Ltd., IPCL, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., NHPC Ltd., GE India Technology Centre Bangalore, BHEL, Triton Valves Ltd. Mysore, etc. and other organizations such as BARC, DRDO, ISRO, IIT Kharagpur, National Aerospace Laboratories, other CSIR labs, etc. Amongst the infrastructure FCIPT has a full-fledged material characterization laboratory with instruments such as Transmission Electron Microscope, Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDAX, Atomic Force Microscope, X-ray diffractometer, Spectroscopic Ellipsometer, UV-VIS spectroscopy, Solar Simulator, thickness profilometer, optical metallurgical microscope with phase analyser, full-fledged metallography laboratory, Vicker's hardness tester, ASTM B117 corrosion testing setup, etc. Other infrastructure include electronics and instrumentation lab, process demonstration systems, etc. FCIPT has developed technologies related to waste remediation and recovery of energy from waste, surface hardening and heat treatment technologies such as plasma nitriding and plasma nitrcarburizing, plasma-assisted metallization technologies using magnetron sputter deposition, plasma-enhanced CVD for functional coatings on substrates, plasma Smelting and melting, plasma diagnostics, space-related plasma technologies, etc. Recently, ion irradiation induced patterning of semiconductor materials and amorphous solids has been a hot topic of research. To this end, a broadbeam ion source is used to generate various patterns such as nanoripples or nanodots and are coated with silver for research in plasmonics. Industries can directly contact FCIPT for their contract research needs, development of specialized plasma processing equipment and power sources, technology development, application development, material characterization services, etc. Center of Plasma Physics - Institute for Plasma Research (CPP-IPR) History In pursuance of the national policy recognising plasma physics as one of the thrust areas of present-day research, the government of Assam established the Centre of Plasma Physics in 1991 as an autonomous research institute to pursue basic research in theoretical as well as experimental plasma physics and its related areas. The Centre of Plasma Physics was an autonomous research institute under the Education (Higher) Department of the government of Assam. The centre started functioning in April 1991 in a rented house located at Saptaswahid Path, Dispur, Guwahati. The Governing Council of the centre consists of four eminent scientists of the country with representatives from the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta; top-level state government officers and some local members. The first chairman of the Governing Council was Professor Predhiman Krishan Kaw (died June 18, 2017, of Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar), a world-renowned plasma scientist who took keen