Aditya Shende receives his PhD degree on 15 September 2024, on 22nd Convocation of VNIT, Nagpur.
ASPIRE research grant project (CSIR-HRDG) sanctioned on 19th April 2024 on plasma catalysis.
Aditya Shende successfully defends his thesis on 31st January 2024.
Nagarjuna Patra has joined as JRF candidate and as full time Ph.D. student in our group in July 2023.
Ajit Singh Jhala has joined as full time Phd student in our group in July, 2023.
Aditya Shende has submitted his PhD thesis titled “Exploration and prediction of topological insulators and semimetals: First-principles density functional theoretical study” on 28th June 2023.
Two new papers published:
2. Aditya Shende, Shivendra Kumar Gupta, Ashish Kore, and Poorva Singh, Pressure driven Weyl-topological insulator phase transition in Weyl semi metal SrSi2, Condens. Matter Phys., 26, 23707, 2023 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5488/CMP.26.23707)
Core Research Grant project (DST-SERB) sanctioned on 4 January 2023 on Topological quantum materials.
Ph.D student Shivendra has received the Best Poster presentation award in IIITM in Conference “2nd International Conference on Advances in Nanomaterials and Devices for Energy and Environment (CANDEE-2023)” sponsored by ACS (20/12/2023).
Ph.D student Shivendra has received the Best Poster presentation award in IIT Madras in Workshop and Conference “Evolution of Electronic Structure Theory and Experimental Realization (EESTER 2023)” on “Coexistence of giant Rashba splitting, Multiple band inversion, and Multiple Dirac surface states in three-dimensional Topological insulators” (13/01/2023)
Ph.D. student Ashish Kore successfully defended his thesis titled “DFT based first principles study of topological insulating phases” on April 18, 2022. He is currently working as Post Doctoral researcher at National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), Physics Division, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.