Electronic Materials and    
Thin Films Lab

  
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Refereed publications (latest 10)
  1. P. Baraneedharan, M. Silambarasan, Shankari D, Mounika P, Sowmmya Venkatesh, Neha Sharma, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Influence of Preparation Temperature on the Structural, Morphological and Electrochemical Performance of Activated Porous Carbon”, J. Elec. Matls. in press (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s11664-025-12053-9
  2. Anupama Behera, Neha Sharma, Swati Suman, Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Enhancing Electrochromic Behavior of Nickel Oxide Thin Films by Optimizing Oxygen Concentration during Room Temperature Reactive Sputtering”, 
    ChemistrySelect, in press (2025).
  3. Nikhila Patil, Neethu Thomas, Neha Sharma, Parasuraman Swaminathan, and P. Sumathi, “Aluminium doped zinc oxide and silver nanowire composite based printed CO2 gas sensor”, IEEE Sensor Lett. 9, 2001104 (2025). DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2025.3571193 
  4. Uday Kumar, Parasuraman Swaminathan, and Hitensinh Vaghela, “Investigation of the emittance properties of multilayer insulation used in cryogenic applications”, IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 1327, 012225 (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1327/1/012225
  5. Sudha Arumugam, Ranjithvel Mohanasundaram, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Salt electrolytes for vanadium pentaoxide-based electrochromic devices”, ACS Appl. Engg. Mater. 3, 901 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsaenm.5c00040
  6. Neethu Thomas and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Transmittance modulation by gold nanoparticle mediated wet chemical etching of silica”, J. Micromech. Microeng. 35, 045008 (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1361-6439/adc314
  7. Abishek Kumar, Neethu Thomas, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Plasma-Tailored Polydimethylsiloxane Substrates For Eventing of Single Molecules Using Wrinkle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 8, 4625 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.4c07118
  8. A. Sudha, Sanjeev Patil, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “A flexible room temperature nitrogen dioxide sensor based on tungsten oxide-silver nanowire composite”, Next Research, 2, 100204 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.nexres.2025.100204
  9. Sanjeev Patil and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Leaf-inspired flexible and transparent printed bismuth ferrite nanocomposite photodetectors”, Surf. Interfaces 59, 105904 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.surfin.2025.105904
  10. Swati Suman, Anupama Behra, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Oxygen-modulated photoresponse in nickel oxide thin films for wide band gap photodetector application”, Discover Applied Sciences 7, 84 (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s42452-025-06485-5
Patents
Granted (latest 5)
  1. Abishek Kumar, Neethu Thomas, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “A METHOD OF PREPARING NANOPATTERNS ON A POLYMERIC SURFACE”, Indian Patent No. 567292. Click here for the patent certificate. 
  2. Ranjithvel Mohanasundaram, Sudha Arumugam, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICE BASED ON VANADIUM OXIDE ACTIVE ELECTRODE AND SALT-BASED ELECTROLYTE”, Indian Patent No. 
    561145. Click here for the patent certificate. 
  3. Sanjeev Patil, Sudha Arumugam, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “BISMUTH FERRITE-BASED FLEXIBLE DEVICE FOR ROOM TEMPERATURE GAS SENSING”, Indian Patent No. 549328. Click here for the patent certificate.
  4. Swati Suman and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “SYSTEM FOR OPTOELECTRONIC CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLID-STATE PHOTODETECTORS”, Indian Patent No. 548386. Click here for the patent certificate.
  5. Balamurugan L and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “MICRONEEDLE ARRAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF”, Indian Patent No. 540518. Click here for the patent certificate.
Filed (latest 5)
  1. Kokkiligadda Jhansi, Ishwarya Dhevi Gurusamy Rangasamy, Jeevarathan Jayaprakash, Ponnudurai Arangannal, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “A CORE-SHELL STRUCTURE BASED RADIOPAQUE PUTTY, ITS METHOD OF SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF”, Indian Patent, Application No. 202541012848, Filed on 14/02/2025.
  2. Swati Suman and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FABRICATING LONGER WAVELENGTH SENSING PRINTABLE AND FLEXIBLE PHOTODETECTOR”, Indian Patent, Application No. 202541004933, 
    Filed on 21/01/2025.
  3. Swati Suman and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “A NARROWBAND PRINTED FLEXIBLE HYBRID PHOTODETECTOR AND A METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF”, Indian Patent, Application No. 202441087736, Filed on 13/11/2024.
  4. Nikhila Patil, Sowmmya Venkatesh, Parasuraman Swaminathan, and Sumathi Parasuraman, “A PRINTED PATTERNS OF THIN FILM HEATERS ON A QUARTZ SUBSTRATE USING SILVER NANOPARTICLE INK AND ITS METHOD OF PRINTING”, Indian Patent, Application No. 202411065129, Filed on 28/08/2024.
  5. Abishek Kumar, Neethu Thomas, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “PROCESS FOR PRODUCING FLEXIBLE SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (SERS) SUBSTRATES, SUBSTRATES THEREOF AND THEIR 
    APPLICATIONS”, Indian Patent, Application No. 202441041004, Filed on 27/05/2024
Conference presentations (latest 10)
  1. Abishek Kumar, Neethu Thomas, Lavanya Polimera, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Maskless reactive ion configured polymer surfaces for single molecule sensing, chromic, and bactericidal applications”, Symposium T, European Materials Research Society (EMRS) 2025 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 2025.
  2. Jhansi Kokkiligadda and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Piezo-Photocatalytic degradation of polyfluoroalkyl substances and organic dyes using bismuth ferrite nanoparticles”, Symposium J, EMRS 2025 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 2025.
  3. Neha Sharma and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Flexible (transparent) sustainable electrodes for printed microsupercapacitors”, Symposium G, EMRS 2025 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 2025.
  4. Abishek Kumar, Akki Jaiswal, Neethu Thomas, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Sub-25 nm fabless lithography for transparent and flexible electronic devices”, iCOLD25, IIT Hyderabad, March 2025.
  5. Tarra Maharshi, Sudha Arumugam, Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Room temperature gas detection with flexible V2O5 sensors”, iCOLD25, IIT Hyderabad, March 2025.
  6. Lavanya Polimera, Neethu Thomas, Abishek Kumar, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Nanoarchitecture on wrinkled PDMS for hue-specific mechanochromism”, International Conference On Laser & other Deposition techniques (iCOLD25), IIT Hyderabad, March 2025.
  7. Swati Suman and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Metal-oxide and organic dye-based hybrid flexible printed photodetector for healthcare application”, 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology 
    (AMN11), Christchurch, New Zealand, February 2025.
  8. Uday Kumar, Rizwan Ahmad Qureshi , Jhansi Kokkiligadda, Hitensinh Vaghela, Amit Arora, and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “A Step Towards Eco-friendly Electropolishing of SS304L Stainless Steel for Nuclear Fusion 
    Applications”, International Conference on Energy Conversion and Storage (IECS) 2025, IIT Madras, January 2025.
  9. Sanjeev Patil and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Flexible fast frugal toxic gas sensing”, Student Academic Conference, Inter IIT Tech Meet 13.0, IIT Bombay, December 2024 (best poster and presentation award).
  10. Kokkiligadda Jhansi and Parasuraman Swaminathan, “Role of Chelating Agents on the Synthesis of Bismuth Ferrite Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants”, International Conference on Advanced Ceramics for Sustainability (Cera4S 2024), IIT Madras, November 2024
Invited talks (latest 5)
  1. “Flexible (transparent) sustainable electrodes for printed microsupercapacitors”, Symposium W, European Materials Research Society (EMRS) 2025 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 2025
  2. “Transition metal oxide-based nanostructures for functional applications”, International Conference on Advanced Ceramics for Sustainability (Cera4S 2024), IIT Madras, November 2024
  3. “Optoelectronic properties and applications of metal oxides”, Faculty Development Program on Advances in Semiconductor and Photonic Devices, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad. Telangana, August 2024
  4. "Printed Electronics'', INUP Familiarization workshop, Centre for NEMS and Nanophotonics (CNNP), IIT Madras, July 2024
  5. “Printed electronics”,Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Summer Internship 2024: Semiconductor Technology, June 2024