Shiva Balendhran

Infrared modulation via near-room-temperature phase transitions of vanadium oxides & core–shell composites

Mohammad Taha, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Peter C Sherrell, Nick Kirkwood, Dingchen Wen, Shifan Wang, Jiajun Meng, James Bullock, Kenneth B Crozier, Len Sciacca

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Intrinsic and extrinsic strains are leveraged to synthesise vanadium oxide complexes that undergo IMT near room temperature. The c..

Fabrication of fractal structured soot templated titania-silver nano-surfaces for photocatalysis and SERS sensing

U Malik, D Korcoban, S Mehla, AE Kandjani, YM Sabri, S Balendhran, SK Bhargava

Journal article  |  2022  |  Applied Surface Science

A novel approach of candle soot templated TiO2/Ag nanostructures to fabricate highly active photocatalyst and self-cleaning Surfac..

Reconfigurable hyperbolic polaritonics with correlated oxide metasurfaces

Neda Alsadat Aghamiri, Guangwei Hu, Alireza Fali, Zhen Zhang, Jiahan Li, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Sumeet Walia, Sharath Sriram, James H Edgar, Shriram Ramanathan, Andrea Alu, Yohannes Abate

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Polaritons enable subwavelength confinement and highly anisotropic flows of light over a wide spectral range, holding the promise ..

Experimental and theoretical characterization of x-ray induced excitons, magnons, and dd transitions in MoO3 nanosheets

A Qamar, PM Braun, S Walia, S Balendhran, F Rahman, EZ Kurmaev, A Moewes

Journal article  |  2022  |  PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS

The Mo 4d shell in the ground state of MoO3 is widely believed to be unoccupied. However, this assumption lacks clear experimental..

Compact Chemical Identifier Based on Plasmonic Metasurface Integrated with Microbolometer Array (Laser Photonics Rev. 16(4)/2022)

Jiajun Meng, Luke Weston, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Dandan Wen, Jasper J Cadusch, Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan, Kenneth B Crozier

Journal article  |  2022  |  Laser & Photonics Reviews

Compact Chemical Identifier Based on Plasmonic Metasurface Integrated with Microbolometer Array

Jiajun Meng, Luke Weston, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Dandan Wen, Jasper J Cadusch, Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan, Kenneth B Crozier

Journal article  |  2022  |  LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS

The identification of chemicals from their mid-infrared spectra has applications that include industrial production of chemicals, ..

Gas Sensing Based on Mid-Infrared Metasurface Microspectrometer and Machine Learning

J Meng, S Balendhran, Y Sabri, S Bhargava, KB Crozier

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

We perform gas sensing using an infrared metasurface microspectrometer. We train a machine learning classifier by subjecting the m..

Nonvolatile Resistive Switching in Layered InSe via Electrochemical Cation Diffusion

Aishani Mazumder, Taimur Ahmed, Edwin Mayes, Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik, Salvy P Russo, Mei Xian Low, Abhishek Ranjan, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Sumeet Walia

Journal article  |  2021  |  ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

2D materials are increasingly being investigated for their nonvolatile switching properties as a step toward downscaling of core e..

Mixed Ionic-Electronic Charge Transport in Layered Black-Phosphorus for Low-Power Memory

Taimur Ahmed, Sruthi Kuriakose, Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik, Edwin LH Mayes, Aishani Mazumder, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Michelle JS Spencer, Deji Akinwande, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, Sumeet Walia

Journal article  |  2021  |  ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Availability of computing will be strongly limited by global energy production in 1–2 decades. Computing consumes 4–5% of global e..

Helicity-selective Raman scattering from in-plane anisotropic alpha-MoO3

Shahzad Akhtar Ali, Abdullah Irfan, Aishani Mazumder, Sivacarendran Balendhran, Taimur Ahmed, Sumeet Walia, Ata Ulhaq

Journal article  |  2021  |  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Hyperbolic crystals, such as α-MoO3, can support large wavevectors and photon density as compared to the commonly used dielectric ..