Research and Publications

Prince Sharma is a distinguished researcher now affiliated with National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. His research contributions span ultrafast spectroscopy, terahertz generation, battery interfaces, and material science. Here are some key aspects of his work:

1. Terahertz Generation in Topological Insulators

Utilizing time-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy, Prince Sharma has investigated terahertz generation in single-crystal bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3), bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) and Antimony telluride (Sb2Te3) topological insulators. Terahertz radiation has significant applications in communication, imaging, and material characterization.

2. Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics

His studies on the ultrafast excited-state dynamics of topological materials, their heterostructure with graphene, fluorographene, and MoS2 along with SnSe2–SnSe composite thin films offer insights into the behavior of novel materials under optical excitation, which is crucial for the development of efficient optoelectronic devices.

3. Topological Superconducting Materials and Interfaces

Prince Sharma has extensively reviewed topological superconducting materials and their interfaces. His work explores the unique properties of these materials, which combine superconductivity with topological surface states, promising applications in quantum computing, energy storage, and advanced electronic devices.

4. Magneto-Conductivity of Topological materials

Sharma and his collaborators have modeled the magneto-conductivity of topological insulator, to understand its electronic transport properties. This material is notable for its unique surface states that can be influenced by external magnetic fields.

5. Metal Doping and Intercalations in Topological Insulators

Sharma's research emphasizes the impact of metal doping and intercalations in topological materials to achieve tunable terahertz generation, allowing researchers to modify the electronic properties of these materials through specific dopants and intercalated atoms.

6. Solid State battery Ionics

Sharma has recently initiated research endeavors focusing on battery materials utilizing Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) for solid-state batteries, alongside the commencement of fabrication processes for solid-state thin-film batteries.

Prince Sharma's research bridges fundamental physics and practical applications, focusing on the intriguing properties of topological materials. His contributions significantly advance the field of condensed matter physics and pave the way for innovative technological developments. For more details, visit his Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CiYqznUAAAAJ&hl=en). 😊📚🔬

Research Articles

2025

Sharma, Prince, Saurabh K. Saini, Kapil Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. "Temperature-dependent ultrafast carrier and lattice dynamics in Dirac semimetals NiTe 2 and PdTe 2." Physical Review B 111, no. 24 (2025): 245304.
Sharma, Prince, Rahul Sharma, Kapil Kumar, Saurabh K. Saini, and Mahesh Kumar. "Unveiling Optoelectronic Properties and Charge Carrier Dynamic Mechanisms in Bi2Se3-Based vdW Heterostructures." ACS Applied Optical Materials (2025).
Saini, Saurabh K., Kapil Kumar, Prince Sharma, Shivam Tiwari, Rajiv Kr Singh, Sumeet Walia, and Mahesh Kumar. "Exploring substrate and Structure-Induced ultrafast phonon dynamics in Bi2Te3 thin films." Applied Surface Science 686 (2025): 162069.
Saini, Saurabh K., Aditya Yadav, Kapil Kumar, Prince Sharma, Naveen Kumar Tailor, Aditi Puri, Soumitra Satapathi, Govind Gupta, Rajiv Kr Singh, and Mahesh Kumar. "Dual Probe Optical and Electrical Investigation of Ultrafast Electron–Phonon Interaction in Bi2Se3/ZnSe Heterostructures." ACS Applied Electronic Materials (2025).
Sharma, Prince, Rahul Sharma, Saurabh Saini, Kapil Kumar, Sumeet Walia, and Mahesh Kumar. "Ultrafast dynamics and tunable coherent optical phonons via hybridization and gold layering in hybrid topological Bi2Se1. 5Te1. 5." Materials Today Quantum 6 (2025): 100035.

2024

Sharma, Prince, Naveen Kumar Tailor, Saurabh K. Saini, Kapil Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Lalita Goswami, Ritu Srivastava, Tejasvini Sharma, Shivani Choudhary, and Soumitra Satapathi. "Unraveling the Interplay of Charge Transfer and Excited State Dynamics in MAPbBr3/Bi2Se3 Heterostructures." ACS Applied Electronic Materials 6, no. 11 (2024): 7809-7823.
Sharma, P., Sen, S., Walia, S., Kumar, K., Saini, S. K., & Kumar, M. (2024). Intercalation-enhanced topological material Bi2Se3: Tuning charge carrier and phonon dynamics for advanced optoelectronic and terahertz applications. Applied Materials Today, 40, 102400.
Kumar, K., Sharma, P., Verma, S., Saini, S. K., Kumar Tailor, N., Husale, S., ... & Kumar, M. Revealing Enhanced Optoelectronic Performance of Sb2Se3‐Based Self‐Sustaining Heterostructures with Bi2Se3 and ZnSe: A Dual Polarity Photo Response. Advanced Functional Materials, 2405364.
Sharma, R., Nameirakpam, H., Belinchón, D. M., Sharma, P., Noumbe, U., Belotcerkovtceva, D., ... & Kamalakar, M. V. (2024). Large-Scale Direct Growth of Monolayer MoS2 on Patterned Graphene for van der Waals Ultrafast Photoactive Circuits. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(29), 38711-38722.
Saini, S. K., Sharma, P., Verma, S., Tailor, N. K., Kumar, K., Tawale, J. S., ... & Kumar, M. (2024). Unveiling Electric Bias Effects on Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Multiple Stacked ZnTe/Bi2Te3 Heterostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128(28), 11687-11698.
Sharma, P., Kumar, K., Saini, S. K., & Kumar, M. (2024). Competing Energy Scales and Phase Separation in Topological Superconductor Sn0. 4Sb0. 6 Alloys: Temperature-and Excitation-Dependent Ultrafast Pump–Probe Studies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Chaudhary, Amit Kumar, Sharma, Prince, Rana, Archana, Jain, Sanyam, Saini, Saurabh K., Kumar, Kapil, Singh, Rajiv K., Goswami, Lalit, Tanwar, Praveen K., Basheed, G.A., and others. "Exploring charge transfer mechanisms and optical properties in vdW heterostructures of MoS2 and Bi2Se3 at nanoscale regime." *Physica B: Condensed Matter*, vol. 674, pp. 415569, 2024.
Sharma, Prince, Ako, Rajour Tanyi, Wang, Qigejian, Atakaramians, Shaghik, Walia, Sumeet, Sriram, Sharath. "Ultra-thin freestanding terahertz frequency selective surface on flexible cyclic olefin copolymer." *Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics*, 2024.
Kumar, Kapil, Verma, Sahil, Sharma, Prince, Saini, Saurabh K., Husale, Sudhir, Achanta, Venu Gopal, Kumar, Mahesh. "Tuning Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics and Broadband Photo-Response of High-Performance Sb2Se3 Thin Film Photodetectors: A Substrate Dependent Study." *ACS Photonics*, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1031-1043, 2024.
Saini, Saurabh K., Sharma, Prince, Gautam, Sudhanshu, Verma, Sahil, Kumar, Kapil, Gupta, Arshi, Tawale, J.S., Husale, Sudhir, Kushvaha, Sunil Singh, Walia, Sumeet, and others. "Unveiling Electric Field Induced Ultrafast Charge Transfer Dynamics and Photoresponse Enhancement in Gold-Interlayered Bi2Se3." *Advanced Optical Materials*, pp. 2302478, 2024.

2023

Saini, Saurabh K., Tailor, Naveen Kumar, Sharma, Prince, Tyagi, Lavi, Vashistha, Nikita, Yadav, Rimjhim, Chaudhary, Amit Kumar, Satapathi, Soumitra, Kumar, Mahesh. "Revealing the Substrate Dependent Ultrafast Phonon Dynamics in Bi2Se3 Thin Films." *Advanced Materials Interfaces*, 2023, pp. 2201650.
Kumar, Yogesh, Sharma, Prince, Karn, N.K., Awana, V.P.S. "Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) Oscillation in Self-Flux Grown Rhombohedral Single-Crystalline Bismuth." *Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism*, vol. 36, no. 2, 2023, pp. 389-395.
Sharma, Prince, Sharma, Rahul, Pandey, Animesh, Husale, Sudhir, Narayanan, Tharangattu N., Kumar, Mahesh. "Ultrafast Charge Transfer Mechanism in van der Waals Heterostructures of Topological Insulators with 2D Materials." *The Journal of Physical Chemistry C*, vol. 127, no. 12, 2023, pp. 5958-5967.
Kumar, Kapil, Vashistha, Nikita, Tawale, J.S., Tiwari, Shivam, Sharma, Prince, Kumar, Mahesh. "Lifetime Enhancement in the Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures on Si (100) Probed by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy." *Physica B: Condensed Matter*, vol. 657, 2023, pp. 414814.
Sharma, Prince. *Temperature-Dependent Probing of Transport and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Topological Materials.* PhD thesis, RMIT University, 2023.
Kumar, Kapil, Sharma, Prince, Saini, Saurabh K., Yadav, Rimjhim, Singh, Surinder P., Kumar, Mahesh. "Substrate-Dependent Ultrafast Charge-Carrier Dynamics: Unveiling the Annealing Effect on Optoelectronic Performance of Sb2Se3 Thin Films." *The Journal of Physical Chemistry C*, vol. 127, no. 49, 2023, pp. 23706-23718.

2022

Sharma, Prince, Awana, Veerpal Singh, & Kumar, Mahesh. "Temperature-Dependent Evaluation of Charge Carriers and Terahertz Generation in Bismuth and Antimony-Based Chalcogenides." In Chalcogenides-Preparation and Applications, 2022.
Sharma, Prince, Kumar, Yogesh, Awana, V.P.S., & Kumar, Mahesh. "Temperature-dependent evolution of topological surface states." Solid State Sciences, 125, 106829, 2022.
Sharma, Prince, Bhardwaj, Archit, Sharma, Rahul, Awana, V.P.S., Narayanan, Tharangattu N., Raman, Karthik V., & Kumar, Mahesh. "Comprehensive Study of the Topological Surface States through Ultrafast Pump-Probe Spectroscopy." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(27), 11138-11147, 2022.
Kumar, Yogesh, Sharma, Prince, Awana, V.P.S. "Thickness-dependent magneto-transport of Bi2Se3/SiO2 topological insulator thin films." Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 33(23), 18726-18733, 2022.
Saini, Saurabh K., Sharma, Prince, Vashistha, Nikita, Tyagi, Lavi, & Kumar, Mahesh. "Structural correlation of phonon dynamics in Bismuth and Tellurium for the formation of Bismuth Telluride, using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy." Physica B: Condensed Matter, 638, 413935, 2022.
Kumar, Yogesh, Sharma, Prince, Sharma, M.M., & Awana, V.P.S. "Investigation of structural and magneto-transport properties of PdTe2 single crystals." Applied Physics A, 128(10), 880, 2022.
Kumar, Kapil, Sharma, Prince, Sharma, M.M., Kumar, Yogesh, & Awana, V.P.S. "Growth and characterization of Ni substituted Bi2Se3 single crystals." Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 35(5), 1017-1024, 2022.
Sharma, M.M., Sharma, Prince, Karn, N.K., & Awana, Veer Singh. "A comprehensive review on topological superconducting materials and interfaces." Superconductor Science and Technology, 2022.
Saxena, Ankush, Sharma, M.M., Sharma, Prince, Kumar, Yogesh, Rani, Poonam, Singh, M., Patnaik, S., & Awana, V.P.S. "Structural and weak antilocalization analysis of topological single-crystal SnSb2Te4." Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 895, 162553, 2022.
Tanwar, Praveen, Sharma, Prince, Panwar, Amrish K., Srivastava, Avanish K., Singh, Sukhvir, Kumar, Anil, & Kumar, Mahesh. "Ultrafast probing of indium doping on SnTe topological insulator." Physica B: Condensed Matter, 631, 413656, 2022.
Boora, Navjyoti, Sharma, Prince, Alam, Asrar, Rahman, Shafaque, Ahmad, Rafiq, Awana, V.P.S., & Hafiz, A.K. "Impact of NiO nano-particles on colossal magneto-resistance of La0.70Ca0.30MnO3 composite." Materials Letters: X, 14, 100147, 2022.

2021

Sharma, Prince, Sharma, M.M., Kumar, Kapil, Kumar, Mahesh, & Awana, V.P.S. "Excited-state dynamics of structurally characterized crystal of SnxSb1-x." Journal of Materials Science, 56, 1527-1536, 2021.
Sharma, Prince, Kumar, Mahesh, & Awana, V.P.S. "Topological insulator Bi2Se3 as a tunable crystal for terahertz frequency generation." Applied Physics A, 127(5), 327, 2021.
Sharma, Prince, Kumar, Mahesh, Awana, V.P.S., Singh, Anushree, Gohil, Himanshu, & Prabhu, S.S. "Comprehensive analysis of Terahertz frequency response of Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 single crystals using Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy." Materials Science and Engineering: B, 272, 115355, 2021.
Sharma, Prince, Sharma, Rahul, Awana, V.P.S., Narayanan, T.N., Gupta, Bipin Kumar, Vashistha, Nikita, Tyagi, Lavi, & Kumar, Mahesh. "Low-temperature ultrafast optical probing of topological bismuth selenide." Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 886, 161235, 2021.
Sharma, M.M., Sharma, Prince, Gurjar, Ganesh, & Patnaik, S., Awana, V.P.S. "Structural and superconducting analysis of topologically non-trivial alloy of Sn1-xSbx (x= 0.4, 0.5, 0.6)." Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 156, 110136, 2021.
Karn, N.K., Sharma, M.M., Sharma, Prince, Gurjar, Ganesh, Patnaik, S., & Awana, V.P.S. "Superconductivity with topological non-trivial surface states in NbC." Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 34(11), 2717-2724, 2021.
Kumar, Manoj, Sharma, Prince, Rani, Sanju, Kumar, Mahesh, & Singh, V.N. "Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of SnSe2--SnSe composite thin film." AIP Advances, 11(2), 2021.
Sharma, Rahul, Sharma, Prince, Sahoo, Krishna Rani, Sankar, Soumya, Awana, V.P.S., Kumar, Mahesh, & Narayanan, T.N. "Giant photoresponsivity of transfer free grown fluorographene--MoS2 heterostructured ultra-stable transistors." Materials Today, 50, 69-78, 2021.
Sharma, M.M., Karn, N.K., Sharma, Prince, Gurjar, Ganesh, Patnaik, S., & Awana, V.P.S. "SnAs: A 4K weak type-II superconductor with non-trivial band topology." Solid State Communications, 340, 114531, 2021.
Kumar, Yogesh, Sultana, Rabia, Sharma, Prince, & Awana, V.P.S. "Modeling of magneto-conductivity of bismuth selenide: a topological insulator." SN Applied Sciences, 3(4), 413, 2021.

2020

Sharma, Prince, Sharma, M.M., Kumar, Mahesh, & Awana, V.P.S. "Metal doping in topological insulators-a key for tunable generation of terahertz." Solid State Communications, 319, 114005, 2020.
Sharma, Prince, Kumar, Mahesh, & Awana, V.P.S. "Exploration of terahertz from time-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy in single-crystal Bi2Se3 topological insulator." Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 31, 7959-7967, 2020.
Sharma, P., Sharma, D., Vashistha, N., Rani, P., Kumar, M., Islam, S.S., & Awana, V.P.S. "Ultrafast spectroscopy of Bi2Se3 topological insulator." AIP Conference Proceedings, 2220, 2020.

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