Our group focuses on the microscopic and spectroscopic investigation of smart materials for photonic and plasmonic device applications. Flexible Organic or Inorganic Single Crystals, Carbon Dots, Metal Nanoparticles, Nanowires, and Stimuli-Responsive Materials will be used for next-generation photonic and optoelectronic devices. Also, we study the light-matter interactions in such devices for micro-scale lasers and photonic integrated circuits. Our vital techniques are in-situ microscopic investigations of particle assembly, self-assembly, light-induced manipulation, and single-particle photonic studies.
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Current Research Updates
Pure Red Emitting Elastic Organic Single Crystals as Flexible Optical Waveguides and Circuits
Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2025 (Accepted) https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TC01123J
26-06-2025 Congratulations to Mr. Bhargav & Ms. Keerthanaa for their research paper acceptance in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
Real-Time Spectroscopic and Microscopic Investigation of Solid-state Reaction of Schiff Bases and Their Optical Waveguiding Properties
ACS App. Opt. Mater. (2025) 3, 1057–1069.
Highly Efficient Color-Tunable Organic Co-crystals Unveiling Polymorphism, Isomerism, Delayed Fluorescence for Optical Waveguides and Cell-imaging
Nat. Commun., (2023) 14, 6648.
Dimension Engineering of Molecular Stimuli-Responsive 1D Molecular Crystals into Unusual 2D and 3D Zigzag Waveguides
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2023), DOI: 10.1002/anie.202302929.