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Biosketch
Experience
a) Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad (June 2023 - till date)
b) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad (July 2017 - June 2023)
c) Adjunct Faculty, Department of Physics, IIT Madras (March 2022 - till date)
d) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Patna (Dec 2015 - July 2017)
e) DST INSPIRE Faculty, Department of Physics, IIT Patna ( July 2014 - Dec 2015)
f) Research Associate, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore ( Aug 2013 -July 2014)
g) Assistant System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services (Aug 2006-July 2008)
Educationa) PhD - National University of Singapore (Degree Awarded: Feb 2014)b) M.Sc - Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2006)c) B.Sc - Government College Madappally (2004)d) Plus Two: Government Sanskrit Higher Secondary School, Vadakara (2001) -
Research
Research Interests: Electrical- and Magneto- transport studies in 2D materials
Transport studies in perovskite and hybrid/heterostructures of perovskite - 2D materials
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Teaching
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Research Group
PhD Students:
1) Mr. Nikhil Joseph Joy
2) Ms. Reshna Elsa Philip (Joint Supervision: Dr. Soham Manni, IIT Palakkad )
3) Ms. Greeshma R
4)Mr. Easwaran C E
5) Mr. Mechelo Mero
Former Students (Completed):
PhD:
1) Dr Ranjuna M K (2024); Present position- Post-doc at IISER Pune
JRF
a). Mr. Shwetank (2018): Present Position : Scientist ISRO
b) Ms. Surabhi R S (DST-SERB-CRG grant)
2) Internship Students:
a) Ms. Sravya V (Summer Intern - 2019)
b) Ms. Nusaiba K (MSc Project Intern, Govt. College Madappally - Dec 2019 - Feb 2020): Thesis Title: "Investigating the Effect of Metal Nanoparticles on Graphene by RamanSpectroscopy"
c) Ms Gobika
d) Uthara U (MSc Project Intern, Mercy College Palakkad)
e) Lakshmipriya R (MSc Project Intern, Mercy College Palakkad)
f) Shilpa Raj (MSc Project Intern, Govt. Victoria College Palakkad)
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II). M.Tech FYP
a). Ms. Vaishali Chauhan (2017); Thesis Title: "Thermal Conductivity Measurement in Gold Nanoparticle Decorated H-BN by Raman spectroscopy"
Present Position : PhD Student, IIT Bombay
b) Mr. Anand Kumar Upadhyay (2017); Thesis Tilte: "Design, Simulation and Fabrication of MEMS Based Piezoresistive Accelerometer" (Joint Supevision: Dr. Ajay D Thakur (IIT Patna), and Dr. Ravindra Mukhiya (CSIR-CEERI Pilani))
Present Position: Scientist CSIR-CEERI Pilani
c) Ms. Sonu Bishnoi (2016); Thesis Title: "2D Material/Perovskite hybrid"
Present Position : PhD Student, IIT Patna
d) Ms. Upasana Sahu (2016): Thesis Title: "YBCO-LSMO heterostructure" (Joint Supervision: Dr. Ajay D Thakur (IIT Patna))
Present Position: PhD Student, IIT Delhi
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Additional Information
TitleExternally Funded Project:Description
a) Title: Magneto transport studies in 2D Materials
Funding Agency : DST/SERB CRG
Duration: 3 years
Status: Completed
b) Title: Spin Transport in Graphene/LSMO heterostructures
Funding Agency : DST Nanomission
Duration: 3 years
Status: Completed
c) Title: DST INSPIRE Faculty
Funding Agency: DST
Duration: 5 years
Status: Completed
TitleOther ActivitiesDescriptionAcademic Talks: National Science Day 2020 - Talk on Raman spectroscopy at IIT Palakkad (February 2020)
Invited Talk: International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ICTEP 2020, Farook College (February 2020)
Inaugural Lecture: Sasthrapadham , Social Science Enrichment Residential Camp, Samagra Shiksha, Kerala and Directorate of Collegiate Education and Department of General Education, Kerala - at Victoria College Palakkad (January 2020)
Invited Talk: National Conference on Optoelectronic and Nano Materials for Advanced Technology (nCONMAT -2020) at CUSAT, Kochi (January 2020)
Prabhashanam - Akasavani Thrissur (AIR Thrissur) on Eminent Indian Scientists (October 2019)
Invited Talk: Annual Physics Symposium - Frontiers in Physics - St. Teresa's College Ernakulam (December 2017)
Resource person : Science Promotion Week, Govt. of Kerala in commemoration of the birth anniversaries of Prof. C. V. Raman and Madam Marie Curie organised by KSCSTE and KSSP at Vimala College, Thrissur (November 2017)
Reviewer: Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Applied Physics Letters, Nature CommunicationsConferences/Workshops Organized: Science Quest Workshop for +1 students - Program Coordinator (2019)15th Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics, 2016 @ IIT Patna. (Conference Secretary) -
Publications
Nikhil Joseph Joy, Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar BalakrishnanPhysical Review B (Accepted) (2025)Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar BalakrishnanPhysical Review B 108 245411 (2023)Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar BalakrishnanScientific Reports 13 16418 (2023)Nikhil Joseph Joy, Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar BalakrishnanJournal of Physics:Condensed Matter 51 (2) 025901 (2023)Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar BalakrishnanNanotechnology 33 (13) 135706 (2022)Apurva Sinha*, Pranay Ranjan, Anzar Ali, Jayakumar Balakrishnan*, Ajay D Thakur*Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 33 375801 (2021)Karuna Kumari, Ashutosh Kumar, Dinesh K Kotnees, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D Thakur, S J RayJournal of Alloys and Compounds (2019)Pranay Ranjan, Atul Kumar, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D ThakurMaterials Today: Proceedings 11 830-832 (2019)Pranay Ranjan, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D ThakurMaterials Today: Proceedings 11 833-836 (2019)Pranay Ranjan, Shweta Agarwal, Apurva Sinha, T Rajagopala Rao, Jayakumar Balakrishnan and Ajay D ThakurScientific Reports (2018)Pranay Ranjan, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D ThakurAIP Conference Proceedings 1953 030029 (2018)Pranay Ranjan,Tulika, Ranjit Laha, Jayakumar BalakrishnanJournal of Raman spectroscopy 48 586-591 (2017)C T Cherian, F Giustiniano, I Martin-Fernandez, H Anderson, J Balakrishnan and B OzyimazSmall 11 189-194 (2015)J Y Tan, A Avsar, J Balakrishnan, G K W Koon, T Taychatanapat, E C T O'Farrel, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, G Eda, A H CastroNeto and B OzyilmazApplied Physics Letters 104 183504 (2014)A Avsar, J Y Tan, T Taychatanapat, J Balakrishnan, G KW Koon, Y Yeo, J Lahiri, A Carvalho, A S Rodin, E C T O'Farrel, G Eda, A H CastroNeto and B OzyilmazNature Communications 5 4875 (2014)Jayakumar Balakrishnan, G K W Koon, A Avsar, Y Ho, J H Lee, M Jaiswal,S J Baeck, J H Ahn, A Ferreira, M A Cazalilla, A H Castro Neto and B OzyilmazNature Communications 5 4748 (2014)S Saha, O Kahya, M Jaiswal, A Srivastava, A Annadi, J Balakrishnan, A Pachoud, C-T Toh, B-H Hong, J -H Ahn, T Venkatesan, B OzyilmazScientific Reports 4 6173 (2014)Jayakumar Balakrishnan, G K W Koon, M Jaiswal, A H CastroNeto and B OzyilmazNature Physics 9 284-287 (2013)T Y Yang*, J Balakrishnan*, F Volmer, A Avsar, M Jaiswal, J Samm, S R Ali, A Pachoud, M Zeng, M Popinciuc, G Guntherodt, B Beschoten* and B Ozyilmaz*Physical Review Letters 107 047206 (2011)A Avsar, T Y Yang, S J Baeck, J Balakrishnan, F Volmer, M Jaiswal, Z Yi, S R Ali, G Guntherodt, B H Hong, B Beschoten and B OzyilmazNano Letters 11 2363-2368 (2011)S Bae , H Kim, Y Lee, X Xu, J S Park, Z Yi, J Balakrishnan, T Lei, H R Kim, Y I Song, Y J Kim, K S Kim, B Ozyilmaz, J H Ahn, B H Hong and S IijimaNature Nanotechnology 5 574-578 (2010)
