General Information

Assistant Professor:

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Academic Background

  • B. E. - IIEST Shibpur (2002 - 2006)
  • M. Tech - IIT Bombay (2008 -2010)
  • Ph. D - University of Cambridge, St. John's College, UK (2010 - 2014)

Positions held

  • Post Doctoral Research Associate, QuTech, TU Delft, The Netherlands (2016 - 2018)
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate, Device Materials Group, University of Cambridge, UK (2014 - 2016)
  • Software Engineer, Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India (2006 - 2008)

Research Areas

  • Josephson junctions
  • Superconductor-ferromagnet interactions (Superconducting Spintronics)
  • Tunneling spectroscopy
  • Growth of thin films, UHV systems and nano-fabrication
  • Graphene mesoscopics

Selected Publications

  • Superconducting exchange coupling between ferromagnets Zhu Y., Pal A., Blamire M. G., Barber Z. H. Nature Materials, 16, 195 199, 2017.
  • Spectroscopic evidence of odd frequency superconducting order Pal A., Ouassou J. A., Eschrig M., Linder J., Blamire M. G. Scientific Reports 7, 40604, 2017.
  • Large interfacial exchange fields in a thick superconducting film coupled to a spin filter tunnel barrier Pal A. and Blamire M. G. Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, 92, 180510(R), 2015.
  • Macroscopic quantum tunneling in spin-filter ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions Massarotti D., Pal A., Rotoli G., Longobardi L., Blamire M. G., Tafuri F. Nature Communications, 6:7376, 2015.
  • Pure second harmonic current-phase relation in spin-filter Josephson junctions Pal A., Barber Z. H., J. W. A. Robinson, Blamire M. G. Nature Communications, 5:3340, 2014.
  • Electric-Field-Dependent Spin Polarization in GdN Spin Filter Tunnel Junctions Pal A., Senapati K., Barber Z. H., Blamire M. G. Advanced Materials, 25, 5581-5585, 2013.

Other interests

  • Indian classical music (Sarod player)
  • World politics
  • Cricket