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Welcome to Prof. Bhaskaran Muralidharan's Computational Nanoelectronics & Quantum Transport Group






Ongoing and Completed Research (Sponsored/Consultancy) Projects (PI/Co-PI/Investigator)

  • Advancing technology CAD simulations on superlattice structures for MWIR and SWIR photodetectors, SAC-ISRO [2023-2025]
  • Topological quantum spintronics, i-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation, Chanakya Fellowship, [2022-2026]
  • Development of a time dependent nanoscale device simulation platform, SERB-India MATRICS Grant [2022-2025]
  • 2D-straintronics for NEMS and energy harvesting applications, SERB-India Core Research Grant [2022-2025]
  • Augmentation modules for the AMMCR, IKST [2021-2022]
  • Computational simulation platform for anti-ferromagnetic spintronics, SERB-India STAR award [2020-2023]
  • Topotronic device design for ultra-low power logic and quantum computing, MHRD STARS scheme [2020-2023]
  • Transport module for CINEMAS software, IKST [2020-2021]
  • Comprehensive simulation engine for type-II superlattice infrared photodetectors, SAC-ISRO [2019-2022]
  • Development of a semi-classical transport module, IKST [2018-2019]
  • Integrated device simulation platform for magnetic random access memories, SERB-India [2018-2021]
  • Quantum transport based modeling of type-II photodetectors, DRDO [2017-2018]
  • Module development for linear response transport in bulk semiconductors, IKST [2017-2018]
  • A self-consistent predictive quantum transport simulation for quantum dot IR photodetectors, SAC-ISRO [2015-2017]
  • Multiphysics based electro-thermal modeling of thermoelectric systems, Center for automotive engineering research, IIT Madras research park [2014-2017]
  • Investigation of spin torque-based strategies for nanomagnetic logic, DST-India [2013-2016]
  • Unified nanoelectronics simulation platform, IIT Bombay SEED Grant [2012-2015]

Professional Activities, Awards and Honours

  • Organizer of Symposium on Magnetism and Spintronics (SMS-2024) conference.
  • Co-chaired an invited Symposium on Spin-valley qubits in 2D material systems-an emerging qubit platform, at the APS March Meeting-2024. 
  • Technical Program Committee, Device Research Conference, 2023-2025.
  • InstituteQ Visiting Professor, School of Physics, Aalto University, Finland, June-2023.
  • Dhananjay Joshi-Endowment Award for Fundamental Research, IIT Bombay, 2023.
  • Keynote lecturer of the INAE-NAEK workshop on Materials for sustainable development, 2022.
  • Session chair at various conferences including MMM-INETRMAG 2019, MMM 2022.
  • Science and Engineering Research Board-Science and Technology Award for Research (STAR) Award, 2020.
  • Shastri Indo-Canada Institute Mobility Program Award, 2019.
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT Bombay, 2019.
  • Gordon Godfrey Visitor, School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Summer-2019.
  • Sir M. Visveswaraya Young Faculty Research Award, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, 2018.
  • Visiting Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany, Summer-2018.
  • Referee for various international grants including Swiss National Science Foundation Grants.
  • Visiting Professor, Institute of Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada, Summer-2016.
  • Organizer-School on Nanoscale Electronic Transport and Magnetism-from fundamentals to applications, HCRI, Allahabad, India, Feb-2016.
  • WPI-AIMR Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Japan, Summer-2015.
  • Indo-US- APS-IUSSTF Professorship award in Physics, 2014.
  • Associate Warden, Hostel-9, IIT Bombay [2013-2019].
  • DST-JSPS (Department of Science and Technology-Japan Society for Promotion of Science) exploratory exchange fellowship, 2013 to facilitate bi-lateral exchange visit.

Academic Positions Held

  • Editorial Board Member, Materials for Quantum Technology, IoP Publishing Group, Jan-2022 onwards
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, July 2021 onwards
  • Editorial Board Member, PLoS, from March-2018
  • Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, July-2016 onwards
  • Member of American Physical Society (APS)
  • Member of IEEE

Referee/Reviewer of the following Journals

  • Physical Review Letter
  • Journal of American Chemical Society
  • Physical Review E
  • Physical Review Applied
  • Physical Review B
  • Pramana
  • Europhysics B
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • AIP Advances
  • Elsevier Journals
  • IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
  • IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices

Courses Offered 

  • EE – 207: Electronic Devices & Circuits
  • EE – 227: Microelectronics
  • EE – 301: Electromagnetic Waves
  • EE – 723: Physics of Nanoscale Devices-I
  • EE – 724: Nanoelectronics
  • EE – 727: Physics of Nanoscale Devices-II
  • EE – 751: Nanomagnetism and Spintronics
  • EE – 755: Quantum Transport in Nanoscale Devices
  • EE – 787: Topological Electronics

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