 Research is sponsored by agencies including UGC, AICTE, IUCAA, DST, DRDO, CSIR, IUAC, DAE, and KSCSTE.The department has extensive instrumentation, which is made available to outside users at a nominal charge.The faculty members of the department collaborate with other leading institutions, both nationally and internationally, including NCL, Pune; NIIST, Trivandrum; Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi; IGCAR, Kalpakkam; VSSC, Trivandrum, IUCAA, Pune, NTU, Singapore; NUS, Singapore; Rice University, USA; Toyo University, Japan; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and IWATE University, Japan.