Aswini K. Pradhan
Professor
Department of Engineering
Norfolk State University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Aswini K. Pradhan received MS from the Utkal University and Ph.D. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology. He served as a senior scientist at Center for Advanced Technology, India. Dr. Pradhan worked as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University and also at University of Virginia for one year each. Before all these appointments, he spent many years at Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC (Tokyo), Japan as a senior research scientist. Dr. Pradhan was a visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, and has also spent several years as a Research Fellow at Oxford University, U.K. Dr. Pradhan is involved in several review processes, including internationally reputed journals and proposals. He is a recipient of several projects from NSF, DoD Intel corp. etc. Currently, he is the Director of two Centers, “Center for Nano & Bioinspired Materials and Devices (CNBMD), and “ Center for Advanced nanomaterials and Devices (CEAND). His major interest is the development of optical, magnetic, electronic and nanomaterials for various device applications. At present, he is involved in development of opto-electronic, magnetic and nano-structured materials for various applications. Dr. Pradhan joined Norfolk State University in 2003 at Center for Materials Research and Department of Optical Engineering in 2007.
Research Interest
Renewable Energy, Naotechnology, Multilayers films & Devices, Nano-Biosensors/ Sensors, Novel emerging nanomaterials, Nanophotonics/surface plasmons, Nanocomposites, High-k dielectrics.
Publications
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Growth, microstructure, and photoluminescence of high In-content InGaN:Yb nanorods grown by MBE, K. Dasari, J. Wang, W. M. Jadwisienczak, M. Guinel, R. Mundle, A. K. Pradhan, and R. Palai, J. Appl. Phys., 2013
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Metal-dielectric Multilayers: Metamatrials to photonic crystals, S.K. Pradhan, K. Santiago, R. Mundle, J. Skuza, Bo Xiao and A.K. Pradhan, submitted to Phys. Rev. B.
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Morphologically induced Extreme tunability of plasma frequency in doped degenerate semiconductor, A.K. Pradhan, K. Santiago, R.Mundle, et al., Science (under preparation) 2014.
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Influence of growth temperature on electrical, optical, and plasmonic properties of Al:ZnO films grown by RF magnetron sputtering, H. Dondapati, K. Santiago and A.K. Pradhan, J. Appl. Phys.114, 143506 (2013).
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Enhanced Photocurrent in solution processed electronically coupled CdSe Nanocrystals thin films, H. Dondapati, D. Ha and A.K. Pradhan, Appl. Phys. Lett., 103, 121114-121117 (2013).
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One Dimensional ZnO nanoarray using Electron beam lithography, A.K. Pradhan, S. Smantaray, M. Arslan, et al., 2013 J. Electrochem. Soc. Transaction 2014 (in Print).
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Vapor-Solid Growth of Highly Oriented SnO2 Nanorods for Chemical Sensing Applications, C.G Carvajal, C.S Davis, R. Mundle, A.K. Pradhan, 2013 J. Electrochem. Soc. Vol. 161 (2) B3151-B3154 (2014).
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Self-assembled DNA Nanostructures on lithographically patterned surfaces, A.K. Pradhan et al., J. Electrochem. Soc. Vol. 161 (2) B3023-B3027 (2014).
