• Cu Doping in Ligand Free CdS Nanocrystals: Conductivity and Electronic Structure Study 

  Grandhi, G. Krishnamurthy; Swathi, K.; Narayan, K. S.; Viswanatha, Ranjani (American Chemical Society, 2014)

  Ligand-free Cu-doped CdS nanocrystals (NCs) have been synthesized to elucidate their surface electronic structure. The Cu-doped ligand-free NCs unlike their undoped counterparts are shown to be luminescent. We used this ...
• Morphology and electrostatics play active role in neuronal differentiation processes on flexible conducting substrates 

  Srivastava, Nishit; James, Jackson; Narayan, K. S. (Landes Bioscience, 2014)

  This commentary discusses and summarizes the key highlights of our recently reported work entitled "Neuronal Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Neuronal Progenitors Can Be Regulated by Stretchable Conducting ...
• Organic photovoltaics: key photophysical, device and design aspects 

  Joshi, Dhruv; Shivanna, Ravichandran; Narayan, K. S. (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)

  Key aspects of Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) have been reviewed in this tutorial. Issues pertaining to the choice of materials, fabrication processes, photophysical mechanisms, device characterization, morphology of active ...
• Nanostructured Donor-Acceptor Self Assembly with Improved Photoconductivity 

  Saibal, B.; Ashar, A. Z.; Devi, R. Nandini; Narayan, K. S.; Asha, S. K. (American Chemical Society, 2014)

  Nanostructured supramolecular donor-acceptor assemblies were formed when an unsymmetrical N-substituted pyridine functionalized perylenebisimide (UPBI-Py) was complexed with oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) (OPVM-OH) complementarily ...
• Luminescent Polymer Films from Simple Processing of Coronene and Europium Precursors in Water 

  Planells, Miquel; Klampaftis, Efthymios; Congiu, Martina; Shivanna, Ravichandran; Rao, K. Venkata; Chepelin, Oleg; Jones, Anita C.; Richards, Bryce S.; George, Subi Jacob; Narayan, K. S.; Robertson, Neil (Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh, 2014)

  We describe the preparation and optical characterisation of a coronene tetracarboxylate salt (CS) in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) thin film solutions processed from water, neat or mixed with varying ratios of a europium ...
• Naphthalene Diimide Copolymers with Oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) and Benzobisoxazole for Balanced Ambipolar Charge Transport 

  Kolhe, Nagesh B.; Ashar, A. Z.; Narayan, K. S.; Asha, S. K. (American Chemical Society, 2014)

  A series of alternating and random donor (D)-acceptor (A) copolymers based on naphthalene diimide (NDI) as the acceptor and oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) (OPV) or benzobisoxazole (BBO) as the strong and weak donor, respectively, ...
• Fabrication of Single Si Nanowire Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Device for Photodetection 

  Das, Kaustuv; Samanta, Sudeshna; Kumar, Prashant; Narayan, K. S.; Raychaudhuri, Arup Kumar (IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2014)

  The photoresponse of a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) device using single silicon nanowire (Si NW) (similar to 50-nm diameter) with responsivity approaching 3 A/W and external quantum efficiency similar to 900% at a ...
• Improved Performance of Solution-Processed n-Type Organic Field-Effect Transistors by Regulating the Intermolecular Interactions and Crystalline Domains on Macroscopic Scale 

  Vasimalla, Suresh; Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.; Sharma, Meenakshi; Narayan, K. S.; Iyer, Parameswar Krishnan (American Chemical Society, 2014)

  The development of four new n-channel naphthalene diimide (NDI) and perylene diirnide (PDI) copolymers (NDI-Ph, NDI-BT, PDI-Ph, and PDI-BT) and their solution processed thin film transistor (TFT) devices are reported. ...
• Single CuTCNQ charge transfer complex nanowire as ultra high responsivity photo-detector 

  Basori, Rabaya; Das, K.; Kumar, Prashant; Narayan, K. S.; Raychaudhuri, A. K. (Optical Society American, 2014)

  We report ultra large photo responsivity R (ratio of photo-generated current to absorbed power) in a single nanowire (NW) device made from a single strand of a nanowire (diameter similar to 30nm and length similar to 200nm) ...
• Strategies for Fast-Switching in All-Polymer Field Effect Transistors 

  Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.; Narayan, K. S. (Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh, 2014)

  Low-cost printable field effect transistors (FETs) are typically associated with slow switching characteristics. Dynamic response of polymer field effect transistors (PFETs) is a manifestation of time scales involved in ...
• Supramolecular P4VP-pentadecylphenol naphthatenebisimide comb-polymer: mesoscopic organization and charge transport properties 

  Narayan, Rekha; Kumar, Prashant; Narayan, K. S.; Ashe, S. K. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

  A supramolecular comb polymer of pentadecyl phenol (PDP) substituted naphthalenebisimide (PDP-UNBI) with poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P4VP) is reported. The mesoscopic organization within the P4VP(PDP-UNBI), complexes was studied ...
• Zn(II) and Cu(II) complexes of a new thiophenebased salphen-type ligand: solution-processable high-performance field-effect transistor materials 

  Asatkar, Ashish K.; Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.; Bedi, Anjan; Panda, Snigdha; Narayan, K. S.; Zade, Sanjio S. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

  A new thiophene-based salphen-type ligand, 1, and its Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes, 1 center dot Cu and 1 center dot Zn center dot MeOH, were designed and synthesized. These metal organic complexes (MOCs), with ultra-close ...
• Charge generation and transport in efficient organic bulk heterojunction solar cells with a perylene acceptor 

  Shivanna, Ravichandran; Shoaee, Safa; Dimitrov, Stoichko; Kandappa, Sunil Kumar; Rajaram, Sridhar; Durrant, James R.; Narayan, K. S. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)

  The origin of high current density in efficient non-fullerene based bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells employing a non-planar perylene dimer (TP) as an electron acceptor and a thiophene based donor polymer ...
• Photoconductive NSOM for mapping optoelectronic phases in nanostructures 

  Das, Anshuman J.; Shivanna, Ravichandran; Narayan, K. S. (Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, 2014)

  The advent of optically functional materials with low-intensive processing methods is accompanied by a growing need for high resolution imaging to probe the inherent inhomogeneities in the underlying microstructure. Atomic ...
• Polymer optoelectronic structures for retinal prosthesis 

  Gautam, Vini; Narayan, K. S. (Taylor & Francis Inc, 2014)

  This commentary highlights the effectiveness of optoelectronic properties of polymer semiconductors based on recent results emerging from our laboratory, where these materials are explored as artificial receptors for ...
• A Polymer Optoelectronic Interface Provides Visual Cues to a Blind Retina 

  Gautam, Vini; Rand, David; Hanein, Yael; Narayan, K. S. (Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh, 2014)
• Quantum Confinement Effects in Organic Lead Tribromide Perovskite Nanoparticles 

  Kumar, Prashant; Muthu, Chinnadurai; Nair, Vijayakumar C.; Narayan, K. S. (American Chemical Society, 2016)

  The optical and electronic properties of nanoparticles/nanocrystals (NC) of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite (MAPbBr(3)) have been studied in detail. We observe the effect of quantum confinement in particles of ...
• Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Charge-Transfer Hydrogel for Room-Temperature Organic Ferroelectric Thin-Film Devices 

  Pandeeswar, Makam; Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.; Narayan, K. S.; Govindaraju, T. (American Chemical Society, 2016)

  The possibility of designing programmable thin-film supramolecular structures with spontaneous polarization widens the utility of facile supramolecular chemistry. Although a range of low molecular mass molecular single ...
• Image pixel device using integrated organic electronic components 

  Swathi, K.; Narayan, K. S. (American Institute Physics, 2016)

  We report a solution processed, monolithically integrated device similar to an imaging pixel element used in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) based cameras. This integrated pixel essentially consists of a ...
• Tuning the HOMO energy levels in quinoline and biquinoline based donor-acceptor polymers 

  Tomar, Manisha; Ashar, A. Z.; Narayan, K. S.; Muellen, Klaus; Jacob, Josemon (Springer, 2016)

  Four donor-acceptor type polymers based on quinoline and biquinoline have been synthesized by Pd catalyzed direct C-H (hetero)arylation reaction. Polymers P1 and P2 are alternate copolymers of thiophene-benzothiadiazole-thiophene ...

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