Cochin University of Science and
Technology SPIE Student Chapter
Optoelectronic Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi - 682 022, India
Phone: 91-484-2577404 Extn 33
Fax: +91-484-2577595
E-Mail: cusatspie@gmail.com
Web: http://physics.cusat.ac.in/spie.htm
Annual Report (October 2013 to September 2014)
Cochin University SPIE Student chapter is celebrating its 9th year. Since its inspection in 2005
the chapter was really enthusiastic in various academic activities. At present the chapter has 23 members.
The chapter members are currently working in the areas of Nanophosphors and Quantum wells,
Transparent Thin Film Transistors, Oxide Phosphors and Thin Film Electroluminescent Devices,
Hydrothermal Growth of Nanoparticles, Spintronics, Transparent Conducting Oxides, Plasma studies,
Ferroelectric Random Access Memories, Holography and Conducting Polymers. All the members of the
chapter are actively participating in the programs organized by the chapter and Department of Physics.
Current year the following activities were carried out by the SPIE CUSAT student chapter.
Academic Training
The SPIE-CUSAT Student Chapter in association with Department of Physics, Cochin University
of Science and Technology conducted Academic Training for Graduate/Post graduate Students of various
institutions in Kerala. Ten students have completed their academic projects in the areas of Optoelectronic
Devices, Non-linear Optics and Thin films for bio medical applications. . This year the following students
were trained in the following areas.
Sl.
No
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2
3
Name
Kurias K
Markose
Sruthi C K
Reeba Marry
Thomas
4
Kavya S S
5
Anagha M C
6
7
8
9
Udhaykrishna
Deepthi Maia
MT
Vrinda
Narayanan P
Alina Ann
Mathew
Course
M.Sc Physics
M.Sc Physics
Name of the Institute
Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Kochi
Cochin University of Science
& Technology, Kochi
Project Title
Fabrication of pentacene based
organic thin film transistors
Fabrication and characterisation of
Mg doped GaN/ZnO nanorod
hetrojunction
Structural and optical properties of
M.Sc Physics
Mahatma Gandhi University
chemically synthesised ZnS
nanoparticles
Integrated
M.Sc Physics
Integrated
M.Sc Physics
Integrated
M.Sc Physics
IISER, Pune
Introduction to MATLAB
IISER, Pune
Introduction to MATLAB
Metal-oxide nanowires for gas
NISER, Bhubaneswar
sensors: variation of sensor response
with diameter
B.Sc Physics
Mahatma Gandhi University
B.Sc Physics
Mahatma Gandhi University
M.Sc Physics
Mahatma Gandhi University
Synthesis and characterisation of
ZnO nanoparticles
Synthesis and characterisation of
ZnO nanoparticles
Fabrication and characterisation of
Mg doped GaN/ZnO hetrojunction
Activities
Physics – Scope and Awareness for School Children
March 31-April 5, 2014
SPIE Student Chapter organized student outreach programs to attract talented students to the fascinating
world of Science and Technology. The six day workshop provided an opportunity to students to interact
with the faculty members, listen to new developments in scientific fields and also witness some of the
advanced experiments being carried-out in the research laboratories of the department of Physics. The
students also to gain hands on experience on various core experiments in Physics including the telescope
making.
Participants of Scope and Awareness program 2013
Lectures
Prof. C. Vijayan, (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) gave a lecture on Nanophotonics :A Materials
Perspective on 4th October 2013 under SPIE Visiting Lecturer Program
Talk by Prof. C. Vijayan at Physics Department Auditorium, CUSAT
Other Lectures
Chapter conducted lectures on various research topics. Experts from the field of optics and
optoelectronics were invited to deliver the lectures. Details are given below.
Talk by Dr. Vineeth Valsan and Prof. D. G. Kuberkar at Physics Department Auditorium, CUSAT
Talk by Prof. Tamio Endo at Physics Department Auditorium, CUSAT
Talk by Dr. C. Vineeth and Dr. Usha Philipose at Physics Department Auditorium, CUSAT
Talk by Mr. Navaneeth Poonthottathil and Dr. K.P.Santo at Physics Department Auditorium, CUSAT
Talk by Dr. K. Bindu at Physics Department Auditorium, CUSAT
Lab Visits
Lab visit by Navy school teachers
Teachers from Navy Schools of India visited Nanophotonic and Optoelectronic Devices Laboratory of
Physics Department on 25th June 2014. The SPIE members demonstrated various laboratory experiments
and explained the research activities.
A general body meeting held on 18th September 2014, presided over the staff advisor Prof. M K Jayaraj is
elected the following members as the new office bearers.
New Office Bearers (2013-2014)
Staff Advisor
: Dr. M.K. Jayaraj(email: mkj@cusat.ac.in)
Regular Member : Dr. S. Jayalekshmi(email: jayalekshmi@cusat.ac.in)
SPIE Annual meeting
SPIE member Mr. Shijeesh Methattel Raman participated in the SPIE Annual meeting
held at San Diego, USA on 16th August 2014. He is the winner of SPIE officer travel grant for the
year 2014. He also participated in the Optics and Photonics 2014 conference held at San Diego
during 17th to 21st of August 2014. Mr. Shijeesh Methattel Raman presented posters entitled
“Comparative study of degradation and trap density-of-states of p type and n type organic
semiconductors” & “Nonlinear properties of IGZO thin films prepared by RF magnetron
sputtering” in Photonics 2014.
Mr. Shijeesh Methattel Raman with SPIE Student Activities Coordinator Tasha Chicovsky
and with invited Professors from Spain at the SPIE Optics and Photonics 2014 conference.
A word of gratitude
We express our humble gratitude to the International Society for Optical engineering for financial
assistance, conference grant, officer’s travel grant, Visiting Lecturer Program.
Future Programs
 Monthly lecture programs which helps a lot to the scholarly improvement of research and post
graduate students will be continued
 Our chapter in association with Department of Physics and Centre of advanced materials, CUSAT
will organize a 3 day outreach programme “EXPLORER ’15”. Students, faculty members and
other participants from Kerala will be given opportunity to visit research laboratories and to
witness top class research, new advancements in research fields and research atmosphere. There
will be interactive sessions with researchers.
 International year of light: setting demo experiments, posters and exhibitors and students of near
by schools will be invited to participate
during the week end.
 SPIE Discussion forum-Monthly informal discussion on various current research topics by the
students
 Physics- Scope and Awareness will be conducted in April 2015.
Financial statement (All figures in rupees)
Initial balance
: - 33410/-
SPIE Grant 2012
: 52,200/-
Total income
: 18790/-
Expense for Invited Talks
: 4,000/-
Expense for monthly seminar
: 6,000/-
Expense for conducting workshop for school students
: 20,000/-
Total expense
: 30,000/-
Excess Expenditure
: 11,210/……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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Domain matched epitaxial growth of Bi1.5Zn1Nb1.5O7 thin films by pulsed laser deposition, P S
Krishnaprasad, A Antony, F Rojas, J Bertomeu and M K Jayaraj, J. Alloys Compd., Vol. 586, 524,
(2014).
Growth, structural, thermal, optical, and electrical properties of potassium succinate–succinic acid crystal,
A Arunkumar, P Ramasamy, K Vishnu and M K Jayaraj, J. Mater Sci. Vol. 49, 3598 , (2014).
Optical Emission Spectroscopic Analysis of Plasma Plume during Pulsed Laser Deposition of PZT, S
Sasanka Kumar, R Reshmi, N V Joshy, A C Saritha and M K Jayaraj, Journal of Atomic and Molecular
Physics, 1,(2014).
Impurity mediated large three photon absorption in ZnS:Cu nanophospors, R Sreeja, Kishore Sridharan,
Reji Philip, M K Jayaraj, Optical Materials, Vol. 36, 861, (2014).
Observation of Room Temperature Photoluminescence from Asymmetric CuGaO2/ZnO/ZnMgO
Multiple Quantum Well Structures, P M Aneesh, M K Jayaraj, R Reshmi, R S Ajishma, L M Kukreja,
Aldrin Antony, F Rojas, Joan Bertomeu, J Lopez Vidrier and S Hernandez, Journal of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology Vol. 14, 1, (2014).
Development of p-type amorphous Cu1− xBxO2− δ thin films and fabrication of pn hetero junction, K C
Sanal, M K Jayaraj, Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol. 185, 109 ,(2014).
Annealing effects on the structural and electrical properties of pulsed laser deposited BaPbO3 thin films,
B Satish, M K Jayaraj, Optoelectronic Materials and Thin Films: OMTAT 2013, 1576, 215, (2014).
Structural and dielectric properties of Ba0. 7Sr0. 3TiO3 thin films grown by PLD, K K James, B Satish
and M K Jayaraj, Optoelectronic Materials and Thin Films: OMTAT 2013, 1576, 212, (2014).
Room temperature deposited transparent p-channel CuO thin film transistors, K C Sanal, L S Vikas, M K
Jayaraj, Applied Surface Science, Vol. 297, 153, (2014).
Preface: Optoelectronic Materials and Thin Films, MK Jayaraj, OPTOELECTRONIC MATERIALS
AND THIN FILMS: OMTAT 2013,Vol. 1576,1-1,(2014).
Magnetic and Raman scattering studies of Co-doped ZnO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition,
Arun Aravind, K Hasna, M K Jayaraj, Mukesh Kumar and Ramesh Chandra, Applied Physics A, Vol.
115,843-849, (2014).
ZnO Nanostructures and its luminescent properties,PM Aneesh,MK Jayaraj, Advanced Nanomaterials:
Synthesis, Properties, and Applications,117,(2014).
Vertically aligned ZnO nanorod array/CuO heterojunction for UV detector application, LS Vikas, KC
Sanal, MK Jayaraj, A Antony, J Puigdollers, physica status solidi (a),(2014).
Degradation study and calculation of density-of-states in PTCDI-C8 channel layer from the electrical
characteristics of thin-film transistors, MR Shijeesh, LS Vikas, MK Jayaraj, J Puigdollers, Journal of
Applied Physics, Vol. 116, 024507,(2014).
Structural and optical properties of la doped BaSnO< sub> 3</sub> thin films grown by PLD, KK James,
PS Krishnaprasad, K Hasna, MK Jayaraj, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids,(2014).
Nonlinear properties of IGZO thin films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering, KC Sanal, K Vishnu, MR
Shijeesh, MK Jayaraj, SPIE NanoScience+ Engineering, 91611B-91611B-8, (2014).
Growth and characterization of tin oxide thin films and fabrication of transparentp-SnO/n-ZnO p–n
hetero junction, K.C. Sanal and M. K. Jayaraj, Materials Science and Engineering B, Vol. 12, 816,
(2013).
A novel Sr3Pb6Ce2Ti12O36 ferroelectric thin film grown by pulsed laser ablation, P S Krishnaprasad, P
Mohanan, G Subodh, M T Sebastian and M K Jayaraj, Applied Physics A, 1-8 (2013).
Highly luminescent undoped and Mn-doped ZnS nanoparticles by liquid phase pulsed laser ablation, P M
Aneesh, M R Shijeesh, Arun Aravind and M K Jayaraj, Applied Physics A, 1-5, (2013).
Enhanced photoluminescence in transparent thin films of polyaniline-zinc oxide nanocomposite prepared
from oleic acid modified zinc oxide nanoparticles, M. Sajimol Augustine, P. P Jeeju, S.J.Varma, Francis
Xavier, S.Jayalekshmi, Thin Solid Films, 2014, 562, 84–89
Enhanced linear and nonlinear optical properties of thermally stable ZnO/poly(styrene)–poly(methyl
methacrylate) nanocomposite films, P.P. Jeeju , S. Jayalekshmi , K. Chandrasekharan b , P. Sudheesh,
Thin Solid Films, 2013, 531, 378–384
22. Highly luminescent and biocompatible, L-citrulline-capped ZnS:Mn nanocrystals for rapid screening of
metal accumulating Lysinibacillus fusiformis bacteria, Augustine M. Sajimol, Alex Roselin, V.G.
Sreevalsa, G.D. Deepa, G. Bhat Saritab and S. Jayalekshmi, Luminescence 2013
23. Size-dependent optical properties of bio-compatible ZnS:Mn nanocrystals and their application in the
immobilization of trypsin, M. Sajimol Augustine, P.P. Manzur Ali , K. Sapna , K.K. Elyas , S.
Jayalekshmi,Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy , 2013
24. P. B. Anand, S. Jayalekshmi, Observation of switching between SA and RSA in silver/gold-polyaniline
nanocomposite films, Proc. SPIE 8809, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties
XI, 88092B (September 11, 2013); SPIE-Optics+Photonics 2013, San Diego, CA, United States.