Our collaborative paper on type II topological nodal line fermions now published in ACS Nano. Led by Prof. Faxian Xiu with theory inputs from Nesta Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Nayana's preprint on the interplay of altermagnetism and pressure now out on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2407.10584

Nesta's paper on non-linear Hall effect in chiral crystals just published in Chemistry of Materials. She discovered a chirality effect on the Berry curvature dipole Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Afsar has discovered tunable exceptional points in altermagnet junctions. Read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2408.04459 Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Afsar Reja

Joseph et al from IISc show that chiral crystals are promising platforms for non-linear Hall effects using state-of-the-art theoretical methods Awadhesh Narayan Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit IISc Bangalore Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/aLp

Nayana has proposed orthorhombic phase of MnTe as a new candidate altermagnet. Her findings just published in Phys. Rev. Materials Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit .... Physical Review Materials journals.aps.org/prmaterials/ab…

How do the batteries that power electric vehicles work, and how can we improve them? These are the some of the questions that Naga Phani Aetukuri’s lab Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit is trying to answer. kernel.iisc.ac.in/charging-ahead/ #IIScresearch Nagaphani Aetukuri

Researchers CeNSEatIISc Penn Engineering & MIT School of Engineering show how crystal turns to glass in indium selenide at ultra low power, a transformation that lies at the heart of memory storage. The study was published in nature. Read more: iisc.ac.in/events/self-sh… #IIScresearch

Afsar's discovery of tunable exceptional points in altermagnet junctions now published in Physical Review B: link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Ph… Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Afsar Reja Physical Review B

First Day of SSCU Unit day and in-house symposium concluded. We were elated to have the founder of the unit, Bharatratna Prof. C.N.R. Rao with us along with Mrs. Indumati Rao, Prof. G. Rangarajan and Prof. G. Mugesh. (1/n)

Harshvardhan's masters thesis work just published in Physical Review Materials. He discovered how to tune ferroelectricity in perovskite nitrides using suitable dopants. Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Physical Review Materials Harshvardhan Singh Deora journals.aps.org/prmaterials/ab…

Maitri and Aneek's discoveries from last summer are now published. They found a remarkable tunability of topological semimetals using bicircular light. Just out in New Journal of Physics Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit IOP Publishing New Journal of Physics

Ronika and Suraj have discovered unique dynamics arising from interplay of spectral and band topology in open quantum systems. Our preprint is now out on arXiv. Nice collaboration with Suraj Hegde (IISER-TVM) and Tobias Meng (TU Dresden) Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit arxiv.org/abs/2503.07193

Anumita's paper on anomalous & planar Hall effects in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals just published. She discovered Cr3Te4 as a promising material candidate to explore these effects (with experimental inputs from T. Setti's group) Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Physical Review Materials journals.aps.org/prmaterials/ab…

"What’s fascinating about biological problems is that they operate on multiple time scales," says Govardhan Reddy, Associate Professor in SSCU, IISc. His lab studies how riboswitches help bacteria survive. Read more about his work at: kernel.iisc.ac.in/disarming-bact… #IIScresearch

Delighted to return to ETH Zurich for a sabbatical semester. Grateful to Nicola Spaldin and Swiss National Science Foundation for their support. Looking forward to interesting science!

Afsar's discovery of a variety of exceptional contours in p-wave magnet junctions now online in New Journal of Physics: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit Afsar Reja IOP Publishing New Journal of Physics

Maitri and Aneek have discovered tunable topology, Hall response, and spin-textures in altermagnets using bicircular light. Their preprint is now online: Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit arxiv.org/abs/2509.06349

Sayooj's discoveries on tropical geometry from the summer now posted on arXiv. He found that our Newton polygon and tropical approaches can directly characterize exceptional physics in open quantum systems Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit arxiv.org/abs/2510.08156

Nesta's predictions on non-linear Hall effect in oxide superlattices now posted on the arXiv. Nice collaboration with Prof. Ajit Balram Ajit C Balram Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit arxiv.org/abs/2510.20746