Dr Guru Venkat

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Postdoctoral Research Associate

g.venkat@sheffield.ac.uk

Sir Robert Hadfield Building

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Dr Guru Venkat
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

Profile: I am interested in the magnetic states in thin films and nanostructures for advanced computing and energy harvesting applications

Qualifications: 2018 – MS & PhD from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.

Research interests: Nanomagnetism, spintronics, spin caloritronics, microwave magnetics

Publications

Journal articles

Venkat G, Cox CDW, Zhou Z, Leo N, Kinane CJ, Caruana AJ & Morrison K (2023) Enhancement of spin Seebeck effect in Fe3O4/Pt thin films with α -Fe nanodroplets. Applied Physics Letters, 123(17).
Vidamour IT, Swindells C, Venkat G, Manneschi L, Fry PW, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson RM, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi SS , Vasilaki E et al (2023) Reconfigurable reservoir computing in a magnetic metamaterial. Communications Physics, 6(1). View this article in WRRO
Allwood DA, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Hayward TJ, Manneschi L, Musameh MFKH, O'Keefe S, Stepney S, Swindells C, Trefzer MA , Vasilaki E et al (2023) A perspective on physical reservoir computing with nanomagnetic devices. Applied Physics Letters, 122(4), 040501-040501.
Vidamour IT, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Venkat G, Swindells C, Dawidek RWS, Broomhall TJ, Steinke N-J, Cooper JFK, Maccherozzi F , Dhesi SS et al (2021) Quantifying the Computational Capability of a Nanomagnetic Reservoir Computing Platform with Emergent Magnetization Dynamics.
Siddique AB, Morrison K, Venkat G, Pramanick AK, Banerjee N & Ray M (2021) Charge Transport through Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots Embedded in a Polyaniline Matrix. ACS Applied Electronic Materials.
Venkat G, Cox CDW, Sola A, Basso V & Morrison K (2020) Measurement of the heat flux normalized spin Seebeck coefficient of thin films as a function of temperature. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(7).
Venkat G, Fangohr H & Prabhakar A (2018) Absorbing boundary layers for spin wave micromagnetics. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 450, 34-39.
Malathi M, Venkat G, Arora A, Syvorotka II, Sivasubramanian V & Prabhakar A (2018) Magnetization spin dynamics in a (LuBi)3Fe5O12 (BLIG) epitaxial film. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 448, 159-164.
Kumar N, Venkat G & Prabhakar A (2014) An Iterative Solution for Spin-Wave Dispersion in a Magnonic Ring. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 50(9), 1-6.
Venkat G, Kumar D, Franchin M, Dmytriiev O, Mruczkiewicz M, Fangohr H, Barman A, Krawczyk M & Prabhakar A (2013) Proposal for a Standard Micromagnetic Problem: Spin Wave Dispersion in a Magnonic Waveguide. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 49(1), 524-529.
Venkat G, Vidamour I, Swindells C, Fry PW, Rosamond M, Foerster M, Niño MA, Griffin D, Stepney S, Allwood DA & Hayward TJ () Exploring physical and digital architectures in magnetic nanoring array reservoir computers. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering.
Morrison K, Betouras JJ, Venkat G, Ewings RA, Caruana AJ, Skokov KP, Gutfleisch O & Cohen LF () Emergence of a Hidden Magnetic Phase in LaFe₁₁_.₈Si₁_.₂ Investigated by Inelastic Neutron Scattering as a Function of Magnetic Field and Temperature. Advanced Physics Research.
Venkat G, Allwood DA & Hayward TJ () Magnetic domain walls : Types, processes and applications. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Vidamour I, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Venkat G, Swindells C, Dawidek RWS, Broomhall TJ, Steinke N-J, Cooper J, Maccherozzi F , Dhesi S et al () Quantifying the Computational Capability of a Nanomagnetic Reservoir Computing Platform with Emergent Magnetisation Dynamics. Nanotechnology.
Dawidek RW, Hayward TJ, Vidamour IT, Broomhall TJ, Venkat G, Mamoori MA, Mullen A, Kyle SJ, Fry PW, Steinke N , Cooper JFK et al () Dynamically‐Driven Emergence in a Nanomagnetic System. Advanced Functional Materials, 2008389-2008389.
Venkat G, Cox CDW, Voneshen D, Caruana AJ, Piovano A, Cropper MD & Morrison K () Magnon diffusion lengths in bulk and thin film Fe3O4 for spin Seebeck applications. Physical Review Materials, 4(7).
Venkat G, Rose TA, Cox CDW, Stenning GBG, Caruana AJ & Morrison K () Spin Seebeck effect in polycrystalline yttrium iron garnet pellets prepared by the solid-state method. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 126(3), 37001-37001.
Venkat G, Franchin M, Fangohr H & Prabhakar A () Mesh Size and Damped Edge Effects in Micromagnetic Spin Wave Simulation.

Conference proceedings papers

Venkat G, Kumar N & Prabhakar A (2014) Micromagnetic and Plane Wave Analysis of an Antidot Magnonic Crystal with a Ring Defect. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 50(11) (pp 1-4)

Preprints

Vidamour IT, Venkat G, Swindells C, Griffin D, Fry PW, Rowan-Robinson RM, Welbourne A, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi SS, Stepney S , Allwood DA et al (2024) RingSim- An Agent-based Approach for Modelling Mesoscopic Magnetic Nanowire Networks, arXiv.
Manneschi L, Vidamour IT, Stenning KD, Gartside JC, Swindells C, Venkat G, Griffin D, Stepney S, Branford WR, Hayward T , Ellis MO et al (2024) Optimising network interactions through device agnostic models, arXiv.
Venkat G, Allwood DA & Hayward TJ (2023) Magnetic domain walls : Types, processes and applications.
Allwood DA, Ellis MOA, Griffin D, Hayward TJ, Manneschi L, Musameh MFK, O'Keefe S, Stepney S, Swindells C, Trefzer MA , Vasilaki E et al (2022) A perspective on physical reservoir computing with nanomagnetic devices, arXiv.
Vidamour I, Swindells C, Venkat G, Manneschi L, Fry P, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson R, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi S , Vasilaki E et al (2022) Reservoir Computing with Emergent Dynamics in a Magnetic Metamaterial, Research Square Platform LLC.
Vidamour I, Swindells C, Venkat G, Fry P, Welbourne A, Rowan-Robinson R, Backes D, Maccherozzi F, Dhesi S, Vasilaki E , Allwood D et al (2022) Reservoir Computing with Emergent Dynamics in a Magnetic Metamaterial, arXiv.

Research group

Professor Dan Allwood

Dr Tom Hayward

Ian Vidamour

Dr Alexander Welbourne