NIST Device Laboratory is commissioned within the Department of Electronics and Communication engineering. The lab has excellent research facilities to conduct experimental research in the field of Nano Science and Engineering for the B.Tech, M.Tech as well as Ph.D students under the guidance of expertise faculties. The research area spans widely from basic semiconductor research to developing semiconductor based devices, material research for finding advanced alternative materials for device applications, sensor modules for futuristic applications and renewable energy and future solar cells. The lab has capability for high quality thin film growth/deposition (oxidation furnace, rf and DC sputtering, Vacuum evaporator), thin film coating (spin coater), film characterization (UV VIS Spectroscopy, Photo luminescence, Four probe, STM) as well as device characterization (LCR meter, IV meter). Each and every year, a mass number of students successfully complete their B.Tech and M.Tech projects in the areas like MOS and MIM capacitor fabrication and characterization, RRAM, fabrication of sensor devices and prototypes, experimental solar cells etc.

Every year the lab conduct conducts a 200 hour summer course entitled “Nano Electronics: Design and Fabrication” for the students, academicians and industry people to acquaint them with hands-on training on semiconductor devices fabrication and adopting the corresponding equipment skills. The bigger objective of this course is to develop the future engineering and technical task force who would take up the technological challenges of the future decades.

Electronics and communication engineering department moved to the forefront in technology in south east india. Our department offers so many high-end laboratories to build future engineers.

Our department provides two ESSCI Certified courses “VLSI Design Engineer” and “Physical Design Engineer” to provide best opportunities in semiconductor domain. The quality can be measured by looking the best performances in Cadence Design Contest winning award in the year of 2014, 2015 and 2016 consecutively in under graduate category. Every year two or three projects have been short listed in top 5. In 2016 one of our projects has entered into top 5 under Post-Graduate level also.

22 students have cleared the level-5 of ESSCI Certification exam from the first batch out of 36 registered students. IEEE ED-NIST Student Chapter has reached to the pinnacle of success by organizing 8 IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium in a series and 4 National Conferences (NCDC) to provide a technical environment to the young researchers in different domains. The Distinguished Lectures (DLs) are spreading the advances and recent growth in technology and their applications. Our students have reached a remarkable placement record by getting the job offers from Broadcom, Sankalp Semiconductor, NetLogic, Cadence, Qualcomm and Intel.