TITLE : Research with Indigeneous high end Instruments
ABSTRACT :
I will discuss some interesting results obtained using Chemical Vapor and Atomic Layer Deposition Systems as also Probes of the thermal properties (Seebeck Coefficient and Thermal Conductivity) of materials. Each piece of equipment used was built from the ground up. I will share some insights into the challenge of making some of these instruments internationally competitive. I will then discuss how our novel and innovative approach to teaching and research in the fields of material science, condensed matter physics and nano-technology has created room for a new type of PhD program at the interface of academia and industry. The publications coming out of the first doctoral thesis to be successfully completed under this program will be briefly mentioned.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER :
Dr. Sahdev trained, as a particle theorist, in leading groups at Cornell University, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy) among others. While at these centers, he worked and interacted with several Nobel laureates including Prof Salam, Ken Wilson, Steven Weinberg and Richard Feynman. He then joined IIT Kanpur, where over two decades of innovative teaching, he turned out some of the best physicists of the country.
Prof. Sahdev has contributed to several branches of physics: He was a co-discoverer of radiation zeroes and of their use in determining the anomalous magnetic moment of the W-boson. He is one of the original pioneers of the field of higher-dimensional cosmologies. He has worked on the non-linear dynamics of Josephson-Junction arrays and has developed several algorithms for simulating them.
Furthermore, he has made considerable progress in achieving the integration of theory, computation, experiment and instrumentation at QuazarTech --- a Research Lab, Educational Center and Company, all merged into a single entity --- which he set up. In particular, he and his group have developed several Scanning Probe Microscopes, Physical Properties Measurement, Chemical Vapor Deposition and Data-acquisition Systems, and used them not only for their own research and teaching, but also to facilitate teaching and research across the entire country. Quazartech has also developed entirely in-house a massively parallel package for the integration of the Boltzmann equation.
Prof Sahdev has been part of the Expert Advisory Group of the Instrumentation/Device Development Program of the Department of Science. and a Former Member of the Technology Development Board of the Government of India.
MEETING DETAILS :
Speaker: Dr Deshdeep Sahdev, Professor(VRS) IIT Kanpur, Director (Quazar Technologies, New Delhi)
Venue: A1-NKN, South Campus, IIT Mandi
Date and Time: August 13, 2026, Thursday at 5:00 pm