Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi soutik@ee.iitd.ac.in
Laboratory of Nanorobotics & Medical Devices
Magnetoelectric core-shell nanorobot under electron microscopy. Core-shell magnetoelectric nanoparticle. Magnetoelectric nanorobot characterization. Magnetoelectric core-shell nanoparticle characterization.

Magnetoelectric core–shell nanoparticles and their characterization.

Medical robotics

Magnetoelectric nanorobots

Remote magnetic control meets localized electrical stimulation at the nanoscale, enabling precise cellular manipulation, transport, and electroporation without direct physical contact. Applications across targeted drug delivery, cellular manipulation, electroporation, tissue engineering, and minimally invasive medicine.

  • Listed in the Guinness World Records as the world's smallest medical robot.
  • Remotely controlled probe for targeted cell manipulation (Scientific Reports, 2018).
  • Magneto-elasto-electroporation of living cells (Scientific Reports, 2016).
The MEEP filing →
Thin-film terahertz modulator.

Thin-film terahertz modulator.

Terahertz technology

Thin-film terahertz modulator

A piezoelectric-resonance-enabled thin-film platform for dynamic, energy-efficient control of terahertz waves, with applications across terahertz communications, imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, and tunable electromagnetic systems.

  • Low-frequency piezoresonance-defined dynamic control of terahertz wave propagation (Scientific Reports, 2016).
The granted patent →
Millimetre-wave modulator.

Millimetre-wave modulator.

Electromagnetic devices

Millimetre-wave modulator

A core–shell nanomaterial platform that uses magnetoelastoelectric coupling to enable magnetic-field-controlled modulation of terahertz waves, providing tunable amplitude and phase control for applications across terahertz communications, sensing, imaging, and signal processing.

  • Magnetoelastoelectric coupling in core–shell nanoparticles enabling directional and mode-selective magnetic control of terahertz beam propagation (Nanoscale, 2017).
The granted patent →