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Dr. P Murugavel
Professor
Department of Physics, IIT-Madras
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - 600036
Academic Qualification
Title of the thesis, “Thin Films and Sub-micron Powders of Complex Metal Oxides Prepared by Nebulized Spray Pyrolysis and Brillouin Scattering Investigations of Phase Transitions in Solids” Supervisor: Prof. C.N.R.Rao, IISc., Bangalore
Past Research Experiences
- Professor - 2019 to present
Department of Physics, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India. - Associate Professor - 2014 to 2019
Department of Physics, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India. - Visiting faculty-sabbatical - 2014 to 2015
Atomic Scale Epitaxy Group, Center for Correlated Electron System, IBS, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. - Assistant Professor - 2006 to 2014
Department of Physics, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India. - Visiting Faculty - 2004 to 2006
Research Center for Oxide Electronics, Seoul National University, South Korea. - Post-Doctoral Fellow - 2003 - 2004
Laboratory CRISMAT, CNRS UMR, Caen Cedex, France. - Post-Doctoral Fellow - 2001 – 2003
Research Centre for Oxide Electronics, School of Physics, Seoul National University, South Korea. - Research Associate - 2000 – 2001
Chemisty and Physics of Materials Unit, JNCASR, Jakkur, Bangalore, India. - Research Scholar - 1995 to 2000
Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. - Materials Engineer - 1994 – 1995
Vintek RF Products Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. - Senior Research Fellow - 1993 – 1994
Microwave Laboratory, Department of Physics, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India.
Research Students
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Visible light absorbing ferroelectric materials for photovoltaic applications
Email: sarathnv12@gmail.com
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Spin reorientation and complex magnetic ordering in rare earth orthoferrites
Email: meetmanumohan@gmail.com
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Ferroelectric photovoltaic and pyro-energy harvesting applications
Email: shanmugak03@gmail.com
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials for energy storage applications
Email: roypranab1234@gmail.com
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Role of cationic vacancies on electrocaloric phenomenon in lead free ferroelectric materials
Email: eliya19d202@gmail.com
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Triboelectric nanogenerator, Polymer-based materials for nanogenerators and sensors
Email: ankita.ak04@gmail.com
Ph.D. Scholar
Research interests: Flexo-electrocaloric effect
Email: soumyaranjansahoo4u1999@gmail.com
PhD student [Jointly with Prof. Somnath Chanda Roy, Physics, IIT-Madras]
Research interests: Metal oxide based thin films for Photocatalytic applications
Email: samim8017@gmail.com
PhD student [Jointly with Prof. P. N. Santhosh, Physics, IIT-Madras]
Research interests: Structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of high entropy perovskite oxide
Email: shipradas858@gmail.com
Correlation between structural and magnetic properties of spinel oxide
National Postdoctoral Fellow
“Multifunctional characteristics of BaTiO3-based ferroelectric oxides” (2021).
Institute Research Award – 2021
Best thesis in Ph.D in Energy/Physics-2021
Presently as Post doctoral fellow,
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.
“Investigation of photovoltaic and photodetector characteristics on BiFeO3 based thin film” (2020).
Institute Research Award – 2020
Prof A L Lashkar Prize Award for Best thesis in Physics -2020
Presently as Post doctoral fellow,
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
“Ferroelectric, magnetoelectric and photovoltaic properties of multifunctional [Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3]0.5[(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3]0.5 oxide in bulk and thin films” (2019).
Selected for Marie Curie Fellowship
Institute Research Award - 2019
Presently as Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow,
University of Konstanz, Germany.
“Dielectric, magnetoelectric and photovoltaic on BaTi1-xSnxO3 piezoceramics” (2019).
Presently as Scientific Reviewer,
Cactus Communication.
“Investigations of dielectric, magnetic, magnetodielectric and pyroelectric properties of A- and B-site substituted orthorhombic GdMnO3 system” (2018).
Presently as Post doctoral fellow,
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea.
“Investigations on ferroelectric polyvinylidene fluoride and diisopropylammonium bromide towards multifunctional applications” (2016).
Presently as Assistant professor,
Vignana Jyothi Instititute of Engineering and Technology,
Hyderabad, India.
“Synthesis and characterisations of some perovskite multifunctional oxides” (2015).
Presently as Founding Director,
Chief R&D Officer at AlienSolar,
Kolkata, India.
“Investigation of spin reorientation and
magnetoelectric coupling in rare earth
manganites RMnO3” (2013).
Presently as SERB National postdoctoral
fellow,
Anna University,
Chennai, India.