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Bheemalingam Chittari

Bheemalingam Chittari

Position
Assistant Professor
Location
Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
Room No: 112G, First Floor, Research Complex
    Email: bheemalingam [at] iiserkol.ac.in
    Tel: 033 - 61360000 (Extension No. 1360)

Research group

Research areas

  • Two-dimensional layers, Graphene Moire Superlattices, Tunable 2D Magnetism, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Computational Nanoscience.

  • PhD (Physics), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 2013
  • MSc (Physics), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 2006
  • BSc (Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science), Sadhana Degree College (Affiliated to Kakatiya University), Yellandu, Telangana, India 2004
  • Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata, Mohanpur, India (2021-current)
  • Research Professor, University of Seoul (서울시립대학교), Seoul, South Korea (2018 - 2021)
  • Visiting Post Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley, USA (April -July 2018)
  • Visiting Post Doctorate, University of Texas, Austin, USA (March 2018)
  • Post Doctorate, University of Seoul (서울시립대학교), Seoul, South Korea (2016 - 2018)
  • Post Doctorate, Sungkyunkwan University (성균관대학교), Suwon, South Korea (2015 - 2016)
  • Post Doctorate, Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, Gurgaon, India (2013 - 2015)
  • Research Associate-I, ACRHEM (Advanced Centre of Research in High Energy Materials), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India (Feb - April 2013)
  • Dr. K. V. Rao Research Award from Dr. K. V. Rao Scientific Society (2011)
  • SERB-DST International Travel Support from SERB-DST (2015)
  • Best Poster Award in 10th International Conference on Computational Physics, Macau (2017)
  • Session Chair in APS March Meeting 2021 (Online)
  • Chairperson of DPS Research Meet-2024 (19-20th Jan 2024)
  1. Engineering the Band Topology in a Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene Moiré Superlattice, Xiangyan Han, Qianling Liu, Yijie Wang, Ruirui Niu, Zhuangzhuang Qu, Zhiyu Wang, Zhuoxian Li, Chunrui Han, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhida Song, Jianpeng Liu, Jinhai Mao, Zheng Han, Bheema Lingam Chittari, Jeil Jung, Zizhao Gan, Jianming Lu Nano Lett, 24, (2024) 6286–6295
  2. Modulating Curie Temperature and Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanoscale-Layered Cr2Te3 Films: Im- plications for Room-Temperature Spintronics In Hak Lee, Byoung Ki Choi, Hyuk Jin Kim, Min Jay Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Jong Hoon Lee, Seung- Young Park, Younghun Jo, Chanki Lee, Jun Woo Choi, Seong Won Cho, Suyoun Lee, Younghak Kim, Beom Hyun Kim, Kyeong Jun Lee, Jin Eun Heo, Seo Hyoung Chang, Fengping Li, Bheemalingam Chittari, Jeil Jung, Young Jun Chang ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 4, (2021) 4810-4819
  3. Magnetoelectric Response of Antiferromagnetic CrI3 Bilayers Chao Lei, Bheemalingam Chittari, Kentaro Nomura, Nepal Banerjee, Jeil Jung, MacDonald Allan H. Nano Lett, 21, (2021) 1948-954
  4. Bulk valley transport and Berry curvature spreading at the edge of flat bands Subhajit Sinha, Pratap Chandra Adak, Surya Kanthi R. S., Bheemalingam Chittari, Varma Sangani L. D., Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jeil Jung, Mandar M. Deshmukh Nat. Commun, 11, (2020) 5548
  5. Flat bands in twisted double bilayer graphene Narasimha Raju Chebrolu, Bheemalingam Chittari, Jeil Jung Phys. Rev. B, 99, (2019) 235417
  6. Evidence of a gate-tunable Mott insulator in a trilayer graphene moiré superlattice Guorui Chen, Lili Jiang, Shuang Wu, Bosai Lyu, Hongyuan Li, Bheemalingam Chittari, Kenji Watan- abe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhiwen Shi, Jeil Jung, Yuanbo Zhang, Feng Wang Nat. Phys., 15, (2019) 237-241
  7. Gate-Tunable Topological Flat Bands in Trilayer Graphene Boron-Nitride Moiré Superlattices Bheemalingam Chittari, Guorui Chen, Yuanbo Zhang, Feng Wang, Jeil Jung, Phys. Rev. Lett, 122, (2019) 016401
  8. Accurate Gap Determination in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene/h-BN Moiré Superlattices Hakseong Kim, Nicolas Leconte, Bheemalingam Chittari, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mac- Donald Allan H., Jeil Jung, Suyong Jung Nano Lett, 18, (2018) 7732-7741
  9. Dynamic band-structure tuning of graphene moiré superlattices with pressure, Matthew Yankowitz, Jeil Jung, Evan Laksono, Nicolas Leconte, Bheemalingam Chittari, Watanabe K, Taniguchi T, Shaffique Adam, David Graf, Cory R. Dean, Nature, 557, (2018) 404-408
  10. Electronic and magnetic properties of single-layer MPX3 metal phosphorous trichalcogenides, Bheemalingam Chittari, Youngju Park, Dongkyu Lee, Moonsup Han, MacDonald Allan H., Euyheon Hwang, Jeil Jung, Phys. Rev. B, 94, (2016) 184428
SL NO Grant Title Sponsoring Agency Project Period
1 Quantum Simulations of Flat band Moire Superlattices Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) October, 2022 - October 2024
2 Ultrafast and polarization-resolved optical study of the carrier, spin, and valley dynamics in two-dimensional layered materials and van der Waals heterostructures Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) January, 2023 - December 2025
  • DPS Committee Meeting Minutes recorder (Dec 2021-July 2023)
  • DPS website committee member (Dec-2021-May 2022)
  • DPS-Colloquium member (May 2022- Sept 2024)
  • DPS-DCC and Cluster committee Convenor (2021- till date)
  • DPS-PGAC member (2021- till date)
  • DPS Finance & Purchase Committee Member (Oct-2024-till date)
  • IISER-K Campus Computer Committee (CCC) member (Sept-2024-till date)
  • Angabastram -IISER-Kolkata-11th Convocation (2024) sub-committee member