Name: Dr. Ravi Shankar Singh
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Physics
E-Mail: rssingh@iiserb.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092322
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

• Assistant Professor (October 2009-), Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.

• Visiting Fellow (March 2009 – September 2009): in Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

• Research Fellow (October 2007 – February 2009): in Randall Laboratory,Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. (post doctoral fellow with Prof. J. W. Allen).

• Research Scholar. (August 2002 – September 2007): Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai, India. (Ph.D. Thesis advisor – Prof. K. Maiti).

Research Interest:

• Experimental Condensed Matter Physics: Electronic structure of condensed matter systems having novel properties such as metal insulator transitions, high Tc superconductivity, unusual magnetism, non Fermi liquid behavior, charge and spin density wave state, etc. using high energy and angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.

Selected Publications:

1. R.S. Singh, V.R.R. Medicherla, K. Maiti, and E.V. Sampathkumaran
   Evidence of strong 5d electron correlations in the pyrochlore Y2Ir2O7 studied using high resolution photoemission spectroscopy
   Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 77, 201102 (2008).

2. R.S. Singh, V.R.R. Medicherla, and K. Maiti
   Role of long range ferromagnetic order in the electronic structure of Sr1-xCaxRuO3
   Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 132503 (2007).

3. R.S. Singh and K. Maiti
   Manifestation of screening effects and A-O covalency in the core level spectra of A site elements in the ABO3 structure of Ca1-xSrxRuO3
   Phys. Rev. B 76, 085102 (2007).

4. K. Maiti, R.S. Singh, V.R.R. Medicherla, S. Rayaprol and E.V. Sampathkumaran
   Origin of charge density wave formation in insulators from a high-resolution photoemission study of BaIrO3
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 016404 (2005).

5. K. Maiti and R.S. Singh
   Evidence against strong correlation in 4d transition metal oxides, CaRuO3 and SrRuO3 Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 71, 161102 (2005).

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