Centre for Device Thermography and Reliability

[3] The centre is noted for developing an integrated Raman-IR thermography technique to probe self-heating in silicon, GaAs and other devices.

This enables unique thermal analysis of semiconductor devices on a detailed level not possible before.

[5] The institute gets funding from various government and private sector sources, such as European Space Agency and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Former heads of department include Sir Charles Frank (crystal growth, liquid crystals) and Nobel Laureates C. F. Powell (whose discovery of the π meson marked the birth of modern particle physics), and Sir Nevill Mott.

The School carries out research in the fields of Astrophysics, Correlated Electron Systems, Micro and Nanostructural Materials, Nanophysics and Soft Matter, Particle Physics, Quantum Photonics and Theoretical Physics.