The Department of Physics was established in 1959, the very year of inception of the then REC, Warangal. The department offers postgraduate and doctoral programs in addition to catering the physics requirements of engineering programs. The department has a strong team of 14 highly qualified and motivated faculty members with diversified research experience. The department has excellent infrastructure available for pursuing research in cutting edge technologies. M.Sc. (Tech.) Engineering Physics, has been a flagship program of the department. The program was introduced in the year 1970 under UNESCO‘s sponsorship, with the active association of experts from UK and Russia. Further, M.Sc. (Tech.) is an industry-oriented program and is structured on par with the then PG programs of engineering with one full semester for dissertation work and eight weeks of sandwiched industrial training. The program of M.Sc. (Tech.) enjoys 100% job potential right from its inception with placements in the best of industry and R & D organizations within the country and abroad. Currently two specializations – electronics & instrumentation, photonics are being offered. Recognizing the need for creating a talent pool in physical sciences, in tune with NEP 2020, the department has introduced a 5-year integrated M. Sc program. Further, the department offers, engineering physics, open electives minors for all B.Tech. courses and electives to different M. Tech programs. The department is actively engaged in research with number of sponsored R&D projects under execution. The specific areas of research include Materials for energy harvesting, Super capacitors, Glasses and Glass ceramics, Biomaterials, Luminescent materials, Ferroelectrics, Magnetic materials, Polymer degradation studies, Photonics, Electronics, Medical Instrumentation, tropospheric radio propagation, Fiber optic Sensors, High temperature measurement, Holographic NDT, Microcontrollers and communication, Nano Ferrites & Nano Composites, Nanophosphors & Bio Glass Ceramics, Optical system design, Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Organic, polymer & Dye-sensitized solar cells, Semiconductor quantum dots/2D materials, Perovskite solar cells, Pressure sensing, Liquid Crystals, Microfluidics, Transparent conducting thin films, Vibration measurement, Theoretical physics ,statistical physics, soft matter , biophysics and other frontier areas . A grant of Rs.2.75 Crores was received by the department under the first phase of FIST program of DST (Govt of India) to establish FE-SEM and XRD facilities. The department has liaison with reputed industries and R&D organizations like BEL, CSIR, DRDO, DST, BARC, ELOIRA, RCI, ARCI, CSIO, LRDE, IRDE, Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board, Simply Fresh, Nutranxt Biotech Pvt Ltd., Kataline Infra Products Pvt Ltd.