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Home » Prof. Ramki Kalyanaraman, MSE & CBE


Research topic: Thin film growth and Characterization

Please click here for publications in this area. 

Our work in the area of thin films is focused on the processing of thin films during and after growth in order to realize desired nanostructures and morphologies. The scientific and applied goals are to understand nucleation, self-assembly and self-organization in materials having  applications in plasmonics, magnetics and sensing.



Thin-film growth and characterization
  1. L. L-Spoor, P.C. Gibbons, K.F. Kelton, and R. Kalyanaraman, Nanostructure of room temperature deposited TiB2 on Si(001) by pulsed laser ablation, Thin Sol. Films, 516, 5181 ( 2008).
  2.  C. Favazza, R. Kalyanaraman, and R. Sureshkumar, Dynamics of ultrathin metal films on amorphous substrates under fast thermal processing, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 104308 (2007).(Editor selected for publication in the Dec 3, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, AIP publications)
  3. J. Dalla Torre, G. H. Gilmer, D. L. Windt, R. Kalyanaraman F. H. Baumann P. L. O Sullivan, J. Sapjeta, T. Diaz de la Rubia, M. Djafari Rouhani, Microstructure of thin tantalum films sputtered onto inclined substrates: Experiments and atomistic simulations, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 263-271 (2003).
  4. D.L. Windt, F.E. Christensen, W.W. Craig, C. Hailey, F.A. Harrison, M. Jimenez-Garate, R. Kalyanaraman, and P.H. Mao, Growth, structure and performance of depth-graded W/Si multilayers for hard X-ray optics, J. App. Phys. 88, 460-470 (2000).
  5. A.K. Sharma, R. Kalyanaraman, S. Oktyabrsky, and J. Narayan, Carbon Nanotube Composites Synthesized By Ion-Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mat. Sci. Eng. B 79, 123-127 (2001).
  6. R. Kalyanaraman, S. Oktyabrsky, and J. Narayan, Investigation Into the Role of Ag in the Pulsed Laser Growth of YBCO thin films, J. Appl. Phys., 85, 6636-6641, (1999).
  7. S. Oktyabrsky, R. Kalyanaraman, K. Jagannadham, and J. Narayan, Dislocation Structure of Low-Angle Grain boundaries in YBCO/MgO films, J. Mater. Res., 14, 2764-2772 (1999).
  8. K. Jagannadham, A.K. Sharma, Q. Wei, R. Kalyanaraman, and J. Narayan, Structural Studies of Aluminum Nitride Films Deposited by Pulsed laser Deposition and Magnetron Sputtering: A Comparative Study, J.Vac. Sc. and Tech. A, 16, 2804-2815 (1998).
  9. R. Kalyanaraman, R.D. Vispute, S. Oktyabrsky, K. Dovidenko, K. Jagannadham, J. Narayan, J.D. Budai, N. Parikh, and A. Suvkhanov, Influence of oxygen background pressure on crystalline quality of SrTiO3 films grown on MgO by pulsed laser deposition, Appl, Phys. Lett., 71, 1709-1711 (1997).
  10. D. Kumar, R. Kalyanaraman, R.D. Vispute, J. Narayan, D.K. Christen and C.E. Klabunde, Giant Magnetoresistance and Non-Ohmic effects in La0.6 Y0.07 Ca0.33 MnOx Thin Films, Mat. Sci. and Eng. B45, 122-125 (1997).
  11. D. Kumar, S. Oktyabrsky, R. Kalyanaraman, J. Narayan, P.R. Apte, R. Pinto, S.S. Manoharan, M.S.
    Hegde, S.B. Ogale and K.P. Adhi, Role of Silver Doping in Oxygen Incorporation of Oxide Thin Films,
    Mat. Sc. and Eng. B45, 55-58 (1997).