Advanced Functional Materials Laboratory

Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Telangana, INDIA

Research Projects


Ongoing Projects

  1. “Control on the relaxor behavior through cation engineering in lead free disordered ferroelectrics to attain the optimum recoverable energy storage density" under DST-SERB research grant [Duration: 2020-2023]

  2. “Find out the maximum attainable energy storage density and efficiency of the cationic-site disordered lead free perovskites and their solid solutions for the green energy harvesting” under CSIR research grant [Duration: 2020-2022]

  3. “Interface-engineered and energy-efficient organic solar cells based on porphyrin small molecules” under BRICS-STI 2017 grant in partnership of China and Brazil [Duration: 2019-2022]


Completed Projects

    1. “Investigations of the electric field driven effects on structural, ferroelectric and photoluminescence properties in Rare earth substituted lead free piezoceramics,” under UGC-DAE CSR grant [Duration: 2017-2020]

    2. “Experimental and theoretical investigation of structural and property relations in Ag(M)Nb(N)O3 ceramic systems (M:Li,Na,K,Rb; N:Ta,V)" under UGC-DAE CSR grant [Duration: 2017-____]

    3. “Electric field driven phase stabilization and structure property correlation in A-site disordered lead-free piezoceramics" under DST-SERB grant [Duration: 2015-_______]

    4. “Photoluminescence studies on rare-earth modified lead-free ferroelectric ceramics” under CSIR extramural research grant [Duration: 2016-2019]

    5. “Designing and Fabrication of aerodynamic lenses” under Imprint [Duration:2017-_______]

    6. “Investigation of magnetoelectric coupling in lead free based magnetoelectric composites for sensor applications under DRDO research grant" [Duration:2012-2016]

    7. “Effect of site specific cation engineering on the physical properties of multiferroic materials” under DST-Fast Track Scheme [Duration:2012-2015]

    8. “To investigate the magnetoelectric coupling in site specific substituted NBT (Na0.5Bi0.5-x RxTi1-yMnyO3) ceramics” under UGC-DAE CSR grant [Duration:2012-2015]

    9. “Construction of Advanced Nano-Spintronics Devices based on Self-Organized Functional Oxide Nano Super-Structures under JSPS-DST (Indo-Japan) scheme [Duration:2012-2014]

    10. “Investigations on Internal Chemical Pressure on Physical Properties of Novel Multifunctional Materials under IIT Hyderabad seed grant [Duration:2010-2013]


    Financial Support