Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Dr. Asha Bhardwaj
Associate Professor, IAP, IISc Bangalore
Asha Bhardwaj obtained her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi) in 2009 specializing in thin film fabrication and characterization. She was employed as a postdoctoral researcher at RUB, Germany for a year and XLIM-CNRS, France for two years. Prior to joining the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, she was an Assistant Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea for four years. Asha joined the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc in May 2017 as an Assistant Professor.
PhD Scholars
Palash Kusum Das
Field: Carbon dot functionalisation to obtain solid state emission
Barnali Mahato
Field: InP based high Quantum yield Quantum dots
Nithin HM
Field: QD fibers as single photon sources
Master Students
Panchakshari Wadagaon
Field: Localised QD deposition on a substrate
Project Assistants
Tejaswini S B
Since 2025-present
Alumni
Usasi Chawdhury, PhD
QPU Development Engineer@IQM Quantum Computers, Finland
Shikha S. Menon
PhD student, Umea University, Sweden
Arachana Kaushalram, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Simran Lambora, PhD
Applied Materials
Chandrima Goswami, PhD
Manasa Perikala, PhD
Post Doc UCSB, USA
Suchita, PhD
Assistant Professor, Guru Ghasidas University (A Central University)
Sudip Chatterjee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bennet University