Madeswaran S

Dr. S. Madeswaran is an Assistant Professor (Sr.) of physics at Centre for Functional Materials (CFM) Vellore Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Anna University. His Ph.D. research work is on the “Growth and characterization of ferroelectric single crystals and thin films”. He did his part of work at Leibnitz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany under DAAD fellowship. He had been awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.

After his Ph.D., he joined in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan as Postdoc researcher. He worked (2 years) there on the fabrication of Al2O3 single crystalline nano-film (~10 nm) for the application of MIM emitter. He then moved to Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan and investigated (4 years) hard magnetic (NdFeB) thin films, which are widely used in MEMS applications. He then joined VIT in 2011 and has been involving in teaching and research. His major research areas are ferroelectric/magnetic, energy and NLO materials.

He has wide experience in various characterization techniques (XRD, SEM, AFM, LEED, AES, dielectric, electric & magnetic hysteresis, I-V and microhardness studies). He has to his credit several research papers published in internationally reputed journals. He has also participated and presented his research findings in several national/ international conferences. He has supervised on Ph.D. student and is currently guiding five research students. He is a life member of Magnetic Society of India and Indian Association for crystal growth.