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Cochin University of Science and
Technology SPIE Student Chapter
Optoelectronic Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi - 682 022, India
Phone: 91-484-2577404 Extn 33
Fax: +91-484-2577595
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web: http://physics.cusat.ac.in/spie/spie.htm
Annual Report (October 2014 to September 2015)
Cochin University SPIE Student chapter is celebrating its 10th year by organising various programs
to celebrate the international year of light IYL 2015. At present the chapter has 25 members. The chapter
members are currently working in the areas of Nanophosphors and Quantum wells, Transparent Thin Film
Transistors, Oxide Phosphors and Thin Film Electroluminescent Devices, Hydrothermal Growth of
Nanoparticles, Spintronics, Transparent Conducting Oxides, Plasma studies, Ferroelectric Random Access
Memories, Holography and Conducting Polymers. All the members of the chapter are actively participating
in the programs organized by the chapter and Dept. of Physics. Current year the following activities were
carried out by the SPIE CUSAT student chapter.
Academic Training
The SPIE-CUSAT Student Chapter in association with Department of Physics, Cochin University
of Science and Technology conducted Academic Training for Graduate/Post graduate Students of various
institutions in Kerala. Six students have completed their academic projects in the areas of Optoelectronic
Devices, and Thin films and nanoparticles for bio applications. The students were trained this year in the
following areas.
Sl.
No Name Course Name of the Institute Project Title
Title of the project
1 Manu Shaji M.Sc Physics Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Kochi
Epitaxial growth of ZnO thinfilm
over p-type GaN by RF Sputtering
2 Anitha Jose M.Sc Physics Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Kochi
Investigation of Materials for
Transparent Electrode and Thin
Film Transistor
3 Shilpa B.S M.Sc Physics Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Kochi
Charge Transfer Induced Surface
enhanced Raman Scattering from
4 Sruthy Poulose B.Sc Physics NIT Trichy
Synthesis and Characterisation of
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles by
Liquid Phase Pulsed Laser Ablation
5 Manjusha Raju M.Sc Physics St. Thomas College,Thrissur Synthesis and Characterization of
Molybdenum Trioxide Nanobelts
6 Arsina Rahman M.Sc Physics MAMO College, Mukkam
Synthesis of Silver Nanowires
Using Hydrothermal Technique for
Flexible Transparent Electrode
Applications
7 Parvathy N. S. M.Sc Physics Sree Kerala Varma College,
Thrissur
Hydrothermal Synthesis of Silver
Nanowires for the Application of
Flexible Transparent Electronics
8 Surya P.R M.phil Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Kochi
Hydrothermal Synthesis of
Upconversion NaYF4:Yb3,Er3
Particles with Enhanced
Luminescent Intensity
9 Veena M.Sc Physics St. Thomas College,Thrissur Hydrothermal Synthesis of MoO3
Velayudhan nanoparticles and its
characterization
10 Ashita V.V B.Sc Physics IISER, Mohali
Er,Yb:NaYF4 Nanoparticles
Showing Upconversion
Luminescence
11 Sruthy S. Nair B.Sc Physics IISER, Mohali
Er,Yb:NaYF4 Nanoparticles
Showing Upconversion
Luminescence
Activities
The International Conference on “ Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Conversion ’’ ( IC- EEE
2015)
Department of Physics and SPIE CUSAT student chapter jointly organized an international
conference on “Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Conversion” short titled as IC-EEE 2015. It was organized
during 5-7th of February 2015 with a preconference workshop on 4th, the conference addressed the current
advances and challenges in the energy sector especially the renewable and clean energy scenario.
Inauguration of ICEE 2015
Discussion sections in IC-EEE 2015
During the three day conference, papers and presentation were made in following topics: Solar Cells and
Fuel Cells for Cost Effective, Clean Power Generation, Thin Film Solar Cells, Dye Sensitized Solar Cells,
Physics and Chemistry of Solar Cell Materials, New Concepts in Electrochemistry of Fuel Cell Electrodes
and Electrolyte Materials Choice and Structural Design, Graphene based Nanocomposites for Lithium Ion
Cells and Super Capacitors, Flexible Devices for Energy Storage and Materials for Large Area Display
Devices and LEDs, Organic and Polymer LEDs, Semiconductor Nanostructures in Solar Cell Applications.
Active participation of research scholars in IC-EEE 2015
Prizes for oral and poster presentation were awarded by SPIE to Mr. Yousaf Ameen, NIT, Calicut, Arun
Chander, Sikkri, Karaekudy. Vikas L. S, Cochin University of Science and Technology and Lekshmi V,
Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Kochi
Open House Program January 16-17, 2015
Open house program was organized by SPIE to make aware of the public the various research activities
going on in the department. During this two days more than 1000 visitors including studnets from the nearby
schools visited the department.
Participants of Open House Program 2015
Physics – Scope and Awareness for School Children
March 31-April 05, 2014
SPIE Student Chapter organized student outreach programs to attract talented students to the
fascinating world of Science and Technology. The workshop provided an opportunity to students to interact
with the faculty members, listen to new developments in scientific fields and also witness some of the
advanced experiments being carried-out in the research laboratories of the department of Physics and also
to gain hands on experience on various core experiments in Physics, telescope making etc.
Participants of Scope and Awareness Program 2015
Inaugural Function of the Year Long Celebrations of IYL 2015
21st July 2015
International Year of light: The yearlong celebrations of IYL 2015 was inaugurated on 21st
July 2015 by Dr. Suresh Das, Principal secretary, Science & Technology ,Govt: of Kerala and gave
keynote address on Luminescent Organic materials. This was followed by the talks on Imaging through
random scattering medium by Dr. Rakesh Kumar Singh, lIST Trivandrum, Luminescent Materials for
phosphor- converted LEDs, by Dr. Biju P. R, M.G. University, and Thin film solar cell with kesterite
absorber by Dr. S. N. Potty, C-MET Trichur. one day workshops at twenty colleges in Kerala is
scheduled as part of IYL 2015.
Inauguration of IYL 2015
National workshop on Current Trends in Applied Physics (CTAP 2015)
29th and 30th April , 2015
National workshop on current trends in applied physics was organized by SPIE. The program
was inaugurated by Dr. K. Paulose Jacob, honourable Vice Chancellor, CUSAT. Various talks were
delivered by Prof. E. Krishnakumar, TIFR, Mumbai, Dr. Reji Philip, RRI, Banglore and Prof. M. Sabir,
retired professor, CUSAT.
Inauguration of CTAP 2015
Talk by Prof. E. Krishnakumar Talk by Prof. Reji Philip Talk by Prof. M. Sabir
Lectures
Lecture by Dr. K.P. Vijyakumar
Chapter conducted lectures on various research topics. Experts from the field of both theoretical
and experimental physics were invited to deliver the lectures. Prof. L. M. Kukreja from Raja Ramanna
Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, was invited to deliver lecture on 10th October 2014 on “ Quantum
Correction for Low temperature Electrical Conductivity of SiZnO thinfilms. On 28th October 2014 Prof. K.
P. Vijayakumar of Cochin University of Science and Technology delivered lecture on chemical spray
pyrolysis technique for thin film solar cell fabrication possibilities, benefits and difficulties.
SPIE Annual meeting
SPIE member Mr. Titu Thomas participated in the SPIE Annual meeting held at San Diego,
USA on 8th August 2015. He is the winner of SPIE officer travel grant for the year 2015. He also
participated in the Optics and Photonics 2015 conference held at San Diego during 8th to 11th of
August 2015. Mr. Titu Thomas presented posters entitled “ Simple ‘One Step’ Spray process for
CuInS2/In2S3 hetrojunctions on flexible substrates for Photovoltaic Applications ” in Photonics
2015.
Mr. Titu Thomas with SPIE Student Activities Coordinator Tasha Chicovsky
and friend at the SPIE Optics and Photonics 2015 conference.
A word of gratitude
We express our humble gratitude to the International Society for Optical engineering for financial
assistance, conference grant, officer’s travel grant, Visiting Lecturer Program and knowledge imparted
Future Programs
SPIE CUSAT celebrations IYL 2015 has scheduled 20 one day seminars at various colleges in the
state Kerala during the period July- December 2015.
Monthly lecture programs will be continued.
SPIE Discussion forum-Monthly informal discussion on various current research topics by the
students.
Outreach programme; “Physics-Scope and Awareness” will be conducted in April 2016.
Special Training program for competitive exams like NET, GATE will be provided to the M.Sc.
Students.
Financial statement (All figures in rupees)
Income Expenditure
Initial Balance 33,410
SPIE Grant 2015 56,793
Total Income 23,383
Best Oral &Poster presentation awards
for ICEEE 2015
8,000
(Sponsored by SPIE CUSAT Chapter
Expense for International Year of
Light Celebration 49,000
Expense for Invited Talks 2,000
Expense for conducting workshop for
school students 4,000
Open House program 3,000
Total expense 66,000
Excess Expenditure -42,617
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Office Barers (2014-2015)
Staff Advisor : Dr. M.K. Jayaraj(email: [email protected])
Regular Member : Dr. S. Jayalekshmi(email: [email protected])
Student members
President : Manoj M (email: [email protected])
Vice – President : Titu Thomas (email: [email protected])
Secretary : Jubeesh M. K (email: [email protected])
Treasurer : Anjana R (email: [email protected])
Aneesh Pacheri Madathil Satish Balakrishnan
Anooja Jayaraj Sreeja Rajeswari
Arun Aravind Vanaja kuzhikkattil Achuthan
Hasna K Vikas Lawrence Sylaja
Krishna Prasad Pazhampillisseri Saritha Alookaran
Anand Puthirath Balan Rajeev .R. Prabhu
Shijeesh Methattil Raman Kurias. K. Markose
Subha Perumpallikkattil Jasna M
Mini Kannembath Mary Vijila C.V
Reshmi Raman
Saji Joseph
Major Publications of Members in the year of 2014-15
1. Domain matched epitaxial growth of Bi1.5Zn1Nb1.5O7 thin films by pulsed laser deposition, P. S.
Krishnaprasad, A. Antony, F. Rojas, J. Bertomeu and M. K. Jayaraj, J. Alloys Compd., Vol. 586, 524,
(2014).
2. Growth, structural, thermal, optical, and electrical properties of potassium succinate–succinic acid crystal,
A. Arunkumar, P. Ramasamy, K. Vishnu and M. K. Jayaraj, J. Mater Sci. Vol. 49, 3598 , (2014).
3. Optical Emission Spectroscopic Analysis of Plasma Plume during Pulsed Laser Deposition of PZT, S.
Sasanka Kumar, R. Reshmi, N. V. Joshy, A. C. Saritha and M. K. Jayaraj, Journal of Atomic and Molecular
Physics, 1,(2014).
4. Impurity mediated large three photon absorption in ZnS:Cu nanophospors, R. Sreeja, Kishore Sridharan,
Reji Philip, M. K. Jayaraj, Optical Materials, Vol. 36, 861, (2014).
5. Observation of Room Temperature Photoluminescence from Asymmetric CuGaO2/ZnO/ZnMgO Multiple
Quantum Well Structures, P. M. Aneesh, M. K. Jayaraj, R. Reshmi, R. S. Ajishma, L. M. Kukreja, Aldrin
Antony, F. Rojas, Joan Bertomeu, J. Lopez Vidrier and S. Hernandez, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology Vol. 14, 1, (2014).
6. Development of p-type amorphous Cu1− xBxO2− δ thin films and fabrication of pn hetero junction, K. C.
Sanal, M. K. Jayaraj, Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol. 185, 109 ,(2014).
7. Annealing effects on the structural and electrical properties of pulsed laser deposited BaPbO3 thin films, B.
Satish, M. K. Jayaraj, Optoelectronic Materials and Thin Films: OMTAT 2013, 1576, 215, (2014).
8. Structural and dielectric properties of Ba0. 7Sr0. 3TiO3 thin films grown by PLD, K K James, B Satish
and M. K. Jayaraj, Optoelectronic Materials and Thin Films: OMTAT 2013, 1576, 212, (2014).
9. Room temperature deposited transparent p-channel CuO thin film transistors, K. C. Sanal, L. S. Vikas, M.
K. Jayaraj, Applied Surface Science, Vol. 297, 153, (2014).
10. Preface: Optoelectronic Materials and Thin Films, M. K. Jayaraj, OPTOELECTRONIC MATERIALS
AND THIN FILMS: OMTAT 2013,Vol. 1576,1-1,(2014).
11. Magnetic and Raman scattering studies of Co-doped ZnO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition, Arun
Aravind, K. Hasna, M. K. Jayaraj, Mukesh Kumar and Ramesh Chandra, Applied Physics A, Vol. 115,843-
849, (2014).
12. ZnO Nanostructures and its luminescent properties, P. M. Aneesh, M. K. Jayaraj, Advanced Nanomaterials:
Synthesis, Properties, and Applications,117,(2014).
13. Vertically aligned ZnO nanorod array/CuO heterojunction for UV detector application, L. S. Vikas, K. C.
Sanal, M. K. Jayaraj, A. Antony, J. Puigdollers, physica status solidi (a),(2014).
14. Degradation study and calculation of density-of-states in PTCDI-C8 channel layer from the electrical
characteristics of thin-film transistors, M.R. Shijeesh, L. S. Vikas, M.K. Jayaraj, J. Puigdollers, Journal of
Applied Physics, Vol. 116, 024507,(2014).
15. Structural and optical properties of la doped BaSnO3 thin films grown by PLD, K.K. James, P. S.
Krishnaprasad, K. Hasna, M. K. Jayaraj, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids,(2014).
16. Nonlinear properties of IGZO thin films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering, K. C. Sanal, K. Vishnu, M.
R. Shijeesh, M. K. Jayaraj, SPIE NanoScience+ Engineering, 91611B-91611B-8, (2014).
17. Observation of room temperature photoluminescence from asymmetric CuGaO2/ZnMgO
multiple quantum well structures, P.M. Aneesh, M.K. Jayaraj, R. Reshmi, R. S. Ajimsha, L. M.
Kukreja, Aldrin Antony, F. Rojas, Joan Bertomeu, J. Lopez Vidrier and S. Hernandez, Journal of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 15, 3944(2015)
18. Domain matched epitaxial growth of (111) Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin films on (0001) Al2O3 with ZnO
buffer layer, P S Krishnaprasad, A Antony, F Rojas, M K Jayaraj, Journal of Applied Physics
117, 124102(2015)
19. Defect assisted tuning of electroluminescence from p-GaN/n-ZnO nanorod heterojunction, Vikas
L S, Sruthi C K, Jayaraj M K, Bullettin of Materials Science, (accepted)