Research Interest

Study of crystal and electronic structure, and magnetic properties of functional materials.

Heusler Alloys: Half-metalicity, Anti-site disorders, Cluster-glass magnetism, Exotic ground states. Chalcogenides: Thermoelectrics, Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors. Oxides: Thermoelectrics, frustrated magnetism.

Advanced Probes: X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS), Photoemission Spectroscopy (PES), X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD), Neutron Diffraction (ND).

Funded Projects

Crystal Structure and Magnetic properties correlation in Multiferroic Spinel Chalcogenides (CSIR-funded, completed in Dec. 2016)

New thermoelectric materials design based on early transition metal compounds (DST-funded, completed in Nov. 2016)

Electronic structure investigations of Half-Metallic Heusler Alloys, June 2017 (ongoing)

Others

DAAD- funded "Leibniz University Hannover- IIT Indore" joint project.