Madhura Marathe

Theoretical and computational materials-physics researcher specialising in electrocaloric effects

Madhura Marathe is a researcher in theoretical and computational materials physics. Her published research has focused particularly on ferroelectric materials and the electrocaloric effect, including the behaviour of barium titanate (BaTiO3) under changes in electric field, temperature and mechanical strain.

Research

Marathe has used first-principles-based computational methods and molecular-dynamics simulations to investigate electrocaloric phenomena. This includes research into the temperature and entropy changes produced by electric fields in ferroelectric materials and the influence of phase transitions on those effects.^[1]

Her published work has examined topics including the effect of epitaxial strain on electrocaloric behaviour, comparisons between direct and indirect methods of calculating electrocaloric response, anisotropy at ferroelectric phase transitions and inverse electrocaloric effects.^[1]

Scientific publications

Madhura Marathe has co-authored research published in journals including Physical Review B and Applied Physics Letters. Her work contributes to the theoretical understanding of caloric materials and their potential use in solid-state cooling technologies.^[1]