Faculty members at IIT Madras carry out research in their areas of interests, often in collaboration with research scholars, doctoral scholars and other researchers. The Institute has ongoing research collaborations with several universities, governments and industries. The research expertise available at the Institute is organized below by department.
Major Areas of Research
- Gravitation Cosmology
- Theoretical High Energy Physics
- Low Dimensional Materials
- Dielectric Materials & Microwave Physics
- Nano Materials
- Low Temperature Physics
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
- Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
- Soft Condensed Matter & Biological Physics
- Spin Liquids & Topological Insulators
- Theoretical Condensed Matter & Many Body Physics
- Molecular Electronic & Instr.
- Expt. High Energy Pyhsics
- Photovoltaics
- Alternative Energy & Nano-technology
- Multi Functional Materials
- Thin Films
- Nuclear & High Energy Physics
- Measurement Tech.
- Optics & Photonics
- Atomic & Molecular Physics
- Ultra-Fast Dynamics
- N-V Centres in Diamond & Diamond Electronics
- Quantum Information
- Quantum Field Theory
- Device Physics
- Dynamical Systems
- Quantum & Dynamics Statistical Physics
Research Topics by Faculty Member
- Aravind G
- Photoelectron spectroscopy,Photodissociation of biomolecules,Ion-neutral reactions studies with multipole ion-trap
- Arul Lakshminarayan L
- Hamiltonian and Quantum Chaos,Quantum Information, Many-Body physics
- Ashwin Joy
- Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics
- Basudev Roy
- Optical tweezers, High resolution imaging, Soft condensed matter experiments
- Bisht PB
- Excited-state & multiphoton absorption cross sections, White light continuum generation, Whispering Gallery Modes of Microcavities, Third order optical nonlinearity determination, Optical parametric amplifiers, Forster energy transfer, Laser induced transient grating and relaxation processes, ultrafast lasers, optics, spectroscopy and photonics
- Dillip Kumar Satapathy
- Polymers under soft and hard confinement,Directed self assembly of colloids,X-ray and neutron scattering characterization of materials
- Ganesan AR
- Applied Optics, Biomedical Optics,Adaptive Optics and Vision Science
- Harish Kumar N
- Instrumentation and Automation,Superconductivity,Magnetoelectronic Materials
- James Libby
- Experimental High Energy Physics
- Jayeeta Bhattacharya
- Optical spectroscopy, Organic and inorganic semiconductors, Time resolved spectroscopy, THz spectroscopy
- Krishnamurthy CV
- Infrared thermography,Nonlinear Ultrasonics,Acoustic, Elastic and Electromagnetic Wave Propagation,Tomography,Quantitative Imaging, Molecular dynamics of confined fluids
- Manoj Gopalakrishnan
- Statistical Mechanics,Stochastic processes,Biological Physics
- Manu Jaiswal
- GRAPHENE, 2D SYSTEMS, ELASTICITY, CARBON NANOTUBES, MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS, CONDUCTING POLYMERS, CARBON ELECTRONICS,
LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, LITHOGRAPHY, CHARGE TRANSPORT, SPIN TRANSPORT,
- Murugavel P
- Thin films,Ferroelectricity,Magnetoelectric oxides,Multifunctional oxides
- Nirmala R
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Rare earth intermetallics and Alloys, Magnetism and Material properties at low temperatures
- Panchanana Khuntia
- Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, NMR, µSR, Novel States of Matter (Quantum Spin Liquid,Superconductivity, Spin Ice, Topological Insulators), Multiferroics, Quantum Phase Transitions, Chiral Magnets, Nanomaterials
- Pattabiraman M
- Experimental Atomic Physics, Quantum Optics
- Prafulla Kumar Behera
- Experimental High Energy Physics, Data analysis, Particle detector development and Instrumentation
- Prahllad Padhan
- Material physics and device engineering: Growth and study of thin films, nano-crystals and nano-wires of novel materials. Fabrication and characterization of multilayer heterostructures and spintronic devices.
- Prasanta Kumar Tripathy
- Quantym Field Theory,High Energy Physics,String Theory