ZnO Nanocrystals and Allied Materials

Prof. M.S. Ramachandra Rao is heading the 'Nanostructured Thin Films and Advanced Materials group’ at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. His research activities are primarily focused on Physics and Applications of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials. Prof. Rao obtained his M.Sc. (Physics) and Ph.D. (experimental solid state physics) from IIT Kharagpur, India. He was a research scientist at CNRS, Bellevue, France, Alexander von Humboldt fellow, JSPS fellow and Erasmus Mundus foreign academician and Visiting Faculty at UMCP, USA. Prof. Rao is the Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP), UK and the editorial board member (from India) of J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys (IoP). His research areas: PLD grown doped ZnO nanostructures to realize light emission; Magnetic nanoparticles for hyperthermia and water purification applications; Synthesis of Nano-ink of selenide-based photovoltaics; Nanocrystalline diamond for mechanical applications; Study of diffusion process in nano-scale metal-oxides;CVD grown Graphene layers for transport study. He has 17 years of teaching experience and published about 130 research publications, obtained 7 patents and 4 technology transfers, guided 10 Ph.D. students and 65 UG and PG project students. Prof. Tatsuo Okada is associated as Professor with Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. Currently, he is Invited Professor at Jinan University, China. Prof. Okada has received his doctoral degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University in 1981. He has authored more than 100 articles in last 10 years and also authored two books “Lasers in Chemistry” and “Lasers in Material Sciences”. His field of specialization is Laser Engineering.

Zinc Oxide: The Versatile Material with an Assortment of Physical Properties.- Laser Nano-Soldering of ZnO Nanowires and GaN Thin Film for Fabrication of Hetero p-n Junction.- Photoluminescence Processes in ZnO Thin Films and Quantum Structures.- Effect of Oxygen Pressure on Photoluminescence Spectra and Hall Coefficients of Li-Ni co-doped ZnO Films Grown by a Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Lasing Characteristics of an Optically-pumped Single ZnO Nanocrystal and Nanomachining for Controlling Oscillation Wavelength.- Deposition of Aluminum-doped ZnO Films by ICP Assisted Sputtering.- Control of ZnO Nanocrystals Synthesized by Nanoparticle-assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition using Buffer Layer and Laser Irradiation.- Influence of Sb as a Catalyst in Synthesize of Sb Doped ZnO Nanostructures using NAPLD (Nano Particle Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition) for UV LED Applications.- Time- and spatially-resolved Luminescence Spectroscopy of ZnO Nanostructures.- Synthesis of Polycrystalline Silicon Carbide (SiC) Thin Film Using Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Preparation and Characterization of ZnO Nanorods, Nanowalls and Nanochains.- Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO-based Phosphors and Related Phosphor Composites in Bulk, Thin Film and Nano Form.- Zinc Oxide Nanomaterials as Amylase Inhibitors and for Water Pollution Control.- Zinc Oxide – from Optoelectronics to Biomaterial: A Short Review.- On the Optical and Magnetic Properties of Doped ZnO.- Low-temperature Photoluminescence of Sb-doped ZnO Nanowires Synthesized on Sb-coated Si Substrate by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method.- Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Dopant, Defect and Morphology Control on the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Transition Metal Doped ZnO Nanoparticles.