Priya Mahadevan
SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Priya Mahadevan is Professor at the SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata. She completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru in 1998. Her research interests range from understanding and predicting magnetism, complex ordering phenomena of correlated electrons manifesting as charge and orbital ordering, size-dependent elastic properties in semiconductors, structure evolution at the nanoscale, etc. She was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Session 1D - Symposium on “Twistronics”
Manish Jain
When and why do we have unconventional behaviour in van der Waals bilayers?
There has been a lot of recent interest in hetero structures of van der Waals materials, with the easy exfoliation of each layer allowing for novel structures to be constructed. In the hierarchy of interactions, the van der Waals’ interactions are the weakest, so finding unconventional phenomena merely by changing small details of how these materials are stacked seems puzzling. A family of materials will be considered, and how rotating one layer with respect to the other leads to unconventional behaviour will be shown.