Faculty Details

Areas of Interest

• Near- and Far-field response of plasmonic structures
• Films of transparent oxide and ternary semiconductors
• Systems exhibiting quantum coherence

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

• PH13D078    DURGESH KAR
• PH14D053    SACHIN PANDEY

Recent Publications

• Size-dependent persistent photocurrent and its origin in dc sputtered indium oxide films under UV and sub-band gap illuminations . Prabal Sen, M. Balasubramanian, Durgesh Kar and S. Kasiviswanathan . J. Appl. Phys.. To appear . 2017.
• Observation of subwavelength localization of cavity plasmons induced by ultra-strong exciton coupling. M. Balasubrahmaniyam, Durgesh Kar, Prabal Sen, Prem B. Bisht and S. Kasiviswanathan . Appl. Phys. Lett.. 110 . 171101. 2017.
• Studies on Interface between In2O3 and CuInTe2 thin films . M.R. Ananthan, P. Malar, Thomas Osipowicz and S. Kasiviswanathan. Appl. Surf. Sci.. To appear. 2017.
• Growth and characterization of Au nanoparticles embedded In2O3 composite films . M.R. Ananthan, P. Malar, Thomas Osipowicz, Shikha Varma and S. Kasiviswanathan . Thin Solid Films . 622 . 78. 2017.
• Effective medium based optical analysis with finite element method simulations to study photo-chromic transitions in Ag-TiO2 nanocomposite films . T. Abhilash, M. Balasubrahmaniyam, and S. Kasiviswanathan . J. Appl. Phys.. 119 . 123014. 2016.
• Giant magnetoresistance in the cluster glass regime of Co-Ga alloys . S.M. Yasin, R. Saha, V.Srinivas, S. Kasiviswanathan and A.K. Nigam . AIP Advances. 6 . 055815. 2016.
• Evolution of ferromagnetic interaction from cluster to spin glass state in C-Ga alloy . S.M. Yasin, R. Saha, V.Srinivas, S. Kasiviswanathan and A.K. Nigam. Jl. Mag. Mag. Mater. 418 . 158. 2016.
• Localized surface plasmon resonance in Au Nanoparticles embedded DC sputtered ZnO thin films. . Anuradha Patra, M. Balasubrahmaniyam, Ranjit Laha, P. Malar, T. Osipowicz, A. Manivannan and S. Kasiviswanathan . J. Nanosci. Nanotehnol.. 15 . 1805. 2015.
• Spin Correlations and magnetic order in Co-Ga alloys: A comprehensive study . S.M. Yasin, R. Saha, V.Srinivas, S. Kasiviswanathan and A.K. Nigam . Jl. Alloys. Comp . 649 . 1101. 2015.
• Anomalous magnetic and electrical transport behaviour in intermetallic Co0.85Ga41.5 . S.M. Yasin, R. Saha, V.Srinivas, S. Kasiviswanathan and A.K. Nigam. IEEE Trans.Magnetics. 51 . 1. 2015.
• Effective medium based plasmonic waveguide for tailoring dispersion . M. Balasubrahmaniyam, T. Abhilash, A. R. Ganesan and S. Kasiviswanathan. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.. 27 . 1965. 2015.
• Monitoring plasma treatment of thin films by surface plasmon resonance . Ranjit Laha, A. Manivannan and S. Kasiviswanathan. Rev. Sci. Instrum.. 85 . 035001. 2014.
• Plasmon resonance mediated enhancement in Fabry-Pérot cavity modes . T. Abhilash, M. Balasubrahmaniyam, Anuradha Patra and S. Kasiviswanathan . Appl. Phys. Lett.. 104 . 241112. 2014.
• Enhanced SWIR third order nonlinearity of gold nanoparticle embedded ZnO thin films . S. Akbar Ali, P. B. Bisht, B. S. Kalanoor, Anuradha Patra, and S. Kasiviswanathan. Jl. Opt. Soc. Am. B . 30. 2226. 2013.
• Spectral response of nanocrystalline ZnO films embedded with Au nanoparticles . Anuradha Patra, A. Manivannan and S. Kasiviswanathan. Jl. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 29 . 3317. 2012.

Teaching

• 2017 :  (Jan-May) - PH5250 - Advanced Electronics
• 2018 :  (Jan-May) - EP2102 - Classical Dynamics; (Jul - Nov) - PH3500 Classical Physics
• 2019 :  (Jan-May) - EP2102 - Classical Dynamics / PH5250 - Advanced Electronics Lab; (Jul - Nov) - PH3500 Classical Physics / PH5060 - Physics Lab I (PG)
• 2020 :  (Jan-May) - PH5250 - Advanced Electronics Lab; (Jul - Nov) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I / PH3500 Classical Physics
• 2021 :  (Jan-May) - PH5100 Quantum Mechanics- I / PH5250 Advanced Electronics & Lab ; (Jul - Nov) - EP2090 Engineering Physics Lab I / PH2050 Physics Lab III / PH3500 Classical Physics
• 2022 :  (Jan-May) - PH5250 Advanced Electronics & Lab ; (Jul - Nov) - PH1050 Foundation of Computational Physics
• 2023 :  (Jan-May) - PH5720 Numerical Methods and Programming Lab