Condensed Matter Physics (Experiment)
Jayakumar Balakrishnan
Associate Professor
B03-121A · 1507
Joined: 2017
Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; 2D materials and perovskites
Soham Manni
Assistant Professor
B03-122/123 · 1514
Joined: 2018
Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; magnetism and superconductivity; material science - single crystal growth
Ajeesh M. Omanakuttan
Assistant Professor
D03 FF · 1517
Joined: 2024
Research: Experimental condensed matter physics; quantum materials under extreme conditions
Nirmal Roy
Assistant Professor
D03 SF
Joined: 2026
Research: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics; 2D Materials; Slidetronics; Interfacial Ferroelectricity; Correlated Materials; Nanomagnetism
Postdoctoral Researchers
| Name | Host Faculty | Year Joined |
|---|---|---|
| Gayathri V | Soham Manni | 2024 |
Ph.D. Students
| Name | Roll No. | Year Joined | Supervisor | Cosupervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asha Ann Abraham | 222004001 | 2020 | Soham Manni | — |
| Reshna Elsa Philip | 222004005 | 2020 | Jayakumar Balakrishnan | Soham Manni |
| Sathishkumar M. | 222304002 | 2023 | Soham Manni | — |
| Greeshma R | 222314005 | 2023 | Jayakumar Balakrishnan | — |
| Souvik Kumar Rana | 222314007 | 2023 | Soham Manni | — |
| Muhammed Anees K T | 222404006 | 2024 | Soham Manni | — |
| Mechelo Mero | 222504001 | 2025 | Jayakumar Balakrishnan | — |
| Jishnu P | 222514001 | 2025 | Ajeesh M. Omanakuttan | — |
| Nandana P | 222614004 | 2026 | Jayakumar Balakrishnan | — |
Publications
2026
- Probing the magnetic ground state and magnetoelastic coupling in double perovskite ruthenate: Ca2ScRuO6, Asha Ann Abraham, Anjali Kumari, Md Aktar Hossain, Sanjoy Kr Mahatha, Saikat Das, A. K. Bera, and Soham Manni, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2026).
- 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).
- Electron Doping in Single-Crystalline BaBiO3: BaBiO3-xFx, Sathishkumar M, Asha Ann Abraham, Rajesh Kumar Sahu, Manisha Srivastava, Soma Banik, Soham Manni, Physica Status Solidi A (2026).
- Fast direct write laser lithography for large area van der Waals devices, Nikhil Joseph Joy and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (2026).
2025
- Electronic and magnetic ground state of 4d3 double perovskite ruthenates A2LaRuO6 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba), Asha Ann Abraham, Roumita Roy, Ruta Kulkarni, Sudipta Kanungo, and Soham Manni, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (2025).
- Single crystal growth of 1T-VSe2 by molten salt flux method, Muhammed Anees K. T., Souvik Kumar Rana, Abinash Das, and Moumita Nandi, Journal of Crystal Growth (2025).
- Interface-controlled thermal transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide, Aswathi Sampanraj, Lavudya Devendar, Bhagyalaxmi Pothal, Manu Jaiswal, and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Physical Review B (2025).
- Thermal conductivity near armchair and zigzag edges of supported graphene, Nikhil Joseph Joy, Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Physical Review B (2025).
- Cavity based sensing of antiferromagnetic canting and nonzero-momentum spin waves in a van der Waals cavity-magnon-polariton system, Supriya Mandal, Krishnendu Maji, Lucky N. Kapoor, Souvik Sasmal, Soham Manni, John Jesudasan, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Arumugam Thamizhavel, and Mandar M. Deshmukh, Physical Review B (2025).
- Pressure evolution of coplanar antiferromagnetism in heavy-fermion Ce2CoAl7Ge4, M. O. Ajeesh (Ajeesh M. Omanakuttan), A. O. Scheie, Yu Liu, L. Keller, S. M. Thomas, P. F. S. Rosa, and E. D. Bauer, Physical Review B (2025).
2024
- Anomalous resistivity upturn in Co intercalated TaS2, Moumita Nandi, Surajit Dutta, Arumugam Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar, Physical Review B (2024).
2023
- Layer number and stacking order dependent thermal transport in molybdenum disulfide with sulfur vacancies, Ranjuna M. K. and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Physical Review B (2023).
- High temperature anomalous Raman and photoluminescence response of molybdenum disulfide with sulfur vacancies, Ranjuna M. K. and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Scientific Reports (2023).
- 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).
2022
- Investigating the thermal transport in gold decorated graphene by Opto-thermal Raman technique, Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Nanotechnology (2022).
2021
- 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).
2019
- 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).
2018
- 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).