Academics

Bio

Dev Kumar Thapa currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT-WPU, a position he has held since October 2023. Before joining MIT-WPU, he held the position of assistant professor at SRM University Sikkim. His primary research focus lies in comprehending the physical properties of materials at the nanoscale. He earned his M.Sc. in physical chemistry from the University of North Bengal and completed his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science in 2019.

Research Areas

Nanomaterial Synthesis, Plasmonics and Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, Single particle spectroscopy and microscopy

Publications

1. Coexistence of diamagnetism and vanishingly small electrical resistance at ambient temperature and pressure in nanostructures,arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08572, 2018

2. Cloning nanocrystal morphology with soft templates, Chemical Physics Letters, 658, 315-318, 2016

3. Unconventional optical response in engineered Au-Ag nanostructures, arXiv:1906.05342, 2019

Google Scholar

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