About
Renu Raman Sahu is a PhD student working in the Laboratory of Advanced Nanostructures for Photonics and Electronics, in the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Indian Institute of Science. He is a Prime Minister Research Fellow since May 2021 (click here for PMRF Annual Review).
He obtained his Master’s degree with a Physics major and Mathematics minor from the National Institute of Science Education and Research, securing a gold medal for his overall academic performance.
Research
Research: His research focuses on looking for novel physical processes and phenomena that allow the fabrication and engineering of nanoscale structures for various applications in photonics and electronics. Topics like material science, nanotechnology, plasmonics, metasurfaces, optics, flexible photonics, material processing, and nanofabrication span his research interests. With a vision to translate science into technology, his work is interdisciplinary, at the intersection of these topics, showing proof-of-concept applications in field like sensing, and soft-flexible devices. (https://renuraman.in/publications/)
The YouTube video embedded here is a description of a part of his PhD research work, which is published already in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Teaching
Raman has been involved in teaching and assisting in teaching in several core and advanced electives like Solid State Physics, Electronic Theory of Solids, Physics of Materials, Optical Materials and Devices. He has also taken undergraduate TAship for the UG mechanics-lab course. Apart from his TA duties at the Indian Institute of Science, he has taught online for NPTEL courses (available on YouTube), as well as offline in Maharani Lakshmi Ammani College, Government First Grade College, 18th Cross Malleshwaram, located near IISc. Further, he is also involved with Science for Rural India (SFRI), IISc, whose objective is to take science to the rural areas of India. He actively participates in conducting outreach programs to kindle scientific curiosity amongst school students by visiting different schools and demonstrating live working models and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) experiments. (Teaching – Renu Raman Sahu)