF LC/MS Year of Installation: 2013 Specifications Agilent 6540 UHD Accurate-Mass Q-ToF LC/MS Agilent 1290 UPLC...
Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement Facility
Make:- Edinburgh Instruments Model:- LifeSpec II Spectrophotometer Year of Installation: 2022 Specifications: Time-resolution: 100 ps – 1 ns (depending on light sources) Detector:...
FTIR Spectrometer
Make: Thermo Scientific Model: NICOLET iS20 Year of Installation: 2020 Specifications: Scan range: 4000 cm-1 - 400 cm-1 Resolution: 1 cm-1 Mode of measurements: ATR and Transmission...
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Bruker Avance III HD 400(NMR) facility at Shiv Nadar University is equipped with a 400-MHz magnet (operating field at 9.4 Tesla), a multinuclear broadband probe (one...
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Make:- Mettler Toledo Model:- DSC 3 STARe System Year of Installation: 2017 Specifications DSC sensor with 56/120 thermocouples STARe software (V16.10) analysis Sample required is 1 to...
Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
Make:- Mettler Toledo Model:- TGA 2 STARe System Year of Installation: 2019 Specifications Ultra microgram balance with sub microgram resolution over the whole measurement range Optimal...
Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction (SCXRD)
Make:- Bruker Model:- D8 Venture Year of Installation: 2014 Specifications Highly intense X-ray source 6×10116×10^11 X-ray/mm2 flux density Photon II 14 photon counting detector with mixed...
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)
Make: JEOL, Japan Model: JES – X320 Year of Installation: 2023 X-band Universal Cavity Magnetic-field modulation 100 kHz, 50 kHz and 25 kHz, internal modulation...
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Make: Oxford Instrument (Asylum Research) Model: MFP3D-Origin Year of Installation: 2023 Specifications Standard X and Y range 120 μm X and Y sensors <0.6 nm noise Z range >15 μm Z...
High Temperature Processing Laboratory
Materials are required to process at high temperatures in different gaseous environments in order to change their physical and chemical properties. Also, the thermal processes help in removing...
Sample Processing Laboratory
When research samples are synthesized by physical or chemical methods, they generally contain various kinds of internal as well as surface defects. These intrinsic defects influence the fundamental...
HF Processing Laboratory
Being an extremely corrosive, hydrofluoric (HF) acid requires special attention in semiconductor industries as it is commonly used for cleaning Si surfaces via dissolving natural oxide layer in a 5...
Semiconductor Physics Laboratory
How do electrons behave in semiconductor materials? What are the physical mechanisms governing electricity-to-light OR light-to-electricity conversion in semiconductor-based devices? Our research...
Nanocarbon And Sensor Laboratory
In this laboratory, varieties of nanostructured materials (such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, metal oxide nanoparticles) using chemical vapor deposition, chemical exfoliation, and physical vapor...
Dielectric Materials Laboratory
Dielectrics are the attractive class of materials which find enormous applications in our daily life. Starting from the electric circuit breaker to more advanced technological applications such as...
Functional Oxide Materials Laboratory
Nanotechnology deals with the precise control and manipulation of atoms and molecules to create novel materials and device structures with unique properties. The emerging new device concepts and...
X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory
XRD laboratory X-ray machine is essential to characterize the structure of materials, primarily the crystalline structure. In the x-ray diffraction laboratory, both thin film and powder samples...
Optical Microscopy Laboratory
The structure of a material at micron scale is related to optical, electrical, mechanical, chemical and thermal properties. Optical microscopy, an important investigative technique, is used to...
Low Temperature Measurement Laboratory
The Low-temperature laboratory consists of a closed cycle cryocooler (with an electromagnet) from Advanced Research Systems, Inc. The closed cycle cryocooler is a precision machine carefully tuned...
Optical Spectroscopy Laboratory
SHIMAZU’s spectrophotometer (UV-Vis 3700) can be used to measure the optical properties (such as absorption and transmission coefficients) of thin films, powder samples, and liquids. This...
Surface Topography Laboratory
The surface profilometer from Bruker is used for determining a thickness of the deposited thin films and also for determining layer uniformity. It can be used for measuring the surface topography...
Surface Characterization Laboratory
Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is a powerful tool for imaging a specimen surface by scanning with a physical probe. It operates in two basic ways: (i) contact and (ii) non-contact of the probe...
Chemical Processing Laboratory
This laboratory is equipped with chemical hoods in which researcher synthesize new materials in various sizes and shapes by chemical and hydrothermal routes. It is equipped with necessary...
Non-Linear Optics Lab
The non-linear optics laboratory work towards development and applications of novel organic and inorganic materials for optical telecommunication, optical information processing and optical data...
Nanometrics Laboratory
This laboratory is designed for the Physics undergraduate students and researchers who have new ideas and wish to pursue them further. This lab facilitates to design, develop and test those new...
Device Physics Laboratory
In this laboratory, various materials that have been prepared by different synthetic routes are characterized for use in making devices. Mainly nanostructured materials are considered for...
Surface & Nano Science Laboratory
Do the top surface layer of any solid material and the underneath layers behave in similar way? The subject become more challenging when one solid surface is grown on top of other and form...
Quantum Optics Laboratory
Quantum optics laboratory aims to conduct research on the quantum Physics of nano-optical devices to understand fundamental physics. Such devices have innovative applications in the area of...
Soft Matter & Biophysics Laboratory
In this laboratory, physics meets chemistry meets biology. In one hand, we explore soft materials to understand their physical behaviour, which is governed by the underlying mesophasic structures,...
Computational Physics Teaching Laboratory
The Computational Physics Teaching Laboratory (CPTL) is an advanced physics computer lab intended for Physics undergraduate as well as graduate level students. The CPTL is equipped with several...
Computational Physics Research Laboratory
Computational facilities at SNS include a high-performance AMD cluster consisting of 8064 cores (plus two nodes with GPU processors) delivering a theoretical peak performance of ~238 TF....
Physics Electronics Teaching Laboratory
Electronics teaching laboratory provides a hands-on experience in electronics to Physics undergraduate students. In this laboratory, students will learn circuit design, voltage & current...
Advanced Physics Laboratory
Advanced Physics Laboratory provides the second and third-year undergraduate students a platform to learn some of the basic laws of physics by doing experiments. Here we cover experiments based on...
General Physics Teaching Laboratory
The General Physics Laboratory offer students, experiential learning by doing experiments on ideas that are taught in the First year of introductory courses in Physics. The experiments are mainly...
Clean Room
A cleanroom is a controlled contamination (e.g. dust, aerosol particles, chemical vapors, airborne microbes, etc.) free environment used in scientific research for making electronic chips, devices,...
Wet Laboratory
Lab description: The researchers use multiple cabinet hoods arranged in array in the lab for synthesizing various materials including nano-particles and graphene. Here, toxic and hazardous...
Microstructure Laboratory
Understanding the structure of any material is highly important for any kind of device application. This is especially crucial at the interfaces of heterostructures, which become further...
Mathematics Laboratory
The Mathematics Laboratory supports the undergraduate and graduate teaching activities of the Department. The lab has 30 networked PCs with software such as Mathematica and Matlab.
DST-FIST Computational Mathematics Laboratory
The Computational Mathematics Laboratory is funded by a DST-FIST grant awarded to SNU in 2015. It supports our research in data analytics, modeling with PDEs, complex networks, mathematical...
Neurobiology
The lab is currently focused on investigating altered brain communications related to cognitive abilities in autistic brains, and deciphering the underlying attenuated molecular mechanism in...
Cancer Pharmacology Laboratory
Cancer is one of the top five non-communicable diseases claiming millions of lives annually. Despite advancements in understanding the biology of the disease and imparting care for cancer patients,...
Protein Structure Biology Laboratory
Our research interests have focused on the functional characterization of essential metabolic or therapeutically important proteins aiming to develop new drugs/therapeutics against pathogenic...
Precision Premier II Ferroelectric Loop-Tester
The Precision Premier II Ferroelectric loop-tester can execute a single pass hysteresis loop in 100μs without interlacing the data acquisition. Premier II uses a 40MHz clock through a down...
GS Glove Box (ALFA-Line)
The GS Glove box (ALFA-Line) is equipped with a freezer and a cold wall, allowing users to store moisture and oxygen-sensitive organometallic complexes at low temperatures (-30°C). The GS Glove...