Deposition Techniques – Pulse laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, e-beam evaporation, vapour phase epitaxy

Materials – Doped metal oxides of perovskite, Ruddelson – Popper and pyrochlore family, elemental oxides, transition metal nitrides, full Heusler alloys and ferromagnetic metals and alloys.

Superconductor – ferromagnet junctions – proximity effect, re-entrant behaviour, coexistence and competition.

Superconductor – Insulator (normal metal) quantum phase transition in two –dimensional electron gases, superconductor – insulator transition in proximity coupled systems, vortex state in spin ice structures.

In-plane and out of plane magnetic anisotropy patterned films and multilayers, Chiral magnetic order and non-trivial spin textures.

Spin transport through non-magnetic channels, inverse spin Hall Effect in insulating ferrimagnet – 5d metal junctions.

Rashba spin – orbit interaction driven transport at low temperatures, weak localization and antilocalization in 2D diffusive metals, Kondo problem in 2D, magneto-thermopower in 2D systems.

Photoconductivity and photoluminescence in oxide based two-dimensional electron gas systems