Fast and sensitive electronic measurements : Low level (nano volts to tens of micro-volts) and/or high speed (kilo Hertz to Giga Hertz) signal conditioning and measurement methods, noise filtering and signal enhancement techniques.
Nuclear electronics : Amplifiers, analyzers, counting systems, radiation measuring instruments, photon and charged particle detectors, semiconductor detectors, multiwire counters, self power detectors.
Radio frequency electronics : High stability and low distortion oscillators, amplifiers and power transfer techniques, (Mega Hertz to Giga Hertz range), RF devices, circuits and instruments.
Fibre optics and optoelectronic instrumentation.
Electromagnetic interference including EMP & High power microwave interference : Sources, noise reduction techniques, transient protection, energy storage and filtering devices.
Electronic system/instrument reliability evaluation techniques, reliability procedures and quality control standards.

Advances in computer system architecture, Fault tolerant systems, Parallel and Distributed processing, Computer communication and networking, Man-machine interaction.
Real time application software, embedded control systems, Language extensions/development for parallel processing.

Artificial Intelligence, Neural networks, Expert systems,Natural language processing, Image processing, Machine vision and Robotics.
Interactive computer graphics, User friendly interfaces, Interactive computer aided design, Computer Aided Instruction.
Software verification and validation, Software reliability.
Software tools and methodologies for the design of Electronic systems, Performance analysis and Evaluation software, Computer Simulation, Modeling.

Microprocessor based control & Instrumentation. Process monitoring and control.
Nuclear instruments like X-ray fluorescence and Mossbauer spectrometer, NMR spectrometer etc.
Electrochemical instruments for corrosion research, metal deposition, chemical dynamics studies etc.
Development of sensors for monitoring of vibration, velocity, displacement, pressure, magnetic and electric fields, toxic and explosive gases (H2, NH3 and H2S).
Nuclear instrumentation techniques for industrial applications like Beta ray gauging of foil thickness.
Analytical instruments : Auger instrumentation, surface and material defect analysis equipment.
Medical electronics : Medical instruments, transducers, medical data scanning, Nuclear medical instrumentation.
Power and accelerator electronics : Ultra high stability magnet power supplies, Thyristor convertors and drive, HVDC supplies, R.F. amplifiers, Development of components and subsystems for charged particle accelerators including ion sources and ion implantation systems.
Pulsed Power Technology : Air cored Tesla Transformers, Marx generators, Pulsed high voltage and high current measurement techniques, Repetitive pulse technology, Energy storage capacitor banks, PUlsed high magnetic fields, Electrical breakdown in insulation.
Lasers : Tunable lasers and other non-linear devices, copper vapor, carbon-di-oxide, excimer, pulsed lasers, industrial application of lasers. Instabilities and transport phenomena in laser induced plasmas.
Instrumentation for generation and diagnostics of low and high temperature plasma in the DC, RF and pulse modes.
Cryogenics including the development and application of thermo- electric cooling modules.
Development of optical components for lasers, vacuum, ultraviolet and X-ray optics, monochromators, mirrors, etc.
Crystal technology development.