Talks Delivered: 28 ( 7 invited & 1 Gold Medal Honor)

J. K. Tripathi,  A. Hassanein

Fusion Energy Summer camp for minority students, Purdue University, July 31- Aug 4, 2023. 

27. Performance of Plasma Facing Component Materials under Nearly Ideal Nuclear Fusion Environment: Alternate Materials to Tungsten for Harnessing the Power of the Sun on Earth 

J. K. Tripathi, T. J. Novakowski, S. Gonderman, T. S. Sizyuk, A. Hassanein

International e-Symposium on Plasma for Energy (ISPE) - in association with The Open University UK, The Royal Society UK, RSC local section South India, Asian African Association for Plasma Training, and Solar Energy Society of India; SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathu, Tamil Nadu India, December 5-6, 2022 (online). (INVITED)


26. Mesoscopically Self-ordered Transition Metal Silicide Nanostructures: Electronic Growth and Magnetic Properties for Spintronics Applications

Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Ilan Goldfarb

E Faculty development Program on Nanotechnology: Present advancement and Future Properties, AMITY Institute of Nanotechnology, AUUP, Noida, India January 18- 22, 2022. (INVITED)


25. Tuning Mesoscopically Self-ordered Transition Metal Silicide Nanoisland Arrays for Spintronics Applications

Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Ilan Goldfarb

Research Colloquium, organized by the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathu, Tamil Nadu India. for October 06, 2022 (INVITED)


24. Performance of Plasma Facing Component Materials under extreme conditions: Alternative Materials to Tungsten for Fusion Technology on Earth (Honored by Gold Medal)

J. K. Tripathi,  T. J. Novakowski, S. Gonderman, T. S. Sizyuk, A. Hassanein

Research Day, SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathu, Tamil Nadu India, March 1, 2021


23. Tuning MoO3 nanostructures using low energy high flux He+ ion irradiation

J. K. Tripathi, T. J. Novakowski, A. Sundaram, A. Q. Damico, and A. Hassanein

School of Nuclear Engineering, Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Materials Science & Technology 2017 (MS&T 17), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; October 08 -12, 2017.


22. Experimental capabilities for advanced materials characterization at CMUXE, Purdue University (INVITED)

J. K. Tripathi, and A. Hassanein

School of Nuclear Engineering, Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Annual Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) users meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, USA, May 23 - 25, 2017 

Objective: Obtain community consensus on capabilities to support ion beam irradiation of nuclear energy materials.

21. Performance of plasma facing component materials under high flux low energy helium ion irradiation, in extreme conditions: alternative material to tungsten for nuclear fusion applications

J. K. Tripathi, and A. Hassanein

Homi Bhabha National Institute, Materials Physics Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India, November 9, 2016


J. K. Tripathi, and A. Hassanein

School of Nuclear Engineering, Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Annual Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) Users Meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, USA; March 22-24, 2016

Objective: Obtain community consensus on capabilities to support ion beam irradiation of nuclear energy materials.


19.  Tuning porosity of V2O5 by low energy He+ ion irradiation

J. K. Tripathi, T. J. Novakowski, and A. Hassanein

School of Nuclear Engineering, Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

October 4-8, 2015

Porous V2O5 with nano-sized features attracted paramount interest in recent decades due to their quite high surface area, a key feature for several applications, viz., photocatalysts, electrochromic devices, sensors, supercapacitors, Li ion batteries, etc. This is because of the ease to uptake molecules or ions into its orthorhombic layered structure. We report on tuning of the porosity of V2O5 by 100 eV He+ ion irradiation with a fluence of 2.6x1024 ions m-2 having a flux of 1.2x1021 ions m-2 s-1, as a function of temperature. Surface morphology, chemical composition, and structural phase were monitored by field-emission scanning electron (FE-SEM) and atomic force (AFM) –microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD), respectively. In addition, optical-reflectivity and photoluminescence studies were also performed to determine the electronic and orbital states and to understand the mechanism involved in the recombination processes as well as information about the energy distribution of the carriers.


18. Engineering novel materials in extreme conditions for clean energy production

J. K. Tripathi

Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments (CMUXE), School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

August 31, 2015


17. Surface Science Nanostructure Group (SUSNAG) experimental capabilities at CMUXE, Purdue University

J. K. Tripathi

Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments (CMUXE), School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

 May 27, 2015


16. Surface Science Nanostructure Group (SUSNAG) at CMUXE: an overview

J. K. Tripathi

PIRE student workshop at Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments (CMUXE), School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

May 11-12, 2015


15. Low energy He+ ion irradiation induced surface modifications in molybdenum in extreme conditions: an alternative material for Tungsten in nuclear fusion applications

J. K. Tripathi

Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments (CMUXE), School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

May 13, 2015


14. Low energy He+ ion irradiation induced surface modifications on W, Mo, and Ta in extreme conditions

J. K. Tripathi

Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments (CMUXE), School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

 October 01, 2014


13.  Low Energy Ar+ Ion Irradiation Induced Surface Modification in Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CdZnTe)

J. K. Tripthi, S. S. Harilal, and A. Hassanein

School of Nuclear Engineering, Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Grand Hyatt Hotel Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, USA

May 25-30 (2014)

In recent years, paramount effort has been invested in developing a range of compound semiconductors with wide band gap and high atomic number (Z) for X- and gamma-ray detectors. Consequently, cadmium zinc telluride (Cd1-xZnxTe) has emerged as the most promising materials for these applications. It’s quite higher Z values and density ensures relatively superior stopping power compared with other conventional semiconductors and operating temperature close to room temperature. In addition, nano-semiconductor offers strong change in their energy band diagram which leads to a significant change in its properties, such as electrical (the change of free charge carriers concentration and their mobility), optical (absorption coefficient, reflectivity coefficient, and radiative recombination efficiency), mechanical and thermal properties. It has been noticed that even a very small amount of change in dopant (Zn) concentration can cause giant change in its physical and electronic properties.

We report on modifications in structural, stoichiometry and optical properties of CdZnTe surface due surface due to 1keV Ar+ ion irradiation as function of ion fluence, using extremely high ion flux of 1.7×1017 ions cm-2 s-1. Atomic force microscopy studies show sequentially change in surface structure as a function of ion fluence, from homogeneously populated nano-hole to sub-micron sized holes which are well geometrically defined in shapes on whole sample (5mm×5mm). Using X-ray photoelectron microscopy characterizations, we observed a reduction in Zn concentration (at %). Raman and Photoluminescence studies show almost complete depletion of Te inclusions and slight red shifts due to ion irradiations, respectively. These results indicate for the possibility of large-area surface nanostructuring by ion beams which may be implemented in the fabrication of future CdZnTe-based devices.


12. Self-organized ordering in Metal Silicides on Si (111)

J. K. Tripathi

Center for Materials Under Extreme Environments (CMUXE), School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

May 15, 2013


11.  Superparamagnetism in self-ordered Iron-Silicide nanostructures on vicinal Si (111) surface

Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Magnus Garbrecht, Wayen D. Kaplan, Gil Markovich and Ilan Goldfarb

15th  Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC-15)

Le Meridien hotel at the Dead Sea, Israel

February 28-March 1 (2012)

Iron-silicides may exhibit metallic, magnetic, or semiconducting behavior, as a function of stoichiometry, and hence show great potential of optical, electronic, and spintronic devices. Bottom-up self-assembled and self-organized fabrication of iron-silicide nanostructures may result in additional, quantum-size effects.  In this work, we grew iron-silicide nanostructures by solid-phase epitaxy, namely room-temperature deposition of Fe onto atomically clean vicinal Si(111) substrates, followed by elevated-temperature anneals to promote Fe-Si reaction.  We observed transformation of the initially flat silicide layer into a discrete bimodal distribution of nanoislands decorating the Si(111) step edges in a self-ordered fashion, upon annealing up to 550 degrees Celsius.  Our scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) indicated metallic  α-FeSi2 phase embedded with small fraction of elemental Fe. SQUID magnetometry showed superparamagnetism most likely linked to the self-ordered nanostructures.


10. Coverage-dependent self-organized ordering in Metal Silicides

J. K. Tripathi, M. Levinshtein and I. Goldfarb

International Conference on Multifunctional Material-2010 (ICMM-2010)

Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

December 6-9 (2010)


J.K.Tripathi, S. Manor, E. Roizin, M. Levinshtein and I. Goldfarb

14th  Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC-14)

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

December 13-14 (2009)

Growth of metals on silicon substrates has been attracting significant interest for quite some time now, because heterostructure interfaces, and metal/silicon interfaces in particular, are of paramount importance to many applications in contemporary and future device technology. Recent findings of lead and silver islands on Si, with single - or a few “magic” - heights, came as a surprise, since apriori a continuous distribution of island heights was to be expected. The explanation has been that those magic heights act as quantum wells (QW’s), and hence are stabilized by the electron energy. More specifically, QW states in stable islands are energetically distant from the Fermi level. Up until now, such stabilization of flat overgrowth morphology by a reduction of the overall electron energy in a QW (hence termed “electronic growth”), has been observed exclusively in heteroepitaxy of simple metals only, e.g., lead and silver. However in this work, based on scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) measurements of heteroepitaxial island height distributions and density of states (DOS), respectively, we demonstrate first evidence of the above "electronic growth" in titanium- and cobalt-silicide heterostructures on Si(111). Since these silicides are certainly not “simple metals” in terms of their crystal and electronic structure, these results imply that the "electronic growth" mechanism may apply to a broader class of heterosystems. The importance of “electronic growth” is in the fact that it provides a possibility of growing single height islands or layers by self-assembly even in large-mismatch systems. In the particular case of the above silicides, the immediate advantage stems from them being technologically important materials for VLSI due to their low resistivity, resistance to electromigration, and the ability to self-align.

 

08. Tailoring magnetic properties by ion irradiation

J. K. Tripathi

Dept. Cond. Matter and Mater. Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India

November 7-9 (2008)

In recent years, it has been shown that magnetic properties of ultra-thin magnetic multilayers depend strongly on the surface and interface structure, chemical composition, crystallinity, and grain sizes and their distributions. In general, all these structural properties can be tailored by ion irradiation. In addition, it has been shown that the magnetic properties can also be tailored by ion irradiation. In this seminar, I shall talk on tailoring the magnetic properties of Pt/Cr/Co multilayers by ion irradiation.

 

07. Tailoring magnetic properties of ultrathin Pt/Cr/Co multilayers by ion irradiation (INVITED)

J. K. Tripathi

International conference and Humboldt-kolleg on structural characterization of materials relevant to nanotechnology, biomedical and Geobiology

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

November 7-9 (2008)


06. MeV ion irradiation of Pt/Cr/Co multilayers: Correlation of structural and magnetic properties, (INVITED)

J. K. Tripathi, A. Gupta, and T. Som

Seminar-cum-Workshop on Materials Characterization and surface modification in research and Industry using Ion Accelerators (MCIA)

Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India

April 03 (2008)

 In recent years, it has been shown that magnetic properties of ultrathin magnetic multilayers depend strongly on the surface and interface structure, chemical composition, crystallinity, and grain sizes and their distributions. In general, all these structural properties can be tuned by ion irradiation. It offers a high spatial selectivity and is not driven by equilibrium thermodynamics. Therefore, ion irradiation of multilayer thin films often leads to the formation of metastable phases, which is otherwise not possible by solid-state reaction route. It is a unique technique to modify several extrinsic magnetic properties of ultrathin magnetic multilayers, viz. coercivity, magnetic anisotropy, and magnetic exchange coupling in a highly localized region.

In this talk, I shall discuss on MeV ion irradiation of Pt/Cr/Co multilayer and subsequent changes in the structural and the magnetic properties. Ion-induced defect evolution and atomic displacements would be correlated the ion induced change in the structural and the magnetic properties of the multilayer.


05.Tuning magnetic property of Pt/Cr/Co multilayer by Ion irradiation

 J. K. Tripathi

 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India

 January 07 (2008)

In recent years, it has been shown that magnetic properties of ultrathin magnetic multilayers depend strongly on the surface and interface structure, chemical composition, crystallinity, and grain sizes and their distributions. In general, all these structural properties can be tuned by ion irradiation. In addition, it has been shown that the magnetic properties can also be tuned by ion irradiation. In this seminar, I shall talk on tuning the magnetic properties of ultrathin magnetic multilayers by ion irradiation.

 

04. A Study on Cr doped GaN DMS system

J. K. Tripathi, D. Kanjilal and T. Som

Workshop on Materials Science and Atomic/Molecular Physics Experiments using the Low Energy Ion Beam Facility

Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India

February 21 (2007)

Spintronics has attracted much attention recently. The spintronics devices are being explored in which electronic spin shall carry the information instead of electronic charge. The ferromagnetic (FM) / semiconductor (SC) hybrid structures are expected to find applications for such devices. But in a diffusive transport regime, successful spin injection occurs only for two conditions: Either the conductivities of FM and SC are closely matched or FM is 100% polarized. No FM metal has been realized at present, which meets either of these two conditions. Since all current electronic devices operate in the diffusive transport regime, these results appear to preclude FM metals as viable candidate for spin contacts in such devices. Further, it is interesting to note that diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) satisfy both criteria at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. It provides excellent electrical spin injection in another semiconductor providing electron population with a spin polarization 80%. Recently, it has been found that Cr-doped GaN based DMS shows ferromagnetic ordering near-room-temperature. 

In view of the above, we plan to synthesize GaN based DMS system, viz. GaN:Cr using ion implantation technique. It is known that GaN is a wide band gap (Eg=3.45eV) semiconductor having tremendous applications in optoelectronics. On the other hand, advantages of using the ion implantation technique are manifold: (i) high spatial selectivity, (ii) precise control of the dopant density, and (iii) far-from-equilibrium processing of materials. Recently, it has been observed that Cr doped GaN shows extremely high Curie temperature (>900 K), which prompts us to take up this project. In this study, we propose to use 100-200 keV Cr ions at different temperatures and fluences (1×1016 – 1×1017 ions cm-2). The samples will be characterized later by X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence (PL), micro-Raman, and MOKE measurements.

03. Spintronic Behaviour in Swift Heavy Ion Irradiated Fe/Si devices

J. K. Tripathi, P.C. Srivastava

Workshop on Functional Oxide Materials

Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India

September 25 (2006)

Fe/Si interface devices have been fabricated by electron beam evaporation technique. The above fabricated devices have also been irradiated from swift ( ~100 MeV ) heavy Fe7+ ions . After irradiation it is found that there is an occurrence of strong interfacial intermixing to result the nano granular magnetic silicides of Fe5Si3 . These nano granular magnetic silicides show a magnetic behaviour of coupled nano grains . Such a behaviour is characterized by a blocking temperature and a hysteresis . The blocking temperature of ~ 50 K could be estimated from ZFC and FC measurements on the irradiated devices. From MFM ( Magnetic Force Microscopy ), magnetic domain like features could be observed .

Electronic transport study show a temperature independent and nearly a linear I-V behaviour at lower voltages , suggesting a tunnel mechanism of the electronic flow across the devices ( of Fe/Si ). Magnetotransport and magnetization studies suggest a spin controlled transport across the tunnel barrier between the magnetically coupled nano granular magnetic silicides ( of Fe5Si3 ) separated by nanometer scaled silicon tunneling barrier . 

A GMR of 2400% has been found in the irradiated Fe/Si devices, which is unique observation and seem to be observed by us for the first time. The observed GMR has been understood in the realm of spin dependent interfacial scattering.

02.  A Study on Magnetic Metal/Silicon Interface Devices; with and without Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation

J. K. Tripathi

Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

February 28 (2006)

 01. Nano Granular Magnetic silicide phase formation due to Swift Heavy ion irradiation in Fe/Si   structures, 

J. K. Tripathi

Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India

June 05 (2003)