Raagya Arora
Postdoctoral Fellow
The work in my PhD dissertation focussed on chalcogenide-based thermoelectric and topologically nontrivial materials. I studied materials with non-trivial electronic topology using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). Another important aspect of my thesis involved determination and analysis of thermoelectric properties of materials. My more recent work dealt with understanding electronic mechanisms of a new class of bonding called metavalent bonding and emergent properties (including ferroelectricity and metal-insulator transition) in chalcogenides.