YNM’s major research interests are in physics of problems connected with development, characterization and applications of electronic and optoelectronic materials, specifically in inorganic and organic semiconductors.
Currently his focus is on developing a conceptual and experimental toolbox of ideas for photoelectronic properties of physics of organic and polymeric semiconductors suitable for device applications.
His group has contributed to the understanding of localized electronic states in semiconductors for optoelectronic applications through defect engineering. His group has specially developed time domain electrical spectroscopies and related techniques to study a variety of systems such as III-V semiconductors, MeV ion modified silicon, nanocrystallites embedded in amorphous silicon, and ferroelectric thin films.
Currently his group is engaged in studying optoelectronic properties of polymers and organic semiconductors with a view to understand and engineer their suitability for display, photovoltaic and large area electronic applications.
He is also associated with technology development of organic semiconductors as a part of interdisciplinary group at Samtel Centre for Display Technologies at IIT Kanpur, and has been active in efforts of the group to make industry-academia interaction more meaningful.
He is has been the coordinator of the  Nanotechnology Initiative with a major focus on printable electronics.
He has been a founding member of the National Centre for Flexible Electronics, set-up jointly by Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and IIT Kanpur since 2017, and continues to guide industrial efforts in developing printed electronics.