| Faculty | Designation | Research Interest |
| Dr. D. John Thiruvadigal | Professor & Dean (Sciences) |
Nanoelectronics: Electron Transport Analysis of Organic molecular junction: DFT approach Functionalization of carbon nanostructures for targeted drug delivery applications Electrical Rectification effect of Organic molecule: First principle approach, etc. |
| Dr. M. Krishnamohan | Associate Professor & Assistant Director in Admission | Nonlinear Optics,Astrophysics and Photocatalysis |
| Dr. A. Karthigeyan |
Professor & Head Incharge |
Nanosensors,Hydrogen Storage,Solar cells,Photocatalytic Materials etc |
| Dr.C.Preferencial Kala | Associate Professor |
Computational design and Experimental studies in nanomaterials – Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene – Hydrogen Storage, Solar Cell materials, etc |
| Dr.C.Gopalakrishnan | Associate Professor | Nanostructured Materials, Magnetic thin films for Data storage application, Multiferroics, Magneto Caloric materials for Magnetic Refrigeration , Magnetic Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery applications,Sensors,Environmental Nanotechnology |
| Associate Professor | Photocatalysis,Biosensor | |
| Associate Professor | Molecular Spectroscopy,Molecular Simulation,Remote Raman/Raman Lidar etc | |
| Associate Professor | Photonics materials | |
| Dr. P. Malar | Research Professor |
Lithography for micro/nanofabrication Ion beam analysis of inorganic bulk/thin film materials, etc |
| Dr. Arijit Sen | Research Associate Professor |
Spin-polarized Quantum Transport in Nanoelectronic Devices Electronic Correlations in Open Quantum Systems, etc |
| Dr. S. Venkataprasad Bhat | Research Associate Professor |
Optical properties of nanomaterials& Polymer nanocomposites Optoelectronic applications, etc |
| Dr. Sanjay Kumar Mehta | Research Associate Professor | GPS RO technique and its applications to atmospheric sciences |
| Dr.Abhay A Sagade | Research Associate Professor |
Synthesis of 2D materials by CVD; solution based growth of
organic & inorganic nanowires, and metal chalcogenide films, etc
Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) characteristics, etc |
| Dr. T. Kalaivani | Assistant Professor (S.G) |
Molecular interaction in liquid mixtures (FTIR and Dielectric methods),Synthesis & Characterization of Dielectric & Magnetic Nanomaterials etc |
| Dr. A. Geetha | Assistant Professor (S.G) |
Synthesis and characterization of Nanomaterials and Nanocomposite materials,Sensor Applications etc |
| Dr. A.A. Alagiri Swamy | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) | Interfaces Engineering (Fabrication of monolayer/multilayer devices),Organic Nanomagnetism & Spintronics |
| Dr. V. Kathirvel | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) | Electronic Structure Calculations on Carbon-based Nanomaterials under pressure, High-Pressure structural studies on Carbon-based Nanomaterials etc |
| Dr. R. Maheswaran | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) thin films, Nanofibers etc |
| Dr. B.Gunasekaran | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
X-Ray Crystallography |
| Dr.G.Bakiyaraj | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
Synthesis compound semiconductor thin films (ZnO, CuS),Modification of structural, optical and electrical properties of material by ion beam implantation and irradiation |
| Dr.Alok Kumar | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
High Energy Physics & QCD etc |
| Dr. N. Angelin Little Flower | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
Fabrication of polymer-based and nanoparticles immobilized polymer membranes,Membrane filtration techniques to remove bacterial and inorganic contaminants from water etc |
| Dr. K. Mani Rahulan | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
Intense field laser-matter Interaction,Nanophotonics and Nanosystems. etc |
| Dr. Trilochan Sahoo | Assistant Professor (Sr.G) |
Solar cells,Semiconductor Nanostructures,2D Materials |
| Dr. K. JananiSivasankar | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Computational studies on targeted drug delivery systems for cancer therapy. |
| Dr. R.M. Hariharan | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Molecular Electronic Device Modelling and Simulation, Nano Electronic Device Simulation etc |
| Mrs. K. Santhi | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Synthesis of nanomaterials for an Environmental application. |
| Dr.Sandeep Kumar Lakhera | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Carbon-supported metal oxide nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications, Solar Hydrogen Evolution etc |
| Dr. K. D. Nisha | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Nanomaterials for Solar cell applications, Quantum dots for biological applications etc |
| Dr. P. Sivakumar | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Biomolecules (Proteins) |
| Dr. A. Naga Rajesh | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Weather and climate extremes, Regional climate change, Climate model evaluation, Bias correction |
| Dr. C. Siva | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Nanostructured materials (Nanofibers, Core-Shell nanostructures), Wet chemical synthesis of nanostructures, Effective bandgap engineering of semiconducting materials etc |
| Dr.V. Ramesh | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Nonlinear optical materials, Metal oxides Nanomaterial, Magnetic Nanomaterials |
| Dr. P. Suresh | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Magnetic Refrigeration, Gas Sensor etc |
| Dr.M.Renilkumar | Assistant Professor (O.G) | Structured electromagnetic materials, Active metamaterials and functional devices etc |
| Dr.Tusharbhai H Rana | Assistant Professor (O.G) |
First principle electronic structure calculation of low dimensional materials
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| Dr.S.Harish | Assistant Professor (O.G) | Energy devices – Dye-sensitized solar cells, Functional Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Semiconductor photocatalysis for the degradation of organic pollutants. |
| Dr.Ravikirana | Assistant Professor | Microstructural / Phase modification in High Entropy Alloys - Effect of processing routesStudy of microstuctural modifications in Steels / Titanium / Aluminium alloys as a function of processing parameters |
| Dr.G.Devanand Venkatasubbu | Assistant Professor | Nanomedicine Nanobiotechnology Drug Delivery systems Targeted Drug Delivery systemsTissue Engineering Biomaterials Nanotoxicology |
| Dr.Vattikondala Ganesh | Assistant Professor | Chemical synthesis and chemical and physical deposition methods of metaloxyntirides on ITO, FTO substrate, III-V materials: (GaN, InN, InGaN and InAlN), Metal oxide composites for energy and gas sensor applications. |
| Dr. M. Kovendhan | Assistant Professor | 2D Materials, Transparent Conducting Oxide Thin films, Nanocrystalline Oxides and its characterization, Energy & Optical Materials, Surface and Interface Science, Electrochromic & Solar Cell device fabrication, Defect Engineering using Swift Heavy Ion Beam Irradiation / Implantation, etc |
| Dr.Rudra Banerjee | Assistant Professor |
Material Designing, Disordered Systems
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| Assistant Professor | Organic Semiconductors and Devices, Nanomaterials and Perovskites for Optoelectronic & Memory Devices Application | |
| Dr.Bhaskar Chandra Behera M | Assistant Professor |
ovel Quantum Materials, Pulsed Laser Epitaxy
Epitaxial Thin Films, Multilayers, and Superlattices
Magnetism, Exchange Bias, Novel Quantum States and Phases at the Interfaces between Dissimilar Complex Oxides, Core/Shell Nanostructures, X-ray and Raman spectroscopy, Materials are of interested like Perovskite, Brown-millerite, Spinel and Pyrochlore Oxides
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| Assistant Professor |
NMechanical behaviour of materials, Polymer thin films
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| Dr. S. Anbumozhi Angayarkanni | Assistant Professor |
Nanofluids, Polymers, Hydrogels, Drug delivery, Surface interaction
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| Dr.P.Justin Jesuraj | Assistant Professor |
Organic optoelectronic devices, Perovskite electronics,
Water Splitting, Resistive memories.
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| Dr. Meenal S. Deo | Assistant Professor |
Perovskite solar cells, Dye sensitized solar cells
Solar water splitting, Photocatalysis, Photodetectors, Functional nanomaterials synthesis and thin films deposition
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| Dr.VenkataRavindra A | Assistant Professor |
Materials synthesis and characterization
Nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications: nanostructures of magnetic materials, semiconductors, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their composites
Conventional and microwave routes to synthesize nanomaterials and nanocomposites Water treatment: adsorptive removal and photocatalysis
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| Dr. Jitendra Kumar Tripathi | Assistant Professor |
Surface Science, Thin Film and Multilayers,
In-situ UHV Growth and Characterizations,
Heteroepitaxial Growth and Self-assembly,
Nanomagnetism and Spintronics,
Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Tunnel, Magnetoresistance (TMR),
2D Materials,
Ion Beam Induced Synthesis, Modification and Analysis of Materials, Plasma Facing Materials (PFMs)
Nuclear Fusion,
Laser - Materials Interaction.
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| Dr.K.Shadak Alee | Assistant Professor |
Parity-time (PT)-symmetric structures,
Photonic crystals,
Random lasers,
Waveguides,
Metal-dielectric structures,
Nonlinear Optics,
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
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| Dr.R.Ajay Rakkesh | Assistant Professor |
Electron Microscopy,
Nanoscale Interface Materials;
Metal-ion Battery,
Interfacial charge transfer studies,
Instrumentation,
Photocatalysis,
Water purification,
Graphene nanotechnology,
Hybrid Nanomaterials for Energy and healthcare applications
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| Assistant Professor |
Materials, Nanomaterials, Energy storage materials, Metal nanocomposites, Thin films, Tribology, CO2 capture and utilization.
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| Assistant Professor | Atmospheric Science | |
| Dr.T.V.Lakshmi Kumar | Research Associate Professor |
Physical Characterization of aerosols, Size and number distribution of aerosols, Radiative forcing of aerosols
Impact of synoptic meteorology on aerosols.
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| Dr.J.Archana | Research Associate Professor |
Semiconductor nanostructures – Preparation, properties, and applications. Dye-sensitized solar cells and Perovskite solar cellsWet chemical and hydrothermal synthesis of metal oxides, metal chalcogenides nanostructures, and their applications. Surface passivation of Semiconductor nanostructures using organic ligands.Thin film preparation by spray deposition, drop-casting and Doctor blade techniques. Synthesis of nanostructured thermoelectric materials.
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| Dr.E.Senthil Kumar | Research Associate Professor | Graphene-like 2D crystals: (Mos2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2) Van der Waals epitaxial heterostructuresTransport properties |
| Dr. Mangalampalli Kiran Kumar | Research Associate Professor |
Pressure-induced phase transformations in electronic materials and exploring properties of novel phases Mechanical characterization of surfaces, interfaces, and thin filmsDevelopment of novel polymer nanocomposites and
their characterizationNano and biomechanics of various soft, organic, MOFs, and natural materials.
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| Dr.Chandramohan | Research Associate Professor |
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene and fabrication of
graphene/semiconductor opto-electronic devicesGrowth and engineering of transition metal oxides and layered transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2)GaN-based light-emitting diodes
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| Dr.Debabrata Sarkar | Research Assistant Professor |
Electrospinning: Nanofiber formation, Nanofiber Air Filter,
PM2.5 capture, LSPR in Metal Oxide, Discover semiconductors that can convert the energy in sunlight into the potential energy of separated charge carriers, Tuning band position and design defect state, Build an integrated device that makes fuels, chemicals, or electricity from sunlight, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), MLD.
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| Dr.S.Junaid Masud Laskar | Research Assistant Professor |
Stimuli responsive tunable soft matter photonics for the development of wavelength tunable random laser.
Active dynamics of colloidal particles under the combined influence of magnetic field and space-time varying random potential- for application of optical manipulation, e.g. sorting.
Effect of acoustic waves on the 3D contact force distributions in granular media as a model system to understand the effect of seismic waves in seismogenic granular fault of earth crust.
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| Dr.Rohit Dhir | Research Associate Professor |
Heavy Flavor Physics and New Physics, b-physics within and beyond the Standard Model, p-wave (Scalar, Axial, Tensor mesons) emitting decays of heavy hadrons, Properties (wave-functions, masses, magnetic moments, etc.) of heavy hadrons, Neutrino physics related underground neutrino nuclear experiments.
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| Dr. K.Kamala Bharathi | Research Assistant Professor | Li thin film battery materials, Na and Li ion battery nanomaterials, Magnetoelectric materials, Multiferroic thin films, Rare earth doped Ni ferrite materials, Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline perovskite oxides, Semiconducting thin films, Magnetostrictive materials, Magnetic anisotropy in rare earth transition metal based thin films, Anomalous Hall effect, Magnetoreactance and Magnetoresistance materials |
| Dr.V.J.Surya | Research Assistant Professor | Carbon Nanomaterials and its applications,2D materials and functionalization and their applications,Hydrogen/Gas storage,Gas sensors,Chemical sensors,Biosensors,Ionic liquids and applicationsDrug deliver |
| Dr.S.Yuvaraj | Research Assistant Professor |
Organic/inorganic hybrid nanomaterials synthesis, Photo-enhanced chemical sensors (Chem-resistors, Kelvin Probe, Chem-FET, etc), Self-powered and flexible chemical sensors.
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| Dr.Saurabh Ghosh | Research Assistant Professor | |
| Dr. Varrla Eswaraiah | Research Assistant Professor | Graphene2D Materials Sustanable manufacturing Polymer nanocompositesProcessing methods Sensors and flexible electronics Energy geneartion and Conversion |
| Dr.M.Navaneethan | Research Assistant Professor |
Multi-Functional Nanostructured Materials and Applications,
Dye-sensitized solar cells and Perovskite solar cells,
Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.
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| Dr.Jaivardhan Sinha | Research Assistant Professor | Spintronics and NanomagnetismOptical and Electrical Investigation of Magnetization DynamicsDevelopment of Ultrathin films and Multilayers for Application in Magnetic Recording Industry, Micro-nano-fabricationMagneto-optical MicroscopySuperconductivity |
| Research Assistant Professor | Device Fabrication using Cleanroom Setup, Micro/Nano Fabrication using Focused Ion Beam-SEM | |
| Mr. H. Bijo Joseph | Scientific Officer | Nanoelectronics, Physical Electronics |
| Mr. P. Gokula Deepan | Scientific Officer |
Electrocatalyst for ORR, Supercapacitor, Hydrogen storage |
| Mr. P. Saravanan | Scientific Officer |
Photocatalytic activities, Photoluminescence etc |
| Scientific Officer | Physics | |
| Scientific Officer | Physics | |
| Mr.Sengottaiyan S | Scientific Officer | Physics |
S.G - Selection Grade
Sr.G - Senior Grade
O.G - Ordinary Grade