Dr. V. P. S. Awana

CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India

Email: awana@nplindia.org

Qualifications

1994 Ph.D., National Physical Laboratory, India.

1987 M.Sc., Jamia Millia Islamia, India.

1985 B.Sc., Jamia Millia Islamia, India.

Publications (Selected)

1. Saxena A, Huang S M, Karn N K, et al. Intrinsic coexistence of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases in MnSb2Te4 topological layers[J]. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2025: 173696.
2. Karn N K, Kumar Y, Awana G, et al. Investigation of Angle‐Dependent Shubnikov‐de Haas Oscillations in Topological Insulator Bismuth[J]. physica status solidi (b), 2025, 262(1): 2400077.
3. Yadav M G, Yousuf M, Sharma M M, et al. Evaluation of a-NbGe films as a candidate material for superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) applications[J]. Superconductor Science and Technology, 2024, 37(11): 115025.
4. Gautam S, Maurya V K, Aggarwal V, et al. Competitive nature of weak anti-localization and weak localization effect in Cr-doped sputtered topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin film[J]. Journal of Applied Physics, 2024, 135(19).
5. Kumar K, Kumar Karn N, Kumar Y, et al. Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions[J]. ACS omega, 2023, 8(44): 41737-41743.
6. Kumar K, Karn N K, Awana V P S. Synthesis of possible room temperature superconductor LK-99: Pb9Cu (PO4) 6O[J]. Superconductor Science and Technology, 2023, 36(10): 10LT02.
7. Saxena A, Karn N K, Sharma M M, et al. Detailed structural and topological analysis of SnBi2Te4 single crystal[J]. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2023, 174: 111169.
8. Kumar K, Sharma M M, Awana V P S. Weak antilocalization and ferromagnetism in magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2[J]. Journal of Applied Physics, 2023, 133(2).
9. Sharma M M, Sharma P, Karn N K, et al. Comprehensive review on topological superconducting materials and interfaces[J]. Superconductor Science and Technology, 2022, 35(8): 083003.
10. Gautam S, Aggarwal V, Singh B, et al. Signature of weak-antilocalization in sputtered topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin films with varying thickness[J]. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12(1): 9770.
11. Sharma P, Sharma R, Awana V P S, et al. Low-temperature ultrafast optical probing of topological bismuth selenide[J]. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 886: 161235.
12. Sharma R, Sharma P, Sahoo K R, et al. Giant photoresponsivity of transfer free grown fluorographene–MoS2 heterostructured ultra-stable transistors[J]. Materials Today, 2021, 50: 69-78.
13. Sharma M M, Kumar K, Sang L, et al. Type-II superconductivity below 4K in Sn0. 4Sb0. 6[J]. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020, 844: 156140.
14. Sharma M M, Sang L, Rani P, et al. Bulk superconductivity below 6 K in PdBi2Te3 topological single crystal[J]. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 2020, 33(5): 1243-1247.
15. Sultana R, Gurjar G, Gahtori B, et al. Flux free single crystal growth and detailed physical property characterization of Bi1− xSbx (x= 0.05, 0.1 and 0.15) topological insulator[J]. Materials Research Express, 2019, 6(10): 106102.
16. Rathi A, Babu P D, Rout P K, et al. Anomalous nano-magnetic effects in non-collinear spinel chromite NiCr2O4[J]. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2019, 474: 585-590.
17. Bhattacharyya B, Awana V P S, Senguttuvan T D, et al. Proximity-induced supercurrent through topological insulator based nanowires for quantum computation studies[J]. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8(1): 17237.
18. Gupta B K, Sultana R, Singh S, et al. Unexplored photoluminescence from bulk and mechanically exfoliated few layers of Bi2Te3[J]. Scientific Reports, 2018, 8(1): 9205.
19. Malmivirta M, Rijckaert H, Paasonen V, et al. Enhanced flux pinning in YBCO multilayer films with BCO nanodots and segmented BZO nanorods[J]. Scientific reports, 2017, 7(1): 14682.
20. Bhattacharyya B, Sharma A, Awana V P S, et al. Observation of quantum oscillations in FIB fabricated nanowires of topological insulator (Bi2Se3)[J]. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017, 29(11): 115602.
21. IB synthesis of Bi2Se3 1D nanowires demonstrating the co-existence of Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations and linear magnetoresistance
22. B Bhattacharyya, A Sharma, VPS Awana, TD Senguttuvan, S Husale
23. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29 (7), 07LT01
24. Thirupathaiah S, Fink J, Maheshwari P K, et al. Effect of impurity substitution on band structure and mass renormalization of the correlated FeTe 0.5 Se 0.5 superconductor[J]. Physical Review B, 2016, 93(20): 205143.
25. Jha R, Tiwari B, Awana V P S. Appearance of bulk superconductivity under hydrostatic pressure in Sr0. 5RE0. 5FBiS2 (RE= Ce, Nd, Pr, and Sm) compounds[J]. Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, 117(1).

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WoS Researcher ID: HSW-9930-2023