Numerical Simulation and Experiments on passive micromixers to understand passive scalar transport.
PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
Develop pedagogical techniques and strategies that will help students learn physicsmore effectively.
NANOSCALE PATTERNING
Patterning at nanoscale using Soft lithography.
Earlier Research Work
Molecular Nanomagnetism
Single molecule magnets like Mn12 acetate.
Thin film deposition: Strategies for organizing nanomagnet clusters as thin films (Pulsedlaser deposition and its variants, Self assembly), with the goal of increasing the blocking temperature. Pattern Mn12 acetate using a combination of solution technique and photolithography.
Magnetic and surface characterization techniques for measuring the properties of molecular magnet films.
Study of Quantum Tunneling and Magnetization Reversal and Exchange bias effects.
Metal to Insulator transition in disordered systems
Deposition and Characterization of amorphous carbon films using electrical and magnetic transport at low temperatures, X-ray, Neutron and Raman scattering.
Role of quantum interference, electron-electron interactions and disorder, Scaling in disordered systems and application of models to interpret the magneto-transport in materials.