Abhijit Biswas

Dr. Abhijit Biswas joined Ajayan’s group in January 2021, as a research scientist in the Rice University National Security Research Accelerator (RUNSRA) that is supported by Department of Defense: Army Research Laboratory (Diamond Lab). Before joining, he was a research associate at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, in India. His research goal is to design and synthesize highest quality epitaxial heterostructures and superlattices, to play with their internal degrees of freedom to exploit the structure–property relationships, in order to find the next-generation multi-functional materials in view of technological applications and of fundamental materials science interest. His current research interest ranges from growth of novel oxide to non-oxide two- dimensional epitaxial films, down to its ultra-thin limit, to observe unforeseeable quantum correlated phenomena. His work includes metal-insulator transitions and magneto-transport phenomena in strong spin-orbit coupled epitaxial perovskite oxide thin films by reducing dimensionality, strain engineering and quantum confinement effect. He is also extremely interested in exploring environment friendly energy related applications of engineered two- dimensional thin films. In his early research carrier, he had extensively worked on tailoring the metal oxide surfaces to obtain the atomic flatness with single terminating layer. Dr. Biswas received his B.Sc. in Physics from Kalyani University, followed by his M.Sc (in experimental condensed matter physics) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 2007. His Ph.D., also in experimental condensed matter physics, was awarded by POSTECH, South Korea in 2014, for his work on the transport phenomena in perovskite oxide thin films. Before moving back to India as a national post-doctoral fellow (SERB-N- PDF, IISER Pune), he did a couple of year post-doc at POSTECH, working in the field of growth and characterizations of strong spin-orbit coupled metal oxide thin films. Currently, he is also serving as a reviewer of several reputed peer-review journals.