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
- Praveen Vidya Bhallamudi
- Condensed Matter Experimental, Quantum sensing and computation, Magnetism and Magnetic Resonance, Scanned Probe Microscopy
- Ramaprabhu S
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Fuel Cell Technology, Hydrogen Energy Technology, Synthesis of CNT, Graphene, Graphane, PEMFC, Li-S battery, SC, PV (DSSC, perovskite solar cells), gas sensors, hydrogen storage, CO2 capture and conversion, Purification of water, Synthesis of nanofluids with DI water, EG, coolant, transformer oil as base fluids, nano-lubricants, conductivity and heat transfer of nanofluids, biosensors
- Sankaranarayanan V
- Low Temperature Condensed Matter Physics,Cryogenics,Superconductivity,Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Santhosh PN
- Electroceramics,Low temperature characterization of Advanced materials,Condensed Matter Physics,Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,Powder X-ray and Neutron diffraction and Rietveld analysis
- Sethupathi K
- Superconductivity,Low Temperature Physics,Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
- Shantanu Mukherjee
- Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
- Somnath Chanda Roy
- Nano-Materials for applications in Energy and Environment, Photocatalytic reduction of Carbon dioxide using metal-oxide nanotubes, Nanotube based sensors for Green-house gases, Electrical conduction in nanomaterials
- Subramanian V
- Microwave Techniques, Microwave Non-destructive Evaluation, Microwave far and near field imaging Ferroelectrics, Microwave Band gap Structures, Metamaterials,Microwave Devices
- Sudhakar Chandran
- Materials for memory and energy applications,Oxides and Nitrides,Magnetic materials,Spectroscopic techniques (such as Raman, XPS, UV-Vis, IR),Defect-structure property correlations,Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
- Sunil kumar PB
- Biological Physics,Soft Matter,Statistical Physics
- Suresh Govindarajan
- Quantum Field Theory,Black Holes,Mathematical Physics,String Theory
- Vijayan C
- Light-Matter Interaction, Novel Optical Materials, Photonics, Physics Teaching