IISER Pune Physics

IISER Pune Physics Tea returns to its home in the Pit after three long years....

We are delighted to have Prof. Seema Sharma be featured!

The physics department welcomes a new faculty member joining the department this week.
Prof. Surabhi Jaiswal is an experimental plasma physicist. She studies plasma physics which has relevance to astrophysical scenarios such as phenomena associated with the interaction of solar wind with Earth's magnetic field. Her interests also include developing sensor technology for mitigating space debris and for noble propulsion systems.

Congratulations Dr. Ashish Arora from IISER Pune and Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bratschitsch from University of Münster and team for an excellent work!

New method to investigate quantum materials It is faster and can reveal properties of miniscule electronic devices

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Delighted that an excellent work from lab has been covered as a research highlight by Nature India! Congratulations to the research team!

How soft is a single protein molecule? A sophisticated microscope reveals the structure of a giant muscle protein

A team of physicists led by Dr. Ashish Arora (Assistant Professor, IISER Pune, India) along with Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bratschitsch and group (University of Muenster, Germany) developed a new technique for investigating quantum materials such as 2D semiconductors and magnets. They measured very small rotations (precision better than 0.001 degree) of the polarization of light when light passed through a material 100,000 times thinner than a human hair, kept under a magnetic field! Published in the journal Small Methods (Wiley), this is first such measurement in the area of research. The new technique reduces the measurement times by a factor up to 1000 compared to the old methods and is expected to open a new era in the field of precision magnetooptics on 2D quantum materials.
Link to the paper for more details: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smtd.202200885

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Arora and collaborators on their remarkable results. The authors acknowledge I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, German Research Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for financial support.