CORE FACULTY

Education
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, 2009-2015
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, TN, Bachelors and Masters in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 2004-2009

Experience
• Assistant Professor, Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, IISc Bengaluru, 2020-Present
• Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Nanostructures of Functional Oxides Group, University of Groningen, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2018-2020
• Postdoctoral Researcher in Advanced Ferroics Group, Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides (SPMS), CentraleSupélec, University Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 2015-2018

Research Area
Correlated Systems, Ferroic Oxides, in situ electron microscopy and spectroscopy, material networks for neuromorphic materials and networks, phase change materials, thin film x-ray diffraction

Recent Publications

• Mondal, D., Mahapatra, S. R., Parate, S. K., Nukala, P., & Aetukuri, N. P. B. (2024). Carrier-Induced Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Electrostatically Doped VO2. Chemistry of Materials.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01915

• Singh, A. R., Vura, S., Parate, S. K., Venugopalarao, A., Raghavan, S., Nukala, P., & Avasthi, S. (2024). Texture and phase transition hysteresis in epitaxially integrated VO2 films on TiN/Si (100). Materialia, 34, 102085.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2024.102085

• Jha, P. K., Parate, S. K., Sada, K., Yoshii, K., Masese, T., Nukala, P., … & Barpanda, P. (2024). A 3.2 V Binary Layered Oxide Cathode for Potassium‐Ion Batteries.Small, 2402204.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202402204

• Yadav, P. K., Upadhyay, R., Kumar, R., Nukala, P., & Upadhyay, C. (2024). Influence of local defects in the generation of memory effect in Dy2Ti2O7 compound: Fe-doped study. Physica Scripta, 99(8), 085941.
  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad5e10

• Mondal, S., Punetha, P., De, B. K., Adhikary, G. D., Ranjan, R., & Nukala, P. (2024). Giant electrostriction in bulk RE (III) substituted CeO2: Effect of RE-VO•• interaction and RE concentration. Scripta Materialia, 248, 116129.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116129

Key Publications

• Vura, S., Parate, S. K., Pal, S., Khandelwal, U., Rai, R. K., Molleti, S. H., … & Nukala, P. (2023). Giant electromechanical response from defective non-ferroelectric epitaxial BaTiO3 integrated on Si 100. Nat Commun 15, 1428.
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45903-x

• Rao, A., Sanjay, S., Dey, V., Ahmadi, M., Yadav, P., Venugopalrao, A., … & Nukala, P. (2023). Realizing avalanche criticality in neuromorphic networks on a 2D hBN platform. Materials Horizons, 10(11), 5235-5245.
  https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MH01000G

• Nukala, P., Ahmadi, M., Wei, Y., De Graaf, S., Stylianidis, E., Chakrabortty, T., … & Noheda, B. (2021). Reversible oxygen migration and phase transitions in hafnia-based ferroelectric devices. Science, 372(6542), 630-635.
  https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abf3789