Research Student
Tel: +91 (0)80 2293 2059
Email: phanis@iisc.ac.in
Research Area:
Thermo-electric transport in Van der Waal junctions.
When two planar atomic membranes are placed within the van der Waals distance, the charge and heat transport across the interface are coupled by the rules of momentum conservation and structural commensurability, lead to outstanding thermoelectric properties. My research focuses on exploring the electric and thermoelectric transport across the van der Waals gap formed in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG). The Tunability of cross-plane Seebeck effect in van der Waals junctions may be valuable in creating a new genre of versatile thermoelectric systems with layered solids.
Publications: “Seebeck coefficient of a single van der Waals junction in twisted bilayer graphene”, P. S. Mahapatra, K. Sarkar, H. R. Krishnamurthy, S. Mukerjee and A. Ghosh(accepted Nano Letters DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03097)