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Aniket Bajaj

Aniket Bajaj

Research Scholar
Course : Ph.D. (IISER-K)
Research Guide:
Bhavtosh Bansal
    Location: M-152, Pulsed High Magnetic Field lab, DPS, IISER Kolkata
    Email: ab21rs080[ at ]iiserkol.ac.in
    Tel: +91-33-6136-1503

Research areas

  • Transport measurements, Optical imaging and spectroscopy, Phase transition of solid state materials, Device physics, Cryogenic instrumentation.

Probing mainly dynamics of phase transition in transition metal oxides and halide perovskites using transport-optical imaging and spectroscopy techniques with home-built setups.

  • Ph.D. (Condensed Matter Physics), IISER Kolkata, 2022-Present
  • M.Sc.(Physics), IIT Roorkee, 2020
  • B.Sc.(Physics), University of Delhi, 2017
  • Best poster presentation award at the Smart Materials, Methods & Applications 2025 (SMMA-2025) at IISER Kolkata on 13-15 November 2025.
  1. A. Bajaj, S. Kundu, S. Sahu, D. K. Shukla, and B. Bansal, “Relaxation-free athermal states in VO2 for thermal-breach memory,” Applied Physics Letters 127, 021902 (2025).
  2. K. Mukhuti, S. Kundu, D. Pariari, D. Kalauni, A. Mohanty, A. Bajaj, D. D. Sarma, and B. Bansal, “Evidence of athermal metastable phase in a halide perovskite: Optically tracked thermal-breach memory,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 076901 (2025).
  3. Aniket Bajaj and Bhavtosh Bansal, "Integrated cryogenic optical microscopy and transport measurement system for spatiotemporal studies across phase transitions from 100 K to 400 K, " Meas. Sci. Technol. 37 045204 (2026).
  • Gluon Member at DPS (2024 - Present)