Tentative Programme
This workshop will consist of individual presentation and interactive discussion sessions to promote exchange of ideas, formulating areas and projects of common interest. Each presentation will be of 20 minutes duration There is also an opportunity for students (and others) to present their work in a poster session. We would be glad to support participation of up to 10 out-of-station students.
(Tuesday, 19 August), DAY 1 at JNCASR, Jakkur Campus
0830 – 0900 Campus arrival 0900 – 0920 Welcome & Introduction to Workshop G.U. Kulkarni, T. Sands, T. Fisher, U. Waghmare 0920 – 0950 Workshop Inauguration - Materials Research: The Indian Situation by Professor C.N.R. Rao 0950 – 1000 Vote of thanks by U. Waghmare 1000 – 1230 Session 1: Energy transport processes in nanomaterials Chair: S. Ranganathan and S. Garimella 1000 – 1020 “Contacts” are fundamental! - S. Datta (Purdue) 1020 – 1040 Electron transport in semiconductor nanowires - M. Deshmukh (TIFR) 1040 – 1100 Nanoscale Opto Thermo Electric Energy Conversion Devices - A. Shakouri (UC, Santa Cruz) 1100 – 1130 Tea 1130 – 1150 Issues in Organic Solar Cells - K.S. Narayan (JNCASR) 1150 – 1210 Negative Capacitance in P3HT:PCBM Organic Photovoltaic -M. Hersam (Northwestern) 1210 – 1230 Molecular Devices: Highly Nonequilibrium Electronic - D. Janes (Purdue) 1230 – 1330 Lunch 1330 – 1550 Session 2: Nanomaterials for energy - Chair: S. Sastry and T. Fisher 1330 – 1350 Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors- S. Sampath (IISc) 1350 – 1410 The Development of Thin Film Processing Methods for S. Graham (GaTech) 1410 – 1430 Formation of Functional Oxides- D. Khushalani (TIFR) 1430 – 1450 Tea 1450 – 1510 Nanowires and Nanowire heterostructures for Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics C. Yang (Purdue) 1510 – 1530 H2 Storage in Metal–Organic Hybrid Porous Solid - T.K. Maji [JNCASR]
1530 – 1550 Preparation of Silicon Inks via Controlled Catalysis - M. Abu-Omar (Purdue)
1550 – 1610 Tea 1610 – 1750 Session 3: Functionalization and hterogeneous materials integration Chair: S.K. Pati and T. Sands 1610 – 1630 Sub-threshold photoemission: an old subject revisited from a nano viewpoint- R. Reifenberger (Purdue) 1630 – 1650 Enhancing the efficiency of polymer electrolyte fuel cells by replacing Nafion with carbon anotube-nafion composite electrolytes - K. Vijayamohanan (NCL) 1650 – 1710 How ‘Form defines Function’ in Nanostructured Solar Cells - M.A. Alam (Purdue) 1710 – 1730 Shaping and functionalization of magnetic nanoparticles for energy applications - D. Bahadur (IIT-B) 1730 – 1750 Semiconducting Nanoparticles in for/Acceptor-type Organic Photovoltaic Devices A.J. Pal (IACS) 1830 – 2000 Workshop Dinner (JNC Dining Hall)
(Wednesday, 20 August), DAY 2 at JNCASR, Jakkur Campus
0900 – 1040 Session 4: Materials and devices - Chair: D. Janes and A.K. Sood
0900 – 0920 Catalytic action of nanogold in fabricating patterned gate dielectric - G.U. Kulkarni (JNCASR) 0920 – 0940 Spark Plasma Sintering Synthesis of Doped Bulk Cerium Oxide - L. Stanciu (Purdue) 0940 – 1000 New phenomena and novel nanomaterials for gas sensing and infrared absorption- T. Pradeep (IIT-M) 1000 – 1020 ab initio design of novel catalysts and gas storage media- S. Narasimhan (JNCASR) 1020 – 1040 An overview of materials and energy- R.R. Sonde (Thermax) 1040 – 1230 Tea and Poster Session 1230 – 1430 Lunch and Breakout Sessions (Each panel discusses and prepares a report in presentation format) 1430 – 1500 Tea 1500 – 1630 Presentation of reports from the panels, Feedback & Discussion, Concluding remarks Chair: A. Mitra and P. Sharma 1630-1730 Tour of JNCASR laboratories 1745-1815 Transportation to the respective Guest Houses 1840-1850 Transportation to the NIAS campus 1900-2130 Cultural program & Workshop Banquet Venue: JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS
(Thursday, 21 August), DAY 3 Focus on International Industry-University Collaboration held at the John F. Welch Technology Centre, GE Global Research, Bangalore
0730 – 0830 Transportation to GE campus 0830 – 0900 Snacks and Tea 0900 – 0910 Introduction - S. Murthy (GE) 0910 – 0930 Industry's research needs in energy and nanotechnology - G. Kattragada (GE)
0930 – 1000 Nanotechnology and the developing world - M. Sastry (Tata Chem) 1000 – 1030 Nanotechnology research at GE - Anand (GE) 1030 – 1100 Tea 1100 – 1120 Nanomaterials research at ARCI - G. Sunderarajan (ARCI) 1120 – 1140 Energy considerations in computing - S. Garimella (Purdue) 1140 – 1200 Titanium microsystems for energy applications - M. Rao (Purdue) 1200 – 1220 Carbon Nanomaterials for old and new energy applications - T. Fisher (Purdue) 1220 – 1400 Lunch 1400 – 1420 Nanomaterials Innovation for efficient solar energy conversion Opportunities, Bottlenecks and challenges - M. Sastry (Tata Chem) 1420 –1440 Quantum dots for photovoltaic applications - M. Lynass (GE) 1440 – 1500 Nanoheteroepitaxy: An approach toward a monolithic phosphor-free white LED - T. Sands (Purdue) 1500 – 1520 Tea 1520 – 1540 Hydrogel electrolyte based supercapacitors - A.K. Shukla (CECRI) 1540 – 1600 Atomistic Modeling of H-vacancies and Storage in MgH2 and Related Metal Hydrides - U. Waghmare (JNCASR) 1600 – 1700 Panel discussion on international industry-university collaboration 1700 – 1730 Concluding thoughts and action items
