A brief resume
I am a currently at the NC State University working in the group of Prof. Jerry Bernholc and Prof. Marco Buongiorno Nardelli. I am currently doing first-principles simulations on polymers which can be used as dielectric.
October, 2002 - present : research associate with Prof. Laurent Bellaiche at the department of physics, University of Arkansas, USA. Several projects : (i) first-principles (a) electronic structure, (b) piezoelectric response (berry phase), (c) phonon calculation of semiconductors, (ii) dilute magnet using first-principles methods, (iii) semi-empirical pseudopotential studies of semiconductor quantum dots.
October, 2001 - September, 2002 : research associate (project : tight-binding studies of GaN pyramidal quantum dots) with Prof. Christophe Delerue and Prof. Guy Allan at IEMN, Lille, France.
Ph.D. (title : Electronic structure of semiconductor nanostructures) under the guidance of Prof. Vijay A. Singh at the department of physics, I.I.T., Kanpur, India in May, 2002. I also worked with Prof. Manoj K. Harbola during my Ph.D.
Research Interests
Ferroelectric polymers - in capacitor appilications and energy storage.
III-nitrides and alloys.
Phase transition - strain, high pressure, and electric field - of solids.
Magnetism
Semiconductor quantum dots. These materials are called by many exotic names such as Digital Materials, QUEST (Quantized Electronic Structure), Artificial Atoms, etc.
Skills
First principles, Tight-binding, and Effective Mass Theory based electronic structure, molecular dynamics, and density functional perturbation theory calculations.