About Us
We are a group of individuals who came together with a common motivation: make work enjoyable, find happiness hidden in science, work on simple yet unusual technical ideas.
We work on a range of materials: solder alloys to ultra high temperature silicides, metalic thin films to bulk ceramic components, mostly on experiments. We aim for moving from science towards technologies with absolutely no compromise on the depth understanding.
Towards impossible!
Short or long project, BTP, MTP, or PhD, all aim for one speicific thing: tiny bit of honest contribution, hopefully significant, decided by destiny!
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There is no distinction or hierarchy within the group. Level of complexity of projects remains the same for all students.
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Student interest is considered in addition to the group perspective. Student contribution is given due credit.
Current Members
Maya K. Kini
Assistant professor
Broad areas of interest: Structural oxides Metallic thin films
Rakesha Kumar Mohanty
Ph.D. student
High entropy fluorite oxides (ongoing)
Sushree Subhasmita Nayak
Ph.D. student
Alloy thin film target preparation through powder metallurgy
Aditya Mishra
MTP student, 2025-26
AgCoNi thin films (ongoing)
Ghanshyam
MTP student, 2025-26
BTP student, 2024-25
1. AgCuNi thin films (ongoing) 2. Grain growth in brass sheets (completed)
Hanzala Ayman
BTP student, 2025-26
HfO2 doped yttria stabilized zirconia (ongoing)
M Ruthvi Kalyan
BTP student, 2025-26
CeO2 doped yttria stabilized zirconia (ongoing)
Pothuganty Deekshitha
BTP student, 2025-26
AgCo alloy and multilayer thin films
Nunavath Ankitha
BTP student, 2025-26
CuNi alloy thin films
Swastik V Hegde
BTP student, 2025-26
CoNi alloy thin films
Past Members
Meet those who got us to where we are today!
Sufyan Khan
Internship 2022
A deep learning approach to model coarsening with Cahn-Hilliard equation
Md. Zulquar Nain
BTP, 2022-23, Internship 2022
Lead free solder alloys through powder route (Co-guide: Dr. N. Srinivasan, IIT Jammu)
Vishal Yadav
BTP 2022-23
Lead free solder alloys through powder route Co-guide (Dr. N. Srinivasan, IIT Jammu)
Harshit Singh
BTP 2022-23, Internship 2022
Processing of Cu-Ni-MWCNT composites Co-guide: Dr. N. Srinivasan, IIT Jammu
Manbir Singh
BTP 2022-23
Processing of Cu-Ni-MWCNT composites Co-guide: Dr. N. Srinivasan, IIT Jammu
Soubhav
BTP 2022-23
Twinning induced orientations in fcc thin films
Prince Parimal
BTP 2023-24
Grain growth behavior of commercially available Cu sheets
Dipankar Patra
MTP 2023-24
Formation of 8 mol% yttria stabilized zirconia (8YCZ) – Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube (MWCNT) composites through powder route.
Suman Mahata
MTP 2024-25
Yttria stabilized cubic zirconia (YCZ)– Multi walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composites with controlled grain sizes
Yash Aryan Singh
Short project 2024-25
Rare earth doped 8YCZ and 3YTZ
Shrey Dhakar
Short project, 2024-25
Rare earth doped YCZ and YTZ
Aditya K. Dalei
BTP 2024-25, MTP 2025-26
1. Design of a mobile stand using recycled Aluminum 2. Formation of CuNi sputtering targets
Akash K. Sahoo
(Co-supervisor: Dr. Kisor K Sahu)
MTP, 2025- 26
Application of VR in crystallography
Devashish Karmkar
(Co-supervisor: Dr. Miral Verma)
BTP student, 2025-26
Coding for automatic grain size analysis
Past interns
Short work but rather significant!
Piyush Silotiya
IIT Jammu, 2022
Aditi T.
NITK, Surathkal, 2023
Manali A. Ingle
NITK, Surathkal, 2023
Subham Kumar
VNIT, Nagpur, 2024
Vishal K. Mandal
IIT Bhubaneswar, 2024
Tejavath Pavani
IIT Bhubaneswar, 2025
B. Esawara Rao
IIT Bhubaneswar, 2025
Ayush Kumar
NITK, Surathkal, 2025
Huzaifa Akram
NITK, Surathkal, 2025
Ritesh Kumar
NITK, Surathkal, 2025
Abhineet Kumar
IIT Jammu, 2026
Anaswara Prakashan
NITK, Surathkal, 2026
Kruthika CS
NITK, Surathkal, 2026
Shruti Gupta
IIT Bhubaneswar, 2026