Educational Background:
Master of Science: Dept. of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (1993).
PhD: Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (1998).
Professional Background:
1998-2000: Post-doctoral Researcher at JRCAT, Tsukuba, Japan.
2000-2003: Post-doctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Lab, Denver, CO – USA.
2003-2005: Assistant Professor, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
2005-2009 : Reader, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences
2009-present : Associate Professor , S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences
Main area of work
Electronic, magnetic, optical and mechanical properties of nanomaterials
Photoemission, inverse photoemission, x-ray absorption, auger spectroscopy of strongly correlated systems
Magneto-crystalline anisotropy calculations for thin films, interfaces
Surface electronic structure of transition metal oxides
Models for magnetism in dilute magnetic semiconductors/oxides, bulk oxides
Electronic structure and microscopic modeling of semiconductor heterostructures
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- Microscopic models for ferroelectric materials/ multiferroic materials
- Charge and orbital ordering in strongly correlated systems
- Estimation of electronic and magnetic interaction strengths from ab-initio calculations
Significant recent publications:
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Roby Cherian and Priya Mahadevan, Physical Review B 76, 2731 (2007).
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Roby
Cherian and Priya Mahadevan, Elastic properties of Carbon Nanotubes: An
atomistic approach, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 7, 1779
(2007).
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Priya
Mahadevan and S. Mahalakshmi, Suitability of p-type conditions for
ferromag- netism in GaN:Mn, Phys. Rev. B 73, 153201 (2006).
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Priya
Mahadevan, Alex Zunger and D.D. Sarma, Unusual direction dependence of
ex-change energies in GaAs:Mn - Is the RKKY description relevant, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 93, 177201 (2004). {See Nature News and Views 442, 359
(2006).}
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Priya
Mahadevan and Alex Zunger, Trends in ferromagnetism, hole localization
and acceptor level depth for Mn substitution in GaN, GaP, GaAs and GaSb
Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2860 (2004). {Also featured article on the cover,
Oct 4th 2004 issue.}
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