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(1) Quantum coherence of excitons strongly bound to the magnetic order (2025) (In Review)
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Associate Professor Publications
(93) Akshay Wali, Roshan Padhan, Ralu Divan, Liliana Stan, Nihar Pradhan, and Anirudha V. Sumant, Heterogeneous Integration of Boron Doped p-Diamond With Monolayer n-MoS2 for PN Junctions Operating at Room Temperature (Accepted in Nano Letter 2025)
(92) Rohit R Srivastava, Roshan Padhan, Sumit Bera, Pallavi B Jagdale, Novuhulu Rhakho, Rahul Rao, Anirudha Sumant and Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, "High-density Electrostatic Energy storage in Multi-Layer P(VDF-TrFE-CFE)/2D Mica Nanocomposite Heterostructures Capacitor" Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2025)
(91) Sengottuvelu, Dineshkumar; Samanta, Pabitra Narayan; Padhan, Roshan; Majdoub, Mohammed; Wali, Akshay; Poornachandiran, Surya; Sumant, Anirudha; Pradhan, Nihar; Yang, Shan; Majumdar, Devashis; Leszczynski, Jerzy; Nouranian, Sasan; Al-Ostaz, Ahmed, "Unraveling the Mechanism of Interfacial Charge Transfer and Photoresponsivity of WS2 Quantum Dots/MoS2 (0D-2D) Heterostructure-Based Transistor" ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2025)
(90) Olusegun Alaba, Sumit Bera, Ikeoluwa Apata, Maninderjeet Singh, Isaac Oppong Yeboah, Francisco C Robles Hernandez, Alamgir Karim, Nihar Pradhan, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Energy Storage in Nanocomposite Films of Polystyrene (PS) Grafted TiO2 Nanoparticles in PS Matrix, Polymer (2025) 128751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2025.128751
(89) Yifang Qi, Qiqi Zhang, Jeffrey Aguinaga, Chuchu Qiu, Rui Hang, Sheng He, Saroj Upreti, Antim Maurya, Nihar Pradhan, Paresh Chandra Ray, Vitor Pomin, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, Tianquan Lian, Qilin Dai, Engineering Inorganic Perovskite Films by X Values of DMAPbIx toward Large Area Photovoltaic Devices by Slot‐Die Coating, Small (2025), 2503825 https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202503825
(88) James FitzPatrick, Sumit Bera, Alex Inman, Alessandra Cabrera, Teng Zhang, Tetiana Parker, Bita Soltan Mohammadlou, Iryna Roslyk, Stefano Ippolito, Kateryna Shevchuk, Sujit A. Kadam, Nihar R. Pradhan* , Yury Gogotsi*, Record Efficiency of β-Phase PVDF-MXene Composites in Thin Film Dielectric Capacitors, Advanced Materials (2025)
(87) Roshan Padhan, Carlos Garcia, Ralu Divan, Anirudha V. Sumant, Daniel Rosenmann, Sujit A. Kadam, Akshay Wali, Suzanne Miller, Stephen McGill and Nihar R Pradhan, Percolation phase transition in few layered MoSe2 Field effect transistors using Co and Cr contacts Nanoscale (2024)
(86) Sujit Anil Kadam, Dhayanantha Prabu Jaihindh, Yan-Ruei Chen, Komal Prakash Kadam, Hao-Wei Hsieh, Sumit Bera, Santosh KC, Anirudha V. Sumant, Yen-Pei Fu, Chien-Chih Lai, Yuan-Ron Ma, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Ferromagnetic hybrid 2D FeS/FeS2 nanostructures as effective electrocatalysts for next generation electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction, ACS Applied Nano Materials (2024)
(85) Sumit Bera, Rukshan M. Thantirige, Sujit A Kadam, Anirudha V. Sumant and Nihar R. Pradhan, High Density Capacitive Energy Storage in Low Dielectric constant Polymer PMMA-2D Mica Nanofillers Heterostructure Composite, Molecules (2024)
(84) Sumit Bera, Rukshan M. Thantirige, Jiaen Wu, Emily C. Davidson, Sujit Anil Kadam, Anirudha V. Sumant, Brian T. Shook, Rahul Rao, Ryan Selhorst, Maninderjeet Singh, Alamgir Karim, Dharmaraj Raghavan and Nihar R. Pradhan, Enhanced Energy Density in Heterostructure Capacitor of Multi-Layered PVDF and 2D Mica Nanocomposites, ACS Applied Electronic Materials (2024)
(83) Sujit A. Kadam, Komal Prakash Kadam and Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Advancements in 2D MXene-Based Supercapacitor Electrodes: Synthesis, Mechanisms, Electronic Structure Engineering, Flexible Wearable Energy Storage for Real-World Applications, and Future Prospects, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2024)
(82) Novuhulu Rhakho, Manav Saxena, Nihar R Pradhan, Arvind H. Jadhav, Ali Altaee, Akshaya K. Samal, Transformative Dynamics: Self-Assembly of Iron Oxide Hydroxide Nanorods into Iron Oxide Microcubes for Enhanced PFAS Remediation, Langmuir (2024) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00472 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00472
(81) Arup Barua , Matthew Cothrine, Sean Knapp, Shirin Mozaffari, Nihar Pradhan, David Mandrus, Denis Karaiskaj, and Dmitri V. Voronine, Photoluminescence and Raman Enhancement by Edge Plasmons in MnPS3, Journal of Phys Chem C (2024), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c00810
(80) Seid Yimer Abate, Surabhi Jha, Abdul Kalam Shaik, Guorong Ma, Jada Emodogo, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, Nathan I Hammer, Qilin Dai, Fabrication of 1D/3D heterostructure perovskite layers by tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate for high-performance devices, Organic Electronics (2024) Vol.125, 106984
(79) Maninderjeet Singh, Priyanka Das, Pabitra Narayan Samanta, Sumit Bera, Rukshan Tanthirige, Brian Shook, Roshanak Nejat, Banarji Behera, Qiqi Zhang, Qilin Dai, Avijit Pramanik, Paresh Ray, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Jerzy Leszczysnki, Alamgir Karim, Nihar R Pradhan, "Ultra high Capacitive Energy Density in Heterostructure of Polymer and Stratified 2D Layered Nanofiller Composites" (ACS Nano 2023) doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c06249
(78) Sujoy Ghosh, Jie Zhang, Milinda Wasala, Prasanna Patil, Nihar Pradhan, Saikat Talapatra, Probing the Electronic and Opto-Electronic Properties of Multilayer MoS2 Field-Effect Transistors at Low Temperatures, Nanomaterials 2023, 13(16), 2333
(77) Huimin Zhang, Steve Larson, John Ballard, Jing Nie, Qiqi Zhang, Joseph A Kazery, Shaloam Dasari, Nihar Pradhan, Qilin Dai, Olanrewaju M Olafuyi, Xianchun Zhu, Youhua Ma, Fengxiang X Han, Interaction of exopolysaccharide with clay minerals and their effects on U (VI) adsorption, J Soils Sediments (2023)
(76) Seid Yimer Abate, Ziqi Yang, Surabhi Jha, Jada Emodogo, Guorong Ma, Zhongliang Ouyang, Shafi Muhammad, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, Dawen Li, Jianfeng Cai, Qilin Dai, Promoting Large-Area Slot-Die-Coated Perovskite Solar Cell Performance and Reproducibility by Acid-Based Sulfono-γ-AApeptide, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 21, 25495–25505
(75) Ikeoluwa E Apata, Bhausaheb V Tawade, Steven P Cummings, Nihar Pradhan, Alamgir Karim, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Comparative Study of Polymer-Grafted BaTiO3 Nanoparticles Synthesized Using Normal ATRP as Well as ATRP and ARGET-ATRP with Sacrificial Initiator with a Focus on Controlling the Polymer Graft Density and Molecular Weight, Molecules 2023, 28(11), 4444
(74) Ranganath Wahalathantrige Don, Priyanka Das, Ziyuan Ma, Udara M Kuruppu, Daijun Feng, Brian T Shook, Mahesh K Gangishetty, Mihaela C. Stefan, Nihar R. Pradhan, and Colleen N. Scott, Vinyl flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole polymer/MoS2 hybrid for donor-acceptor semiconductor photodetection, Chemistry of Materials (2023) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00211
(73) Tawade, Bhausaheb; Singh, Maninderjeet; Apata, Ikeoluwa ; Veerasamy, Jagadesh; Pradhan, Nihar; Karim, Alamgir; Douglas, Jack; Raghavan, Dharmaraj, Polymer grafted nanoparticles with variable grafting densities for high energy density polymeric nanocomposite dielectric capacitors, JACS Au (2023) doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.3c00022.
(72) Huimin Zhang, Steve Larson, John Ballard, Kauri A Runge, Jing Nie, Qiqi Zhang, Xianchun Zhu, Nihar Pradhan, Qilin Dai, Youhua Ma, Fengxiang X Han, Strontium and Cesium Adsorption on Exopolysaccharide-Modified Clay Minerals, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2023, 7, 4, 936–946
(71) Sumit Bera, Maninderjeet Singh, Rukshan Thantirige , Saurabh Kr Tiwary, Brian T. Shook , Elianie Nieves , Dharmaraj Raghavan , Alamgir Karim , Nihar R. Pradhan, "2D Nanofiller based Polymer Nanocomposites for Capacitive Energy Storage Applications" Small Science (Weily Publication) 2023
(70) Seid Yimer Abate, Ziqi Yang, Surabhi Jha, Guorong Ma, Zhongliang Ouyang, Haixin Zhang, Shafi Muhammad, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, Kun Wang, Dawen Li, Jianfeng Cai, Qilin Dai, "Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices" Chemical Engineering Journal Vol. 457, 1, 141199 (2023)
(69) Nihar R. Pradhan, Carlos Garcia, Bhaswar Chakrabarti, Daniel Rosenmann, Ralu Divan, Anirudha V. Sumant, Suzanne Miller, David Hilton, Denis Karaiskaj, and Stephen A. McGill, "Insulator-to-Metal Phase Transition in a Few-Layered MoSe2 Field Effect Transistor" Nanoscale, 2023.
(68) Seid Yimer Abate, Surabhi Jha, Guorong Ma, Jawnaye Nash, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, and Qilin Dai, Surface Capping Layer Prepared from the Bulky Tetradodecylammonium Bromide as an Efficient Perovskite Passivation Layer for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 2022
(67) Yifang Qi, Mohammed Almtiri,Hari Giri, Surabhi Jha, Guorong Ma, Abdul Kalam Shaik, Qiqi Zhang, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Nathan I. Hammer, Derek Patton, Colleen Scott and Qilin Dai “Evaluation of the Passivation Effects of PEDOT:PSS on Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells” Adv. Energy Mater. 2022
(66) Qijing Xu, Hui Dong, Zhenquan Wang, Bo Su, Di Zhang, Nihar R. Pradhan, Saikat Ghosh, Bo Pana and Baoshan Xing, NOM-assisted, amyloid-enriched, hierarchical self-assembled nanostructures of maghemite nanoparticles and their plastic deformation: role of magnetic fields, Pb2+, and biomolecular conformations, Environmental Science: Nano, 2022, Advance Article.
(65) Yifang Qi, Jing Qu, Jaiden Moore, Kristine Gollinger, Narendra Shrestha, Yongfeng Zhao, Nihar Pradhan, Jinke Tang, Qilin Dai, Interfacial passivation by polylactic acid in perovskite solar cells, Organic Electronics Volume 106, July 2022, 106543
(64) Seid Yimer Abate, Qiqi Zhang, Yifang Qi, Jawnaye Nash, Kristine Gollinger, Xianchun Zhu, Fengxiang Han, Nihar Pradhan, Qilin Dai, Universal Surface Passivation of Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite Films by Tetraoctylammonium Chloride for High-Performance and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 24, 28044–28059
(63) Maninderjeet Singh, Mei Dong, Wenjie Wu, Roushanak Nejat, David Tran, Nihar Pradhan, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Jack Douglas, Karen Wooley and Alamgir Karim, "Enhanced Dielectric Strength and Capacitive Energy Density in Cyclic Polystyrene Films" ACS Polymers Au (Accepted, 2022)
(62) Yifang Qi, Jing Qu, Jaiden Moore, Kristine Gollinger, Narendra Shrestha, Yongfeng Zhao, Nihar Pradhan, Jinke Tang, Qilin Dai, "Interfacial passivation by polylactic acid in perovskite solar cells" Organic Electronics, Volume 106, 106543, (2022)
(61) Yifang Qi, Jing Qu, Jaiden Moore, Kristine Gollinger, Narendra Shrestha, Yongfeng Zhao, Nihar Pradhan, Jinke Tang, Qilin Dai, "Perovskite films passivated by poly [(R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid] for improved photovoltaic performance" Organic Electronics, 104, p106487 (2022)
(60) Varun Mapara, Arup Barua, Volodymyr Turkowski, Tuan Trinh, Christopher Stevens, Hengzhou Liu, Florence Nugera, Nakala Kapuruge, Humberto Gutierrez, Fang Liu, Xiaoyang Zhu, Dmitry Semenov, Stephen McGill, Nihar Pradhan, David Hilton, Denis Karaiskaj, "Bright and dark exciton coherent coupling and hybridization enabled by external magnetic fields" Nano Lett. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04667.
Assistant Professor Publications
(59) Yifang QiYifang Qi Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Atmospheric Sciences, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi 39217, United States More by Yifang Qi , David Ndaleh, William E. Meador, Jared H. Delcamp, Glake Hill, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, and Qilin Dai, "Interface Passivation of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells by Dye Molecules", ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01684
(58) Nihar R. Pradhan, Byoung H. Moon, Sanjay K. Behura, "Preface on: “Challenges and Opportunities for 2D Materials and Heterostructure Devices” Emergent Materials, volume 4, pages811–812 (2021)
(57) Prasanna Dnyaneshwar Patil, Milinda Wasala, Rana Alkhaldi, Lincoln Weber, Kiran Kumar Kovi, Bhaswar Chakrabarti, Jawnaye Nash, Daniel Rhodes, Daniel Rosenmann, Ralu Divan, Anirudha Sumant, Luis Balicas, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan and Saikat Talapatra, "Photogating-driven enhanced responsivity in few-layered ReSe2 phototransistor" Journal of Materials Chemistry C, (2021)
(56) S. K. Behura, A. Miranda, S. Nayak, K. Johnson, P. Das, and N. R. Pradhan, "Moiré physics in twisted van der Waals heterostructures of 2D materials," Emergent Materials, volume 4, pages813–826 (2021).
(55) Qiqi Zhang, Yifang Qi, Keonna Conkle, Jian Xiong, Dream Box, Paresh Ray, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Tigran V Shahbazyan, Qilin Dai, Perovskite films prepared by solvent volatilization via DMSO-based intermediate phase for photovoltaics, Solar Energy, 218, 383-391 (2021)
(54) Bhausaheb V. Tawade, Ikeoluwa E. Apata, Nihar Pradhan, Alamgir Karim and Dharmaraj Raghavan, Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Polymer-Grafted Low-K and High-K Nanoparticles for Dielectric and Electronic Applications, Molecules, 2021, 26, 2942 (2021)
(53) Banarji Behera, Bijuni Charan Sutar and Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Recent progress on 2D Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Materials, Challenges and Opportunity, Emergent Materials, 2021
(52) Shalini Kumari, Dhiren K. Pradhan, Nihar R Pradhan and Philip D. Rack, Recent developments on 2D Magnetic Materials: Challenges and Opportunities, Emergent Materials, 2021
(51) Maninderjeet Singh, Ikeoluwa Apata, Saumil Samant, Wenjie Wu, Bhausaheb Tawade, Nihar Pradhan, Dharmaraj Raghavan and Alamgir Karim, Nanoscale Strategies to Enhance the Energy Storage Capacity of Polymeric Dielectric Capacitors: Review of Recent Advances, Polymer Reviews, 2021
(50) Priyanka Das, Sanjay K. Behura, Stephen A. McGill, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Alamgir Karim and Nihar R. Pradhan, Development of Photovoltaic Solar Cells Based on Heterostructure of Layered Materials:Challenges and Opportunities, Emergent Materials (2021)
(49) Saumil Samant, Shimelis Hailu, Maninderjeet Singh, Nihar Pradhan, Kevin Yager, Abdullah M. Al‐Enizi, Dharmaraj Raghavan and Alamgir Karim, "Alignment frustration in block copolymer films with block copolymer grafted TiO2 nanoparticles under soft‐shear cold zone annealing" Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 2021.
(48) Wencai He, Qiqi Zhang, Yifang Qi, Jian Xiong, Paresh Ray, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Tigran V. Shahbazyan, Fengxiang Han and Qilin Dai, Luminescence Properties of CsPbBr3:Mn Nanocrystals, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 23, 80 (2020)
(47) Jian Xiong, Yifang Qi, Qiqi Zhang, Dream Box, Kira Williams, James Tatum, Priyanka Das, Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, and Qilin Dai, "Enhanced Moisture and Water Resistance in Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells by Poly(3-hexylthiophene)" ACS Appl. Energy Mater, 4, 2, 1815-1823 (2021).
(46) Bhausaheb V. Tawade, Ikeoluwa Apata, Maninderjeet Singh, Priyanka Das, Nihar Pradhan, Abdulla Al-Enizi, Dharmaraj Karim, Alamgir and Raghavan, "Recent developments in the synthesis of chemically modified nanomaterials for use in dielectric and electronics applications", Nanotechnology (2020), 2,14, 142004
(45) Priyanka Das, Jawnaye Nash, Micah Webb, Raelyn Burns, Varun N Mapara, Govinda Ghimire, Daniel Rosenmann, Ralu Divan, Denis Karaiskaj, Stephen McGill, Anirudha Sumant, Qilin Dai, Paresh Chandra Ray, Bhausaheb V Tawade, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Alamgir Karim and Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, "High Broadband photoconductivity of few-layered MoS2 measured in multi-terminal configurations: Effect of Contact Resistance" Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 22904-22916.
(44) Bo Li, Qiqi Zhang, Song Zhang, Zachary Ahmad, Tamuk Chidanguro, Andrew Hunter, Davisc Yoan Simon, Xiaoda Gu, Weiwei Zheng, Nihar Pradhan and Qilin Daia, "Spontaneously supersaturated nucleation strategy for high reproducible and efficient perovskite solar cells", Chemical Engineering Journal (2020), 405, 1, 126998
(43) PHASE MODULATORS BASED ON AMBIPOLAR FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS, by N. R. Pradhan and Stephen A. McGill, (Patent publication) Application No.: 16/449597
(42) Invited Book Chapter: N. R. Pradhan* et al. "Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of the Heterostructure Devices Composed of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials" (Elsevier Publication, May 2020).
(41) Rukshan M. Tanthirige, Carlos Garcia, Saikat Ghosh, Frederick Jackson II, Jawnaye Nash, Daniel Rosenmann, Ralu Divan, Liliana Stan, Anirudha V. Sumant, Stephen A. McGill, Paresh C. Ray, Nihar R. Pradhan, "Intrinsic Photoconductivity of few-layered ZrS2, Phototransistors via Multiterminal Measurements", Semiconductor Science and Information Devices, 2019, Vol 1, Issue 2
(40) Qianyue Guo, Zhenquan Wang, Qijing Xu, Han Mao, Di Zhang, Saikat Ghosh, Nihar R. Pradhan, Bo Pan and Baoshan Xing, Suspended State Heteroaggregation Kinetics of Kaolinite and Fullerene (nC60) in the Presence of Tannic Acid (TA): Effect of p-p Interactions, Science of the total environment, 2019
(39) Wenming Ju, Jessica Bickel, Nihar R Pradhan, Katherine Aidala and Mark T. Tuominen, "Reversing the circulation of ferromagnetic nanodisks with a local circular magnetic field" Nanotechnology, 2019, 31, 11, 115205
(38) N. R. Pradhan*, C. Garcia, M. Lucking, S. Pakhira, J. Martinez, D. Rosenmann, R. Divan, A. V. Sumant, H. Terrones, J. L. Mendoza-Cortes, S. McGill, N. D. Zhigadloi and L. Balicas, Raman and Electrical Transport Properties of Few-Layered Arsenic-Doped Black Phosphorus. Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 18449-18463
(37) S. Ghosh a, Q. Wang, D. Zhang, N. R. Pradhan, B. Pan and B. Xing, "Tannic acid- and cation-mediated interfacial self-assembly and epitaxial growth of fullerene (nC60) and kaolinite binary graphitic aggregates", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2019, 556, 15, 717-725
(36) C. Garcia, Nihar R. Pradhan*, D. Rhodes, L. Balicas and S. A. McGill "Photogating and High Responsivity in ReS2 Field-Effect Transistors" Journal of Applied Physics, 2018, vol.124 (20) 204306 (Chosen for Editors Pick)
(35) Ying, Zhang, James Steiner, Jaylon Uzodinma, Julia Walsh, Benjamin Zydlewski, Feng Lin, Ying Chen, Jinke Tang, Nihar Pradhan, Qilin Dai, "Thermally Synthesized MnO Nanoparticles for Magnetic Properties and Lithium Batteries", Materials Research Express, vol 6. No 2 (2018)
(34) S. Ghosh, M. Wasala, N. R Pradhan*, D. Rhodes, P. D. Patil, M. Fralaide, Y. Xin, S. A. McGill, L. Balicas and S. Talapatra, Low temperature photoconductivity of few layer p-type tungsten diselenide (WSe2) field-effect transistors (FETs), Nanotechnology, 29 484002(2018)
(33) N. R. Pradhan*, C. Garcia, B. Isenberg, D. Rhodes, Y. Xin, S. Feng, Memaran, A. McCreary, A. R. Hight Walker, A. Raeliarijaona, M. Terrones, S. McGill, L. & Balicas, Phase Modulators Based on High Mobility Ambipolar ReSe2 Field-Effect Transistors, Nature Scientific Reports 8, Article Number 12745 (2018)
(32) N. R. Pradhan*, S. Talapatra, P. M. Ajayan, M. Terrones and L. Balicas, Optoelectronic Properties of Heterostructures, Invited review paper, “IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine” DOI: 10.1109/MNANO.2017.2676185 (2017).
Work Before Joining in Jackson State University
(31) N. R. Pradhan*, C. Garcia, J. Holleman, D. Rhodes, C. Parker, S Talapatra, M. Terrones, L. Balicas and S. A. McGill, Photoconductivity of few-layered p-WSe2 phototransistors via multi-terminal measurements. 2D Materials, 3, 041004 (2016)
(30) E. Del Corro, A, B. Mendez, Y. Gillet, A.L. Elias, H. Terrones, S. Feng, C. Fantani, D. Rhodes, N. Pradhan, L. Balicas, X. Gonze, J.C. Charlier, M. Terrones and M.A. Pimenta, Atypical exciton-phonon interactions in WS2 and WSe2 monolayers revealed by resonance Raman spectroscopy. Nano Letter, 16 (4), 2363 (2016)
(29) R. M. Thantirige, J. John, N. R. Pradhan, K. R. Carter, M. T. Tuominen, Fabrication of flexible oriented magnetic thin films with large in-plane uniaxial anisotropy by roll-to-roll nanoimprint lithography, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 407, 273-278 (2016)
(28) N. R. Pradhan, M. T. Tuominen and K. E. Aidala, Polarization dependent switching of asymmetric nanorings with a circular field, AIP Advances, 6 (1), 015302 (2016)
(27) A. Al-Asadi, L. Henley, S. Ghosh, A. Quetz, D. Igor, N. R. Pradhan, L. Balicas, S. Talapatra and A. Naushad, Fabrication and characterization of ultraviolet photosensors from ZnO nanowires prepared using chemical bath deposition method, Journal of Appl. Phys. 119, 084306 (2016)
(26) S. Ghosh, N. R. Pradhan, H. Mashayekhi, Q. Zhang, P. Bo and B. Xing, Colloidal interactions of fullerene suspension with goethite (α-FeOOH) nano/micro particles. Environmental Pollution 219, 1049 (2016)
(25) N. R. Pradhan, A. McCreary, D. Rhodes, Z. Lu, S. Feng, E. Manousakis, D. Smirnov, R. Namburu, M. Dubey, A. R. H. Walker, H. Terrones, M. Terrones, V. Dobrosavljvic and L. Balicas, Metal-to-insulator quantum-phase transition in few-layered ReS2. Nano Lett. 15 (12) 8377 (2015)
(24) S. Memaran, N. R. Pradhan, Z. Lu, D. Rhodes, J. Ludwig, Q. Zhou, M. Ajayan, D. Smirnov and L. Balicas, Pronounced photovoltaic response from PN-junction of multi-layered MoSe2 on h-BN. Nano Lett. 15 (11), 7532 (2015)
(23) N. R. Pradhan*, Z. Lu, D. Rhodes, D. Smirnov, E. Manousakis and L. Balicas, An Optoelectronic switch based on intrinsic dual Schottky diodes in Ambipolar MoSe2 field-effect transistors. Adv. Electron. Mater.1(10) 1500215 (2015)
(22) N. R. Pradhan, et. al. Optoelectronic switches: An Optoelectronic switch based on intrinsic dual Schottky diodes in Ambipolar MoSe2 field-effect transistors. Adv. Electron. Mater. 1(10), 1500215 (2015)(COVER PAGE of the Journal in “November 2015 Issue”)
(21) N. R. Pradhan, D Rhodes, S. Memaran, J. M. Poumirol, D. Smirnov, S. Talapatra, S. Feng, N. Lopez, A. L. Elias, M. Terrones, P. M. Ajayan and L. Balicas, High Hall mobility on few layered p-WSe2 field-effect transistors. Scientific Reports (Nature), 5, 8979 (2015)
(20) D. Rhodes, S. Das, Q. R. Zhang, B. Zeng, N. R. Pradhan, N. Kikugawa, E. Manousakis, and L. Balicas, Role of spin-orbit coupling and evolution of the electronic structure of WTe2 under an external magnetic field. Phys. Rev. B. 92, 125152 (2015)
(19) N. R. Pradhan, J. Ludwig, D. Rhodes, Z. Lu, D. Smirnov and L. Balicas, High photoresponsivityand short photoresponse time in ultra-thin Tungsten diselenide phototransistor. Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7 (22), 12080 (2015)
(18) N. R. Pradhan, D. Rhodes, Y. Xin, S. Memaran, L. Bhaskaran, M. Shiddiq, S. Hill, P. M. Ajayan, and L. Balicas, Ambipolar Molybdenum Diselenide Field-Effect Transistors: Field-Effect and Hall Mobilities. ACS Nano, 8 (8), 7923 (2014)
(17) N. R. Pradhan, D. Rhodes S. Feng, Y. Xin, S. Memaran, B. H. Moon, H. Terrones, M. Terrones and L. Balicas, Field-Effect transistors based on few–layered α-MoTe2. ACS Nano, 8, 5911 (2014)
(16) H Terrones, E. D. Corro, S. Feng, J. Poumirol, D. Rhodes, D. Smirnov, N. R. Pradhan, L. Zhong, M. A. T. Nguyen, A. L. Elias, T. E. Mallouk, L. Balicas, M. Pimenta and M. Terrones, New First Order Raman Modes in Few-Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Scientific Reports (Nature), 4, 4215 (2014)
(15) S. Ghosh, N. R. Pradhan, S. Masayekhi, S. Dickert, R. Thantirige, M. Tuomenine, S. Tao and B. Xing, Binary short-range colloidal assembly of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and fullerene (nC60) in environmental media. Environmental Science & Technology, 48, 12285 (2014)
(14) N. Lopez, Z. Lin, N. R. Pradhan, A. Rabago, A. L. Elias, H. Terrones, L. Balicas and M. Terrones, A Photo sensor device based on a CVD grown MoS2 monolayer. 2D Materials, 1, 011004 (2014)
(13) S. Ghosh, S. Najmaei, S. Kar, R. Varjtai, J. Lou, N. R. Pradhan, L. Balicas, P. M. Ajayan and S. Talapatra, Universal ac conduction in large area atomic layers CVD grown MoS2. Phys. Rev. B, 89, 125422 (2014)
(12) A. Elias, N. Lopez, A. Beltram, A. Berkdemir, R. Lu, S. Feng, A. Long, T. Hayashi, A. Kim, M Endo, H. Gutierrez, N. Pradhan, L. Balicas, T. Mallouk, F. Urias, H. Terrones and M. Terrones, Control Synthesis and transfer of Large area WS2 sheets: From single-layer to few-layers. ACS Nano, 7, 5235 (2013)
(11) N. R. Pradhan, D. Rhodes, Q. Zhang, S. Talapatra, M. Terrones, P.M. Ajayan and L. Balicas, Intrinsic carrier mobility on multi-layered MoS2 field effect transistors on SiO2. Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 123105 (2013)
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