Our research interests lie in engineering the light-matter interaction at nanoscale of multi-phase thin film nanocomposites. This is achieved by exploring the use of epitaxial strain, compositional strain gradients, interface engineering, generating artificial ordered heterostructures and varying the growth kinetics to produce emergent physical properties.

• Our research focuses in the following directions
  • Understanding the growth mechanisms and achieving enhanced spatial ordering of complex oxide-based nanocomposite systems towards metamaterial application.
  
  
  • Discovering new self-assembled oxide-based vertically aligned nanocomposites (VANs) through strain engineering and achieving tunable physical properties to enable a wide range of coupled functionalities spanning the electrical, magnetic and optical properties including piezoelectric, ferromagnetic, optical permittivity and others.
  
  
  • Integrating different machine learning tools such as Natural Language Processing and Image Processing in the conventional materials tetrahedron to facilitate accelerated materials discovery.