Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; 2D materials and perovskites
Current Group Members
Reshna Elsa PhilipPhD Studentjoined 2019
Greeshma RPhD Studentjoined 2023
Mechelo MeroPhD Studentjoined 2024
Nandana PPhD Studentjoined 2026
Publications (With IIT Palakkad affiliation)
Disorder mediated fully compensated ferrimagnetic spin-gapless semiconducting behavior in Cr3Al Heusler alloy Reshna Elsa Philip, Pooja Vyas, Nikhil Joseph Joy, Sandip Kumar Kuila, Sonia Beniwal, Akshata Magar, Dinesh Kumar Shukla, Partha Pratim Jana, Amit Kumar, Aftab Alam, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, and Soham Manni Advanced Functional Materials (2026) · DOI
Fast direct write laser lithography for large area van der Waals devices Nikhil Joseph Joy and Jayakumar Balakrishnan Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (2026) · DOI
Interface-controlled thermal transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide Aswathi Sampanraj, Lavudya Devendar, Bhagyalaxmi Pothal, Manu Jaiswal, and Jayakumar Balakrishnan Physical Review B (2025) · DOI
Layer number and stacking order dependent thermal transport in molybdenum disulfide with sulfur vacancies Ranjuna M. K. and Jayakumar Balakrishnan Physical Review B (2023) · DOI
High temperature anomalous Raman and photoluminescence response of molybdenum disulfide with sulfur vacancies Ranjuna M. K. and Jayakumar Balakrishnan Scientific Reports (2023) · DOI
A simple and robust machine learning assisted process flow for the layer number identification of TMDs using optical contrast spectroscopy Nikhil Joseph Joy, Ranjuna M. K., and Jayakumar Balakrishnan Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2023) · DOI