Phone: +1.514.228.6978
Fax: +1.450.929.8102
Email: rajesh.katoch@emt.inrs.ca
Office: 149

Institut national de la recherche scientifique
1650, Blvd. Lionel-Boulet
Varennes (QC) J3X 1S2 CANADA

Research topics

Functional materials:
- Multiferroics
- Energy materials
- Bioinspired materials

Fields of interest

• X-ray crystallography
• Raman spectroscopy                                                                       
• Scanning probe microscopy
• Impedance spectroscopy                                                                            

Education 

• PhD: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur                                              Topic: Investigations on BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃ solid solution ceramics and              thin films of compositions near the Morphotropic Phase Boundary
• MTech: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi                                Topic: Phase transition studies on PSZT ceramics using Rietveld                    refinement technique 

Patents

• Thin Film Heterostructures, United States Patent Application #20150086765A1, Ashish Garg, Rajesh Katoch and Rajeev Gupta, Filed on March 26, 2015
• Development of a process for fabricating BFPT thin films heterostructures with giant ferroelectric response for sensors and actuators using low cost solution deposition, India Patent Application # IN-858071, Ashish Garg, Rajesh Katoch and Rajeev Gupta

Publications

1. Subir Roy, Rajesh Katoch and S.Angappane; Large magnetoresistance in carbon coated Ni/NiO nanoparticles; Bulletion of Materials Science, 41:127(2018), DOI: 10.1007/s12034-018-1645-8
2. Subir Roy, Rajesh Katoch and S. Angappane; Extraordinary ferromagnetic coupling and magnetodielectric phenomenon in NiO nanoparticles; IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, (2018) DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2018.2865678
3. Anoop Gupta, Dinesh De, Rajesh Katoch, Ashish Garg and Parimal Bhardwaj;Synthesis of a NbO Type Homochiral Cu(II)-MOF: Ferroelectric Behavior and Heterogeneous Catalysis of Three-Component Coupling and Pechmann Reactions; Inorganic Chemistry, 56(8), 4698-4706 (2017)
4. Rajesh Katoch, C. Dhana Sekhar, Venimadhav Adyam, James F. Scott, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg;Spin phonon interactions and magnetodielectric effects in multiferroic BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28, 075901(2016)
5. Tapan Pal, Rajesh Katoch, Ashish Garg and Parimal K Bhardwaj; Metal Organic Frameworks Built from a Linear Rigid Dicarboxylate and Different Co-linkers: Trap of the Keto Form of Ethylacetoacetate, Luminescence and Ferroelectric Studies; Crystal Growth & Design, 15, 4526-4535(2015)
6. S.S. Rajput, Rajesh Katoch, Kishor K Sahoo, Govind N Sharma, Sushil K Singh, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg; Enhanced Electrical Insulation and Ferroelectricity in La and Ni co-doped BiFeO₃ Thin Films; Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 621, 339-344 (2015)
7. Musheer Ahmad, Rajesh Katoch, Ashish Garg and Parimalal K Bhardwaj; A Novel 3D 10-fold Interpenetrated Homochiral Coordination Polymer: Large Spontaneous Polarization, Dielectric loss and Emission Studies;  CrystEngComm, 4766-4773 (2014)
8. Rajesh Katoch, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg; Large Ferroelectric Polarization of Chemical Solution Processed BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃ Thin Films; Solid state communications,177,103-107(2014)
9. Joysurya Basu,Rajesh Katoch, Ashish Garg and C. Barry Carter; Microstructure and Interfacial Chemistry of Pure and La-doped BiFeO₃ Thin Films; Microscopy Research and Technique, 76 (12, 1304-1309 (2013)  

 Conference proceedings and presentations

1. Rajesh Katoch, Amritendu Roy, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg; First Principles Calculations of Electronic Structure of Lead titanate; NMD ATM 2016, IIT Kanpur (Oral presentation)
2. Rajesh Katoch, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg; Electrical and magnetic characterization of multiferroic BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃ thin films; AIP Conf. Proc. 1665,140056(2015)
3. Rajesh Katoch, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg;Structural Investigation of Multiferroic BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃ Solid Solution; AIP Conf. Proc. 1591,1755(2014)
4. Rajesh Katoch, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg; Large room temperature ferroelectric polarization in thin films of solid solution of Bismuth ferrite and Lead titanate; APS March meeting, March 3-7 2014, Denver, Colorado, USA(Oral presentation)
5. Rajesh Katoch, Rajeev Gupta and Ashish Garg; Crystal Structure and Ferroelectric properties near the morphotropic phase boundary in (1-x) BiFeO₃-PbTiO₃ thin films; EMRS Spring meeting, May 14-18,2012, Strasbourg, France (Poster presentation)