Welcome
to Ramki Kalyanaraman's Group!
Our long term
goal is to design, make and characterize advanced functional materials
with applications in sensing, information processing and energy
harvesting, amongst others. These applied goals will be realized through
fundamental research in self-assembly and
self-organization,energetic beam (laser, ion beam)-material
interactions, plasmonics, magnetism and the design and characterization
of
complex and multifunctional
nanocomposites made from metals, ceramics and semiconductors.
Immediate application areas being investigated include broadband solar
absorbing materials for photovoltaics, surfaces for Surface Enhanced
Raman Scattering (SERS), magnetic sensing/data storage and
linear/non-linear optical materials based on
plasmonics.
Click on the research
topics below to learn more.
News Items
Positions Available (Jan 08) - Please send mail to ramkik at wustl dot edu if interested
News Items
Positions Available (Jan 08) - Please send mail to ramkik at wustl dot edu if interested
- Graduate student to work on laser-induced self-organization and pattern formation
- Graduate student to work on plasmonic nanocomposites for solar energy harvesting
- Graduate student to work on advanced functional nanomaterials
| Laser-film interactions | Optics, plasmonics and nanophotonics |
| Self-organization in ultrathin films | Structure-processing-property correlations |
| Thin film microstructure studies |