Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; 2D materials and perovskites
Current Group Members (From the Department of Physics)
Reshna Elsa PhilipPhD Studentjoined 2020
Greeshma RPhD Studentjoined 2023
Mechelo MeroPhD Studentjoined 2025
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
Thermal conductivity near armchair and zigzag edges of supported graphene Nikhil Joseph Joy, Ranjuna M K 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
Investigating the thermal transport in gold decorated graphene by Opto-thermal Raman technique Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar Balakrishnan Nanotechnology (2022) · DOI
Graphene Oxide and its derivatives as potential Ovchinnikov ferromagnets Apurva Sinha, Pranay Ranjan, Anzar Ali, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D Thakur Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2021) · DOI
Structural and resistive switching behaviour in Lanthanum strontium manganite - Reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite system Karuna Kumari, Ashutosh Kumar, Dinesh K Kotnees, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D Thakur, S J Ray Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2019) · DOI
A Low-Cost Non-explosive Synthesis of Graphene Oxide for Scalable Applications Pranay Ranjan, Shweta Agarwal, Apurva Sinha, T Rajagopala Rao, Jayakumar Balakrishnan and Ajay D Thakur Scientific Reports (2018) · DOI
