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Research topic: Functional nanostructures and nanocomposites

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Functional materials, made from incorporating nanostructures into a variety of host such as metals, semiconductors and dielectrics, can be a powerful route to realizing novel applications in plasmonics, spintronics, magnetics, information processing and sensing.

Functional materials and nanostructures: Plasmoncs, Magnetics and Nanophotonics
  1. H. Krishna, C. Miller, L. L-Spoor, Z. Nussinov, A. K. Gangopadhyay and R. Kalyanaraman, Unusual size-dependent magnetization in near hemispherical Co nanomagnets on SiO2 from fast pulsed laser processing, J. Appl. Phys. 103, 073902 (2008).
  2. A.K. Gangopadhyay, H. Krishna, C. Favazza, C. Miller, and R. Kalyanaraman, Heterogeneous nucleation of amorphous alloys on catalytic nanoparticles to produce 2D patterned nanocrystal arrays, Nanotechnology, 18, 485606 (2007).
  3. H. Garcia and R.  Kalyanaraman, The convolution theorem for nonlinear optics, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 111114, (2007).
  4. H. Garcia, J. Trice, R. Kalyanaraman, and R. Sureshkumar, Self consistent determination of plasmonic resonances in ternary nanocomposites, Phys. Rev. B 75, 045439 (2007). (Editor selected for publication in the Feb 12, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, AIP publications)
  5. H. Krishna and R. Kalyanaraman, Functional nanostructured thin films, In Book, Functional nanostructures: Synthesis, properties and applications, Edited by S. Seal, Springer, (48 pages) (2007).
  6. H. Garcia, H. Krishna, and R. Kalyanaraman, A new figure of merit for photonic applications of metal nanocomposites, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 141109-1-3 (2006).
  7. H. Garcia and R. Kalyanaraman, Phonon-assisted two-photon absorption in the presence of a dc-field: the nonlinear Franz-Keldysh effect in indirect gap semiconductors, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 2737-2746 (2006).






Contact Ramki Kalyanaraman

304 Dougherty Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2200
Phone: (865) 974-5335 (secy)
Fax: (865) 974-4115
Email: ramki at utk dot edu