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Awards/Fellowships

CSIR Travel Grant Award - To  participate in "First Vacuum and Surface Science Conference of Asia and Australia" held at Tokyo, Japan in the year 1999. 

Max-Planck Institute Grant - To deliver a seminar at Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany in the year 2001.

Research Experience

Post-doctoral fellow, POSTECH, South Korea, (May 2002 – Oct. 2003)
Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratoire de Cristallochimie et Physicochimie du Solide, France        (Jan. 2004- Jan.2005)

PUBLICATION IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

1.  Effect of processing on the properties of Bi3.15Nd0.85Ti3O12 thin films
     N.V. Giridharan and S. Supriya, Thin Solid Films (In press).

2.  Enhancement of polarization in bismuth titanate thin films co-modified by La and  Nd  for non- volatile memory applications, N.V. Giridharan, M. Subramanian and R. Jayavel,  J. Appl. Phys. A, 83 (2006) 123-126.

3.  Oxide ion conduction in oxygen rich doped Ba2In2O5+delta Brownmillerite
      A. Rolle, N.V.  Giridharan, P. Roussel, F. Abraham, R.N. Vannier , Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc.835 (2005) K2.4.2-K2.4.6

4.  Structural and electrochemical characterization of new oxide ion conductors for  oxygen generating systems and fuel cells, A.Rolle, R.N. Vannier, N.V.Giridharan and F. Abraham, Solid state ionics 176 (2005) 2095-2103

5.  Growth of c-axis-oriented Bi3.15Nd0.85Ti3O12 thin films for ferroelectric memory applications, N.V.Giridharan, S. Madeswaran and R. Jayavel, Journal of Crystal Growth (2005) e675-e679

6.   Effect of rhodium doping on the growth and characteristics of BaTiO3 Single crystals 
grown by step-cooling method, S.Madeswaran, N.V.Giridharan, R.Varatharajan, G. Ravi and R.Jayavel, Journal of Crystal Growth 266 (2004) 481-486

7. Sol-gel synthesis and property studies of layered perovskite bismuth titanate thin  films
     S.Madeswaran, N.V.Giridharan  and R.Jayavel,  Materials Chemistry and physics, 80 (2003) 23-28
 
8.  On the Capacitance-Voltage characteristics of Al/BaTiO3/GaN MFS structures, M.Senthil Kumar, R.R.Sumathi, N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and J.Kumar,  Journal of Crystal Growth, 237 (2002) 1176-1179 

9.  Growth of Co doped (Ba, Sr) TiO3 single crystals and their characterization
      S.Madeswaran, N.V.Giridharan and R.Jayavel, Journal of Crystal Growth, 237 (2002) 858-863

10. Investigations on Al/BaTiO3/GaN MFS structures
      M.Senthil Kumar, R.R.Sumathi, N.V.Giridharan,  R.Jayavel and J.Kumar,  Material letters, 52 (2002) 80-84

11. BaTiO3 as an insulating layer for InP based metal-insulator-semiconductor structures
      R.R.Sumathi, N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and J.Kumar, Material letters, 51 (2001) 56-60

12. Structural, morphology and electrical studies on ferroelectric bismuth titanate thin 
      films prepared by sol-gel technique
      N.V.Giridharan, S.Madeswaran and R.Jayavel, Journal of  Crystal growth, 237 (2002) 468-472

13. Fabrication of ferroelectric (Pb, Ba)TiO3 thin films by sol-gel technique and their 
      Characterization, N.V.Giridharan and R.Jayavel, Material letters, 52 (2002) 57-61

14. Structural, morphological and electrical studies on barium strontium titanate thin films prepared by sol-gel technique, N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and P.Ramasamy, Cryst.Res.Technol., 36 (2001) 65-72

15. Fabrication and characterization of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 thin films by sol-gel technique through organic precursor  route,  N.V.Giridharan, R.Varatharajan, R.Jayavel and P.Ramasamy, Materials chemistry and physics 65 (2000) 261-265

National / International Conference Presentations

1.  Effect of processing on the properties of Bi3.15Nd0.85Ti3O12 thin films
     N.V. Giridharan and S. Supriya, The 3rd International Conference on Advances of Thin 
     Films and  Coatings (Thinfilms 2006), 11-15 December 2006, Singapore

2.  Fabrication and characterization of c-axis oriented Bi3.15Nd0.85Ti3O12 thin films
      N.V.Giridharan, D. Rajan babu, M. Subramanian and R. Jayavel, National conference on 
      recent trends in materials science and technology, Vellore Institute of technology, Vellore, August 10-12, 2005

3.  Structural and electrochemical characterization of Ba2In2-xMexO5 (Me=V, Mo, W)   
      oxide ion conductors for oxygen generating systems and fuel cells, R.N. Vannier,             N.V. Giridharan and A. Rolle, National conference on recent trends in materials science and  technology, Vellore Institute of technology, Vellore, August 10-12, 2005

4.   Oxide ion conduction in oxygen rich doped Ba2In2O5+delta Brownmillerite
       A. Rolle, N.V. Giridharan, P. Roussel, F. Abraham, R.N. Vannier, MRS fall meeting, 2004.

5.   Water content in Ba2In2-xMexO5+delta (Me=V,W,Mo)
       A.Rolle, N.V.Giridharan, R.N.Vannier and F.Abraham, Fourth int. conference on inorganic materials, Belgium, September 19-21, 2004.

6.   Structural and ferroelectric properties of highly oriented (Bi, Nd)4Ti3O12 thin films
       N.V.Giridharan and R. Jayavel, International conference on crystal growth (ICCG-14)  
       held at  Grenoble, France, August 9-13, 2003

7.   Dopant defect effect on the conductivity in oxides
      A.Rolle, N.V.Giridharan, R.N.Vannier and F.Abraham, OSSEP, Eindhoven, Netherlands,
      June 18-19, 2004.

8.   Ferroelectric properties of bismuth titanate thin films co-modified by La and
      Nd for non-volatile memories, N.V.Giridharan and H.M. Jang, Asian meeting on
      ferroelectrics (AMF-4) held at IISc, Bangalore, India, December 12-15, 2003

9.  Growth and Characterization of Rh doped BaTiO3 single crystals
     S.Madeswaran, N.V.Giridharan, R.Varatharajan and R.Jayavel, Fourteenth American
     Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy, Seattle, Washington, August 4 - 9, 2002

10. Fabrication and characterisation of  ferroelectric bismuth titanate thin films by sol-gel Technique, N.V.Giridharan, S.Madeswaran  and R.Jayavel, Material Science : Recent
      trends, Kottayam, India, March 22-23, 2001

11. Fabrication of ferroelectric (Pb, Ba)TiO3 thin films by sol-gel technique and its 
 Characterization,  N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and P.Ramasamy, First Asian conference on 
 Crystal growth and crystal technology, Sendai, Japan, Sep.29-Oct.1, 2000

12. Morphological, structural studies on ferroelectric thin films of Ba0.7Sr0.3TiO3 
 prepared by sol-gel technique,  N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and P.Ramasamy
  First Vacuum and Surface Sciences Conference of Asia and Australia, Sep. 8-10,  
  1999, Tokyo, Japan

13.  Barium strontium titanate: A potential material for dynamic random access memories 
      (DRAM), N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and P.Ramasamy, Tenth Annual general meeting,
      Material Research Society of India, Bhopal, India, Feb. 8-10, 1999

14.  Microcrystal formation on (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films prepared by sol-gel technique   
       through organic precursor route ,N.V.Giridharan, R.Varatharajan, R.Jayavel and
       P.Ramasamy, Twelfth International Conference on Crystal Growth, Israel, July 26- 31,1998

15. Growth and characterization of Ba1-xCaxTiO3 single crystals, R.Varatharajan,
      N.V.Giridharan, R.Jayavel and C.Subramanian, XXVIII National Seminar on  
      Crystallography, M.G.University, Kottayam, India , September 24-26,1997.