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Prof. Meenakshi Viswanathan  

Associate Professor
Department of Physics

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Research Projects

Current Research Work

  1. MICROFLUIDICS :
    • Numerical Simulation and Experiments on passive micromixers to understand passive scalar transport. 
  2. PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
    • Develop pedagogical techniques and strategies that will help students learn physics more effectively.
  3. NANOSCALE PATTERNING
    • Patterning at nanoscale using Soft lithography.

 

Earlier Research Work

  1. 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.    
  2. 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.