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Rohit Medwal
PhD, University of Delhi
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest
Nanomagnetism, Spin transport and high frequency spin dynamics in spin devices, Terahertz spintronics
Education
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (2014)
Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (2007)
Hindu College, University of Delhi (2005)
Previous Work Experience
(Nov 2016 – April 2022) Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
(Oct 2015 – Oct 2016) Researcher, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
(Jan 2015 – Jun 2015) Research Associate, University of Puerto Rico, USA
(July 2013 – Jan 2015) Assistant Professor, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India
Selected Publications
Journal Articles Piyush Agarwal#, Rohit Medwal#, Abhishek Kumar, Hironori Asada, Yasuhiro Fukuma, Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Marco Battiato, and Ranjan Singh, Photothermal switching of terahertz spin current, Advanced Functional Materials (2021). (Accepted as a VIP paper)“#Co-First Author”
Rohit Medwal, Angshuman Deka, Surbhi Gupta, Hironori Asada, Yasuhiro Fukuma, and Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Facet controlled anisotropic magnons in Y3Fe5O12 thin films, Applied Physics Letters, 119, 162403 (2021).
Utkarsh Shashank#, Rohit Medwal#, Taiga Shibata, Razia Nongjai, Joseph Vimal Vas, Martial Duchamp, Kandasami Asokan, Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Hironori Asada, Surbhi Gupta, and Yasuhiro Fukuma, Enhanced spin Hall effect in S-implanted Pt, Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2000112 (2020). (Accepted for Front Cover Page) “# Co-First Author”
Jain Yi Pae#, Rohit Medwal# *, Nair R. V., Chaurasiya A., Rawat R. S., Murukeshan V. M., Electro-Ionic Control of Surface Plasmons in Graphene-Layered Heterostructures,Nano Letters, 11, 8305-8311, (2020). “#Co-First Author and *Corresponding author”
Rohit Medwal, Ushnish Chaudhuri, Joseph Vimal Vas, Angshuman Deka, Surbhi Gupta, Martial Duchamp, Hironori Asada, Yasuhiro Fukuma, Ramanathan Mahendiran, and Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Magnetoimpedance in Epitaxial Y3Fe5O12 (001) Thin Film in Low-Frequency Regime, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 37, 41802–41809 (2020).
Rohit Medwal*, Surbhi Gupta, Rajdeep S. Rawat, Annapoorni Subramanian, and Yasuhiro Fukuma, Spin Pumping in Asymmetric Fe50Pt50/Cu/Fe20Ni80 Trilayer Structure, Physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters, 13, 1900267 (2019).* Corresponding Author
Rohit Medwal*, Sanjeev Gautam, Surbhi Gupta, Keunhwachae Chae, Asokan Kandasami, Gulam Roshan Deen, Rajdeep Singh Rawat, Ram Katiyar, S. Annapoorni, Self-stabilized carbon-L10 FePt nanoparticles for heated dot recording media, IEEE Magnetics Letters, 9, 5504105 (2018). * Corresponding Author
Surbhi Gupta, Rohit Medwal, D. Kodama, K. Kondou, Y. Otani and Y. Fukuma, Important role of magnetization precession angle measurement in inverse spin Hall Effect induced by spin pumping, Applied Physics Letters 110, 022404 (2017).
Rohit Medwal, Neeru Sehdev, Alok Banerjee and S. Annapoorni, Room temperature coercivity and interaction effects in L10 FePt nanoparticle, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 47, 355002-1-6, (2014).
Rohit Medwal, Neeru Sehdev and S. Annapoorni , Order- Disorder investigation of hard magnetic nanostructured FePt Alloy, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 45 , 055001-1-6, (2012).
Awards & Fellowships
2022, Gold in Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF-2022)
2022, Excellence in research 2022, NIE/NTU, Singapore
2020, One Gold and one Bronze in Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF-2020),
2019, Three gold awards from Nanyang Research Program (NRP), Singapore
2018, Two gold awards from Nanyang Research Program (NRP), Singapore
2016, Awarded PBC fellowship, Israel (did not avail)
2013, Anil K Bharti Bhatnagar Award for best PhD thesis, Indian Physics Associations
2010, CSIR-NET-SRF
2007, CSIR-NET-JRF