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Dr. Arun Vinod

Dr. Arun Vinod, Assistant Professor
Dr. Arun Vinod, Assistant ProfessorM.Sc, Ph.D

Areas of Specialization: Nanomaterials
Areas of Research Interest: Nanomaterials, Nonvolatile memory devices, Ion beam Irradication, Material Charaterisation, XPS, Nanocomposites, Selective adsorption and seperation

Patents
  1. Mozaffari, Nastaran; Mozaffari, Niloofar; Vambol, Sergij; Vambol, Viola; Khan, Nadeem A. and Vinod Arun; “Suspension Preparing Method for Applying Composite Films”, IP Australia, Australian Government.
  2. Mozaffari, Nastaran; Vambol, Viola; Mozaffari, Niloofar; Vambol, Sergij; Khan, Nadeem A.; Vinod Arun; Jabaratnam Joy Mathavan; “Suspension preparation technique for manufacturing Al2O3/SnO2 composite films with adsorption properties”, IP Australia, Australian Government.
Publications
  1. Arun Vinod, Mahendra Singh Rathore, Srinivasa Rao Nelamarri, “Investigation of electrical and compositional properties of SiO2/Au/SiO2 for nonvolatile memory application”, Applied Physics A, 124 (2018) 548.
  2. Arun Vinod, Mahendra Singh Rathore, Srinivasa Rao Nelamarri, “Role of annealing temperature on charge storage characteristics of Au nanocrystals with HfO2 tunneling and blocking layers”, Superlattices and Microstructures, 120 (2018) 616.
  3. Arun Vinod, Mahendra Singh Rathore, N Srinivasa Rao, “Effects of annealing on quality and stoichiometry of HfO2 thin films grown by RF magnetron sputtering”, Vacuum, 155 (2018) 339.
  4. Arun Vinod, Mahendra Singh Rathore, T. Santhosh Kumar, D. Pamu, A. P. Pathak, N Srinivasa Rao, “Ion beam induced modification of structural and optical properties of MgTiO3 nanocrystalline thin films”, Radiation Effects & Defects in Solids, 172 (2017) 81.
  5. Santhosh Kumar, Arun Vinod, Mahendra Singh Rathore, A.P. Pathak, Fouran Singh, D. Pamu, N. Srinivasa Rao, “Effects of high-energy ion-beam irradiation on structural and optical properties of (Mg0.95Co0.05)TiO3 thin films” , Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 173 (2018) 128.
  6. Mahendra Singh Rathore, Arun Vinod, A. Rambabu, A. P. Pathak, Fouran Singh, T. Santhosh Kumar, N. Srinivasa Rao, “Ion beam modification of structural and optical properties of GeO₂ thin films deposited at various substrate temperatures using pulsed laser deposition”, Applied Physics A, 123 (2017) 708.
  7. Mahendra Singh Rathore, Arun Vinod, N. Srinivasa Rao, “Effects of annealing temperature on structural, optical and electrical properties of Ge nanocrystals embedded in GeOx matrix” Macromolecular Symposia, 376 (2017) 1700024.
  1. Mahendra Singh Rathore, Arun Vinod, N. Srinivasa Rao, “Structural and Optical Properties of GeO2 Thin Films Prepared by E-Beam Evaporation”, Advanced Science Letters, 22 (2016) 3798.
  2. Radhe Shyam, Mahendra Singh Rathore, Arun Vinod, Apurba Das, Pamu Dobbidi, Fouran Singh, Srinivasa Rao Nelamarri, “Irradiation induced modification of structural and optical properties of potassium sodium niobate thin films”, Applied Physics A, 126 (2020) 1.
  3. Niloofar Mozaffari, Viola Vambol, Yanuar Hamzah, Alaa El Din Mahmoud, Nastaran Mozaffari, Nadeem A Khan, Sergij Vambol, Nishat Khan, Arun Vinod, “Influence of thickness on the structural, morphological and optical properties of co-doped TiO2 thin films prepared by sol-gel method”, Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, 12 (2022) 718
  4. Mahendra Singh Rathore, Arun Vinod, Rambabu Angalakurthi, A.P.Pathak,Santhosh Kumar Thatikonda Srinivasa Rao Nelamarri, “Role of oxygen pressure on the structural and photoluminescence properties of pulsed laser deposited GeO2 thin films”, Physica B: Condensed Matter 625, (2022) 413466.
Student Project Undertaken
Project entitled, “Investigation on optimization of optical properties of ZnO thin films using Taguchi Method” under Student Project Scheme of KSCSTE.
Presentations and Invited Talks
  1. Presented poster at International Conference on Thin Films (ICTF-17) at CSIR-NPL,New Delhi, India, November 2017.
  1. Presented a poster at an International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2016),Jaipur, Dec 2016.
  1. Participated in INUP Familiarization Workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies,Aug 2016, MNIT Jaipur.
  1. Presented a poster at an International conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators,REI-18, Oct 2015
  1. Presented a poster at National Conference on Recent Advancements in ChemicalSciences, Aug 2015 at MNIT Jaipur.
  1. Participated in an International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2014), Jaipur,October 2014
  2. Invited talk on High Dielectric Oxide Thin Films For Various Applications, Parul University, Gujarat on 09 Oct 2021.
  3. Invited talk on Trends in Nanoscience & Application: An Experimental Perspective, Parul University, Gujarat on 03 Aug 2022.
Awards
  • Best Paper Presentation Award, International Conference on Thin Films (ICTF-17) at CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India, November 2017.
  • Best Oral Presentation Award, National Seminar on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NANO 2019), Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, Kerala, Feb 2019.