Preface

International Conference on Current Trend in Physics and Photonics (ICCTPP-2022), a virtual conference was organized by School of Physics, Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University- Pune, India in association with IOP Science Publishing from 9th June to 11th June 2022. The conference was Chaired by Dr. Sachin Kulkarni, Head, School of Physics, MITWPU Pune and Co-Chaired by Prof. Dr. Narendra Mathakari and Dr. Ajit Deore from School of Physics. The purpose of the conference was to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, industry professionals to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of general Physics and in particular the emerging field of photonics. In General Physics, the focus was mainly on material science, nanoscience, computational physics and theoretical physics. In Photonics, the focus was primarily on Lasers, Nanophotonics, Green photonics, Solar Energy, Plasmonics and Nonlinear Optics. The three-day conference program was carefully structured to encourage mutual inspiration and fruitful debate among researchers. Well known experts across India and the world were associated with the conference for keynote addresses, plenary sessions and invited talks. In addition, high quality research was presented by academicians, industry professionals, and research scholars from leading institutions across India, UAE, South Korea, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Algeria through oral and poster sessions. Total Ten oral and poster sessions was scheduled with topics ranging from Photonics, Optics, Nano Science and Material Science. On the first day the conference lamp was ignited with the Keynote address of Prof. Jagadish Chennupati, Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Australia and the Plenary Talk of Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta, Director of CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India. Prof. Chennupati enlighten the attendees on ‘Semiconductor Nanostructures for Optoelectronics Applications’ and Prof. Achanta on ‘Nanophotonics’. During afternoon session Dr. Nayana Vaval, Scientist, NCL, Pune, India delivered her talk on ‘Study of temporary bound states’ and Dr. Almantas Pivrikas, Senior Lecturer, Murdoch University, Australia expressed his views on ‘opto-electronic devices, such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, field-effect transistors and sensors’. The second day started with the Plenary talk of Prof. Prashant Sonar, ARC Future Fellow and Professor in School of Chemistry and Physics and Centre for Material Science at Queensland University of Technology, (QUT), Australia on the topic ‘Novel Conjugated Functional Materials for Photonics, Electronics, and Sensing’. Afternoon session was two invited talks, one by Dr. K. V. Sreekanth, Scientist-II, IMRE, A-Star, Singapore on ‘Reconfigurable nanophotonics with chalcogenide phase change materials’ and another by Dr. Dmitry Vasilyev, Dept of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany on ‘Imaging Spin Detection in Microscopy and Spectroscopy’. List of ICCTPP-2022, Committee Members are available in this Pdf.