Faculties

I am a faculty member (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Physics at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin, India. Before joining CUSAT I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore, India. I obtained my PhD in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in April 2015. My research interests are Ultrashort Laser Ablation, Laser Produced Plasma Diagnostics, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Pulsed Laser Deposition, Optical-vortex Laser Ablation, and Femtosecond Laser Surface Micro/Nanostructuring and its Applications.

Optics

Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Teacher Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Fellowship (for three years), 2018

Femtosecond Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (fs-LIBS) for Multi-elemental Compositional Analysis, SERB-TARE, 18.3 Lakhs (26-11-2018 - 31-03-2022)

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS): A Versatile Tool for Material Elemental Analysis, UGC-BSR, 10 Lakhs (2019-06-02 - 2022-05-02)

Determination of Material Elemental Composition via Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Technique, CUSAT START-UP GRANT, 2.6 Lakhs (14-11-2018 - 13-11-2021)

Ultrafast laser beamlines for Multidisciplinary, Multitasking Research Programmes, Chancellor's Award - 2019, 400 Lakhs (21-04-2021 - 21-04-2024)

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscpy, Laser Surface Texturing, Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics (UNO) Lab, Light and Matter Physics Group, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560080, India

Characterization of Laser Produced Plasmas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA

Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structures (LIPSSS), Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini,” Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di -Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy CNR-SPIN, UOS Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscpy for Space Exploration, Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bengalore, India

LEKHA MARY JOHN, PhD, Laser Induced Breakdown spectroscopy, (2018 - 2023)

RAJEEV RAJENDRAN, PhD, Laser Surface Texturing, (2020 - 2025)

RAKHI THOMAS, Project Student, Laser Induced Breakdown spectroscopy, (2022 - 2023)

SHANILA M, Project Student, Laser Induced Breakdown spectroscopy, (2022 - 2023)

GANGA S, Project Student, Simulation of Optical Emission Spectra, (2022 - 2023)

LEYA PAULY, Project Student, Simulation of Optical Emission Spectra, (2022 - 2022)

BALAKRISHNA PRABHU B N, Project Student, LIBS-Qualitative Analysis-Computational, (2019 - 2023)

Enhancement of optical emission and ion currents in a laser produced silicon plasma by femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structuring, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5038913

Direct femtosecond laser surface structuring of crystalline silicon at 400 nm, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5011134

Laser fluence dependence on emission dynamics of ultrafast laser induced copper plasma, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4967313

Superhydrophilic TEOS/PF-127 based antireflection coating for solar and optical application, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2021.111246

Fabrication of durable superhydrophilic silicon surfaces using nanosecond laser pulses, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018464

Influence of deproteinization and demineralization process sequences on the physicochemical and structural characteristics of chitin isolated from Deep-sea mud shrimp (Solenocera hextii), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abst.2022.03.001

Radio frequency plasma polymerized thin film based on eucalyptus, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-01621-5

Optical diagnostics of laser-produced plasmas, https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.94.035002

Photon management by scratch-resistant antireflection coating for the efficiency enhancement of silicon solar cell, https://doi.org/10.1002/er.8247

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