Alumni

Doctoral students:

  • Pan Adhikari, “Electrical and Optical Characterization of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy,” August 2022.
  • Kanishka Kobbekaduwa, “In situ Study of Ultrafast Carrier Transport Dynamics in Perovskite Thin-Films,” August 2022.
  • Prakash Parajuli, “Phonon Anharmonicity in Binary Chalcogenides for Efficient Energy Harvesting,” August 2021.
  • Fengjiao Liu, “Thermoelectric and optical properties of SnSe,” June 2019.
  • Lakshman Ventrapragada, “Nanomaterials-based Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Fuel Cells”, January 2019.
  • Sai Sunil Mallineni, “Two-dimensional nanomaterials for renewable energy generation and sensing applications”, May 2018.
  • Anthony Childress, “Graphene Foam and Helically Coiled Carbon Nanotubes as Electrodes in Energy Storage Devices”, May 2018.
  • Yongchang Dong, “Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Emerging Low-Dimensional Materials”, May 2018.
  • Longyu Hu, “Modulation of Photonic Mode Density in Silver Nanodisks and Far Field Focusing of Light by Coupled Plasmonic Nanorings”, December 2017.
  • Jingyi Zhu, “Defects in graphene: electrochemical, magnetic, and optical properties”, December 2016.
  • Mehmet Karakaya, “Scalable Synthesis and Energy Applications of Defect Engineered Nanomaterials”, December 2015.
  • Deepika Saini, “Mechanical Properties of Low Dimensional Materials”, August 2014.
  • Pooja Puneet, “Multi-Scale Defect Engineering and Interface Modification for Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties in Nanostructured Bulk Materials”, August 2013.
  • Kiran Lingam, “Spectroscopic Signature for Bundling, Edge States and Impurities in 1D and 0D Materials”, December 2012. 
  • Doyl Dickel, “Electrical Detection of Mechanical Resonance in Nanotubes and Semiconducting Nanowires”, December 2011.
  • Ramakrishna Podila, “Effects of Surface States, Defects and Dopants on the Optical and Magnetic Properties of Low Dimensional Materials”, August 2011.
  • Jason Reppert, “Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials”, December 2009.
  • Keqin Yang, “Coiled Growth, Doping and Intertubular bonding in Carbon Nanotubes – Synthesis Methods and Properties”, December 2009.
  • Gayatri Keskar, “Inferring Mechanical Resonances in Micro- and Nanocantilevers Using the Harmonic Detection of Resonance Method to Develop a Novel Sensing Platform”, August 2008.
  • Bevan Elliott, “Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Reactivity of Endohedral Metallofullerenes and other Endohedral Carbon Nanostructures”, August 2008.
  • Rahul Rao, “Raman Spectroscopic Evidence for Anharmonic Phonon Lifetimes and Blueshifts in 1D Structures”, May 2007.
  • Jay Gaillard, “Harmonic Detection of Resonance in Micro- and Nano-cantilevers”, December 2006.
  • Kristopher McGuire, “Raman Characterization of Doped Carbon Nanotubes, and Semiconducting Oxide Nanobelts and Nanowires”, December 2003.

Masters Graduates: 

  • Poonam Choudhary, “Spectroscopic Investigation of Protein Corona”, August 2014.
  • Luciana Oliveira, “Tensile Properties of IM7 Fibers”, December 2012.
  • Ismail Bilgin, “CVD Growth of Spinnable Nanotube Forests”, August 2012.
  • Damien Howard, “Potential use of Coiled Carbon Nanotubes as Meta-materials”, May 2012.
  • Mehmet Karakaya, “Exploring the Use of SPEED: Surface Patterning by Electron Emission-induced Displacement for Photonic Applications”, August 2011.
  • D. Taylor, “Analysis of the Harmonic Detection of Resonances Method as Applied to Vibrating Micro- and Nano-Cantilevers”, December 2007.
  • Jason Reppert, “Laser-assisted Synthesis and Optical Properties of Bismuth Nanorods”, May 2007.
  • Wei Wang, “Bulk Synthesis and Characterization of Helical Coiled Carbon Nanostructures”, December 2004.
  • Rahul Rao, “Thermal CVD Synthesis of Semiconducting Oxide Nanowires and Nanobelts”, December 2004.
  • Gayatri Keskar, “Controlled Growth and Doping of Isolated Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube”, December 2004.
  • Nick Gothard, “Controlled Growth of Y Junction Carbon Nanotubes”, December 2003.
  • Bindu Sadanadan, “Synthesis and Characterization of Nitrogen-Doped Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes, May 2003.
  • Saurabh Chopra, “Carbon Nanotube Based Resonant-Circuit Sensor for Gas Detection” August 2002.
  • Traig Savage, “Investigation of Photoinduced Adsorption of Oxygen in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes using Thermoelectric Power Measuresurements”, August 2002.
  • Ulrich Schlecht, “High-Pressure Study of the Raman modes in Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes”, August 2000.
  • William Lee, “Enhanced Electrochemical Li ion Intercalation into MoS2 Nanoparticle Based Electrodes”, August 1998.

BS Degree Graduates:

  • Brooke Henry “The Effects of Electrolyte Composition on Li-S Battery Performance,” July 2021.
  • Matthew Everette “Electrolyte Selection for Enhanced Lithium Sulfurized Polyacrolynitrile Batteries,” July 2021.
  • David Thomas, “Preparation of few layered Graphene via the Ultra-sonication Method,” May 2012.
  • John Spear, “Optimization of CVD Growth Process for Nitrogen-Doped Graphene,” December 2011.
  • Matt Craps, Senior Thesis Topic: “Growth of 1D Bismuth Telluride Nanostructures using Pulsed Laser Vaporization and Thermal CVD Techniques” December 2005.
  • D. Taylor, Senior Thesis Topic: “Harmonic Detection of Resonances in Vibrating Micro- and Nano-Cantilevers,” December 2005.
  • Caroline Yount, Conducted research in the area of doped carbon nanotubes, and was awarded the 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
  • Colin Harris, B.S., “Upgrading He Glove Box for Electrochemical Measurement Capability,” August 2002.
  • Jay Gaillard, Senior Thesis Topic: “Optimization CVD Growth Process for Large Scale Production of Multiwalled and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, December 2001.
  • Tara Morgan, Senior Thesis Topic: “Use of Carbon Nanotube Resonator for Gas Detection”, August 2001.

High School Students:

  • Isabel Rancu “Thermoelectric figure-of-merit from Peltier cooling,” Summer 2021.
  • Oliver Rancu “High Figure-of-merit and its origin in Sb-doped GeTe single crystals,” Summer 2020.
  • Patricio Ortiz “Characterization of 3D Printed Thermoelectrics by the Linseis System to Maximize their Figure-of-merit,” Summer 2019.
  • Nikhita Patel “Fabrication of carbon-based paper for electro-chemical applications”, Summer 2013
  • Nila Veerabagu “Preparing Nanostructured Cantilevers on Sharpened Tungsten Tips”, Summer 2014
  • Balu Pillai, “Academic Magnet High School Project – The Determination of Young’s Modulus of a Coiled Carbon Nanowire via the Harmonic Detection of Resonance Method”, December 2011.
  • Siddhart Mohan, “CVD Growth of ZnO Nanowires”, December 2004.

Creative Inquiry Students:

  • Paul Welsh – Sophomore MS&E
  • Hunter Lee – Freshman ME
  • Ben Shealy – Sophomore MS&E
  • Olivia Layman – Sophomore Chem E

Ph. D. Students at International Institutions:

  • Sai Muthukumar V, Department of Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India
  • Abilash Gangula, Department of Chemistry, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India
  • Pradyumna Mulpur, Department of Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India
  • Aleksandr Käkinen, Department of Environmental Toxicology, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Estonia