Top Curriculum Vitae of Dr. K. JAYAKUMAR

1. Present Position
2. Educational Qualification
3. Special Training undergone
4. Teaching and Research Experience
5. Laboratories/Department established
6. Involvement in Institute Development
7. Research guidance
8. Research Projects Undertaken
9. List of Publications
10. Extension Activities
11. Short term Courses/Symposium/ Conferences Attended
12. Membership in Scientific Bodies
13. Resource person
14. Reviewer for Journals
15. Recognition
16. Committee Member
17. Administrative Experience
18. Others

 

 

1. Present Position : Professor of Physics

2. Educational Qualification : M.Sc., Ph.D. Dip. in Ger

3. Special Training undergone :   

(i) Characterization of Semiconductor Materials

(ii) Preparation and Characterization of Glassy Materials

(iii) Theory and Experiment of Condensed Matter Physics

(iv) Training in Low Dimensional Semiconducting Systems

(v) Opportunities and National facilities in Condensed Matter Physics

(vi) Anisotropic Nanostructures: Synthesis to functionalization

TOP↑

4. Teaching and Research Experience :

Teaching : ~ 22 Years

Research : ~ 30 Years

5. Laboratories/Department established:

Assisted in framing the syllabus and lab experiment for establishing the Department of Energy at Amaravati University, Maharashtra (Apr 1994)

6. Involvement in Institute Development:

(i) Involved actively in compiling the Research activity in the Dept during the NACC visit 2002.

(ii) Acted as Chief Superintendent for Semester Examinations of GRU during 2005

(iii) Organized and Coordinated events during National Science Day Celebrations

(iv) Restructured and Catalogued the Books of Dept . library.

TOP↑

7. Research guidance:      (i) Photovoltaics

                                   (ii) Conducting Polymers

                                   (iii) Semiconductor Nanostructures

8. Research Projects Undertaken:

UGC-MRP: "Investigations on the electronic and impurity states in Semimagnetic Nanostructures"

TOP↑

9. List of Publications:

• Effect of film thickness and counter ions on the double layer Redox capacitance of polyaniline thin film electrode

• Effect of temperature on the binding energy of low lying excited states in Quantum Well

• Effect of G - X cross-over on the binding energy of donor in a Quantum Well

• Ultrasonic studies on the blend of styrene butadiene rubber with PMMA and PVAC

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of hydrogenic donor in Low Dimensional Semiconducting systems

• Effect of G - X cross-over and impurity location on the diamagnetic susceptibility of a donor in a Quantum Well

                    P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

                    Solid State Commun. 138, 305 (2006) ( 7 Citations )

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of a hydrogenic donor in a Quantum Dot

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of a hydrogenic donor in low lying excited states in a Quantum Well

• Semiconductor – Metal transition in a Quantum Well

P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

Physica B 391, 119 (2007) ( 8 Citations )

• Influence of pressure on the diamagnetic susceptibility of hydrogenic donor in some low lying excited states in a Quantum Well

• Shape effect of diamagnetic susceptibility of a hydrogenic donor in a nanosturctured semiconducting systems

• Laser induced Semiconductor –Metal transition in a Quantum Well

P. Nithiananthi, C. Rajamohan, and K. Jayakumar

J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 9 5669, (2009)

• Pressure study on the Semiconductor –Metal transition in a Quantum Well

P. Nithiananthi, and K. Jayakumar

Phys. Stat. Sol (b) 246 , 1238 (2009)

( One of the top 10: Most accessed paper during 2009)

• Effect of Laser intensity on the semiconductor –Metal transition in a doped Quantum Well

• Effect of dielectric screening on the diamagnetic susceptibility of a donor in a Semiconducting Nanostructured systems

• Effect of impurity concentration on the graded bandgap GaAs - Al_x Ga_1-x As solar cell

• Effect of impurity grading on the graded bandgap Solar Cell

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of hydrogenic donor in low lying excited states in a Quantum Well

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of hydrogenic donor in a Quantum Dot

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of a hydrogenic donor in a Quantum Well Wire

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of a hydrogenic donor in low lying excited states in a Spherical Quantum Dot

• Laser – induced Semiconductor –Metal transition in a Quantum Well

• Laser - dressed hydrogenic impurity states in a Semiconductor Quantum Well

• Effect of magnetic field on the laser – dressed donor in a Semimagnetic Quantum Well

P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

International Conference on Advances in Nanotechnology – ICANAT 2008 MATS University , Raipur (CG) India (2008)

• Donor states in a Semimagnetic Quantum Well

P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

International Conference on Active / Smart Materials Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai , India (2009)

• Effect of laser on the diamagnetic susceptibility of a donor in a Quantum Well

C. Rajamohan, P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

International Conference on Active / Smart Materials Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai , India (2009)

• Shape effect of Semimagnetic Quantum Dot on the bound magnetic polaron

• Laser induced Semiconductor –Metal transition in a Semimagnetic Quantum Well

• Laser-dressed spin polaron in CdTe – Cd_1-xMn_xTe Quantum Well

• Spin-polaron in a Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Wire

• Effect of pressure on the impurity states in Low Dimensional Semiconducting Systems

• On the impurity states of a Quantum Dot

P. Nithiananthi, A. Siji and K. Jayakumar

Solid State Physics (India), 46 , 753 (2003) ISBN : 81-7764-652-4

• Effect of location of donor impurity on diamagnetic susceptibility in a Quantum Well

P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

Solid State Physics (India), 50 , 773 (2005) ISBN : 81-8362-019-6

• Ionization energy of a donor in a Spherical Quantum Dot with a parabolic confinement

A. Merwyn Jasper D Reuben and K. Jayakumar

Solid State Physics (India), 50 , 663 (2005) ISBN : 81-8362-019-6

• Effect of G - X cross – over on Semiconductor –Metal transition in a Quantum Well

Solid State Physics (India), 51 , 769 (2006) ISBN : 81-8372-030-7

• Effect of confining potential on the diamagnetic susceptibility of a low lying donor in a Spherical Quantum Dot

1. Merwyn Jasper D Reuben and K. Jayakumar

            Solid State Physics (India), 51 , 807 (2006) ISBN : 81-8372-030-7

• Laser-induced Mott transition in a Quantum Dot

Solid State Physics (India), 52 , 947 (2007) ISBN :

• Diamagnetic susceptibility of a laser-dressed donor in a Quantum Dot

Solid State Physics (India), 52 , 929 (2007) ISBN :

• Laser-induced Mott transition in a Quantum Dot

1. Merwyn Jasper D Reuben and K.Jayakumar

Solid State Physics (India), 53 ,1057 (2008) ISBN :978- 81-8372-044-1

• Effect of magnetic field on the donor binding energy for various geometries of a Quantum Dot

• Mott transition in a Semiconductor Quantum Well under Laser field

1. Merwyn Jasper D Reuben, P.Nithiananthi C. Rajamohan and K.Jayakumar

• Effect of bandgap shrinkage on the graded bandgap solar cell

• Effect of impurity location on the low lying excited states in a Quantum Well P. Nithiananthi and K. Jayakumar

• Donor binding energy of an excited states in a Quantum Well

• Binding energy of some low lying excited states in a Quantum Well

• Effect of Gamma- X cross-over on the ground state donor binding energy in a Quantum Well

• Modeling of donor binding in GaAs / Al_x Ga_1-x As Quantum Dot

• Study on the effective mass and subband energy in semiconductor nanostructures.

• Synthesis and characterization of CdS Quantum Dot

National Conference on Advanced Materials , Devices and Technologies, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi , Andra Pradesh (2008)

• Effect of Anderson localization on the Semiconductor-Metal Transition in a Quantum Well

• Effect of Laser Intensity on the Semiconductor-Metal Transition in a doped Quantum Well

• Spin polaron in a semimagnetic Quantum Wire

• Possibility of Semiconductor – Metal transition in doped Quantum Well Wire

• A simple method for determining Planck constant

• Experimental determination of velocity of light

V. Ramalakshmi , K. Jayakumar and K. Ramachandran

XI National Convention of IAPT, Dr Balasaheb Ambhetkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra (1996)

• Effect of Chromium on the growth kinetics of Plants

• Emission profiles of various lamps

Research Articles in Monographs: (with ISBN)

• A Model for Open-Circuit Voltage Enhancement in the Graded Bandgap Al_x Ga_1-x As – GaAs Solar Cell G .Chandramathi, K . Jayakumar and S. Ramamurthy

• A Design on the Graded Bandgap Solar Cell

• Effect of Impurity Position on the Binding Energy of Donor in a Quantum Well

TOP↑

10. Extension Activities:

(i) Smokeless Chulas users training programme at various villages during the year 1996- 1997.

11. Short term Courses/Symposium/ Conferences Attended :

Short term courses - 4

International Conferences - 6

National Conferences - 19

12. Membership in Scientific Bodies:

(i) Life Member of Indian Chapter of International Centre for Theoretical Physics(Italy) #338

(ii) Life Member of IAPT # L1844

(iii) Member of Institute of Physics (UK) # 1084753

(iv) Life Member of Semiconductor Society of India #2009 08 596

TOP↑

13. Resource person:

(i) ` Science Communication’ in the Dept.of English,GRU (2006)

(ii) Refresher Course organized by Bharathidasan University for the newly recruited College teachers throTRB 19^th Jan 2008

(iii) Refresher course organized by the Academic Staff college, Bharathidasan Univ,8^th Mar08,2008

(iv) Inaugurated National Conference on Micro/Nano Devieces, Structures and Systems-MiNDSS 2009organised by IETE at Muthaiyammal College of Engg (Mar 2009)

(v) Invited Talk at MiNDSS 2009

(vi) Resource person at Academic Staff College, Madurai Kamaraj University(6^th Nov 2009)

(vii) Science Association Meeting at Lakshmi College of Education, Gandhigram, Feb 4^th 2010

14. Reviewer for Journals :

1. Super lattices and Microstructures (ELSEVIER)

2. Current Applied
Physics (ELSEVIER)
3. Journal of Alloys and
Compounds (ELSEVIER)
4. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (ELSEVIER)
5. European Physical Journal B(SPRINGER)

TOP↑

15. Recognition -

National :

(i) National advisory committee member for some National Conferences

(ii) Invited to participate in the Young Indian Scientist Colloquium 2009 by T.I.F.R, Mumbai

(iii) Research consultancy/ collaboration with Dept. of Physics, D.A.Univ. Indore

International :

Research Consultancy with Dept. of Physics, Yasouj University, Iran and Dept. of Electrical Engg.,

I-Shou Univ, Taiwan

16. Committee Member:

(i) Manonmaniam Sundaranar University Nominee for the Board of Studies in Physics at Scott Christian College Nagercoil (2005)

(ii) Madurai Kamaraj University Nominee for the Board of Studies in Physics at V.V.V.College, Virudunagar (2009)

(iii) Board of Study Member in the Dept. of Physics, GRU

(iv) Research Advisory Committee Member at GRU

TOP↑

17. Administrative Experience :

As a Principal Investigator of Major Research Project since 2007

18. Others:

(i) Conducted /Conducting coaching/Interaction classes for M.Sc students for the preparation of JRF/Competitive Examinations

(ii) Board of Study Member in some of the Colleges in TN

(iii) To create interest and motivate students in higher education / Research most of the B.Sc/M.Sc projects are published in National / International Conferences

TOP↑