Abstract
Irradiation and Implantation studies are being regularly carried out at VECC with the room temperature cyclotron. Activities in Materials Science are having two dimensionalities-1) Studies on Nuclear Structural Materials with a view to assessing the damage in the context of applications to Nuclear reactors and 2) Studies on various novel materials like High Temperature and low temperature superconductors, novel oxides, polymers etc. with the purpose of extracting tailor made properties and understanding the basic mechanism in the process. The second aspect will be talked about. Recently, Superconducting Cyclotron with high energy heavy ions and 6.4GHz ECR ion source are being activated for the purpose of different experiments. The ongoing experiments using ECR source and the future plans will be highlighted.
