About Lab

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is one of the oldest institutes in our country hosting an ion-beam accelerator facility in a university setup. In 1968, a 2 MV Van-de-Graaff accelerator was commissioned here, which had been extensively used for research in nuclear and atomic physics. This accelerator was de-commissioned in 2005.

In 2008 the 1.7 MV high current tandetron accelerator was installed along with a micro-beam facility.

The 1.7MV tandetron accelerator is now a licensed accelerator for external users under AERB license no. (AERB/RSD/PARF/LIC/R0/UP-53828/2022/574)

In the 1.7 MV high current tandetron accelerator, the injector part has dual ion sources, Einzel lens for focusing and an analyzing magnet for mass selection. The SNICS source provides light and heavy ion beams of solid targets. The duoplasmatron source extracts high currents of proton and alpha beams from hydrogen and helium gas targets. The high energy side of the accelerator has quadrupole lens for focusing the ion beam, an analyzing magnet and two beam lines for research purpose. The twenty deg. beam line is dedicated for irradiation, implantation and RBS experiments. It is equipped with neutral particle separator and an ion beam scanner for controlled implantation. The chamber is also equipped with the Rutherford backscattering (RBS) setup. The central or the zero deg. beam line is dedicated for proton micro beam writing (PBW) experiments. A new experimental setup has been augumented at the 20 deg beam line with a scattering chamber for ion and electron imaging facility to study ionization and fragmentation of molecular and cluster targets after collision with medium energy heavy ion beams.