Hello
A warm welcome to this webpage. I, Debanjan Polley, am an experimental condensed matter physicist. I am an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. I work at the intersection of magnetism and spintronics in thin films, heterostructures, and 2D materials. Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Jeffrey Bokor (at LBNL and UC Berkeley) and in the group of Prof. Stefano Bonetti (at Stockholm University). I received my PhD from S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (University of Calcutta) in 2017.
Recent News
1. Recent arXiv preprint: “Spintronic Neuromorphic Hardware Using Domain Wall Based Neurons and Quantized Synapses”, S. K. Bandekar, A. Ganguly, D. Polley and D. Das; arXiv:2605.22625 (2026).
2. Research Paper accepted for Presentation "𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬" by S. K. Bandekar, A. Ganguly, D. Polley and D. Das at INTERMAG (2026).
3. Debanjan received an ANRF-PMECRG grant to work on spintronics in light metals in April, 2026.
4. Debanjan visited Hubei University of Technology (HBUT) and delivered an invited lecture on "Room-temperature Spintronics in van der Waals materials" in October, 2025. Thank you, Jeongmin Hong, for the kind invitation, and School of Science, HBUT, for sponsoring the trip and the great hospitality.
5. Welcome, Sneha, to the team. She joined in October, 2025.
6. Welcome, Srabani, to the team. She is the first PhD student of this lab, joining in August, 2025.
7. Review paper published: "A perspective on ultrafast magnetization switching in ferromagnets using helicity-independent optical pulses", D. Polley and J. Bokor; Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 58, 102001 (2025).
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. If you are a porspective PhD Student, dont hesistate to drop me an email. Let's connect.