The Team
Prof. Pavan Nukala
*People are listed in the order of their date of joining/leaving the group category-wise
Post Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Pramod Kumar Yadav, CSIR Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Pramod has completed Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in 2020. He is awarded the CSIR-Research Assistantship during his Ph.D. He is working on a couple of projects: 1. Hafnium and Zirconium-based ferroelectric thin films, and 2. Emergence phenomena in electrically and magnetically intertwined hybrid pyrochlore iridates thin films.
Dr. Jalaja M A, IoE Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Jalaja completed Ph.D (Physics) from CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, and National Institute of Technology, Calicut in 2020. She was awarded with CSIR-Research Assistantship, and qualified the CSIR-UGC NET (June, 2012), and GATE 2011. Her current project is based on Relaxor based Ferroelectrics with a semiconducting bandgap for Neuromorphic Computing.
Dr. Gobinda Das Adhikary
Dr. Gobinda has completed Ph.D. (2021) in Material Science from Indian Institute of science Bangalore. His current project is to investigate the Metal-Insulator transition in EuNiO3 rare earth nickelate.
Ph.D. Students
Ms. Pooja Punetha
(Joint student with Prof. Rajeev Ranjan from Materials Engg.)
She has completed MSc (2018) degree in Physics from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Her current research project focuses on the TEM study of the structure and properties of NBT-KBT lead-free ceramic.
Ms. Upanya Khandelwal
(Joint student with Prof. Saurabh Chandorkar, CeNSE)
She holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Delhi University in Physics. The focus of her work is to fabricate and hence study the oscillations made from the family of Nickelates which shows Insulator to Metal Transition (IMT).
Mr. Shubham Kumar Parate
Mr. Shubham has done B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from NIT Raipur and M.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Madras. His research is based on in-Situ TEM for investigating electromechanical responses of oxides.
Mr. Anudeep Tullibilli
He holds B.Tech. in Mineral Engineering from ISM, Dhanbad. He served as Executive Trainee and as an Assistant Manager at NMDC. His research focuses on the study of superlattice PbTiO3-SnTiO3 pulse laser depositions, and study on dead-layer & topologically stable field configurations of polarization in thin films.
Mr. Soumyajyoti Mondal
Mr. Soumyajyoti has done B.Tech in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur. His research focuses on the study of Electrostriction in Lanthanum doped Ceria.
Mr. Mcnally Bethapudi H.Th, ERP Candidate from L&T
He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics. He served at many places in the past including Nucleonix, Powerspec, and Elico Ltd. He is currently working at L&T Technology Services. His project is to develop NEMS/MEMS based Accelerometers with Ferro electric materials.
Mr. Vivek Dey
Mr. Vivek holds the degree of Master of Technology in Solid State Materials from IIT Delhi and B.Sc. (2014) in Physics from Dibrugarh University, Assam.
Masters and Bachelor Students (IISc)
Mr. Anand S, BS-MS Student
He is in the fifth year of BS-MS physics programme.
Mr. Haroon Ali Afsal, BS-MS Student
He is in the fifth year of BS-MS materials programme.
Interns
Project Staff
Prasanth S, Project Assistant
He holds B.Tech (2016) degree in Electrical and Electronics from B.M.S. Institute of Technology. Before joining our group he served at CeNSE as a Facility Technologist. He is currently working on piezoelectric and ferroelectric thin films deposition.
Alumni
Mr. Calvinshijo M, M.Tech. Student
He holds BSc (Physics) from St. Joseph’s College, Trichy; M.Sc. (Physics) from Bharathidasan University, Trichy; M.Phil. (Physics) from Loyola College, Chennai. University Gold Medalist and Gold Medalist in both graduate and post graduate courses. His project is on the microwave Synthesis and Characterization of La:HfO2 thin films
Mr. Shashank Raj, BS Student
He is currently an MBA student at IIM Kozhikode and did his bachelor’s thesis at FTFEML, CeNSE.
Mr. Manas Pratim Biswas, BS Student
He is currently in the third year of BS program.
Mr. Mudit Jain, BS-Intern (IISER-Berhampur)
Mr. Mudit is pursuing his UG degree (Major in Physics) at IISER Berhampur. He joined our group as an intern and his current project is to study the chaotic oscillations in nickelates based memristors.
P D Sri Harsha Molleti, Junior Research Fellow
He graduated at the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (2018) and Post graduated at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering (2021). His project is primarily based on the synthesis and study of BTO nanoparticles and its incorporation into various dielectric matrices.
Mr. Jishnu N K, BS Student
He is currently in the fourth year of BS program. His project is based on BaTiO3 based ferroelectric thin films growth.
Mr. Abhinav Jith A, BS Student
He is currently an MBA student at IIM Bangalore and did his bachelor’s thesis at FTFEML, CeNSE.
Mr. Ashfakh Ali Km, BS Student
He is currently in the third year of BS program.
Dr. Rajeev Kumar Rai, Postdoctoral Fellow
He holds an Integrated M.Sc and PhD degree (2021) in Material Science from Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has done his Bachelors (Hons.) in Chemistry from Delhi University, Delhi. In FTFEML, he worked on Electron Microscopic investigation of thin film oxide materials. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Rajesh Katoch
He holds Ph.D. (2016) in Materials Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and M.Tech (2009) in Materials Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU). Before joining our group he worked at INRS Canada and CeNS bangalore. His project was based on resistive switching memories, rare earth nickelates, and transition metal oxides.
Advaitha M, Sr. Project Associate
She holds B.Sc. in Industrial Electronics from Bharthidasan University and M.Sc. in Applied Electronics from NIT Trichy. Before joining our group she has served in many other institutes and organizations. She worked on the growth of crystalline PCM by physical deposition methods.
Deepak K Dinkar, CEng (Project Scientist)
He holds Master’s degree in Materials Science and Nanotechnology and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He worked on the investigation of Hopfions in ferroelectric composite thin films, and the investigation of insulator-to-metal transition in rare-earth nickelates’ thin films. Prior to his joining he had worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, and at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) at IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai.
Mr. Gokul Krishna, BS-MS-Student
Project: Synthesis of bulk crystals of Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)
Mr. Shivam Nigam, Project Assistant
Mr. Shivam has done M.Sc. in Condensed Matter Physics fro University of Allahabad. He qualified the IIT JAM examination in the year 2016.
Dr. Subhajit Pal (Post Doctoral Fellow)
He has completed Ph.D. (2021) in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2021 and has done M.Sc. (2015) in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His project was focused on Finding an alternative Pb-free material, which converts electrical energy to mechanical stress, fascinates tremendous importance for a wide range of applications perspectives.
Dr. Debadarshini Samantaray, Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Samantaray has done Ph.D. at the Materials Research Centre, IISc; MSc (Physics) at Pondicherry Central University; and B.Sc. (Physics) at Utkal University. She is a Gold Medalist in both of her Bachelors and Masters degrees. She has secured AIR-35 in GATE and AIR-46 in CSIR-NET/JRF Examinations. Her project was related to the Electron Microscopic studies of oxide thin films.
Ms. Suparna Mondal, BS (Research)
She worked on the synthesis and characterization of ferroelectric HfO2 thin films through microwave assisted synthesis route. She is a NTSE (2015) and KVPY (2015) scholar.
Mr. Vaibhav Singh Rajput (M.Tech. Student)
He graduated in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, and has done M.Tech. in Nanoscience and Engineering at CeNSE, IISc. He secured AIR-1 in GATE and currently working at Juniper Networks.
Mr. Pranav Surabhi (Intern)
Mr. Pranav is currently pursuing B.Tech. in Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Indore. His project was based on the analysis of Synchrotron Data.
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