IITKGP

Debraj Choudhury

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012

Associate Professor

Physics

+91-3222-282876

debraj@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

We, at "Functional Materials Laboratory", aim at development of new functional materials based on strongly correlated materials. We perform this through synthesis of compounds and investigations of their electronic and physical properties. The activities of our research group are primarily focussed around the following themes -

1. Functional magnetic materials
2. Emergent transport properties using orbital degrees of freedom in strongly correlated systems
3. Multiferroics
4. Thin films using r.f. sputtering
  • Surface-phase superconductivity in a Mg-deficient V-doped MgTi2O4 spinel Rahaman A., Paramanik T. , Pal B. , Pal R. , Maji P. , Bera K. , Mallik S. , Goswami D. K., Pal A. N., Choudhury D. By Physical Review B 107 1-6 (2023)
  • Emergent antiferromagnetism of YTiO3 in YTiO3 -CaTiO3 superlattices Pal P., Liu X. , Kareev M. , Choudhury D. , Chakhalian J. By Physical Review B 98 045420- (2018)
  • Observation of room temperature ferroelectricity in spark-plasma sintered GdCrO3 Mishra S., K. , Rudrapal K. , Rahaman A. , Pal P. , Sagdeo A. , Mishra R. , Topwal D. , Roy Chaudhuri A. , Adyam V. , Choudhury D. By Physical Review B 104 180101- (2021)
  • Origin of the long-range ferrimagnetic ordering in cubic Mn(Co)Cr2O4 spinels Das A., Pal P. , Ranaut D. , Islam K. P., Bhattacharya G. , Mehta S. , Mondal A. , Adyam V. , Mukherjee K. , Das A. , Choudhury D. By Physical Review B Letter 107 1004141-1004146 (2023)
  • Structural origin of room-temperature ferroelectricity in spark-plasma sintered DyCrO3 and LaCrO3 Mishra S., K. , Rudrapal K. , Jana B. , Islam K. P., Sagdeo A. , Chaudhuri A. R., Adyam V. , Choudhury D. By Physical Review B 107 1-8 (2023)
  • Competing magnetic interactions driven tuning of spin-flop field and anomalous thermal expansion in MnTi1 xMnxO3 Pal P., Rahaman A. , Brar J. , Bindu R. , Choudhury D. By Journal of Applied Physics 132 1839051-1839057 (2022)
  • Mott breakdown effect in spinel MgTi1.2V0.8O4 Rahaman A., Paramanik T. , Maurya R. K., Yadav K. , Bindu R. , Mukherjee K. , Choudhury D. By Physical Review B 103 245145- (2021)
  • Towards enhanced room-temperature photovoltaic effect in ferroelectric Bi and Fe codoped BaTiO3 Pal P., Rudrapal K. , Maji P. , Chaudhuri A. R., Choudhury D. By Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 5315-5326 (2021)
  • Origin and tuning of room-temperature multiferroicity in Fe-doped BaTiO3 Pal P., Rudrapal K. , Mahana S. , Yadav S. , Paramanik T. , Mishra S. , Singh K. , Sheet G. , Topwal D. , Roy Chaudhuri A. , Choudhury D. By Physical Review B 101 064409- (2020)
  • Tetramer Orbital-Ordering induced Lattice Chirality in Ferrimagnetic, Polar MnTi2O4 Rahaman A., Chakraborty M. , Paramanik T. , Maurya R. K., Mahana S. , Bindu R. , Topwal D. , Mahadevan P. , Choudhury D. By Physical Review B 100 115162- (2019)

Principal Investigator

  • Ferroelectric and Multifunctional Thin Films Towards Photovoltaic Applications

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Deasign and Fabrication of Piezo-phototronic and Tribotronic Devices using Band-engineered Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Alloys for Self-powered and Mechanical Energy Harvesting Applications Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Ph. D. Students

Abhishek Das

Area of Research: Functional materials

Arghyadeep Das

Area of Research: Strongly correlated electron systems

Kazi Parvez Islam

Area of Research: Strongly correlated electron systems

Priyanka Maji

Area of Research: Functional Strongly Correlated Materials

Samyabrata Paria

Area of Research: Strongly Correlated Functional Materials

Sayantan Ghosh

Area of Research: Strongly Correlated Functional Materials

Suryakanta Mishra

Area of Research: Correlated Magnetic Materials