| Year | Milestones |
|---|---|
| 1974 | Initiation of R&D programmes of Materials Science |
| 1977 | Materials Science Laboratory building established |
| 1977 | First actinide compound studies under high pressure |
| 1977 | 150 kV accelerator commissioned |
| 1983 | Commissioning of an in-house developed 2 MV tandem Accelerator, various ion beam analytical studies using PIXE, RBS and NRA. |
| 1984 | Commissioning of Bridgeman Czochralski single crystal growth equipment |
| 1985 | Development of the high pressure-high temperature cell for materials synthesis and electrical resistivity measurements up to 10 GPa and 1300 K |
| 1989 | Installation of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer for high resolution surface analysis |
| 1993 | Establishment of Particle Irradiation Facility (PIF): Facilities of PIF were opened to university students under UGC-DAE scheme |
| 1995 | First superconducting device fabrication Laboratory in India established; Josephson junctions & SQUID sensors fabricated |
| 1995 | Indigenously developed variable low energy positron beam setup (VLEPB) |
| 1995 | Development of Mao-Bell high pressure diamond anvil cell at MSL |
| 1999 | Indigenous development of TGA-EGA Facility |
| 2000 | 0.7 MV Tandetron accelerator for Radiation damage in D9, D9I alloys and Ion beam synthesis of nanostructures |
| 2004 | Confocal laser scanning microscope facility to study soft condensed matter established. |
| 2005 | Pulsed Laser Beam and Magnetron Sputtering Deposition Facility of Multilayer film for tribological application |
| 2005 | Development of Laser Heated Diamond Anvil Cell facility for synthesis of novel materials. |
| 2008 | High performance computing facility -Work station- established in MSG for computational work |
| 2009 | Brillouin spectrometer installed to study acoustic phonons and elastic constants in ferroelectric materials and glasses |
| 2010 | Dynamic Exposure facility for gas sensing (EFGS) |
| 2010 | MCG system with 37 channels made operational. MEG system with 86 channels tested. Using this system, various research investigations have been carried out on both healthy volunteers and on patients with different cardiac dysfunctions from DAE hospital, Kalpakkam and JIPMER, Puducherry. These investigations are aimed towards highlighting the unique diagnostic information provided by MCG which is not readily observed in those of the conventional voltage based techniques like Electrocardiogram (ECG) |
| 2010 | Exposure Facility for Gas Sensing and detecting various toxic gases in ambient set-up. Hazardous gases from ppm level down to ppb level can be detected in-situ |
| 2011 | First ever Raman spectra of uranium metal recorded using a novel surface enhanced Raman spectroscopic technique |
| 2013 | Dual ion irradiation facility established. Studies carried out on the effect of helium on dpa ratios on void swelling in ODS alloys, evaluation of multi beam synergies on defect annealing in SiC carried out |
| 2014 | Facility of localized near-field studies using light-matter interaction (TERS and NSOM) |
| 2014 | Facility of Laser Beam Lithography for direct writing |
| 2014 | 3-D Dynamic Light Scattering equipment commissioned to study soft condensed matter |
| 2015 | Clinical survey with MCG system |
| 2016 | Facility of High vacuum High temperature tribometer coupled with Raman spectrometer |
| 2017 | Vertical Graphene Nanosheets grown on Ni substrates were chemically etched and transferred onto polymer substrates to fabricate flexible supercapacitor device. |
| 2018 | First observation of Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave in InN nanostructure |
| 2019 | Development of SQUID based TDEM system for geophysical applications |
| 2020 | Novel microgel-hydrogel composite photonic crystals (CPC) were synthesized; they were used to monitor and extract uranyl ions in aqueous solutions |
| 2021 | Gamma radiation detector designed and built using single crystals of Cd0.9Zn0.1Te (CZT) grown in-house. With this sensor, the photo peaks of Ba-133 and Am-241 were successfully resolved. |
| 2021 | First report of Bi-layer Transition Metal Oxide of Van der Waal bonded V2O5. |
