Work Blog

You can look at some nifty guides, tips and tricks I learned while working on different projects involving different classes of Materials.

Recent Posts

• So I wrote a useful code! convex (v1.0.1)

  In September of last year (2019), I was working on finishing up a paper (my first as a First author). During that time, some senior collegues in the same lab, who had submitted a paper on Pressure-driven phase transition Read more..

• Phonons with Phonopy #3 : Grüneisen Parameter, Group velocity and Phonon-lifetime

  Although the phonon bands and DOS would give you some explanation concerning the low or high value of thermal conductivity, the mode Grüneisen parameter is as close as we get Read more..

• Phonons with Phonopy #2 : Phonon Bandstructure and Projected DOS

  While investigating the vibrational dynamics of your system, a number of physical quantities and relations Read more..

• Phonons with Phonopy #1 : Lattice thermal conductivity using Phono3py & VASP

  Currently I’m working with some Alkali metal based Thermoelectric materials, where the lattice thermal conductivity has not been reported. There being no definitive guide to calculating κ_L using Phono3py, here I list Read more..

• Modelling of a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in COMSOL

  As part of my course project last semester,my task was to investigate the use and functioning of Microreactors in Diagnostic applications. One of these uses is in a PCR unit, whose function is to Read more..