Transition Metal Oxides at Low Dimension: Augmented Properties and Advanced Applications

The book covers enhanced properties and cutting-edge applications of TMOs at low dimensions (2D, 1D, and 0D). The electronic band-gap modification and emergence of novel and fascinating properties due to reduced dimension is discussed in detail.

Raktima Basu is an experimental condensed matter physicist with a specialization in phase transition in correlated metal oxide nanostructures at extreme conditions (pressure and temperature) and their application. She completed her M.Sc. in Physics in 2014 from the University of Burdwan (ranked 2nd) and achieved her PhD in 2020 at Homi Bhabha National Institute. She was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award (2021) from HBNI, the Foundation Day ’Best Thesis’ award of Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), and the ’Young Scientist Award’ (2018) from the Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society, India. She was also awarded the National Post Doctorate Fellowship and worked at the Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (2021-2023), India. Presently, she is working as a Research Associate II at the Surface Physics and Material Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. She received five best presentation awards at national and international conferences. So far, she has more than twenty-seven publications in very reputed peer reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.

Sandip Dhara completed his PhD for his research on Magneto-optic Recording Materials from the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, in 1994 and joined Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, in 1996. He is the Director of the Materials Science Group, IGCAR and a Senior Professor at Homi Bhabha National Institute. He was an Associate Professor at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2007-2008). He was also a visiting Professor at the University of Valencia, Spain; Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany; and the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Dhara has more than 300 research publications, including several patents, review articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has delivered more than 100 invited and plenary talks and is the recipient of the Homi Bhabha Gold Medal Award 2019 and the Department of Atomic Energy-Scientific Research Council (DAE-SRC) Outstanding Researcher Award for 2012. He is also on the editorial board of many national and international scientific journals. Dr. Dhara is specialized in studies of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale in the sub-diffraction limit. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), UK and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London). He is also a Senior Member of Optica (old Optical Soc. of America).