Welcome to the Ultrafast Spectroscopy group website.
Our research is aimed at understanding the Physics of Novel Materials and using this knowledge to develop optical and electronic nanostructure devices. Some of the areas that we are currently working on now are:
Light-matter interaction in the quantum regime ( eg. Phonon cavities)
Ultrafast optical studies of emergent material systems (eg. Transition metal dichalcogenides)
Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging (for fundamental studies as well as Industrial applications)
NEWS:
[March 2020] Our work on CDW in the telephone number compound (Sr14Cu24O41), accepted for publication in J. Phys. Cond. Mat. Congrats Soumitra!
[Nov 2019] Riya Mol P joins the group as a Project Fellow and Malathi N joins the group for PhD. Welcome both!
[Oct 2019] Soumitra bagged the best poster prize at the 15th JNC conference on Chemistry of Materials, Congrats Soumitra!
[April 2019] Sandeep sucessfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr Sandeep S!
[March 2019] Vaisakh sucessfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr Vaisakh C P!
[Jan 2019] Our work on WS2 spiral nanostructures, done in collaboration with Dr Shaijumon's group, accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Congrats Prahalad & Prasad!
[Jan 2019] Our collaborative work with Dr Surjeet Singh's group at IISER-Pune, on the telephone number compound (Sr14Cu24O41), accepted for publication in Phys. Rev B. Congrats Soumitra & Rabindra!
[Dec 2018] Our work on THz phonon cavities published in PRB. Congrats Sandeep!
[Nov 2018] Sreerag S J joins the group.
[Sept 2018] Tom Jose joins the group as Project Fellow.
[July 2018] Vaisakh gave a talk at Bismides-2018 held in Kyoto, Japan
[June 2018] KERALA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT has funded our Project "Investigation of the interaction of acoustic phonons with electrons in semiconductor nanostructures"
[May 2108] Dr Kini gave an Invited talk at Phonons-2018 held in Nanjing, China (Video)
[Feb 2018] Soumitra represented UFS group at the GRC on Ultrafast Phenomena held in Texas, USA
[May 2016] Our work on Raman scattering in Dilute Bismides got accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics. Congrats Joshya!
[Dec 2015] Our collaborative work on WS2 along with Dr Shaijumon's group has been accepted for publication in RSC advances. Congrats Prahlad and Prasad!
[Oct 2015] Our work on THz emission from Dilute Bismides got accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics. Congrats Vaisakh!
[May 2015] Aswathy graduates from IISER-TVM with a BS-MS degree in Physics. Congrats Aswathy and all the graduates of Batch 2010.
[Jan 2015] Dr Kini receives the Kerala State Young Scientist Award for the year 2014 from Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment
[Oct 2014] Congrats Joshya for the Best Poster prize at the Tenth JNC Research Conference on the Chemistry of Materials
[Oct 2014] Our work on Resonant state in Dilute Bismides got accepted in Physical Review B. Congrats Joshya!
[July 2014] Dr Kini gives a talk at 5th international Workshop on Bismuth containing semiconductors
[Dec 2013] Dr Kini gives an Invited talk at Indo-German conference on Laser Applications and Nanoscience.
[Oct 2013] Dr Kini gives an Invited talk at DAE-BRNS theme meeting on Ultrafast Science (UFS 2013) at IIT Kharaghpur
[July 2013] Dr Kini gives a talk at ICMAT 2013 in Singapore {Youtube Link}
[Dec 2012] International Collaborative Proposal selected for DST-UKIERI funding