Faculty Details

Ranjit Kumar Nanda B

Professor

HSB 243
Ph.D. IIT Bombay

📞 044 - 2257 4887
✉️ nandab@iitm.ac.in

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Areas of Interest

✔ Condensed Matter Theory (Electronic Structure)

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

✔ PH16D203 MAYANK GUPTA

✔ PH17D008 AMIT CHAUHAN

✔ PH18D031 ABHIJITHA V G

✔ PH18D035 JATIN KUMAR BIDIKA

✔ PH20D056 SRESTHA BANIK

✔ PH21D007 SASHIKANTA MOHAPATRA

✔ PH21D300 DANDIGUNTA BABUJI

✔ PH19D002 BUBUNU BISWAL (Co-Guidance)

✔ PH14D022 ANJU SAROHA (Co-Guidance)

Recent Publications

  • Defining the topological influencers and predictive principles to engineer the band structure of halide perovskites. R. Kashikar, M. Gupta, and B. R. K. Nanda . Physical Review B . 101 . 155102 . 2020.
  • Fluorine Intercalated Graphene: Formation of a 2D Spin Lattice through Pseudoatomization. S. B. Mishra, S. K. Yadav, D. G. Kanhere, and B. R. K. Nanda . Physical Review Materials . Accepted Page: arXiv:2005.09888. 2020.
  • Mechanistic Understanding of NO2 Dissociation on a Rutile TiO2 (110) Surface: An Electronic Structure Study. S. Marutheeswaran, S. B. Mishra, S. C. Roy, and B. R. K. Nanda . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C . 124 . 8786 . 2020.
  • Maximizing Short Circuit Current Density and Open Circuit Voltage in Oxygen Vacancy-Controlled Bi1–xCaxFe1–yTiyO3−δ Thin-Film Solar Cells. S. Nandy, K. Kaur, S. Gautam, K. H. Chae, B. R. K. Nanda, and C. Sudakar . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces . 12 . 14105 . 2020.
  • Pressure and Inversion Symmetry Breaking Field Driven First Order Phase Transition and Formation of Dirac Circle in Perovskites. A. Kore, R. Kashikar, M. Gupta, P Singh, and B. R. K. Nanda . Physical Review B . Accepted Page: arXiv:2004.06939. 2020.
  • Stretchable and dynamically stable promising two-dimensional thermoelectric materials: ScP and ScAs. K. Kaur, D. Murali, B. R. K. Nanda . Journal of Materials Chemistry A . 7 . 12604 . 2019.
  • Enhanced bulk photovoltaic response in Sn doped BaTiO3 through composition dependent structural transformation. L. Kola, D. Murali, S. Pal, B. R. K. Nanda, P. Murugavel . Appl. Phys. Lett. . 114 . 183901 . 2019.
  • Band engineering via grain boundary defect states for large scale tuning of photoconductivity in Bi1−xCaxFe1−yTiyO3−δ. S Nandy, P. S. V. Mocherla, K. Kaur, S. Gautam, B..R..K. Nanda, C. Sudakar . J. Appl.Phys. . 126 . 235101. 2019.
  • Large Bulk Photovoltaic Response by Symmetry-Breaking Structural Transformation in Ferroelectric [ Ba ( Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8 ) O 3 ]0.5[( Ba 0.7 Ca 0.3 ) Ti O 3 ]0.5 . A. B. Swain, D. Murali, B.R.K. Nanda, P. Murugavel . Phys. Rev. Applied . 11 . 044007 . 2019.
  • Shifting of Fermi level and realization of topological insulating phase in the oxyfluoride BaBiO2F. B. Khamari, B.R. K. Nanda . Materials Research Express . 6 . 066309 . 2019.

Teaching

✔ 2017 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II

✔ 2018 : (Jan - May) - PH5160 Condensed Matter Physics I; (Jul - Nov) - PH5210 Condensed Matter Physics II

✔ 2019 : (Jan - May) - PH5160 Condensed Matter Physics I; (Jul - Nov) - PH2140 Mathematics on the computer/ PH4500 Industrial Training./ PH5210 Condensed Matter Physics II

✔ 2020 : (Jan - May) - PH4500 Industrial Training/ PH5160 Condensed Matter Physics I; (Jul - Nov) - PH2140 Mathematics on the computer/ PH4500 Industrial Training/ PH5730 Methods of Comput

✔ 2021 : (Jan - May) - PH3520 Quantum Physics/ PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG); (Jul - Nov) - PH5221 Summer Project PH5222 Project/ PH7080 Foundations in Theoretical Physics

✔ 2022 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II / PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG) / PH5223 Project / PH5400 Viva Voce / PH5400+ Comprehensive Viva Voce ; (Jul - Nov) - PH5100 Quantum Mechanics- I

✔ 2023 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II