Superconductivity Lab
Research Scholar: Madhavi Chand

	I work on transport studies, focusing on resistance and magnetoresistance measurements, Hall effect studies and planar tunneling Ph.D. Supervisor: Dr. Pratap Raychaudhuri
	Contact Email: chand@tifr.res.in Tel: +91-22-22782475 or 22782633 FAX: +91-22-22804610 Postal Address: CG-24, DCMPMS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhabha Road Navy Nagar, Colaba Mumbai 400005 India

Past Positions

2005-2007: Lecturer, St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

2005: Research Assistant, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India

2001-2003: Graduate Student, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
1998-2001: B.Sc. Honours in Physics, St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
1984-1998: Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi, India

Publications:

Measurement of magnetic penetration depth and superconducting energy gap in very thin epitaxial NbN films; Anand Kamlapure, Mintu Mondal, Madhavi Chand, Archana Mishra, John Jesudasan, Vivas Bagwe, L. Benfatto, Vikram Tripathi and Pratap Raychaudhuri, Applied Physics Letters, 96, 072509(2010)

Disorder tuned superconductor insulator transition in La_2-x (Sr/Ce)_x CuO₄ & NbN superconducting thin films; J. Vanacken, G. Zhang, T. Wambecq, V.V. Moshchalkov, B. Leridon, K. Jin, B.R. Zhao, B.Y. Zhu, P. Raychaudhuri, S. P. Chockalingam, Madhavi Chand and John Jesudasan. J. Supercond. Nov. Magn, (Jan 2010)

Temperature dependence of resistivity and Hall-coefficient in a strongly disordered metal: NbN; Madhavi Chand, Archana Mishra, Y. M. Xiong, Anand Kamlapure, S. P. Chockalingam, John Jesudasan, Vivas Bagwe, Mintu Mondal, P. W. Adams, Vikram Tripathi and Pratap Raychaudhuri, Physical Review B, 80 134514(2009)

Tunneling studies in a homogenously disordered s-wave superconductor: NbN: S.P. Chockalingam, Madhavi Chand, Anand Kamlapure, John Jesudasan, Archana Mishra, Vikram Tripathi and Pratap Raychaudhuri, Physical Review B, 79 094509(2009)

Superconducting properties and Hall effect of epitaxial NbN thin films: S.P. Chockalingam, Madhavi Chand, John Jesudasan, Vikram Tripathi and Pratap Raychaudhuri, Physical Review B, 77 214503(2008)

Other Interests: Pottery and Cooking