Members

Principal Investigator

Name Research Area(s)
Professor Jagdish Narayan
 Novel approaches to thin film epitaxy, semiconductor thin film heterostructures and solid-state devices, and nanostructured materials, ion implantation and defects in semiconductors, rapid thermal and transient thermal processing of semiconductors, laser-solid interactions, doping, diffusion and gettering in semiconductors and supersaturated semiconductor alloys for advanced electronic devices, high temperature superconductors, diamond and diamond-like thin films, atomic scale characterization of defects and interfaces, physical and chemical vapor deposition of thin films, pulsed laser deposition, Laser-MBE, atomic-resolution electron microscopy, electrical and optical properties, modeling of thin film growth and defects and interfaces.

Adjunct Faculty

Name Research Area(s)
Professor John T. Prater
 To enable the bottom-up design and fabrication of highly complex multifunctional materials with new and unprecedented properties, e.g. negative index composites with optical cloaking properties or new classes of smart materials that can alter their behavior in response to environmental stimuli. Identification of robust pathways for directed self-assembly of materials, developing new analytical techniques capable of characterizing materials at the nanoscale, and seeking to understand complex behavior that emerges in highly coupled systems, e.g. studying frustration effects in magnetic systems, or better understanding field coupling effects in multiferroics. Surface and interface engineering in support of materials integration. Development of in-situ and ex-situ analytical methods to characterize the nanoscale structure and determine the physical characteristics that will lead to the specific material properties being sought. Investigation of novel methods that will lead to large-scale, large-quantity processing of nanomaterials.

Graduate Students

Naveen Narasimhachar Joshi

Email: njoshi5@ncsu.edu       Research Gate
Project: High-temperature superconductivity and room-temperature ferromagnetism in carbon-based materials.
Office: 3030, Engineering Building I
Professional background:
2014 B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) Visvesvaraya Technological University, India
2021 M.Tech. (Materials Science and Engineering) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Sumeer Khanna

Email: skhanna6@ncsu.edu       Google Scholar
Project: Electric field induced magnetic switching in epitaxial ferromagnetic/multiferroic thin film interfaces.
Office: 3030, Engineering Building I
Professional background:
2010 B.E. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat, India
2014 M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
2022 M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Pranay Kalakonda

Email: pbkalako@ncsu.edu     Google Scholar
Project:  Electron field emission from carbon-based materials
Office: 3030, Engineering Building I
Professional background:
2018 B.Tech. (Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering) MANIT Bhopal, India
2022 M.S. (Materials Science and Engineering) University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Siba Sundar Sahoo

Email: ssahoo4@ncsu.edu       Research Gate
Project: Pulsed laser annealing of carbon-based materials
Office: 3030, Engineering Building I
Professional background:
2019 B.Tech. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) IIT Kharagpur, India
2022 M.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science) IIT Bombay, India