CURRENT RESEARCH WORK
MICROFLUIDICS
o Numerical Simulation and Experiments on passive micromixers to understand passive scalar transport.
PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
o Develop pedagogical techniques and strategies that will help students learn physics
more effectively
Nanoscale Patterning
o Patterning at nanoscale using Soft
lithography.
EARLIER RESEARCH WORK
Molecular Nanomagnetism
o Single molecule magnets like Mn12
acetate.
o
Thin film deposition: Strategies
for organizing nanomagnet clusters as thin
films (Pulsedlaser deposition and
its variants, Self assembly), with the goal
of increasing the blockingtemperature. Pattern Mn12 acetate using a
combination of solution
technique andphotolithography.
o Magnetic
and surface characterization techniques for measuring the properties
of molecular magnet films.
o Study of Quantum Tunneling and Magnetization
Reversal and Exchange bias effects.
Metal to Insulator transition in disordered systems
o
Deposition and Characterization of amorphous
carbon films using electrical and
magnetic transport at low temperatures, X-ray, Neutron and Raman scattering.
o Role of quantum interference,
electron-electron interactions and disorder, Scaling
in disordered systems and application of models to interpret themagneto-transport
in materials.