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Research Interests
Ferroelectrics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Local electrochemistry in Batteries & Fuel cells, Nonlinear Optics
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Funded Research Projects
Processing-Driven Nucleation Mediated Control for Manufacturing Phase-Pure Ferroelectric Hafnia (PI, The joint proposal across three countries is funded for £1.0 M in total) Funded by DELNI/SFI/NSF (Grant No. USI 205), 2023-25.
Antiferroelectricity, Ferrielectricity and Ferroelectricity in the Archetypal Antiferroelectric PbZrO3 at small scale (PI, The joint proposal across three countries is funded for £1.2M in total) Funded by DELNI/SFI/NSF (Grant No. USI 211), 2022-26
- Quantitative Hall Voltage mapping at conducting Ferroelectric domain walls: A novel approach to extracting conduction mechanisms on the nanoscale (PI ), Funded by EPSRC (Grant No. EP/S037179/1), 2019-20
- Far-from-Equilibrium Processing of ferroelectric thin films on glass and polymeric substrates (PI, The joint proposal across three countries is funded for $ 1M in total) Funded by DELNI/SFI/NSF (Grant No. USI 082), 2016-19
- Investigating Pressure induced conducting states on the nanoscale : A novel approach to nano-circuitry (PI, £100K ), Funded by EPSRC (Grant No. EP/N018389/1), 2016-17
-Probing local ionic transport in Li-ion battery cathodes (PI, £13K)
Funded by Royal Society (Grant No. Royal Society RG130604), 2014-15
Teaching
PHY 4029 (Synoptic Physics), 2014-
PHY 3012 (Solid State Physics), 2015
PHY 9032 (Materials Characterisation, Online MSc Course), 2015-
PHY 9033 (Materials Characterisation Case Study, Online MSc Course), 2015-
Physics Level 1,2 and 3 Labs for undergraduate students, 2013-
5 Level 4 MSci Projects, 2013-
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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R1392CMM: Probing local ionic transport in li-ion battery cathodes
03/03/2014 → 28/02/2015
Project: Research
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R3730CMM: Far-From-Equilibrium Processing of Ferroelectric Thin Films on Glass and Polymeric Substrates
01/10/2015 → 15/01/2019
Project: Research
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R3480CMM: Processing-Driven Nucleation Mediated Control for Manufacturing Phase-Pure Ferroelectric Hafnia
10/01/2023 → …
Project: Research
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Measuring oxygen reduction/evolution reactions on the nanoscale
Kumar, A., Ciucci, F., Morozovska, A. N., Kalinin, S. V. & Jesse, S., Sep 2011, In: Nature chemistry. 3, 9, p. 707-713 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
208 Citations (Scopus) -
Intermittency, quasiperiodicity and chaos in probe-induced ferroelectric domain switching
Ievlev, A. V., Jesse, S., Morozovska, A. N., Strelcov, E., Eliseev, E. A., Pershin, Y. V., Kumar, A., Shur, V. Y. & Kalinin, S. V., Jan 2014, In: Nature Physics. 10, p. 59-66 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
110 Citations (Scopus) -
Thermotropic phase boundaries in classic ferroelectrics
Lummen, T. T. A., Gu, Y., Wang, J., Lei, S., Xue, F., Kumar, A., Barnes, A. T., Barnes, E., Denev, S., Belianinov, A., Holt, M., Morozovska, A. N., Kalinin, S. V., Chen, L-Q. & Gopalan, V., 20 Jan 2014, In: Nature Communications. 5, 3172.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Strain-Driven Morphotropic Phase Boundary in BiFeO3
Zeches, R. J., Rossell, M. D., Zhang, J. X., Hatt, A. J., He, Q., Yang, C. -H., Kumar, A., Wang, C. H., Melville, A., Adamo, C., Sheng, G., Chu, Y. -H., Ihlefeld, J. F., Erni, R., Ederer, C., Gopalan, V., Chen, L. Q., Schlom, D. G., Spaldin, N. A., Martin, L. W. & 1 others, , 13 Nov 2009, In: Science. 326, 5955, p. 977-980 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
890 Citations (Scopus) -
Ferrielectricity in the archetypal antiferroelectric, PbZrO3
Yao, Y., Naden, A., Tian, M., Lisenkov, S., Beller, Z., Kumar, A., Kacher, J., Ponomareva, I. & Bassiri-Gharb, N., 19 Jan 2023, In: Advanced Materials. 35, 3, 2206541.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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2011 Microscopy Today Innovation Award
Kumar, Amit (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship
Kumar, Amit (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2014
Amit Kumar (Invited speaker)
22 Apr 2014Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Nanoscale (Journal)
Amit Kumar (Peer reviewer)
2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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Applied Physics Letters (Journal)
Amit Kumar (Peer reviewer)
2010 → 2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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The Journey of a Material Scientist towards Physics
Amit Kumar (Invited speaker)
15 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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FIB and functional ferroics – Structuring and correlated Microscopy
Amit Kumar (Examiner)
26 May 2022Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
Press/Media
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QUB teams up with international researchers to solve manufacturing problem
07/12/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Domain-Wall Discovery Points Toward Self-Healing Circuits
Conor McCluskey, Amit Kumar, Jesi Maguire, Raymond McQuaid & Marty Gregg
22/09/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Researchers crack scientific mystery with 110-year-old experiment and pave way for more powerful electronic devices
Conor McCluskey, Jesi Maguire, Amit Kumar, Raymond McQuaid & Marty Gregg
25/08/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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International research project to unveil the existence of transitional states
Amit Kumar, Raymond McQuaid & Kristina Holsgrove
05/07/2022
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Is this the first step to ephemeral transistors?
Amit Kumar, Raymond McQuaid & John Gregg
14/06/2017
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research