Areas of Interest
✔ Surface, Interface, and Defects controlled Structure-Property Correlations: Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Magnetic, Optical and Electronic Materials, Materials for Solar cells and batteries
✔ defect-structure property correlations
✔ oxides
✔ thin films
✔ Semiconductors
✔ Magnetic oxides
✔ Multiferroics
✔ Energy storage and conversion materials
✔ Li-ion battery cathodes and anodes
✔ Senistized
✔ Solar Cells
Current Research
Our group’s research is focused on controlling the growth and properties of a wide range of Multifunctional Materials in the form of thin films, nanostructures, complex heterostructures, and characterizing the structural and chemical properties by a wide range of techniques with a special focus on high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and spectroscopic techniques (XPS, Raman, UV-vis, IR) to understand the defect-structure property correlations. Room temperature semiconducting oxides, multiferroics, nanostructured magnetic materials for biomedical applications, and nanostructured oxides for energy conversion, Li-ion battery, and solar cell applications are the areas of focus in our research group.
Students
Current PhD Students
✔ PH15D047 LOKESWARARAO YELAMNCHI
✔ PH17D022 ATHREY C D
✔ PH17D303 BATTULA RAMYA KRISHNA
✔ PH19D019 SOUMYADIP MITRA
✔ PH19D066 SAYAN GHOSH
✔ PH20D028 RAKSHITHA H A
✔ PH20D030 BIDISHA PRIYADARSINI JENA
✔ PH20D031 SUBITAN LASKAR
✔ PH21D006 VIKASMITA SAMANTA
✔ PH21D008 SUSHIL
✔ PH21D302 Tiasha Roy
✔ PH10D030 Dr. Pavana Sri Vamsi Mocherla
✔ PH12D059 Dr. Tapan Kumar Das
✔ PH15D013 Dr. Subhajit Nandy
✔ PH15D401 Dr. Akshay Kumar Budumuru
✔ PH13D056 Dr. Vikas Sharma
✔ PH16D006 Rohini Sanikop
✔ MM14S005 M. Viji (2017) MS (Research)
Recent Publications
- ✔ Sublattice Distortion Enabled Strong Interplay between Phonon Vibrations, Electron–Phonon Coupling, and Self-Trapped Excitonic Emissions in Cs2Ag1–xNaxBiCl6 Double Perovskites. Athrey C. Dakshinamurthy and C. Sudakar. J. Phys. Chem. Lett.. 13, 2. 433–439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03862. 2022.
- ✔ Dual functional inorganic CuSCN for efficient hole extraction and moisture sealing of MAPbI3 perovskite solar cells. Ramya Krishna Battula , Ganapathy Veerappan , P. Bhyrappa , Chandran Sudakar and Easwaramoorthi Ramasamy. Mater. Adv.. Accepted Manuscript. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MA00861G. 2022.
- ✔ Localized thermal spike driven morphology and electronic structure transformation in swift heavy ion irradiated TiO2 nanorods. Sutapa Dey, Anusmita Chakravorty, Shashi Bhusan Mishra, Nasima Khatun, Arnab Hazra, Birabar Kumar Nanda, Chandran Sudakar, D. Kabiraj and Somnath Chanda Roy. Nanoscale Advances. 4. 241-249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NA00666E. 2022.
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Teaching
✔ 2017 : (Jan - May) - ID6102 Principles and techniques of Transmission Electron Microscopy / PH1030 Physics Laboratory I / PH1040 Physics Laboratory II / PH7090 Foundations in Experiemntal Physics; (Jul -Nov) - PH5320 - Techniques of Characterization of Materials and Physical Measurements
✔ 2018 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II
✔ 2019 : (Jan - May) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I / PH1040 Physics Laboratory II; (Jul - Nov) - PH5270 - Physics Lab III / PH5320 - Techniques of Characterization of Materials and Physical Measurements
✔ 2020 : (Jan - May) - ID6020 Introduction of Research (Institute Module) / ID6021 Introduction to Research / PH6021 Introduction to Research
✔ 2021 : (Jan - May) - ID6020 Introduction of Research (Institute Module) / PH1030 Physics Laboratory I / PH5360 Project / PH6021 Introduction to Research ; (Jul -Nov) - PH5270 Physics Lab III / PH5320 Techniques of Characterization of Materials and Physical Measurements / PH5360+ Project / PH5380 Seminar
✔ 2022 : (Jan - May) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I / PH5360 Project / PH5380 Seminar / PH6021 Introduction to Research / PH7090 Foundations in Experiemntal Physics ; (Jul -Nov) - PH5270 Physics Lab III / PH5320 Techniques of Characterization of Materials and Physical Measurements
✔ 2023 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II