Group Leader

Rohit Medwal

Dr. Rohit Medwal,
Assistant professor,
Department of Physics,
IIT Kanpur

Research interest : Nanomagnetism, Spin Pumping, Spintronics, THz spintronics, Operando TEM

Email : rmedwal@iitk.ac.in

Phone (OSL) : 0512-259-7947

Phone (Office) : 0512-259-2309

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Post-Doctoral Fellow

Dr. Md Rejaul Karim

Md. Rejaul Karim is an institute post-doctoral fellow (IPDF). His research interests include the study of spin dynamics in heterostructures and Spin Hall effect in different quantum materials. He completed his Ph.D. from INST-Mohali. His other interests include playing football, watching sci-fi movies and travelling.

Email : rkarim@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


PhD Students

Ayush K Gupta

Ayush is a second year PhD student. He is working on research project which involves computational and experimental investigation of Spin Hall Nano Oscillator as a candidate for fast and low power consuming AI devices. He is also a Prime Minister's Research Fellow. His other interests include playing badminton, reading books and playing guitar.

Email : guptaayush20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947

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Sachin Kumar

Sachin is a second year PhD student. He has currently been working on spin pumping and spin orbit torques. He also works on the theoretical study of Inertial Magnetization Dynamics. He has been awarded the Prime Minister's Reserach Fellowship. His other interests include playing volleyball, cooking and singing.

Email : sachin20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Amrendra Kumar

Amrendra is a PhD student and joined the lab in 2022. He is working towards understanding the ultrafst spin dynamic in magnetic materials and out of equillibrium transport. He is a PMRF. Apart from this he likes taekwondo, watching movies and photography.

Email : amrendra20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Mohit Kumar

Mohit is a 1st year Ph.D. student he joined dept. of Physics IIT Kanpur in January 2022. He is currently working on Device Fabrication, which involves Photolithography Method. His research interest also include the micromagnetic simulation of the synthetic antiferromagnets. His other interests include Sketching, Anime, playing Basketball and Cricket.

Email : mohitk22@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Rishabh Verma

Rishabh was a MSc student in the lab and has decided to continue his doctoral research in lab. Currently he is working on the Superconductive spintronics and Device fabrication. His main focus is on the super current generated at the interfaces of superconductors and ferromagnets. He is also a Chanakya fellow. He loves playing Cricket and Badminton and watching sci-fi movies.

Email : vrishabh21@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Aman Agrahari

Aman is a PhD and joined the lab in July 2023. He is currently working on spintronics device fabrication and characterization which involves Spin hall effect, inverse spin hall effect, transport properties etc. His other interests are watching web series, reading novels and playing chess.

Email : amana23@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Suman Moharana

Suman is a fifth-semester MSc Ph.D. dual degree student. He is studying materials with a high charge-to-spin conversion efficiency. His hobbies are riding bicycle, reading books, and playing games on pc.

Email : sumanm20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Aman Khosla

Aman Khosla is a first year PhD student currently working on MSc project. He is trying to understand the magnetic vortex dynamics with spin current and its application in novel computing techniques. In addition to his academic pursuits, he enjoys playing cricket and badminton, and is a big fan of anime.

Email : amankhosla22@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


PG/UG Students

Mohd. Shaikh Sabir

Sabir is a fourth-year BS student in the Department of Physics working on a UG research project. His research focuses on the computational and experimental investigation of magnons (collective excitation of spins leading to spin waves) in magnetic materials and the application of spin wave interferences for reservoir and neuromorphic computing to enhance computational capabilities. His other interests include playing football, swimming, and watching horror movies.

Email : mssabir20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Devesh Sootail

Devesh is a fourth year BTech student in Department of Aeropace engineering. Currently he is dealing with a project where he is working on low power spintronic devices, Investigation of non-linear magnetization dynamics in FM and P-bits based stochastic computing. He is also dealing with Automation using LabVIEW.

Email : deveshs20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947

Siddharth Gautam

Siddharth is a fourth year B.Tech student in Department of Electrical engineering at IITK. Currently he is working on building experimental devices using Arduino and Raspberry. In Extracurriculars, he loves playing Cricket, Badminton, reading books and listening to music.

Email : sgautam20@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947

PhD

Mohd Tahir

Mohd Tahir is a 5th year Ph.D. student he joined dept. of Physics IIT Kanpur in January 2019. His research interests include Magnetization dynamics ,Interface spin dynamics ,spin pumping and ISHE in FM/NM Heterostructures.

Email : mdtahir@iitk.ac.in

Phone : 0512-259-7947


Collaborators

  • Prof. H. Asada, Yamaguchi University, Japan

  • Prof. Y. Fukuma, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

  • Prof. Ranjan Singh, NTU Singapore

  • Prof. Ram Katiyar, University of Puerto Rico, USA

  • Prof. R. S. Rawat, NTU Singapore

  • Dr. Joseph Vimal Vas, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Germany

  • Dr. Angshuman Deka, Purdue University, USA

Alumni

Anuj Gangwar

Anuj was a second-year MSPD student and worked oh masters his review project. He wass trying to understand the magnetization dynamics in a material called YIG. Currently he is a PhD scholar at IIT Kanpur.

Email : anujg22@iitk.ac.in


Vishal Agrawal

Vishal was a master's student and during his time in the lab he worked on the inertial magnetization dynamics. Currently he is a teacher.