Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NanoPhysics Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2012 - 2015)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Faculty Dean Fellowship), Oren Tals Group, Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2015-2017)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur (Jan, 2017-Dec, 2017)
• Assistant Professor, SNBNCBS (Dec, 2017 - Dec, 2021)
• Associate Professor, SNBNCBS (Jan, 2022 - Present)

• B.Sc. in Physics, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, West Bengal, University of Calcutta (2004)
• M.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur (2006)
• Ph.D in Physics, Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (2012)

• Young Physicist Award-2011, from Indian Physical Society (2011).
• Prof. Anil Kumar medal for best experimental thesis in physics in 2011 from IISc, Bangalore
• Young Applied Physicist Award at the National Physics Conclave, organized by SRM university, Chennai (2024).

Our research mainly focuses on studies of the mechanisms of charge transport, spin transport and heat transport at the nano-scale down to single atom. These understanding may lead to various applications ranging from ultralow noise electronics, sensors to device miniaturization. The specific research directions are given below:

A. Single atomic/molecular transport:

• Understanding metal/molecule contact at the atomic scale
• Highly conducting molecular junction
• Effect of quantum interference
• Mechanical Gating
• Formation and evolution of 1D atomic/molecular chain
• Electric field induced tunability in molecular junction

B. Hybrid Low-dimensional devices:

• Optoelectronics with 2D hybrids
• Contact engineering
• Understanding defect dynamics through electrical noise spectroscopy
• Defect spectroscopy using Deep Level transient spectroscopy.
• 2D/organic hybrid
• 
  

C. Emerging quantum materials and devices:



• Charge Density Waves, magnetism and Superconductivity
• Emergent van der Waal magnet (e.g. FGT)
• Unconventional layered superconductors
• Superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid devices

2025 

​46. Spin Reorientation Driven Renormalization of Spin-Phonon Coupling in Fe4GeTe2, Riju Pal, Md Nur Hasan, Chumki Nayak, Mrinal Deka, Nastaran Salehi, Manuel Pereiro, Suchanda Mondal, Abhishek Misra, Achintya Singha, Prabhat Mandal, Debjani Karmakar, Atindra Nath Pal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.18544 (under review). 

45. Single-Defect Spectroscopy via Random Telegraph Noise in Graphene-Contacted ReS2-hBN Heterostructures, Shubhrasish Mukherjee, Gaurab Samanta, Shubhadip Moulick, Ruta Kulkarni, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Arumugum Thamizhavel, Atindra Nath Pal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17125 (under review). 

44. Skyrmionic Transport and First Order Phase Transitions in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Quantum Hall Ferromagnet, Vineet Pandey, Prasenjit Ghosh, Riju Pal, Sourav Paul, Abhijith M B, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Atindra Nath Pal, Vidya Kochat, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.20392 (under review). 

43. Alloying as a new route to generating interlayer excitons, Suvadip Masanta, Chumki Nayak, Premananda Chatterjee, Atindra Nath Pal, Indrani Bose, Achintya Singha, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.21607 (under review).​

42. Engineering Fe(II) Spin-Crossover/2D Reduced Graphene Oxide Heterostructures for Tunable Cooperativity, Magnetic Coupling, and Conductance Switching Shatabda Bhattacharya*, Shubhadip Moulick#, Chinmoy Das#, Shiladitya Karmakar#, Hirokazu Tada, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Shinji Kitao, Makoto Seto, Pradip Chakraborty*, and Atindra Nath Pal*, Nanotechnology 36, 455702 (2025). 

41. Observation of superconductivity and weak ferromagnetism in the quasi-one-dimensional chain compound (TaSe4)3I at ambient pressure, Arnab Bera, Riju Pal, Buddhadeb Pal, Samir Rom, Suchanda Mondal, Deepti Rana, Aastha Vasdev, Sandeep Howlader, Manish Jana, Tanmay Maiti, Rafikul Ali Saha,1 Biswajit Das, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta*, Prabhat Mandal*, Atindra Nath Pal*, and Mintu Mondal*, Physical Review B 112 (18), L180502 (2025).​

40. Unconventional electro-mechanical response in Ferrocene assisted gold atomic chain, Biswajit Pabia,* Štěpán Marekb, Tal Klein, Arunabha Thakur, Richard Korytár and Atindra Nath Pal*, Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 36, 13511–13518.​

39. Nonlinear and Planar Hall Effects as Probes of Nontrivial Topology in 1T-TaS2 Driven by CDW Transition, Rafiqul Alam,∗ Debasis Dutta, Modhumita Sariket, Nitesh Kumar, Amit Agarwal,∗ and Atindra Nath Pal∗, Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202418643​​

38. Charge Noise in Low Schottky Barrier Multilayer Tellurene Field-Effect Transistors, Shubhadip Moulick*, Dipanjan Maity, Gaurab Samanta, Kalyan Mandal, and Atindra Nath Pal*, Nanoscale, 2025, DOI: 10.1039/D4NR04176C.​

2024 

37. Achieving Nearly Barrier Free Transport in High Mobility ReS2 Phototransistors with van der Waals contacts, Mukherjee, Shubhrasish; Samanta, Gaurab; Hasan, Md. Nur; Moulick, Shubhadip; Kulkarni, Ruta; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Thamizhavel, Arumugam; Karmakar, Debjani; Pal, Atindra Nath; npj 2D Materials and Applications 8 (1), 71 (2024).​​​

36. Disentangling the unusual magnetic anisotropy of the near-room-temperature ferromagnet Fe4GeTe2, Riju Pal, Joyal J. Abraham, Alexander Mistonov, Swarnamayee Mishra, Nina Stilkerich, Suchanda Mondal, Prabhat Mandal, Atindra Nath Pal, Jochen Geck, Bernd B ̈uchner, Vladislav Kataev, Alexey Alfonsov, Advanced Functional Materials, 2402551 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202402551.

35. Spin-reorientation driven emergent phases and unconventional magnetotransport in quasi-2D vdW ferromagnet Fe4GeTe2, Riju Pal*, Buddhadeb Pal, Suchanda Mondal, Rajesh O Sharma, Tanmoy Das, Prabhat Mandal*, Atindra Nath Pal*, arXiv:2303.07440, npj 2D Mater Appl 8, 30 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-024-00463-y​

34. Valley polarization and photocurrent generation in transition metal dichalcogenide alloy MoS2xSe2(1−x), Chumki Nayak, Suvadip Masanta, Sukanya Ghosh, Shubhadip Moulick, Atindra Nath Pal, Indrani Bose, and Achintya Singha, Phys. Rev. B 109, 115304 (2024).

33. Space-charge driven origin of the reversible pyrocurrent peaks in Cu1−xCdxCr2O4, Abhishek Das, Riju Pal, Sakshi Mehta, Kazi Parvez Islam, Abhishake Mondal, Atindra Nath Pal, and Debraj Choudhury, Phys. Rev. B 109, 024104 (2024)​

2023

32. Establishing Magnetic Coupling in Spin-crossover-2D Hybrid Nanostructures via Interfacial Charge-transfer Interaction, Shatabda Bhattacharya, Shubhadip Moulick, Chinmoy Das, Shiladitya Karmakar, Hirokazu Tada, Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Pradip Chakraborty*, Atindra Nath Pal*, arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14135.​

31. Detection of nontrivial topology driven by charge density wave in a semi-Dirac metal, Rafiqul Alam#, Prasun Boyal#, Shubhankar Roy, Ratnadwip Singha, Buddhadeb Pal, Riju Pal, Prabhat Mandal, Priya Mahadevan* and Atindra Nath Pal*, Advanced Functional Materials, 33 (44), 2306751 (2023). (# equal contribution).​

30. Enhanced coercivity and emergence of spin cluster glass state in 2D ferromagnetic material Fe3GeTe2, Satyabrata Bera, Suman Kalyan Pradhan, Riju Pal, Buddhadeb Pal, Arnab Bera, Sk Kalimuddin, Manjil Das, Deep Singha Roy, Hasan Afzal, Atindra Nath Pal, Mintu Mondal, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 583, 171052, (2023).​

29. Surface-phase superconductivity in a Mg-deficient V-doped MgTi2O4 spinel, A. Rahaman, T. Paramanik, B. Pal, R. Pal, P. Maji, K. Bera, S. Mallik, D. K. Goswami, A. N. Pal, and D. Choudhury, Phys. Rev. B 107, 245124 (2023). â€‹

28. Resonant transport in a highly conducting single molecular junction via metal-metal covalent bond, Biswajit Pabi, Štepán Marek, Adwitiya Pal, Puja Kumari, Soumya Jyoti Ray, Arunabha Thakur, Richard Korytár, and Atindra Nath Pal*, Nanoscale 15 (31), 12995-13008, (2023).​

27. Machine-learning prediction on formation of atomic gold wires by mechanically controlled break junction, Aishwaryo Ghosh#, Biswajit Pabi#, Atindra Nath Pal* and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta*, Nanoscale 15 (42), 17045-17054 (2023). (# equal contributions)​

26. Photoresponse mediated by exciton-plasmon coupling in two-dimensional hybrid phototransistors, Shubhrasish Mukherjee, Didhiti Bhattacharya, Samit Kumar Ray and Atindra Nath Pal*, Physical Review Applied 20 (6), 064010 (2023) arXiv:2303.06692.​

25. Structural regulation of mechanical gating in molecular junctions, B. Pabi, J. Sebesta, R. Korytar, O.Tal and A. N. Pal, Nano Letters 23 (9), 3775-3780, (2023), arXiv:2304.03317 .

24. Unravelling the nature of spin reorientation transition in quasi-2D vdW magnetic material, Fe4GeTe2, Satyabrata Bera, Suman Kalyan Pradhan, Md Salman Khan, Riju Pal, Buddhadeb Pal, Sk Kalimuddin, Arnab Bera, Biswajit Das, Atindra Nath Pal, Mintu Mondal, JMMM, 565, 170257 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2022.170257, arXiv:2206.12552.​

2022

23. Sensing Remote Bulk Defects Through Resistance Noise in a Large Area Graphene Field Effect Transistor, Shubhadip Moulick, Rafiqul Alam and Atindra Nath Pal, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 45, 51105–51112 (2022), https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.09851.pdf. 

22. High performance Broadband Photodetection Based on Graphene – MoS2xSe2(1-x) Alloy Engineered Phototransistors, Shubhrasish Mukherjee, Didhiti Bhattacharya, Samit Kumar Ray* and Atindra Nath Pal* , ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c08933, arXiv:2206.15032​

21. An experimental set up to probe the quantum transport through single atomic/molecular junction at room temperature, Biswajit Pabi and Atindra Nath Pal, Pramana, 97, 8 (2022), https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/pram/097/0008. â€‹

20. Two�Dimensional MoxW1−xS2 Alloys for Nanogenerators Producing Record Piezo�Output and Coupled Photodetectors for Self�Powered UV Sensor, Didhiti Bhattacharya, Shubhrasish Mukherjee, Atindra Nath Pal, Rajib Kumar Mitra, Samit Kumar Ray, Advanced Optical Materials, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202200353​

19. High-Responsivity Gate-Tunable Ultraviolet-Visible Broadband Phototransistor Based on Graphene-WS2 Mixed-Dimensional (2D-0D) Heterostructure, Shubhrasish Mukherjee, Didhiti Bhattacharya, Sumanti Patra, Sanjukta Paul, Rajib Kumar Mitra, Priya Mahadevan, Atindra Nath Pal*, Samit Kumar Ray*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 5775-5784 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c18999; arXiv:2111.05159, 2021;​

2021​

18. Superconductivity coexisting with ferromagnetism in a quasi-one dimensional non-centrosymmetric (TaSe4)3I, Arnab Bera, Sirshendu Gayen, Suchanda Mondal, Riju Pal, Buddhadeb Pal, Aastha Vasdev, Sandeep Howlader, Manish Jana, Tanmay Maiti, Rafikul Ali Saha, Biswajit Das, Biswarup Satpati, Atindra Nath Pal*, Prabhat Mandal*, Goutam Sheet*, Mintu Mondal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14525​

17. Probing metal-molecule contact at the atomic scale via conductance jumps, Biswajit Pabi , Debayan Mondal , Priya Mahadevan*, and Atindra Nath Pal*, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 104, L121407 (2021), arXiv:2109.04078. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04078

​

2019​

16. Nonmagnetic single-molecule spin-filter based on quantum interference, Atindra Nath Pal, Dongzhe Li, Soumyajit Sarkar, Sudipto Chakrabarti, Ayelet Vilan, Leeor Kronik, Alexander Smogunov & Oren Tal Nature Communications, 10, 5565 (2019)​

2018​

15. Electronic conduction during the formation stages of a single-molecule junction. Atindra Nath Pal, Tal Klein, Ayelet Vilan and Oren Tal, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1471–1477. doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.138.

​