smanni | IIT Palakkad

Biosketch

Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad, Kerala, India (August, 2018 - Present)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at TIFR, Mumbai, India (August, 2017 - August, 2018 ).

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA. (January, 2015 - July, 2017).

Scientific Researcher at University of Augsburg, Germany (June, 2014 - August, 2014).

Education

Ph.D. in Physics from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany on 2014.

M.Sc. in Physics from IIT Roorkee, India on 2010.

B.Sc. with Physics Honours from University of Calcutta, India on 2008.

Research

Research Interests

Discovery, design and single crystal growth of correlated electron materials having novel electronic and magnetic ground states.
Structural, magnetic, transport and thermodynamic measurements in extreme condition, down to mK temperature.

Current topics of interest

Spin-orbit materials e.g. Ruthenate and Iridate.
Magnetic Topological materials for Magnonics
Spintronics Materials and possible device application.
Charge Density Wave Materials.

Research Grant

INSPIRE Faculty Award : Oct'18 - Oct'23

Research Facilities

Crystal Growth Facilities:
- 1300^oC Chamber furnace with programmable PID temperature Controller [Nabertherm]
- 1200^oC Two-zone Gradient Tube furnace with with programmable PID temperature Controller (possibility of controlled atmosphere) [Carbolite Gero]
- Mono Arc melting Furnace.
- Quartz Tube Sealing station.
- Weighing balance, Centrifuge etc.
Measurement Facilities
- Central Instrumentation Facility : https://cif.iitpkd.ac.in/node/12

Teaching

PH4601 - Magnetic Materials and its Applications (B.Tech GCE)

PH1130 - B.Tech Physics lab

PH1020 - Physics II (B.Tech)

PH5003- Electromagnetic Theory (M.Sc.)

PH5101, PH 5102- M.Sc. Physics Lab

PH6001- Experimental Techniques in Physics (PG Elective)

PH6003-Magnetism in Materials (PG Elective)

Research Group

Current Members:

PhD. Students:

Ms. Asha Ann Abraham : Spin Orbit Mott Insulator

Ms. Reshna Elsaphilip : Heusler and Inverse Heusler Spintronics

M.Sc. Students:

Mr. Sathishkumar and Mr. Som Subhra Guria

Alumni:

M.Sc. Students
- Mr. Abinash Das and Mr. Ved Krishna [2021]
- Mr. Ashutosh Kumar and Mr. Rahul Kumar [2022]

Additional Information

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Office

Description

Nila Campus, Hill Top, Lab 5

Phone No. : +91 4923226 325

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Workshop/Conference/Seminar participation :

Description

Invited Lecture (Single Crystal Synthesis Techniques): Faculty Development Program, Mechanical Engineering Department, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala on January, 2020.
Invited Lecture National Conference -AMTEA-2019; at Ansar Women's College, Thrissur, Kerala February, 2019; Title: Frustrated Magnetism.

Publications

Effects of magnetic and non-magnetic doping on the vortex lattice in MgB2

Elizabeth R. Louden, Soham Manni, Judah E. Van Zandt, Allan W. D. Leishman, Valentin Taufour, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Dirk Honecker, Charles D. Dewhurst, Paul C. Canfield and Morten R. Eskildsen

J. Appl. Cryst. 55 693-701 (2022)

MgB2-SANS.pdf (1.02 MB)

Coplanar cavity for strong coupling between photons and magnons in van der Waals antiferromagnet

Supriya Mandal, Lucky N. Kapoor, Sanat Ghosh, John Jesudasan, Soham Manni, A. Thamizhavel, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Vibhor Singh, and Mandar M. Deshmukh

Applied Physics Letters 117 263101 (2020)

Observation of Standing Spin Waves in a van der Waals Magnetic Material

Lucky N. Kapoor, Supriya Mandal, Pratap Chandra Adak, Meghan Patankar, Soham Manni, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Mandar M. Deshmukh

Advanced Materials (2020)

Spin dynamics and field-induced magnetic phase transition in the honeycomb Kitaev magnet α-Li2IrO3

S Choi, S Manni, J Singleton, CV Topping, T Lancaster, SJ Blundell, DT Adroja, V Zapf, P Gegenwart, R Coldea

Physical Review B 99 054426 (2019)

Investigation of structural and magnetic properties of PrIr3B2 single crystal

S. Manni, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar

AIP Advances 9, (2019). 9 035021 (2019)

An inverse Ruddlesden-Popper nitride Ca7(Li1−xFex)Te2N2 grown from Ca ﬂux

G Wang, S Manni, Q Lin, P McVey, RS Houk, L Wu, SL Bud’ko, Paul C. Canfield

Philosophical Magazine Letters 98 (3) 118-125 (2018)

Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron

Dahlia R. Klein, David MacNeill, Jose L. Lado, David Soriano, Efrén Navarro-Moratalla, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Soham Manni, Paul Canfield, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.

Science 360 (6394) 1218-1222 (2018)

Effect of pressure on the physical properties of the superconductor NiBi3

E Gati, L Xiang, LL Wang, S Manni, PC Canfield, SL Bud’ko

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 31 (3) 035701 (2018)

BaSn2: A new, wide-gap, strong topological insulator

Steve M Young, S. Manni, Junping Shao, Paul C. Canfield, Aleksey N. Kolmogorov

Physical Review B 95 085116 (2017)

GdPtPb: A non collinear antiferromagnet with distorted Kagome lattice

S. Manni, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Paul C. Canfield. "GdPtPb

Physical Review B 96 054435 (2017)

Local Magnetism and Spin Dynamics of the Frustrated Honeycomb Rhodate Li2RhO3

P. Khuntia, S. Manni, F. R. Foronda, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, P. Gegenwart, M. Baenitz

Physical Review B 93 195158 (2017)

Growth and characterization of BaZnGa

Na Hyun Jo, Qisheng Lin, Manh Cuong Nguyen, Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, William R. Meier, Soham Manni, Savannah S. Downing, Anna E. Böhmer, Tai Kong, Yang Sun, Valentin aufour, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Kai-Ming Ho, Sergey L. Bud’ko & Paul C. Canfield

Philosophical Magazine 97 3317-3324 (2017)

Extremely large magnetoresistance and Kohler's rule in PdSn4: A complete study of thermodynamic, transport, and band-structure properties

Na Hyun Jo, Yun Wu, Lin-Lin Wang, Peter P. Orth, Savannah S. Downing, Soham Manni, Dixiang Mou, Duane D. Johnson, Adam Kaminski, Sergey L. Bud’ko, and Paul C. Canfield

Physical Review B 96 165145 (2017)

Isotope effect on electron-phonon interaction in the multiband superconductor MgB2

Daixiang Mou, Soham Manni, Valentin Taufour, Yun Wu, Lunan Huang, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and Adam Kaminski.

Physical Review B 93 144504 (2016)

Incommensurate counterrotating magnetic order stabilized by Kitaev interactions in the layered honeycomb alpha-Li2IrO3

S. C. Williams, R. D. Johnson, F. Freund, Sungkyun Choi, A. Jesche, I. Kimchi, S. Manni, A. Bombardi, P. Manuel, P. Gegenwart, and R. Coldea

Physical Review B 93 195158 (2016)

Highly unconventional surface reconstruction of Na2IrO3 with persistent energy gap

F. Luepke, S. Manni, S. C. Erwin, I. I. Mazin, P. Gegenwart, and M. Wenderoth

Physical Review B (Rapid) 91 041405(R) (2015)

Effect of isoelectronic doping on honeycomb lattice iridate A2IrO3

S. Manni, S. K. Choi, I. I. Mazin, R. Coldea, Michaela Altmeyer, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valenti, P. Gegenwart

Physical Review B 89 245113 (2014)

Effect of nonmagnetic dilution in honeycomb lattice iridates Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3

S. Manni, Y. Tokiwa, P.Gegenwart

Physical Review B (Rapid) 89 241102(R) (2014)

Unconventional magnetic order on the hyperhoneycomb Kitaev lattice in Beta-Li2IrO3: Full solution via magnetic resonant x-ray diffraction

A. Buffin, R. D. Johnson, Sungkyun Choi, F. Freund, S. Manni, A. Bombardi, P. Manuel, P. Gegenwart, and R. Coldea

Physical Review B 90 205116 (2014)

Crystal-Field Splitting and Correlation Effect on the Electronic Structure of A2IrO3

H. Gretarsson, J. P. Clancy, X. Liu, J. P. Hill, Emil Bozin, Yogesh Singh, S. Manni, P. Gegenwart, Jungho Kim, A. H. Said, D. Casa, T. Gog, M. H. Upton, Heung-Sik Kim, J. Yu, Vamshi M. Katukuri, L. Hozoi, Jeroen van den Brink, and Young-June Kim

Physical Review Letter 110 076402 (2013)

Origin of the insulating state in honeycomb lattice iridates and rhodates

I. I. Marzin, S.Manni, K. Foyevtsova, Harald O. Jeschke, P. Gegenwart, and Roser Valenti

Physical Review B 88 035115 (2013)

Relevance of the Heisenberg-Kitaev Model for the honeycomb lattice iridates

Y. Singh, S. Manni, J. Reuther, T. Berlijn, R. Thomale, W. Ku, S. Trebst, and P. Gegenwart

Physical Review Letter 108 127203 (2012)