Surface physics at Saha Institute

We report in this article our present activities on the study of various as pects of surface and interface physics carried out at Surface Physics Divis ion of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. These include growing of material s and their characterization using techniques available at the institute. F or growing materials, we have a magnetron sputtering unit, Langmuir-Blodget t trough and polymer spin coater. The analytical tools are grazing incidenc e X-ray reflectivity, scanning probe microscopy and secondary ion mass spec trometry. A set-up to carry out bombardment-induced light emission spectros copy has been developed to understand the atomic excitation processes in sp uttering as well as to explore its potentiality as a surface analytical too l. We have presented some of the recent results obtained in our laboratory.