· Coordinated B. Tech and M. Sc. programmes

· Developed new courses at M. Sc. and M. Tech. level.

Teaching at International Institutes:

Taught a summer course (PH142) on basic electricity, magnetism and electromagnetic theory at the University of Illinois, Chicago during the summer of 1996 (rated as very good teacher).

Taught a course on the Basics and Advanced Photovoltaics at the University of Kabengasen, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during Jan – Feb 1988.

b. Research Experience – 30 years

Areas of specialization

Metal Oxide Thin Films and Devices

- Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)

- Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for optical Switching

- Solid state electro-chromic devices (WO3)

- Nano thin films for optical memories (Ag2O)

Magnetron Design Fabrication

- Cylindrical and planar magnetron cathodes

Semiconductor Materials and Devices

- Wide gap Nitrides (Indium Gallium Nitride)

- Photovoltaics

Plasma Diagnostic Techniques

- Langmuir Probe

- Optical Emission Spectroscopy

Photocatalysis for Oxygenation of Blood

Patents awarded :

1. Scratch resistance Coatings on Plastic Lenses

(195/MAS/2003 dated 10 March 2003)

2. Electrically Conducting Coatings on Kapton Films for ESD

(223 /MAS/2003 dated 19 March 2003)

Patents applied:

1. Artificial Infusion of oxygen into human blood by Photocatalytic reaction (427 CHE 2006 dated 10 March 2006)

2. Electron beam induced chromism and photo-luminescence in reactive DC Magnetron sputtered non-stoichiometric tungsten oxide thin films (653 CHE 2006 dated 10.04.2006)

3. Nano silver for optical read / write memories (Filed by Department of Information Technology, Govt of India, 1207/CHE/2006, December 2006).

4. Design of Cylindrical magnetron with embedded optical emission spectroscopy for process control (21/DEL/2008, 03 January 2008).

Invited and key note lectures:

4. PSE 2006 (International conferce on Plasma and Surface Engineering, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, September 2006)

Key note lecture on : recent trends in Transparent conducting oxides : A Review

5. Indo – Japan workshop on ZnO material and devices

New Delhi, December 2006

Invited: The present status od p- type ZnO thin films

3. ASAIO Conference

New Delhi, October 2006

Invited: The ITO films in display technology

4. ASME Conference

Seattle, USA May 2006

Invited: TiO2 for oxygenation of human blood

List to be updated

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Professional credits

Member, American Vacuum Society, New York

Member, Semiconductor Society, New Delhi

Elected Member, Dielectrics Society, London

Life member, Indian Vacuum Society

Elected Member, Plasma Group, European Commission

Administrative experience

Feb. 2003 – May 2006 : Head, Department of Physics, IIT,

Madras, Chennai

July 2003 – August 2004 : Chairman, JAM, IIT Madras

April 1999 – March 2002 :Warden, Tapti Hostel, IIT Madras

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Organizational involvement:

1. Organized a Short Term Course on “Fundamentals of Photovoltaic Materials and Devices, IIT Madras, June 1986.

2. Worked as Secretary for the 2^nd National Symposium in Defects in

Insulating Solids, IIT Madras , February 1988

3. Organized a Short term course on “ Photovoltaics for Terristrial and Space Applications” , IIT Madras, February 1996

4. Organized a Short term course exclusively for the industry on “Recent Trends and Market Potential of Photovoltaics” IIT Madras, July 1997

5. Worked as Member in the 9^th Plan Research Planning Committee to the Ministry of Non Conventional Energy Sources, Government of India (2000-2001).

6. Technical Expert member to the Andaman Nicobar Administration for Photovoltaic Tender Evaluation (2000 – 2001)

7. Working committee member, Ministry of Information Technology (for Electronic components, Materials and Photonics) 2002- 2008.

8. Board of Academic Studies member for : Cochin University of Science and technology, Cochin and Avinashi Lingam Institute (Deemed University), Coimbatore (2002 -2007).

9. Director, Board of M/s Microsol Power, Hyderabad (2003 – 2004).

10. Vice Chairman for the International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD), December 16-20, 2003

11. Local organizing Committee Member for International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility (INCEMIC), December 1999 (New Delhi) and December 2003 (Chennai).

Secretary, Alumni Association, IIT Madras (1987 -88)

Joint Secretary, Humboldt Club, Madras (1995-96)

Secretary, IIT Kharagpur Alumni Association, Madras Chapter(1999 –2002)

Joint Secretary, Semiconductor Society, New Delhi, India (1998 – 2001)

Editor, BOYSCAST News Letter (1998 -2000)

Ph.D. Theses guided:

S.No	Name of the student	Title of the Thesis	Year of award
1	N.Balasubramanian	Studies on Evaporated Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Films and the Junctions of ITO / Si and ITO / GaAs	1989
2	V.Vasu	Investigations on Pyrolytically Sprayed Tin Doped Indium Oxide (ITO) Films and Junctions of ITO / Si and ITO / InP	1991
3	P.Manivannan	Studies on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Films and Junctions of ITO / InP Prepared by Reactive e Beam Evaporation	1994
4	Viswanath Bhat Krishna	Studies on Ultra thin oxides of Silicon grown by Wet and Plasma Assisted Oxidation techniques	2000
5	Ullash Kumar Barik	Studies on electrical and optical properties of silver : indium oxide thin films by reactive DC Magnetron sputtering and reactive electron beam, evaporation technique	2005
6	Umakant Tripathy	Dipole-dipole interaction-induced excitation energy migration and transfer in organic Dye pairs and their non-linear Photophysics	2006
7	Krishna Kumar	Synthesis and applications of rare earth based AB2 alloy hydrides and carbon nanotubes	2007
8	A.Karuppasamy	Studies on the physical properties and electrochromic performance of pure and titanium doped tungsten oxide thin films prepared by DC magnetron sputtering	2007
9	Muthu Karuppasamy	Studies on the electrochromic and photocatalytic properties of pure and vanadium doped tungsten oxide thin films preprared by electron beam evaporation and DC Magnetron sputtering techniques	2008 Thesis being submitted
10	Krishna Valleti	Investigations on an innovative rotating cylindrical magnetron cathode and on tantalum based hard coatings	2008 Thesis being submitted
11	Hari babu	Magnetic Properties of Some cubic laves phase compounds containing Pr,Sm,Nd,Tb and Fe	2008 Thesis being submitted

M.Tech Theses/ Projects guided:

S.No	Name of the student	Title of the Thesis	Year of award
1	A. Ajit Kumar	Computer aided design for under water piezoelectric transducers	1987
2	R. Premachandran	Design, fabrication and characterisation of 100 KHz piezoelectric transducer	1988
3	A. Arun	Computer simulatio of Transparent conducting oxides on semiconductors and experimental studies on ZnO/Si and ZnO/GaAs junctions.	1990
4	Ms A.Amrita	Studies on metal Insulator Semiconductor (MIS) Solar Cells	1994
5	Bikash Kumar	Studies on Indium Oxide on Silicon Photovoltaic Junctions	1995
6	Ms.Anulekha Manjari	Low Dielectric Constant materials For Inter Layer Dielectrics in VLSI	2001
7	G.Vamsi Charan	Fabrication of MIS Tunnel Transistors	2001
8	Sanjay Mangal	Study of Wafer – to – Wafer Fusion Bonding for Sensor Applications	2002
9	Munish Kumar	Deposition and characterization of Nano Porous Silica Xerogel Film for use as Interlayer Dielectric in VLSI	2002

Research Publications in refereed Journals:

89. 2008 Studies on phase dependent mechanical properties of DC magnetron

sputtered TaNthin films: Evaluation of super hardness in orthorhombic Ta₄N phase

Krishna Valleti, A. Subrahmanyam , Srikant V. Joshi, A. R. Phani, M. Passacantando and S. Santucci

J.Phys D.Appl.Phys (In Print)

88. 2007 Magnetostriction of Tb0.1Ho0.9-xPrx(Fe0.9B0.1)2 (x=0-0.4) compounds

V.Hari Babu, A.Subrahmanam and G.Markandeyulu

J.Appl.Phys (In Print)

87. 2007 Magnetostriction of TbxHo0.75-xPr0.25(Fe0.9B0.1)2 (x=0-0.3)

compounds

V.Hari Babu G.Markandeyulu and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Magn.Magn.Mater (In Press)

86. 2007 Growth of nano crystalline near α - phase Tantalum thin films at room

temperature using cylindrical magnetron cathode

Krishna Valleti, A. Subrahmanyam and Shrikant V. Joshi

Surface and Coatings Technology (In Print)

85. 2008 Results on the electrochromic and photocatalytic properties of vanadium

doped tungsten oxide thin films prepared by reactive dc magnetron

sputtering technique

K Muthu Karuppasamy and A Subrahmanyam

J.Phys.D Applied Phys, vol 41 035302

84. 2007 Studies on electrochromic smart windows based on titanium doped WO3

thin films

A.Karuppasamy and A.Subrahmanyam

Thin Solid Films vol 516 pp 175-178

83. 2007 Giant magnetoresistance in Sm1-xNdxFe1.93 compounds

V.Haribabu, G.Markendeyulu and A.Subrahmanyam

Appl Phys Lett vol 90, pp 252513-16

82. 2007 Studies on the Oxygenation of human blood by Photocatalytic action

A.Subrahmanyam, T.Arockia Dossand T.Paul Ramesh

Artificial Organs vol 31, pp 819-825

81. 2007 Electron beam induced coloration and luminescence in layered structure of WO3 thin films grown by pulsed dc magnetron sputtering

A.Karuppasamy and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Appl.Phys vol 101, 113522

80. 2007 Oxygenation of human blood using photocatalytic reaction

A.Subrahmanyam, TPJ Ramesh and N. Ramakrishnan

ASAIO Journal, vol 53 (4), pp 434-437

79. 2007 Studies on the room temperature growth of Nano anatase phase TiO2 thin

films by Pulsed DC Magnetron with oxygen as sputter gas

A. Karuppasamy and A. Subrahmanyam

J.Appl.Phys vol 101, 064318

Reprinted in

Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. April 09, 2007

78. 2007 The effect of arc suppression on the physical properties of

low temperature DC magnetron sputtered tantalum thin films

A.Subrahmanyam, Krishna Valleti, Srikant V Joshi and G.Sundararajan

J Vac Sci and Technology vol 25, pp 378-382

77. 2007 Indium doped silver oxide thin films prepared by reactive electron beam

evaporation technique: Electrical properties

A.Subrahmanyam and U.K.Barik

J.Materials Science vol 42, pp 6041-6045

76. 2007 Optical and electrochromic properties of oxygen sputtered

Tungsten Oxide (WO₃) thin films

A. Subrahmanyam and A. Karuppasamy

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells vol 91, pp 266-274

75. 2007 Studies on the electrical properties of reactive DC Magnetron sputtered

indium doped silver oxide thin films : the role of oxygen

A.Subrahmanyam and U.K.Barik

Physica B vol 391 pp 54-58

74. 2007 Effect of electron bombardment on the properties of ZnO thin films

A. Karuppasamy and A. Subrahmanyam

Materials Letters vol 61, 1256-1259

73. 2007 A note on fast protonic solid state electrochromic device:

NiO_x/Ta₂O₅/WO_3-x

A. Subrahmanyam, C. Suresh Kumar and K. Muthu Karuppasamy

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol 61, pp 62-66

72. 2006 Nano silver oxide thin films for optical memories : New results

A.Subrahmanyam and P.Suman Kumar

IETE Journal of Research, vol 52 No 5

71. 2006 Oxygen sputtered Tungsten oxide thin films for enhanced electrochromic

Properties

A. Subrahmanyam, A. Karuppasamy and C. Suresh Kumar

Electrochemical Solidstate Letters, vol 9 pp H111-H114

70. 2006 Pulsed DC Magnetron Sputtered Tantalum Nitride Hard Coatings for

Tribological Applications

Aditya Aryasomayajula, Krishna Valleti, A.Subrahmanyam and Deepak G. Bhat

Surface and Coatings Technology vol 201, pp 4401-4405

69. 2006 Electrical and optical properties of silver doped indium oxide thin films prepared by reactive DC magnetron sputtering

A. Subrahmanyamand Ullash Kumar Barik

J.Phys and Chemistry of Solids vol 67, pp 1518-1523

68. 2006 Electrical and optical properties of reactive DC magnetron sputtered silver doped indium oxide thin films: role of oxygen

A. Subrahmanyam and Ullash Kumar Barik

J.Appl.Phys.A vol 84 pp 221-225

67. 2006 Studies on the electrochromic behaior of Lithium and Proton based solid state devices

S.Gunasekaran, A.Subrahmanyam, M.Karuppasamy and C.Suresh Kumar

ECS Trans. 1, (15) 29 (2006),

Volume 1, Issue 15 pp 29-36

208th ECS Meeting, October 16-October 21, 2005, Los Angeles, California

Electrochromics for Energy Efficiency: From the Material to the System

Editor(s): K. Zaghib, F. D'Souza, C. Julien, J. Xu

66. 2005 Carrier Transport Mechanism in Indium tin oxide (ITO)/Silicon hetero

Junctions: Effect of Chlorine

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam

Applied Physics A vol 80, pp 823 -827

65. 2005 Synthesis of P-type transparent conducting silver: indium

oxide (AIO) thin films by reactive electron beam evaporation technique

A.Subrahmanyam and U.K.Barik

J.Phys.Chem.Solids vol 66 pp 817-822

64. 2003 Electrical and Optical properties of Reactive DC Magnetron Sputtered

Silver Oxide Thin Films: Role of Oxygen

Ullash Kumar Barik, S.Srinivasan, C.L.Nagendra and A.Subrahmanyam

Thin Solid Films vol 429 pp 129-134.

63. 2002 Optical nonlinearity of organic dyes as studied by Z-scan and transient

grating techniques

U. Tripathy, R. J. Rajesh, P. B. Bisht, and A. Subrahmanyam

Proc.-Indian Acad. Sci., Chem. Sci. 114, 557-564

62. 2002 Effect of oxide growth temperature on the electrical performance of

extremely thin ( ~3 nm) wet oxides of silicon

Vishwanath Krishna Bhat, K. N. Bhat and A. Subrahmanyam

Materials Science and Engineering B vol 98 pp 140-143

61. 2002 Electrical Characterization of MIS capacitors with Xeroxel as Dielectric

E.Anulekha Manjari, A.Subrahmanyam, N.Das Gupta and A.DasGupta

Applied Physics Letters vol 80, no 10 pp 1800-1803

60. 2001 Electrical and Optical properties of Silver Oxide (Ag2O) Thin Films

prepared by Reactive Electron Beam Evaporation

Ullash Kumar Barik and A.Subrahmanyam

Proceedings of 11^th Intl Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Edited by Vikram Kumar and P.K.Basu, Allied Publishers, pp 1271 – 1274

59. 2001 Growth of ultrathin oxides of Silicon by wet oxidation at very low (0.04

atm) water vapor pressure

V K Bhat, K N Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

Semicond. Sci. Technol vol 16 pp 1-5

58. 2001 Electrical Characterization of Ultrathin Oxides of Silicon Grown by

Wet Oxidation at 800⁰

V. K. Bhat, K. N. Bhat and A. Subrahmanyam

Solid State Electronics vol 45 pp 1127 - 1135

57. 2000 Effect of Post Oxidation Annealing of the oxynitride on the C-V and G-V characteristics of Al/thin oxynitride/n-Si tunnel diodes

V.K.Bhat, K.N.Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

Semicond.Sci Technol vol 15 pp 1-5

56. 2000 P-type Transparent Conducting In2O3 – Ag2O Thin Films Prepared by Reactive Electron Beam Evaporation Technique

J.Asbalter and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Vac.Sci and Technology vol 18 pp 1672 –1676

55. 2000 Electrical Characterization of Ultra thin oxides of Silicon Grown by N2O Plasma Assisted oxidation

V.K.Bhat, K.N.Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Eletronic Mater. Vol 29 pp 399- 404

54. 2000 Electrical charcterization of extremely thin (2.7 nm) Oxy nitride and oxide of Silicon grown by N2O Plasma and wet oxidation techniques at low temperatures: A comparison

Viswanath Krishna Bhat, K.N.Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

Jap.J.Appl.Phys, vol 39, L159- L 162

53. 1999 Minority Carrier Life time in Silicon Solar Cells by Short Circuit Current Decay Technique

V.Subramanian, A.Subrahmanyam and V.R.K.Murty

Proc of 10^th Intl Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Allied Publishers, 1999, pp 1292-1295

52. 1999 Frequency Dependence of Accumulation Capacitance of MOS Structure with Ultra thin Oxide Layer

Viswanath K Bhat, K.N.Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

Proc of 10^th Intl Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Allied Publishers, 1999, pp 341- 344

51. 1999 Properties of Indium Tin Oxide Thin Films Prepared by Reactive

Electron Beam Evaporation Technique for EMI Control

J.Asbalter,S.Karunakaran and A.Subrahmanyam

Proceedings of the International Conference on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference, 1999, IEEE No. 99 TH 8487, pp 366-371

50. 1999 Effect of pre-oxidation surface preparation on the growth of ultra thin oxides of silicon

Viswanath Krishna Bhat, K.N.Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

Semicond.Sci Technol vol 14 ,705 - 709

49. 1999 The Growth of Ultra Thin Oxides of Silicon by Low Temperature Wet

Oxidation Technique

Viswanath Krishna Bhat, M.Pattabhiraman, K.N.Bhat and A.Subrahmanyam

Mat.Res Bull vol 34 No.10

48. 1998 Studies on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)/n-GaAs Junctions

A.Subrahmanyam , Z.Horvath, J.Karanyi and I.Racz

Proceedings of 2^nd World Conference on Photovoltaics, Vienna.

47. 1998 Effect of Preoxidation cleaning on the characteristics of Al-thin SiO₂-Si Tunnel diodes prepared by Low temperature, Low Pressure wet oxidation

Bhat Viswanata Krishna, A.Subrahmanyam and K.N.Bhat

Proceedings of SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1 (3316), pp 599 - 603

46. 1998 Studies on PECVD grown a Si:Ge alloys

K.Seetharaman, P.Senni, E.Bhattacharya and A.Subrahmanyam

Proceedings of SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1 (3316), pp 682 - 685

45. 1998 Electrical and Photovoltaic study of ITO/GaAs and ITO/InP Hetero junctions

Z.Horvath, A.Subrahmanyam , P.Manivannan, N.Balasubramanian, A.Nemcsics,J.Karanyi, I.Racz and Vo van Tuyen

Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Vienna, Austria (July 6-10,1998).

44. 1996 Automated REED Type Kelvin Probe Setup for Workfunction and Surface

Photovoltage Studies in Semiconductors

C.Suresh Kumar, A.Subrahmanyam and J.Majhi

Rev of Scientific Instr vol 67 (3) pp 805 - 808

43. 1995 Studies on transport Mechanism in Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)/p- Indium

Phosphide InP) Solar Cells Prepared by Reactive Electron Beam Evaporation and Spray Pyrolysis Techniques

A.Subrahmanyam, V.Vasu and P.Manivannan

Proceedings of First World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion , Dec 5-9,Waikola, Hawaii, USA pp 1922 -1925

42. 1995 Characterisation of Silicon:Germanium Alloys by Rutherford Backscattering

Technique

A.Subrahmanyam

Metals Materials And Processes Vol 6 No 4 pp 263 - 268

41. 1995 Transport Mechanism of Spray Pyrolytic grown indium tin oxide/ indium

phosphide junctions

V.Vasu, P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Appl.Phys vol 77 pp5220

40. 1994 Electrical Characterisation of Electron Beam Evaporated Indium Tin Oxide

(ITO) Indium Phosphide junctions

P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Appl.Phys vol 76 pp 2912 - 2917

39. 1993 The dominant scattering mechanism in tin doped indium oxide thin films

P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Phys.D:Appl.Phys vol 27 pp 1085

38. 1993 Studies on the Electrical and Optical Properties of Reactive Electron Beam

Evaporated Indium Tin Oxide films

P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Phys. D: Appl.Phys vol 26 pp 1510

37. 1993 Spray Pyrolytic Grown ITO/InP Junctions: Effect of Tin Doping.

V. Vasu, A. Subrahmanyam, J. Kumar and P. Ramasamy,

Semicond. Sci. and Technol. vol 8 pp 437

36. 1992 Studies of the Photovoltaic Behaviour of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)/Silicon

junctions prepared by reactive thermal Evaporation technique

A.Subrahmanyam and N.Balasubramanian

Semicond. Sci and Tech vol 7 pp 324

35. 1992 Effect of Substrate Temperature on the Photovoltaic Properties of In₂O₃/InP

Junctions Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Technique

V.Vasu and A.Subrahmanyam

Proceedings of 6th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering

Conference, Feb 10-14, New Delhi (Oxford), pp 1083

34. 1992 Photovoltaic Properties of Indium tin oxide (ITO)/ Silicon Junctions

Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis - Dependence on Oxidation time

V.Vasu and A.Subrahmanyam

Semicond. Sci and Tech vol 7 pp 320

33. 1992 Photovoltaic properties of sprayed In₂O₃ - InP junctions.

A. Subrahmanyam, V. Vasu, P. Santana Raghavan, J.Kumar and

P. Ramasamy,

Mat. Sci. and Engg. vol B14 pp 365

32. 1992 Photovoltaic properties of Spray Pyrolytic Grown Indium Tin Oxide

(ITO)/Silicon junctions - Dependence on substrate temperature.

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam,

Semicond. Sci. & Tech. vol 7 pp 1471

31. 1991 Physical properties of sprayed SnO₂ films.

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam,

Thin Solid Films vol 202 pp 283

30. 1991 Studies on Evaporated Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)/Si junctions and an

estimation of ITO Workfunction

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanaym

J.Electro Chem Soc vol 138 pp 322

29. 1990 Studies on the Photovoltaic Characterisatics of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)/ n-

Gallium Arsenide Hetero Junctions

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanaym

Solar Cells vol 28 pp 319

28. 1990 Electrical and Optical properties of sprayed SnO₂ films: Dependence on the

oxidizing agent in the starting material.

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam,

Thin Solid Films vol 193/194 pp 973

27. 1990 Schottky diode Properties and the Photovoltaic Behaviour of Indium Tin

Oxide (ITO)/n- GaAs junctions - Efffect of Arsenic Deficient GaAs Surface

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

Semicond. Sci and Tech vol 5 pp 871

26. 1990 Reaction kinetics of the formation of Indium Tin Oxide films grown by spray pyrolysis.

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam,

Thin Solid Films vol 193/194 pp 696

25. 1990 Electrical and Optical Properties of Sprayed SnO₂ films: Dependence on

oxidising Agent in the Starting Material

V.Vasu and A.Subrahmanyam

Thin Solid FIlms vol 193/194 pp 973

24. 1990 Electrical and Optical properties of pyrolytically sprayed SnO₂ films-

Dependence on substrate temperature and substrate- nozzle distance.

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam,

Thin Solid Films vol 189 pp 217

23. 1990 Schottky Barrier at Indium tin oxide / n- GaAs interface - Effect of Surface

arsenic deficiency

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

Thin Solid Films vol 193/194 pp 528

22. 1989 Electrical and optical Properties of reactively Evaporated Indium Tin Oxide

(ITO) Films -Dependence on Substrate Temperatures and Tin Concentration

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Phys. D: Appl.Phys vol 22 pp 206

(Also appeared in Engineering Optics May 89 issue)

21. 1988 Effect of Substratre temperature on the Electrical and Optical Properties of

reactively Evaporated Indium Tin Oxide films

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

Mat.Sci and Engg vol B1 pp 279

20. 1988 Dielectric Properties of HgCl₂:2KCl:H₂O single Crystals in the rf range

S.Sree Hari Sastry, G.Satyanandam, A.Subrahmanyam and V.R.K.Murty

phys.stat.solidi(a) vol 105 pp K71

19. 1986 Role of Impurities in Zn₃P₂ Crystals

A.Subrahmanyam, K.R.Murali and J.Sobhanadri

J.Materials Science and Engineering vol 79 pp 239

18. 1986 Dielectric Properties of CsBr Single Crystals - Effect of DC Bias

K.V.S.Badarinath and A.Subrahmanyam

Solid State Communications vol 58 pp 137

17. 1986 Effect of DC Bias on the Dielectric Properties of Rutile Crystals

S.Sree Hari Sastry, C.R.K.Murty and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Materials. Science Letters vol 5 pp 859

16. 1986 Dielectric Properties of Tetra methyl ammonium tri and tetra halo mercurates

S.Sree Hari Sastry, C.R.K.Murty and A.Subrahmanyam

phys.stat.solidi(a) vol 95 pp K57

15. 1985 Dielectric Properties of Zn₃P₂ Crystals

A.Subrahmanyam, K.R.Murali, B.S.V.Gopalam and J.Sobhanadri

phys.stat.solidi(a) vol 88 pp 681

14. 1985 Dielectric Properties of KCl and NaCl Crystals -Time effects

A.Subrahmanyam

Solid State Communications vo l55 pp 1127

13. 1984 Dielectric Properties of RbCl Single crystals

A.Subrahmanyam and K.V.S.Badarinath

phys.stat.solidi(a) vol 84 pp K83

12. 1983 Optical absorption and Thermoluminiscence of KCl Single crystals coloured

under DC fields

A.Subrahmanyam

phys.stat.solidi(a) vol 78 pp 665

11. 1983 Effect of DC Field and X irradiation on the optical Absorption and

Thermoluminiscence of NaCl Single crystals

A.Subrahmanyam

phys.stat.solidi(a) vol 77 pp 45

10. 1982 Dielectric Properties of KCl single Crystals

A.Subrahmanyam and K.V.Rao

Ind.J.Phys vol 56A, pp 181

9. 1982 Dielectric Properties of NaCl and KCl Single Crystals X irradiated Under

Different DC Fields

A.Subrahmanyam

phys.Stat.solidi(a) vol 69 pp 773

8. 1979 Effect of DC Field and X ray Irradiation on the F band Absorption and

thermoluminiscence of NaCl Single crystals

A.Subrahmanyam and K.V.Rao

Ind.J.Pure and Appl. Phys vol 17 pp 469

7. 1979 Effect of DC Biasing Field on the Dielectric Constant of Rutile Single

Crystals

A.Subrahmanyam, K.V.Rao and H.N.Bose

Ind.J.Phys vol 53A, pp 30

6. 1979 F band Absorption and Thermoluminiscence of KCl Single Crystals under

DC field and X ray Irradiation

A.Subrahmanyam and K.V.Rao

phys.Stat Solidi (a) vol 52 pp K147

5. 1979 Dielectric Properties of Paddy

A.Subrahmanyam and K.V.Rao

Il Riso (Italy) vol 28 pp 183

(Based on this work, a moisture meter has been developed in IIT Kharagpur, India being used by farmers)

4. 1979 Estimation of vacancy concentration in X irradiated NaCl Single crystals

using thermal expansion measurements

A.K.Gupta, K.V.Rao and A.Subrahmanyam

J.Phys.D: Appl.Phys vol 12 pp L131

3. 1979 Effect of DC biasing field on the dielectric constant of Rutile Single crystals

A.Subrahmanyam, K V Rao and H N Bose

Indian Journal of Physics vol A 53 (1-2) 30-34

2. 1979 Dielectric Properties and Short range Interaction Polarisation of CsBr Single

Crystals

A.Subrahmanyam , A.K.Gupta and K.V.Rao

Ind.J.Pure and Appl. Phys. vol 17 pp 445

1. 1977 Dielectric Properties of Cr₂O₃ Single Crystals

K.V.Rao and A.Subrahmanyam

Ind.J.Pure and Appl. Phys vol 15, pp 359

Contributed Chapters/Papers in Books:

1. 1992 Studies on ITO/Si Junctions Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis technique

A.Subrahmanyam and V.Vasu

Solid State materials, Ed S.Radhakrishna and A.Daud

Narosa Publishing Co, New Delhi pp 264

2. 1993 Analysis of Semiconductor Surfaces: the Kelvin's Probe

A.Subrahmanyam

Semiconductor Materials, Characterisation Techniques,

Ed P.R.Vaya

Narosa Publishing , New Delhi pp 192

3. 1993 Photovoltaic Properties of Reactive Thermal Evaporated Indium Oxide (IO)/

Silicon junctions

A.Subrahmanyam

NATO ASI Series Ed. Orlando Auciello and Jurgen Engemann,

Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol 234 pp 389

Papers presented in International Conferences:

1. 1987 Effect of Substrate Temperature on the electrical and Optical properties of ITO Films

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces

Hamamtsu, Japan October, pp 352

2. 1987 Dependence of Electrical and Optical properties of Indium oxide films on

Substrate temperature

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

IV Intl Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices

December 10-15, IIT Madras, pp 101-104

3. 1988 Investigations on ITO/n-GaAs heterojunctions

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

Intl Conf and Intensive Tutorial Course on Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Dec 8-13, New Delhi, pp 120-121

4. 1989 Electrical and Optical Properties of ITO Films and ITO/Si Junctions Prepared by DC Magnetron Sputering

A.Subrahmanyam and Ron P Howson

7 Intl Conference on Ion and Plasma Assisted Techniques,

31 May - 2 June, Geneva, pp 310-314

5. 1990 Reaction Kinetics of the formation of Indium Tin Oxide Films Grown by Spray pyrolysis

V.Vasu and A.Subrahmanyam

17 Intl Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, 2-6 April,San Diego, USA, pp 696-703

6. 1990 Electrical and Optical Properties of SnO₂ films: Dependence on Oxidizing

agent in the Starting Material

V.Vasu and A.Subrahmanyam

17 Intl Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, 2-6 April,San Diego, USA, pp 973 - 980

7. 1990 Schottky Barrier at Indium tin oxide (ITO) n- GaAs interface: Effect of

Arsenic Deficiency

N.Balasubramanian and A.Subrahmanyam

17 Intl Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, 2-6 April, San Diego, USA, pp 528 - 535

8. 1992 Effect of Substrate temperature on the Photovoltaic behaviour of In₂O₃/InP prepared by spray pyrolysis technique.

V. Vasu and A. Subrahmanyam,

Proc. 6th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference,Feb. 1992, New Delhi, India, p. 1083.

9. 1992 Photovoltaic Properties of Reactive Thermal Evaporated Indium Oxide (IO)/

Silicon junctions

A.Subrahmanyam

NATO ASI School on Multicomponent, Multifilms for Microelectronics Applications, Bad Windsheim, Germany, October 1992, pp 192

10. 1993 X Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) studies of InP Surface

P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, New Delhi pp 447

11. 1994 Anomolous Current Transport Through GaAs and InP Schottky Junctions

L.Liptak, J.Karnyi, Zs.Horvath, Vo Van Tuyen and B.Szentpali, P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

XXIII International School On Physics of Semiconducting Compounds, Jaszowiec, Poland May 30 –June 3.

12. 1994 Anomalous Current Transport Through A^IIIB^V Schottky Junctions

Zs Horvath, L.Liptak, Vo Van Tuyen, J.Karanyi, L.Csontos,B.Szentpali,A.Bosacchi,S.Franchi,E.Gombia,R.Mosca, P.Manivannan and A.Subrahmanyam

17 Annual Semicond Conf. CAS 94, Sinaia, Romania, Oct 11-16.

13. 1994 Studies on transport Mechanism in Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)/p-Indium

Phosphide (InP) Solar Cells Prepared by Reactive ElectronBeam Evaporation and Spray Pyrolysis Techniques

A.Subrahmanyam, V.Vasu and P.Manivannan

First World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion , Dec 5-9,Waikola, Hawaii, USA

14. 1995 Capacitance - Voltage Analysis of a complex interface

A.Subrahmanyam

V International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices

New Delhi, December 5-8, 1995.

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Sponsored Research Projects:

1. Preparation and Characterisation of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Heterostructures

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India

Sanction number : 3(596)/86 - EMR II dated November 1986

Duration of the project: August 87 till August 90

Cost of the project: Rs 265, 000

2. Studies on the heterojunctions of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) / Silicon prepared by Spray pyrolysis and Electron Beam Evaporation Techniques.

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India

Sanction number : 3 (699)/ 91 - EMR II dated February 91

Duration of the project : March 1991 till February 1993

Cost of the project : Rs 212,000

3. Investigations of the effect of Gamma Irradiation on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Based Heterostructures Prepared by Electron Beam Evaporation Technique

Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India

Sanction number : 34/6/88 - G dated May 88

Duration of the project: August 89 till October 94

( with a break between August 91 till August 93)

Cost of the project : Rs 425,000

4. Fabrication of Contact Potential Difference Setup for Surface/ Interface Analysis of Semiconductor materials and Devices

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Sanction number : SP/S2/M24/ 87 dated February 1988

Duration of the project : October 1988 till September 1992

Cost of the project : Rs 653,000

5. Preliminary Investigations and Feasibility Studies on ZnO/Si and ZnO/Ge Hetero junctions

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Project sanctioned under the Young Scientists Scheme

Sanction number : SP/OY/P05/89 dated Sept 1990

Duration: October 1990 till September 1992

Cost : Rs 100,000

This project has been merged both in working and budget with the other project of DST (sanction number SP/S2/ M 24/ 87).

6. Studies on the Growth Parameters of Silicon : Germanium Alloys Prepared by PECVD Technique

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Sanction number : SP/S2/M21/93 dated 05.05.94

Total budget in the project (Phase 1): Rs 700,000

Date of completion: October 1997.

7. Development of Optical Lens coater

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India

Sanction number : 03(0760)/94/EMR II dated November 94

Duration: TWO years

Total budget in the Project : Rs 3,50,000

8. Evaluation of Process Induced Defect Levels in Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposited (PECVD) Silicon: Germanium Alloys

Indo - US Project

Sanction number: DST/INT/USIF/476/95 dated 16.08.95

Duration : Three Years ( August 1995 – December 2000)

Total Budget in the Project: Rs 1,922,440

9. Publication of BOYSCAST News Letter

Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Duration : Two years (March 1999 – February 2001)

Sanction number : HRU/BYS/04/97

Total Budget: Rs 3,12,000

10. Technology Development for Indium tin oxide (ITO) coatings on plastic and glass for EMI Suppression

Department of Electronics (Now known as Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India)

Sanction number: 2(1)/99-M&C dated 20.07.99

Duration : One and half years (October 99 – May 2001)

Total budget: Rs 790,000

11. Investigations on p-type conducting and transparent Oxide Thin Films by DC Magnetron Sputtering Technique

Council of Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR)

Sanction Number: 3(0934)/01/EMR –II

Duration: April 2001 – March 2004 (Three Years)

Total Budget : Rs 588,000

(Suspended after one year : April 2002)

12. Development of genetic Algorithm to study the structure of Complex systems

(As Co-Investigator) Principal Investigator is Prof Maha Seshasayee

Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Sanction number F.26-4/99 TS dated 21.3.2000-08-10

Duration: Three Years

Total budget: Rs 8,72,496/

13. Development of Quality Assured process Technology for ITO coatings on Aluminized Kapton Films for Space Applications

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Sanction number : ICSR/ISROIITM/PHY/074/0203/ASUB

Value of the project: :Rs 3,24,300

Duration : ONE YEAR

14. Silver Doped Indium Oxide Thin Films for Space Applications

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Sanction number : ICSR/ISROIITM/PHY/067/01-02/ASUB

Duration : May 2001 – May 2004 (Three Years)

Total budget : Rs 896,400

15. PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN AND STORAGE OF HYDROGEN IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Ministry of Human Resource Development

Duration: TWO Years

Value of the Project: Rs. 14.91 lakhs

16. Investigations on the reaction kinetics of silane glow discharge plasma in high frequency

Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

Sanction number: SP/S2/K-11/99 dated 11.07.2001

Duration : February 2003 - March 2006

Total Budget : Rs 1,891,000

17. Studies on Silver and Copper based Oxide Films for New and Novel p- type Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCO)

Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)

Sanction number: ERIP/ER/00200174/M01

Value of the project : 23.48 lakhs

Duration : TWO Years

18. Development of Solid State Electro Chromic Device for Medical Applications

John F. Welch Technology Centre, GE India Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd. ,

Bangalore, India

Duration : ONE year (January – December 2004)

Value : Rs 13.50 Lakhs

19. Thin Films of Indium Gallium Nitride (IGN) for Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Applications : Basic Studies

Defence Research and Development Organization, Govt of India

ERIP/ER/0300210/M/01/ dated 15 January 2004

Duration : THREE Years (March 2004 – February 2007)

Value : 41.5 lakhs

20. Investigations and Development of Nano Silver Oxide for Optical Memories

Department of Information Technology, Government of India

20(8)/2003-VCND dated 03 March 2004

Duration : TWO Years (April 2004 – March 2007)

Value : 31.5 Lakhs

21. Technology Development for Indium Tin Oxide Coatings on Video Monitors (Phase II)

Department of Information Technology, Government of India

1(6) 2003-M&C dated 24 March 2004

Duration : TWO Years (April 2004 – March 2006)

Value : 98.0 Lakhs

22. Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for temperature Sensor

and Thermal Control Applications: Exploratory Studies

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

ICSR/ISROIITM/Phy/0405/090/ASUB

Duration: Three years : April 2005 – September 2007,

Value : Rs 200,8000

23. Nano thin films for Medical applications

Department of Information Technology, Govt of India

Phy/06-07/185/DITX/ASUB

Duration: Two years : December 2006 – November 2008

Value: 24.20 Lakhs

24. Studies on Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Fluorescence of Nano Silver Oxide doped / mixed with Gold and Copper for Ultra High Density Optical Memories

Department of Information Technology, Govt of India

Duration : TWO years

Value : 47.00 Lakhs

Three more projects are in pipeline.

Dr.A.Subrahmanyam

Professor

A. Subrahmanyam and A. Karuppasamy

Vishwanath Krishna Bhat, K. N. Bhat and A. Subrahmanyam

Ministry of Human Resource Development