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Nirmal Ganguli
Assistant Professor
Academic Details
- Jan 2016 - present : Assistant Professor, Physics, IISER Bhopal, India.
- Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 : Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Nov 2011 - Nov 2014 : Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- 2012 : PhD, IIT Bombay, India (A part of the research work done at IACS, Kolkata, India)
- 2007 : MSc, IIT Bombay, India
Research
- I work on theoretical condensed matter physics with primary focus on computational study of materials properties. Below are some of my research interests:
- Materials:
Nanomaterials
Thin films and heterostructures
2-dimensional materials
Bulk materials - Physical Properties:
Electronic structure
Magnetic properties
Optical properties
Energetics
Mechanical properties - Simulation tools:
Density Functional Theory (DFT) and beyond
Quantum Monte Carlo

Nirmal Ganguli
Assistant Professor
# | Authors | Title | Journals | Year |
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1 | Avishek Singh Jayita Chakraborty Nirmal Ganguli |
Implications of electron and hole doping on the magnetic properties of spin-orbit entangled Ca4IrO6 from DFT calculations | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2022 |
2 | Vivek Kumar Nirmal Ganguli |
Rashba-like spin-orbit interaction and spin texture at the KTaO3(001) surface from DFT calculations | Physical Review B | 2022 |
3 | Jayita Chakraborty Nirmal Ganguli |
Perovskite oxide heterojunction for Rashba-Dresselhaus assisted antiferromagnetic spintronics | Physical Review B | 2020 |
4 | Yuqiang Gao Nirmal Ganguli Paul J Kelly |
Itinerant ferromagnetism in p-doped monolayers of MoS2 | Physical Review B, Rapid Communication | 2019 |
5 | Jayita Chakraborty Indra Dasgupta |
Electronic, magnetic and ferroelectric properties of rhombohedral AgFeO2: An ab initio study | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2019 |
6 | Jayita Chakraborty |
Ab initio calculations on three dimensional antiferromagnet Cu3TeO6 | Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids | 2019 |
7 | A. Wilders Nirmal Ganguli Preeti Khare S. R. Mohapatra A. K. Singh V. Siruguri S. D. Kaushik |
Neutron diffraction and short range ordering study in multiferroic Bi2Fe4O9 | Materials Research Express | 2019 |
8 | Parbati Basu Jayita Chakraborty Nirmal Ganguli Khushi Mukherjee Krishnendu Acharya Biswarup Satpati Sudipta Khamrui Suman Mandal Debmalya Banerjee Dipak Goswami Padinharu Madathil Gopalakrishnan Nambissan Kuntal Chatterjee |
Defect Engineered MoS2 Nanostructures for ROS Generation in Dark: Anti-pollutant and Anti-fungal Performances | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2019 |
9 | Yuqiang Gao Nirmal Ganguli Paul J Kelly |
DFT study of itinerant ferromagnetism in p-doped monolayers of MoS2 | Physical Review B | 2019 |
10 | Jayita Chakraborty |
Electronic and magnetic properties of magnetoelectric compound Ca2CoSi2O7: An ab initio study | Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials | 2018 |
11 | Jayita Chakraborty |
Interplay of covalency, spin-orbit coupling, and geometric frustration in the d3.5 system Ba3LiIr2O9 | Physical Review B | 2018 |
12 | Manashi Mandal Sourav Marik K. P. Sajilesh Arushi Deepak Singh Jayita Chakraborty Nirmal Ganguli R. P. Singh |
Enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature by Re doping in Weyl semimetal MoTe2 | Physical Review Materials | 2018 |
13 | Jayita Chakraborty |
Electronic and magnetic properties of low-dimensional system Co2TeO3Cl2 | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter | 2017 |
14 | Siba Prasad Bera Vijay Singh Parmar Jayita Chakraborty Soumava Biswas Nirmal Ganguli Sanjit Konar |
Channel-Assisted Proton Conduction Behavior in Hydroxyl-Rich Lanthanide-Based Magnetic Metal-Organic Frameworks | Inorganic Chemistry | 2017 |
15 | Nirmal Ganguli Chol-Sam Jong Arup Chakraborty I. Dasgupta |
A comparative study of magnetic and optical properties of Mn-, Gd-, and Nd-doped ZnO nanowires | International Journal of Modern Physics B | 2016 |
16 | Nirmal Ganguli Paul J. Kelly |
Tuning Ferromagnetism at Interfaces Between Insulating Perovskite Oxides | Physical Review Letters | 2014 |
17 | Nirmal Ganguli S. Acharya I. Dasgupta |
First-principles study of the electronic structure of CdS/ZnSe coupled quantum dots | Physical Review B | 2014 |
18 | Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta Nirmal Ganguli Jayita Chakraborty Indra Dasgupta |
Role of Te in the low-dimensional multiferroic material FeTe2O5Br | Physical Review B | 2013 |
19 | N. Arul Murugan Indra Dasgupta Arup Chakraborty Nirmal Ganguli Jacob Kongsted Hans Ã…gren |
How Crucial Are Finite Temperature and Solvent Effects on Structure and Absorption Spectra of Si10 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C | 2012 |
20 | Nirmal Ganguli K. V. Shanavas Indra Dasgupta |
Magnetic properties of Mn-doped Ge46 and Ba8Ge46 clathrates | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter | 2012 |
21 | D. D. Sarma I. Dasgupta Nirmal Ganguli Sucheta Sengupta Somobrata Acharya |
Long-Range Visible Fluorescence Tunability Using Component-Modulated Coupled Quantum Dots | Advanced Materials | 2011 |
22 | Nirmal Ganguli Indra Dasgupta Biplab Sanyal |
Electronic structure and magnetism of transition metal doped Zn12O12 clusters: Role of defects | Journal of Applied Physics | 2010 |
23 | Debjani Karmakar T. V. Chandrasekhar Rao Y. V. Yakhmi A. Yaresko V. N. Antonov R. M. Kadam S. K. Mandal R. Adhikari A. K. Das T. K. Nath Nirmal Ganguli I. Dasgupta G. P. Das |
Electronic structure and magnetic properties of (Fe,Co)-codoped ZnO: Theory and experiment | Physical Review B | 2010 |
24 | Nirmal Ganguli Indra Dasgupta Biplab Sanyal |
The making of ferromagnetic Fe doped ZnO nanoclusters | Applied Physics Letters | 2009 |
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