IPR plays a major scientific and technical role in Indian partnership in the international fusion energy initiative ITER.

In 1986, the PPP evolved into the autonomous Institute for Plasma Research under the Department of Science and Technology.

[clarification needed] Due to this, the institute grew rapidly and came under the Department of Atomic Energy.

FCIPT works with national and international industries, such as Johnson & Johnson,ASP Ethicon Inc. USA, UVSYSTEC GmbH Germany, Thermax India Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., IPCL, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., NHPC Ltd., GE India Technology Centre Bangalore, BHEL, Triton Valves Ltd. Mysore, etc.

and organizations such as BARC, DRDO, ISRO, IIT Kharagpur, National Aerospace Laboratories, and other CSIR labs.

To this end, a § Broad-beam ion sources are used to generate patterns such as nanoripples or nanodots and are coated with silver for research in plasmonics.

[7] The centre started functioning in April 1991 in a rented house located at Saptaswahid Pathi.

The first chairman of the Governing Council was Professor Predhiman Krishan Kaw (died 18 June 2017,[8] a world-renowned plasma scientist.

After its three-year term, the Governing Council was reconstituted by the Education Department with Prof. A.C. Das, Dean of Physical Research Laboratory as its chairman.

It has twelve faculty members, fourteen other staff and research scholars and project scientists.

The research is oriented towards essential plasma physics and programs that complement the significant programmes at IPR.

The institute's campus is at Nazirakhat, Sonapur, about 32 km from Guwahati, the headquarters of the Kamrup(M) district of Assam.