PUBLICATIONS

Published:

• Recent progress in photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications of coupled colloidal quantum dot solids: insights into charge transport fundamentals, A Manna, and N Ray, Nano Express 5 (1), 012005 (2024)

• Micromagnetic simulations of emergent monopole defects and magnetization reversal in connected and dipolar Square Artificial Spin Ice, C Singh, DM Arroo, N Ray, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 171887 (2024)

• Hierarchical bimetallic metal-organic frameworks with controllable assembling sub-units and interior architectures for enhanced ammonia detection, Silvia Chowdhury, Nagy L Torad, Manjeet Godara, Ahmed AM El-Amir, Gilang Gumilar, Aditya Ashok, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, Ibrahim Abdullah Alnaser, Watcharop Chaikittisilp, Nirat Ray, Yusuke Yamauchi, Yusuf Valentino Kaneti, Chemical Engineering Journal 480, 147990 (2024)

• A first-principles study of hydrogen storage on pristine and Li-decorated aluminium monolayer, K Yadav, and N Ray, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 50, 1391-1400 (2024)

• Assessing the impact of triaxial strain on carrier mobility and dielectric properties in cubic CsBCl3 (B= Pb, Sn, or Ge) perovskites: A first principles study, K Yadav, and N Ray, AIP Advances 13 (12) (2023)

• Aluminene as a Low-Cost Anode Material for Li-and Na-Ion Batteries, K Yadav, and N Ray, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (31), 37337-37343 (2023)

• Interplay of structure and magnetic ordering in a two-dimensional titanium monolayer: A first-principles study, S. Thakur, N. Ray, AIP Advances 13 (7), 075320 , DOI: 10.1063/5.0158134 (2023).

• Surface termination and strain-induced modulation of the structure and electronic properties in 2D perovskites (Cs 2 BCl 4 & CsB 2 Cl 5, B= Pb, Sn): a first-principles study,  K Yadav and N Ray, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 25 (47), 32330-32335 (2023).

• Hydrogen adsorption and diffusion through a two dimensional sheet of Lithium: A first principles study, S. Roy, P. Singh, K. Yadav and N. Ray, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., DOI: 10.1039/D2CP05285G (2023).

• Strain dependence of the thermoelectric properties of perovskite MgSiO3: A first principles study, DOI: 10.1063/5.0123556, M. Godara and  N. Ray, Journal of Applied Physics (Vol. 133, Issue 2)  (2023). 

• Carrier induced Hopping to Band conduction in pentacene, V. Rani, P. Kumar, A. Sharma, S. Yadav, B. Singh, N. Ray, S. Ghosh, Scientific reports 9 (1) (2020).

• Influence of Structure on Electronic Charge Transport in 3D Ge Nanowire Networks in an Alumina Matrix, N. Ray, N. Gupta, M. Adhikary, N. Nekic, G. Drazic, S. Bernstorff and M. Mitecic, Scientific reports 9 (1), 5432 (2019).

• Rapid communication: Permeability of hydrogen in two-dimensional graphene and hexagonal boron nitride sheets, DOI: 10.1007/s12043-018-1638-6, V. Gupta, A. Kumar and N. Ray, Pramana: J. Phys. (2018)

• Tuning the electronic and magnetic properties of CuAlO2 nanocrystals using magnetic dopants, N. Ray, V. Gupta, L. Sarma, P. Kush, J. Nag, and S. Sapra, ACS Omega, 3 (1), 509‐513 (2018).

• Annealing induced semiconductor‐metal transition in Ge+ITO film, T. Car, A. Šantić, N. Ray, N. Nekić, K. Salamon, S. Bernstorff, and M. Buljan, Appl. Phys. Lett., 111, 172104 (2017).

• Robustness of the universal optical transmittance in monolayer and multilayer graphene flakes under Coulomb interactions, P. Yadav, P. K. Srivastava, N. Ray and S. Ghosh, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.) 94 (12), 121406 (2016).

• Understanding the dependence of transport parameters on carrier concentration within a Gaussian density of states in molecular organic semiconductors, A. Sharma, P. Kumar, V. Rani, N. Ray and S. Ghosh, J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 28, 23 (2016). 

• Measuring ligand‐dependent transport in nanopatterned PbS colloidal quantum dot arrays using charge sensing, N. Ray, N. E. Staley, D. D. W. Grinolds, M. G. Bawendi and M. A. Kastner, Nano Lett. 15(7), 4401–4405 (2015).

• Electric‐field driven insulating to conducting transition in a mesoscopic quantum dot lattice, N. E. Staley, N. Ray, M. P. Hanson, A. C. Gossard, and M. A. Kastner, Phys. Rev. B 90, 195443 (2014).

• Nanopatterned Electrically Conductive Films of Semiconductor Nanocrystals T. S. Mentzel, D. D. Wanger, N. Ray, B. Walker, D. Strassfield, M. G. Bawendi and M. A. Kastner, Nano Lett. 12 (8), 4404 ‐ 4408 (2012). 

• Multiferroic properties of Nanocrsytalline BaTiO3, R. V. K. Mangalam, N. Ray, U. V. Waghmare, A. Sundaresan and C. N. R. Rao, Solid state Commun. 149, 1‐5 (2009). 

• Coupling between magnetic ordering and structural instabilities in perovskite biferroics: A first‐ principles study, N. Ray and U. V. Waghmare, Phys. Rev. B 77, 1 (2008). 

• Rare Earth Chromites: A new family of Biferroic Materials J. R. Sahu, C. R. Serrao , N. Ray, U. V. Waghmare and C. N. R. Rao, J. Mater. Chem. 17, 42 – 44 (2007). 

Preprints:

1. Conductance noise in nano‐patterned films of semiconductor nanocrystals, N. Ray, T. S. Mentzel, D. D. W. Grinolds, N. E. Staley, M. G. Bawendi and M. A. Kastner, arXiv:1501.01876 (2015)

Book Chapters:

1. Optical Properties of Metal Oxide-Based Perovskite Structures, N Rathee, and N Ray, Optical Properties of Metal Oxide Nanostructures, 71-92 (2023)

2.  Memristors and Resistive Switching in Metal Oxides, C Singh, and N Ray, Optical Properties of Metal Oxide Nanostructures, 431-455 (2023)

PATENTS

1. Contact‐independent electrical conductance measurement, T. S. Mentzel, K. Maclean, M. A. Kastner, N. Ray, US Patent Publication number WO2013025429 A2, Published Feb 21, 2013.