Debanjan Polley

About

I, Debanjan Polley, am an experimental condensed matter physicist. I have been working at BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus since May 2024 as an Assistant professor in the Department of Physics. I worked as a Research Assistant Professor at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology from May, 2023 to April, 2024. Previously, I worked as a Post-doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Jeffrey Bokor at LBNL (and UC Berkeley). I have studied ultrafast switching in ferro and ferrimagnetic thin films using optical and electrical excitation. Before that, I worked at Stefano Bonetti's Lab at Stockholm University as a post-doctoral researcher from March 2017 to December, 2019. I completed my PhD in THz spectroscopy at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, in 2017 (Under the guidance of Prof. Rajib Kumar Mitra and Prof. Anjan Barman).

Employment

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Hyderabad Campus Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• SRM Institute of Science and Technology Research Assistant Professor
  2023 - 2024
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Post-Doc
  2020 - 2023
• Stockholm University Post-Doc
  2017 - 2019

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (25)

• A perspective on ultrafast magnetization switching in ferromagnets using helicity-independent optical pulses
  Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2025 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ada1e0
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• Contact engineering for graphene nanoribbon devices
  Applied Physics Reviews 2023 DOI: 10.1063/5.0172432
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• Picosecond spin-orbit torque–induced coherent magnetization switching in a ferromagnet
  Science Advances 2023 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5562
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• Single-shot switching in Tb/Co-multilayer based nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions
  Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170960
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• Combining femtosecond laser annealing and shallow ion implantation for local color center creation in diamond
  Applied Physics Letters 2023 DOI: 10.1063/5.0143922
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• Analysis of ultrafast magnetization switching dynamics in exchange-coupled ferromagnet–ferrimagnet heterostructures
  Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.170680
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• Progress toward picosecond on-chip magnetic memory
  Applied Physics Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1063/5.0083897
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• Inertial spin dynamics in ferromagnets
  Nature Physics 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01040-y
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• RKKY Exchange Bias Mediated Ultrafast All-Optical Switching of a Ferromagnet
  Advanced Functional Materials 2021 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202107490
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• Experimental evidence of inertial dynamics in ferromagnets
  arXiv 2019
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