Group News

05/13/2025: Resham’s paper is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Resham! Link

04/22-25/2025: Mohamed attends 2025 Spring School on Electron Correlations and Topology at Rice University. Congratulations for winning best poster award -2nd position!

04/16/2025: Resham receives departmental distinguished research award for his work on altermagnetism. Congratulations!

04/15/2025: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Rutgers University. Title: Engineering Magnetic and Electronic Topological States in Kagome-Lattice Magnets.

03/18/2025: Hari Bhandari gives an invited talk at the APS March Meeting. Title: Engineering electronic and magnetic properties in the centrosymmetric kagome magnets RMn6Sn6. Congratulations!

03/22/2025: Hari’s paper on HoAgGe is published in Communications Materials. Congratulations to Hari! Link

03/16-21/2025: Hari, Jamal, Mohamed, Abhijeet and Resham give contributed talk at the APS March Meeting. 

03/12/2025: Nirmal gives a talk at the Quantum Materials Initiative Colloquium at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Title: Altermagnets: A New Paradigm in Spintronics Materials, 

01/17/2025: Nirmal gives a talk at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop at University of Maryland. Title: Altermagnets: Anomalous Hall effect and beyond.

01/16/2025: Nirmal gives a lecture on Kagome Magnets at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School at University of Maryland. Title: Spin Crafting in Kagome Magnets.

11/24/2024: Hari Successfully defends his PhD thesis. Title: Study of Kagome Lattice Magnets. Congratulations! Good luck with your postdoc position at Rice. 

11/12/2024: Our collaborative paper on YMn6Sn4Ge2 is published in PRB. Link

10/23/2024: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Indiana University. Title: Altermagnetism in the intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoNb4Se8. 

10/02/2024: Nirmal gives virtual colloquium at the department of physics and astronomy at Missouri State University. Title: Engineering magnetic crystals for quantum phenomena.

09/26/2024: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at University of Chicago at Illinois. Title: Altermagnetism in the intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoNb4Se8. 

09/15/2024: Connor and Hari’s paper on TbMn6Sn6 is published in PRB. Congratulations to Connor and Hari!  Link

07/29-08/02/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at the Telluride workshop on Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Oxides and Related Compounds in Telluride, CO. Title: Magnetic chirality and spin textures in kagome magnets.

06/11/2024: Our collaborative paper on Ba4RuMn2O10 gets published in Chemistry of Materials. Link

05/30/2024: Nirmal gives a seminar at Naval Research Lab. Title: Altermagnets: Anomalous Hall effect and beyond

05/29/2024: Nirmal gives a talk on Altermagnetism at DOD basic needs workshop, at Army Research Lab in Adelphi, MD.

04/14-17/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at the ARO future planning workshop at Arlington VA. 

04/01/2024: Nirmal Gives a seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Title: Synthesis design approach to electronic and magnetic topological materials.

03/08/2024: Nirmal Gives an invited talk at APS March meeting on Altermagnetism. Title: Topological antiferromagnets and altermagnets. 

03/07/2024: Hari  gives a contributed talk at the APS March Meeting. Title: Role of Ga doping in the kagome ferromagnet YMn6Sn6-xGax. 

02/15/2024: Jamal Sekh joins our group as Postdoc. Welcome!

01/23/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at ND Nano Networking meeting . Title: Synthesis-Driven Approach to Quantum Materials. 

01/08/2024: Hari’s paper on YMn6Sn4Ge6 is published in npj Quantum Materials. Congratulations to Hari!. Link

12/11/2023: Nirmal gives a talk at the “Workshop on “Magnetism and topology of RM6X6 kagome metals” at Iowa State University and Ames Lab. Title: Fluctuation-driven phenomena in the kagome-net magnets RMn6Sn6. 

11/20/2023: Our collaborative paper on IrGe4 is published in Inorganic Chemistry.  Link

09/14/2023: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Brown University. Title: Synthetic design approach to Quantum Materials. 

09/01/2023:  Graduate student Abhijeet Nayak joins our group. Welcome!

08/15/2023:  Mohamed El Gazzah joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome!

07/18/2023: Nirmal  gives a talk at Physical Review X seminar (virtual). Title: Synthesis-Driven Approach to Quantum Materials: Opportunities and Challenges. 

07/01/2023: Ghimire Group moves to University of Notre Dame.