Prashant Padmanabhan

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Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Prashant Padmanabhan
Scientist, CINT
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(505) 845-0842

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Expertise

My research centers upon the ultrafast manipulation of bulk and nanoscale systems possessing order, correlations, and topologically protected phases. My expertise is in CW/ultrafast spectroscopy, magnetism, vibrational dynamics, and nonlinear optics.

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Education

Ph.D., Applied Physics
University of Michigan
2014

MSE, Electrical Engineering - Optics and Photonics
University of Michigan
2014

BSE, Engineering Physics
University of Michigan
2006

Positions

2021 - Present | Scientist 2
2018 - 2021 | Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Awards

Science in 3 Honorable Mention, 2020
DFG SFB1238 Independence Award, 2016
University of Michigan Regent's Fellow, 2006-2008

Professional Societies

American Physical Society

Publications

P. Padmanabhan, F. L. Buessen, R. Tutchton, K. W. C. Kwock, S. Gilinsky, M. C. Lee, M. A. McGuire, S. R. Singamaneni, D. A. Yarotski, A. Paramekanti, J.-X. Zhu, & R. P. Prasankumar, Coherent helicity-dependent spin-phonon oscillations in the ferromagnetic van der Waals crystal CrI3, in review at Nat. Comm. (2022).
N. Sirica, P. P. Orth, M. S. Scheurer, Y. M. Dai, M.-C. Lee, P. Padmanabhan, L. T. Mix, S. W. Teitelbaum, M. Trigo, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, B. Xu, R. Yang, B. Shen, C. Hu, C.-C. Lee, H. Lin, T. A. Cochran, S. A. Trugman, J.-X. Zhu, M. Z. Hasan, N. Ni, X. G. Qiu, A. J. Taylor, D. A. Yarotski & R. P. Prasankumar, Photocurrent-driven transient symmetry breaking in the Weyl semimetal TaAs, Nat. Mat. 21, 62 (2022).
F. Sekiguchi, K. Budzinauskas, P. Padmanabhan, R. Versteeg, V. Tsurkan, I. Kézsmárki, F. Foggetti, S. Artyukhin, & P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, Slowdown of photoexcited spin dynamics in the non-collinear spin-ordered phases in skyrmion host GaV4S8, in submission at Nat. Comm (2022).
J. Huang, X. L. Phuah, L. M. McClintock, P. Padmanabhan, K.S.N. Vikrant, H. Wang, D. Zhang, H. Wang, P. Lu, X. Gao, X. Sun, X. Xu, R. E. García, H.-T. Chen, X. Zhang, & H. Wang, Core-shell metallic alloy nanopillars-in-dielectric hybrid metamaterials with magneto-plasmonic coupling, Mat. Tod. 51, 39 (2021).
P. Padmanabhan, S. Boubanga-Tombet, H. Fukidome, T. Otsuji, & R. P. Prasankumar, A graphene-based magnetoplasmonic metasurface for actively tunable transmission and polarization rotation at terahertz frequencies, Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 221107 (2020).
P. Padmanabhan, F. Sekiguchi, R. B. Versteeg, E. Slivina, V. Tsurkan, S. Bordács, I. Kézsmárki, & P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, Optically Driven Collective Spin Excitations and Magnetization Dynamics in the Néel-type Skyrmion Host GaV4S8, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 107203 (2019).
J. Zhu, R. B. Versteeg, P. Padmanabhan, & P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, Dynamical resonance quench and Fano interference in spontaneous Raman scattering from quasiparticle and collective excitations, Phys. Rev. B 99, 094305 (2019).
R. B. Versteeg, J. Zhu, C. Boguschewski, F. Sekiguchi, A. Sahasrabudhe, K. Budzinauskas, P. Padmanabhan, P. Becker, D. I. Khomskii, & P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, Coupled dynamics of long-range and cluster-internal spin order in the cluster Mott insulator Cu2OSeO3, Phys. Rev. B 100, 064401 (2019).
R. B. Versteeg, J. Zhu, P. Padmanabhan, C. Boguschewski, R. German, M. Goedecke, P. Becker, & P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, A tunable time-resolved spontaneous Raman spectroscopy setup for probing ultrafast collective excitation and quasiparticle dynamics in quantum materials, Struct. Dyn. 5, 044301 (2018).
P. Padmanabhan, S. M. Young, M. Henstridge, S. Bhowmick, P. K. Bhattacharya, & R. Merlin, Observation of Standing Waves of Electron-Hole Sound in a Photoexcited Semiconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 027402 (2014).
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