Professor, Department of Physics
Electronic structure of materials, Topological Insulators, Multiferroic systems, Disordered systems, Ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations
Office
FB-373,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Condensed Matter Physics
PhD, (Physics) 1976 University of Roorkee
Thesis Title:Electronic properties of copper and nickel
Thesis Supervisor:Prof. S. K. Joshi
M.Sc., (Physics) 1971 University of Roorkee
Condensed matter physics
Electronic structure of solids
Computer simulation methods
Classical mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
Mean-field theories of disorder
Electronic Structure of Materials , Text book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group (2013)
Room Temperature Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Magnetoelectric GaFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Films, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS,111, 087601 (2013).
Non-linear composition dependence of the Fermi surface dimensions in alpha-phase copper-germanium alloys, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 113(1982)
Observation of Tamm-type state on Cu90Al10(100) surface: Disorder effects and bulk electronic structure of alloy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1223 (1981).
Fermi Surface, Ground State Electronic Structure and Positron Experiments in YBa2Cu3O7, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2480 (1988).
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2006
Associate Member, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1992-98)
Director's Commendation for Best Instructor for 'General Physics I' in 1994
Director's Commendation for Best Instructor for 'Electronic Structure of Materials' in 2010
Director's Commendation for Best Instructor for 'Survey of Classical Physics I' in 2012
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India