smanni | IIT Palakkad

Biosketch

Post-PhD Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad, Kerala, India (Current Position)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at TIFR, Mumbai, India

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA.

Scientific Researcher at University of Augsburg, Germany

Education

Ph.D. in Physics from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (2014) [Thesis: Heisneberg-Kitaev Materials]

M.Sc. in Physics from IIT Roorkee, India.
Research
Research Interests
- Discovery, design and single crystal growth of correlated electron materials having novel electronic and magnetic ground states.
- Structural, magnetic, transport and thermodynamic measurements in extreme condition, down to mK temperature.
Current topics of interest
- Spin-orbit materials e.g. Ruthenate and Iridate.
- Magnetic Topological materials for Magnonics
- Spintronics Materials and possible device application.
- Charge Density Wave Materials.
- Van der Waals materials
Research Grant

INSPIRE Faculty Award (INR 35 Lakhs) : Oct'18 - Sep'24. Topic: "Spin-orbit materials"

SERB- Core Research Grant (INR 40.3 Lakhs) : June'24 - May'27. Topic: " Spin-orbit torque-based magnetization switching in vdW ferromagnets"

Research Facilities
- Crystal Growth Facilities:
  - Correlated Electron Materials Lab
- Measurement Facilities
  - Central Instrumentation Facility : https://cif.iitpkd.ac.in/node/12
Teaching

PH5003- Electromagnetic Theory (M.Sc.)

PH5101, PH 5102- M.Sc. Physics Lab

PH6001- Experimental Techniques in Physics (PG Elective)

PH6003-Magnetism in Materials (PG Elective)

PH4601 - Magnetic Materials and its Applications (B.Tech GCE)

PH1130 - B.Tech Physics lab

PH1020 - Physics II (B.Tech)

PH1030 - Physics (B.Tech.)
Research Group
Current Members:
- Postdoctoral Fellow :
  - Dr. Gayathri V (PhD from IGCAR Kalapakkam)
- PhD. Students:
  - Ms. Asha Ann Abraham : Spin Orbit Mott Insulator
  - Ms. Reshna Elsaphilip : Heusler and Inverse Heusler Spintronics
  - Mr. Sathishkumar M (Int. PhD) : Magnetic Topological Materials
  - Mr. Souvik Kumar Rana : Charge Density Wave Materials
- M.Sc. Project Students:
  - Ms. Akhila Jose [vdw Ferromagnet]; Aug'2024 -Present
  - Mr. Palseng [Development of damped harmonic oscillator (Eddy current pendukum)]; Aug'2024 - Present
- Project JRF
  - Ms. Hanna Shirin [CRG]; Sep'2024 - Present
Alumni:
- M.Sc. Project Students
  - 2020-21: Mr. Abinash Das (Currently PhD student at IIT Guwahati) and Mr. Ved Krishna [Best M.Sc. Physics Project Award] (Currently PhD student at IGCAR Kalapakkam)
  - 2021-22: Mr. Ashutosh Kumar (Currently PhD Student at IIT-ISM Dhanbad) and Mr. Rahul Kumar
  - 2022-23: Mr. Sathishkumar M (Int PhD student at IIT Palakkad), Mr. Som Subhra Guria (Currently PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, USA) and Mr. Paul Kunju
  - 2023-24: Ms. Anusree V [Best M.Sc. Physics Project Award] and Mr. Vikash Kumar
- Internship Students
  - Ms. Juby Biju J [May-July 2023] (Pursuing M.Sc. Physics from CUSAT)
  - Mr. Abhinav [May-July 2024] (Pursuing BS-MS from IISER Trrivandraum)
- OELP
  - Aditya Prakash and Yash Bardhan Rajput (Development of Slot booking portal for CIF, IIT Palakkad) [Aug-Dec 2023]
Additional Information
Title

Office

Description

Nila Campus, Hill Top, Lab 5

Phone No. : +91 4923226 325
Title

Workshop/Conference/Seminar participation :
Description
Popular Science Lecture on "Science and Technology with MAGNETISM " in Science Quest 2024 at IIT Palakkad on May, 2024.

Expert Talk on Single Crystal Growth of Quantum Materials in the S&T Capacity Building Series organized by ISTEM on July, 2023.

Invited Lecture in Physics of Strongly Correlated Electron System (PSCES 2023) organized by IISER Pune on March, 2023.

Invited Lecture (Single Crystal Synthesis Techniques): Faculty Development Program, Mechanical Engineering Department, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala on January, 2020.

Invited Lecture National Conference -AMTEA-2019; at Ansar Women's College, Thrissur, Kerala February, 2019; Title: Frustrated Magnetism.
Publications

Structural, magnetic and electrical properties of Heusler alloy Cr3Al
Reshna Elsa Philip; Rahul Kumar; S. Manni
AIP Conf. Proc. 2995 020151 (2024)

Optimizing the synthesis route of trilayer nickelate: La4Ni3O10 in polycrystalline form
Asha Ann Abraham; Ved Krishna; Ashutosh Kumar; S. Manni
AIP Conf. Proc. 2995 020203 (2024)

Effects of magnetic and non-magnetic doping on the vortex lattice in MgB2
Elizabeth R. Louden, Soham Manni, Judah E. Van Zandt, Allan W. D. Leishman, Valentin Taufour, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Dirk Honecker, Charles D. Dewhurst, Paul C. Canfield and Morten R. Eskildsen
J. Appl. Cryst. 55 693-701 (2022)
MgB2-SANS.pdf (1.02 MB)

Coplanar cavity for strong coupling between photons and magnons in van der Waals antiferromagnet
Supriya Mandal, Lucky N. Kapoor, Sanat Ghosh, John Jesudasan, Soham Manni, A. Thamizhavel, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Vibhor Singh, and Mandar M. Deshmukh
Applied Physics Letters 117 263101 (2020)

Observation of Standing Spin Waves in a van der Waals Magnetic Material
Lucky N. Kapoor, Supriya Mandal, Pratap Chandra Adak, Meghan Patankar, Soham Manni, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Mandar M. Deshmukh
Advanced Materials (2020)

Spin dynamics and field-induced magnetic phase transition in the honeycomb Kitaev magnet α-Li2IrO3
S Choi, S Manni, J Singleton, CV Topping, T Lancaster, SJ Blundell, DT Adroja, V Zapf, P Gegenwart, R Coldea
Physical Review B 99 054426 (2019)

Investigation of structural and magnetic properties of PrIr3B2 single crystal
S. Manni, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar
AIP Advances 9, (2019). 9 035021 (2019)

An inverse Ruddlesden-Popper nitride Ca7(Li1−xFex)Te2N2 grown from Ca ﬂux
G Wang, S Manni, Q Lin, P McVey, RS Houk, L Wu, SL Bud’ko, Paul C. Canfield
Philosophical Magazine Letters 98 (3) 118-125 (2018)

Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron
Dahlia R. Klein, David MacNeill, Jose L. Lado, David Soriano, Efrén Navarro-Moratalla, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Soham Manni, Paul Canfield, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
Science 360 (6394) 1218-1222 (2018)

Effect of pressure on the physical properties of the superconductor NiBi3
E Gati, L Xiang, LL Wang, S Manni, PC Canfield, SL Bud’ko
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 31 (3) 035701 (2018)

BaSn2: A new, wide-gap, strong topological insulator
Steve M Young, S. Manni, Junping Shao, Paul C. Canfield, Aleksey N. Kolmogorov
Physical Review B 95 085116 (2017)

GdPtPb: A non collinear antiferromagnet with distorted Kagome lattice
S. Manni, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Paul C. Canfield. "GdPtPb
Physical Review B 96 054435 (2017)

Local Magnetism and Spin Dynamics of the Frustrated Honeycomb Rhodate Li2RhO3
P. Khuntia, S. Manni, F. R. Foronda, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, P. Gegenwart, M. Baenitz
Physical Review B 93 195158 (2017)

Growth and characterization of BaZnGa
Na Hyun Jo, Qisheng Lin, Manh Cuong Nguyen, Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, William R. Meier, Soham Manni, Savannah S. Downing, Anna E. Böhmer, Tai Kong, Yang Sun, Valentin aufour, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Kai-Ming Ho, Sergey L. Bud’ko & Paul C. Canfield
Philosophical Magazine 97 3317-3324 (2017)

Extremely large magnetoresistance and Kohler's rule in PdSn4: A complete study of thermodynamic, transport, and band-structure properties
Na Hyun Jo, Yun Wu, Lin-Lin Wang, Peter P. Orth, Savannah S. Downing, Soham Manni, Dixiang Mou, Duane D. Johnson, Adam Kaminski, Sergey L. Bud’ko, and Paul C. Canfield
Physical Review B 96 165145 (2017)

Isotope effect on electron-phonon interaction in the multiband superconductor MgB2
Daixiang Mou, Soham Manni, Valentin Taufour, Yun Wu, Lunan Huang, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and Adam Kaminski.
Physical Review B 93 144504 (2016)

Incommensurate counterrotating magnetic order stabilized by Kitaev interactions in the layered honeycomb alpha-Li2IrO3
S. C. Williams, R. D. Johnson, F. Freund, Sungkyun Choi, A. Jesche, I. Kimchi, S. Manni, A. Bombardi, P. Manuel, P. Gegenwart, and R. Coldea
Physical Review B 93 195158 (2016)

Highly unconventional surface reconstruction of Na2IrO3 with persistent energy gap
F. Luepke, S. Manni, S. C. Erwin, I. I. Mazin, P. Gegenwart, and M. Wenderoth
Physical Review B (Rapid) 91 041405(R) (2015)

Effect of isoelectronic doping on honeycomb lattice iridate A2IrO3
S. Manni, S. K. Choi, I. I. Mazin, R. Coldea, Michaela Altmeyer, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valenti, P. Gegenwart
Physical Review B 89 245113 (2014)

Effect of nonmagnetic dilution in honeycomb lattice iridates Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3
S. Manni, Y. Tokiwa, P.Gegenwart
Physical Review B (Rapid) 89 241102(R) (2014)

Unconventional magnetic order on the hyperhoneycomb Kitaev lattice in Beta-Li2IrO3: Full solution via magnetic resonant x-ray diffraction
A. Buffin, R. D. Johnson, Sungkyun Choi, F. Freund, S. Manni, A. Bombardi, P. Manuel, P. Gegenwart, and R. Coldea
Physical Review B 90 205116 (2014)

Crystal-Field Splitting and Correlation Effect on the Electronic Structure of A2IrO3
H. Gretarsson, J. P. Clancy, X. Liu, J. P. Hill, Emil Bozin, Yogesh Singh, S. Manni, P. Gegenwart, Jungho Kim, A. H. Said, D. Casa, T. Gog, M. H. Upton, Heung-Sik Kim, J. Yu, Vamshi M. Katukuri, L. Hozoi, Jeroen van den Brink, and Young-June Kim
Physical Review Letter 110 076402 (2013)

Origin of the insulating state in honeycomb lattice iridates and rhodates
I. I. Marzin, S.Manni, K. Foyevtsova, Harald O. Jeschke, P. Gegenwart, and Roser Valenti
Physical Review B 88 035115 (2013)

Relevance of the Heisenberg-Kitaev Model for the honeycomb lattice iridates
Y. Singh, S. Manni, J. Reuther, T. Berlijn, R. Thomale, W. Ku, S. Trebst, and P. Gegenwart
Physical Review Letter 108 127203 (2012)

Research Facilities