Conferences and Invited Talks

INVITED TALKS

  1. Optoelectronic Properties of Layered Materials Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Nihar Pradhan, Central Connecticut State University, Hartford, 04/10 (2017)
  2. Layered Materials Beyond Graphene: Optoelectronic Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Nihar Pradhan, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, 02/03 (2017)
  3. Optoelectronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides, Nihar Pradhan, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire, NH, USA, 1st July 2016.
  4. 2D Materials beyond graphene: Optoelectronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides, Nihar Pradhan, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA, 25th April 2016.
  5. Optoelectronic Properties and metal-to-insulator quantum phase transition of few-layered transition metal dichalcogenides, Nihar Pradhan, (Invited talk at American Vacuum Society, Florida chapter meeting, University of Central Florida, FL, USA, March 2nd – 3rd 2016)
  6. 2D Materials beyond graphene: Optoelectronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides, Nihar Pradhan, University of Texas EL Paso, TX, USA, 29th February 2016.
  7. Optoelectronic properties of semiconducting layered transition metal dichalcogenides. Nihar R. Pradhan, (Invited talk at Energy Materials and Nanotechnology (EMN) Conference, Las Vegas, USA, November 16th to 19th 2015)
  8. Magnetic Nanostructures for data storage and MRAM devices, Nihar R Pradhan (Invited talk at ITER, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India, on 17th October 2011)
  9. Controlling Magnetic States on Ferromagnetic Nanostructures by circular Oersted Field, Nihar R Pradhan (Invited talk at Sambalpur University, India, on 2nd October 2011)
  10. Dynamics of 3600 Domain Wall Annihilation in Thin Ferromagnetic Nanorings, Nihar R. Pradhan, (38th Symposium & Expo, IMAPS New England Chapter, Boxborough, 3rd May 2011, MA, USA)
  11. Thermal properties of Nanowires, Nanotubes and Polymer-Nanotube composites, N. R. Pradhan, (Invited Seminar talk at Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, 5th Nov 2009)
  12. Nanocomposite materials for Energy conversion and managing heat dissipation. N. R. Pradhan (Graduate Seminar) given on 28th Nov. 2007, Physics Department, WPI, MA, USA.
  13. Anisotropy specific heat and thermal conductivity of cobalt nanowires, N. R. Pradhan (11th July 2007 Olin College, MA, USA).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Presented by me:

  1. Electrical and photoconductivity study on few layers ReSe2 APS March Meeting Conference, Vol 61, No 4, March 13-17, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana,
  2. Optical switching and high photoresponsivity on few layered MoSe2 and WSe2 phototransistors, Gordon research conference June 5-10th (2016), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA.
  3. Metal to insulator quantum phase transition in few-layered ReS2, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. F17:00013 (2016), Baltimore, USA)
  4. Optoelectronic switch based on intrinsic dual Schottky diodes in Ambipolar MoSe2 field-effect transistors, (Workshop on Multifunctional Nanomaterials (WMN), December 15-18th 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA),
  5. Electrical transport and Raman spectroscopy of few-layered ReS2 field-effect transistors, Nihar Pradhan (MRS Fall meeting, EE1.03, Synthesis and characterization of 2D Materials I, Boston, MA, USA (2015))
  6. Metal to Insulator Quantum phase transition in few-layered ReS2, (Science and Technology of 2D Materials, University of Central Florida, USA, August 21-22, 2015)
  7. Optically induced PN junction Diode and Photovoltaic effect response on ambipolar MoSe2 field-effect transistor. (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 60(2), W2.00001 (2015), San Antonio, Texas, USA)
  8. High Hall-mobilities in Field-effect transistors based on mechanically exfoliated p-WSe2 on SiO2. (High Magnetic Field in Semiconductor Physics, Panama City Beach, FL, USA, August 3-8, 2014)
  9. Intrinsic Mobility and ambilpolar behavior in few layered MoSe2 field effect transistor. (MRS Spring meeting, NN4, 2D Materials beyond grapheme: Device 1, San Francisco, CA, USA (2014))
  10. Properties of field effect transistors of CVD grown MoS2 single atomic layers on CVD grown hexagonal BN. (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 58 (1), Y8.00012 (2013), Baltimore, MD, USA)
  11. Intrinsic carrier mobility on multi-layered MoS2 field effect transistors on SiO2. (2D Materials, beyond Graphene, Penn State University, 6th March 2013)
  12. Polarization Dependent Switching of Asymmetric Nanorings with a Circular field. (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 57 (1), V13.00010 (2012), Boston, MA, USA)
  13. Multiple 360 degree domain wall switching in thin ferromagnetic nanoring with a circular field in an applied circular field (56th annual MMM Conference, Arizona, USA) (2012)
  14. Control of Magnetic States of Ferromagnetic Nanorings by an External Azimuthal field for Data Storage Devices, Nihar R Pradhan, Tianyu Yang, Abbey Licht, Yihan Li, Mark T. Tuominen and Katherine Aidala, (38th Symposium & Expo, IMAPS New England Chapter, Boxborough, 3rd May 2011, MA.
  15. Control of Magnetic States of Cobalt Nanorings by an External Azimuthal Field” N. R. Pradhan, Tianyu Yang, Abbey Licht, Yihan Li, Mark T. Tuominen, Katherine E. Aidala (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 65 (1), J16.008 (2011), Dallas, Texas, USA).
  16. Dynamics of 8CB and 10CB Liquid Crystals Inside Multiwall Carbon Nanopipes", N. R. Pradhan, Y. Qiming, J. Liang, and G. S. Iannacchione, 37th Symposium & Expo, IMAPS New England Chapter, Boxborough, 14th May 2010, MA.
  17. Phase transition of Liquid crystals confined inside carbon nanopipes, N. R. Pradhan and G.S. Iannacchion, 41st New England Workshop on Complex Fluid, Harvard University, Boston, 4th Dec 2009
  18. Relaxation Dynamics of the Glass Transition in PMMA+SWCNT Composites by TMDSC, N. R. Pradhan and G.S. Iannacchion, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 55 (2), x – A17 (2010) , Portland, Oregon, USA)
  19. Phase Transitions of Liquid Crystals Confined Inside Carbon Nanopipes: A Modulated DSC Study, N. R. Pradhan, S. Dougherty, J. Liang and G.S. Iannacchion, (MRS Fall Meeting SESSION WW3: Methods of Processing of Polymer Nanofibers II , December(2009))
  20. The Thermal Conductivity and Glass Transition in Composites of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes and PMMA, Nihar R Pradhan and Germano S Iannacchione, (IMAPS-NEW ENGLAND 36th Annual Symposium & Exhibition, Tuesday May 6th Boxborough Woods, Boxborough, MA, USA (2009))
  21. Thermal conductivity of Single and Multi-wall Carbon nanotubes, Nihar R. Pradhan, H Huanan, J. Liang and G. S. Iannacchione (IMAPS NE 35th Annual Symposium and Expo, May 6th 2008, Boxborough, MA, USA)
  22. Thermal conductivity of Single-wall and Multi-wall carbon nanotubes. N. R. Pradhan, H. Duan, J. Liang, G.S. Iannacchione, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 53 (1), x – Q30.00010 (2008) , New Orleans, LA, USA),.
  23. Specific heat and Thermal conductivity measurement parallel and perpendicular to the long – axis of Cobalt nanowires, N. R. Pradhan, H, Duan, J. Liang, G. S. Iannacchione, (The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) 137th meeting program, p. 309 (2008), New Orleans, LA, USA)

As Co-author:

  1. Intrinsic photoconductivity on few-layered WSe2 phototransistor by multi-terminal contacts, Gordon research conference June 5-10th (2016), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA.
  2. Pronounced photovoltaic effect on few layered MoSe2 p-n junctions, Gordon research conference June 5-10th (2016), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, USA.
  3. Enhancement of photocurrent on few-layered p-WSe2 FET by multi-terminal measurement (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. R46:00012 (2016), Baltimore, USA)
  4. Photovoltaic response from multilayerd transition metal dichalcogenides p-n junctions, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. R46:00012 (2016), Baltimore, USA)
  5. Transport properties of heterostructures composed of Mo(S,Se)2 on h-BN, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. X16:00004 (2016), Baltimore, USA)
  6. Role of spin-orbit coupling and evolution of the electronic structure of WTe2 under an external magnetic field, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. L46:00003 (2016), Baltimore, USA)
  7. Synthesis and photoresponse of Hydrothermally grown ZnO2 nanowires, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 60(2), M26.00001 (2015), San Antonio, Texas, USA)
  8. Field effect transistors based on few layered ambipolar MoSe2 and a MoTe2, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 60(2), B2.00004 (2015), San Antonio, Texas, USA)
  9. High Photoresponsivity and extrinsic quantum efficiency in tri-layer Tungsten diselenide phototransistor, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 60(2), H1.00240 (2015), San Antonio, Texas, USA)
  10. Photoconduction in Few-Layer Tungsten Diselenide Field-effect transistors, Submitted to MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA, (Nov 30th –December 5th 2014)
  11. Photo sensor devices based on atomically thin Transition metal dichalcogenides, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 59, NO1. Q37: 00009 (2014), Denver, USA)
  12. Electrical transport properties of Liquid phase exfoliated MoS2 thin films. (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 58 (1), T23.00006 (2013), Baltimore, MD, USA)
  13. Individual Domain wall manipulation in a local Oersted circular field, (Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. Vol 57(1), V13.00004(2012), Boston, MA, USA)
  14. Manipulation of Magnetization States of Permalloy Nanorings by an External Azimuthal Field, ( Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 56 (1), J16.00011 (2011), Dallas, Texas), USA)