Light matter interactions in atomically thin van der Waals materials have attracted significant attention in recent day [1–6]. Although the thickness does not exceed few nano-meters, such an atomically thin materials alone ...

The discovery of graphene and analogous van der Waals materials offers a platform for the discovery and exploration of various novel physical phenomena. Here we study the effects of local interaction and strong localisation ...

Hybrid structures involving atomic/molecular membranes from two or more layered materials are emerging as a platform for novel class of field effect transistors (FETs), p - n junctions, photo-detectors, photo-voltaic ...

Spintronics has emerged as a novel platform to build information storage and logic devices in the last few decades. Graphene promises a long spin propagation length even at room temperature due to its low spin-orbit ...

In the past decade, a major fraction of the research carried out in condensed matter physics has been dedicated to address the unique physical properties of single layer graphene (SLG). Different properties of Dirac ...

The thesis presents experimental studies of device characteristics and vibrational properties of atomic layer thin graphene and molybdenum disulphide (MoS2). We carried out Raman spectroscopic studies on field effect ...

Light-matter interaction of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals hybrids have gained significant interest in the past few years as they offer an intriguing platform for studying fundamental physical ...

Study of 2D materials is interesting due to the various phase transitions observed in these materials. I shall present the results obtained in the study of phase transi tions in three different 2D material systems – ...

Using a recently proposed Ginzburg-Landau-like free energy functional due to Banerjee et al. Phys. Rev. B 83, 024510 (2011) we calculate the fluctuation diamagnetism of high-T c superconductors as a function of doping, ...

Nano-photonics deals with different ways to control light-matter interactions beyond the diffraction limit. In contrast to optics, which is the concept of light rays, including absorption, transmission, and reflection, ...