Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall

Resolving Atom in our Backyards: Indigenous Technology in a Globalized World

Deshdeep Sahdev

IIT Kanpur

It is an interesting and remarkable fact that every Nobel-prize winning
piece of work in Experimental Physics has been carried out on apparatus
which has been designed and developed by the physicist in question, be it
Raman, Mossbauer or Binnig. This makes the question of how we build an
instrumentational base for cutting-edge research in India relevant. I will
discuss this in the context of two hi-tech instruments which my team has
developed: Scanning Probe Microscopes for various applications and
Physical Properties Measurement Systems for research in nano-science, from
both the materials and condensed matter view-points.