Rajeev Ranjan

Professor

E-408, Department of Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore-560012, INDIA

Tel: +91-80-2293 2989
email: rajeev_at_iisc.ac.in

Education

Ph.D. (2000), BHU, Varanasi
M.Tech (1994), IIT, Kanpur
M.Sc. (1992), BHU, Varanasi

Award

Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc)
Metallurgist of the Year 2018 (NMD award of the Ministry of Steel)
Distinguished Investigator Award (DIA) of SERB (DST) 2018.
Elected Associate Fellow (Asia Pacific Academy of Materials) APAM 2017
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship April 2006- Sept 2007

Research Interests

Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, Relaxor ferroelectrics, Magnetic materials, Multiferroic materials, Structure-property correlations.

Selected Recent Publications

1. Gobinda Das Adhikary, Bhoopesh Mahale, Badari Narayana Rao, Anatoliy Senyshyn, and Rajeev Ranjan
   Depoling phenomenon in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-BaTiO3: A structural perspective
   Physical Review B 103, 184106 (2021)
   

2. Arnab De and Rajeev Ranjan
   Large temperature tuning of emission color of a phosphor by dual use of Raman and Photoluminescence signals
   Materials Horizons 7, 1101 (2020)
   

3. Bastola Narayan, Jaskaran Singh Malhotra, Rishikesh Pandey, Krishna Yaddanapudi, Pavan Nukala, Brahim Dkhil, Anatoliy Senyshyn and Rajeev Ranjan
   “Electrostrain in excess of 1% in polycrystalline piezoelectrics”
   Nature Materials 17, 427 (2018)
   

Total publications: 156

Teaching

Structure and characterization of materials, Elements of materials physics.