Rajani K. Vijayaraghavan
Dr.
Dr. Rajani K. Vijayaraghavan is an assistant professor in the school of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, and a principal investigator at the National Centre for Plasma Science & Technology (NCPST). She completed her master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Physics from the University of Calicut and Ph.D. in the NCPST and the School of Electronic Engineering, DCU. Her Ph.D. was in the area of materials science with a major focus on developing materials for energy and optoelectronic applications. She has significant expertise in developing a wide range of plasma-based technologies for advanced materials synthesis, processing, functionalization, and nanofabrication areas. She is an expert in copper halide materials and other transition metal halides and oxides for semiconductor, optoelectronic, and energy harvesting applications. She is responsible for numerous innovations including the first report on the development of pulsed plasma-PVD-based technology for large area 2D materials growth, utilization of PVD-graphene for anticoagulation applications, and the fabrication of heterojunction solar cells based on copper halide thin films.
Research Interests:
Multidisciplinary research in the area of advanced functional nanomaterials (synthesis, processing, characterization, surface engineering, mechanistic understanding) and device fabrication, for energy, optoelectronics, sensors, and biomedical applications.
- Energy harvesting, 3D printed optoelectronics, sensors, and photodetectors
- 2D materials for energy and bio applications
- Non-ambient X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis to study crystal structure, phase transformation, solid-state reactions, kinetics, and microstrain in materials.
Book Chapter
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| 2021 | Groarke, R, Vijayaraghavan, RK, Powell, D, Rennie, A & Brabazon, D (2021) 'Powder Characterization – Methods, Standards and State of the Art' In: Fundamentals of Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Metals. Netherlands : Elsevier. [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
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| 2022 | A. Mussatto, R. Groarke, R. K.Vijayaraghavan, M. Ahmed Obeidi, P. J. McNally, V. Nicolosi, Y. Delaure, D. Brabazon (2022) 'Laser-powder bed fusion of silicon carbide reinforced 316L stainless steel using a sinusoidal laser scanning strategy'. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2022.03.170 | |
| 2022 | Sharif, A.; Farid, N.; Wang, M.; Vijayaraghavan, R.K.; Choy, K.L.; McNally, P.J.; O'Connor, G.M. (2022) 'Non-melt selective enhancement of crystalline structure in molybdenum thin films using femtosecond laser pulses'. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | N. Farid, A. Sharif, R.K. Vijayaraghavan, M. Wang, H. Chan, A. Brunton, P.J. McNally, K. Choy, and G.M. O’Connor (2021) 'Improvement of electrical properties of ITO thin films by melt-free ultra-short laser crystallization'. Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics, 54 . [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Sharif A; Farid N; Vijayaraghavan RK; McNally PJ; O'Connor GM; (2021) 'Femtosecond Laser Assisted Crystallization of Gold Thin Films'. Journal of Nanomaterials, 11 (5). [DOI] | |
| 2020 | MuhannadAhmed Obeidi, Andre Mussatto, Robert Groarke, Rajani K. Vijayaraghavan, Alex Conway, Frederico Rossi Kaschel, Eanna McCarthy, Owen Clarkin, Robert O’Connor, Dermot Brabazon (2020) 'Comprehensive assessment of spatter material generated during selective laser melting of stainless steel'. Materials Today Communications, 25 . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.101294 | |
| 2020 | F.R.Kaschel, R.K.Vijayaraghavan, A. Shmeliov, E.K.McCarthy, M.Canavan, P.J.McNally, D.P.Dowling , V.Nicolosi and M.Celikin (2020) 'Mechanism of Stress Relaxation and Phase Transformation in Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V via in situ High Temperature XRD and TEM Analyses'. Acta Materialia, 188 :720-732. [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Caffrey D; Zhussupbekova A; Vijayaraghavan RK; Ainabayev A; Kaisha A; Sugurbekova G; Shvets IV; Fleischer K; (2020) 'Crystallographic Characterisation of Ultra-Thin, or Amorphous Transparent Conducting Oxides-The Case for Raman Spectroscopy'. Materials, 13 (2). [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Zhussupbekova A; Kaisha A; Vijayaraghavan RK; Fleischer K; Shvets IV; Caffrey D; (2019) 'The importance of local bond order to conduction in amorphous, transparent, conducting oxides: The case of amorphous ZnSnOy'. ACS applied materials & interfaces, . [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Jose, B.; Vijayaraghavan, R.K.; Kent, L.; O'Toole, S.; O'Leary, J.; Forster, R.J. (2019) 'Tunable metallic nanostructures using 3D printed nanosphere templates'. Electrochemistry Communications, 98 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Tanner, BK; Danilewsky, AN; Vijayaraghavan, RK; Cowley, A; McNally, PJ (2017) 'Nondestructive X-ray diffraction measurement of warpage in silicon dies embedded in integrated circuit packages'. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 50 :547-554. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Inguva, S; Vijayaraghavan, RK; McGlynn, E; Mosnier, JP (2017) 'High quality interconnected core/shell ZnO nanorod architectures grown by pulsed laser deposition on ZnO-seeded Si substrates'. Superlattices and Microstructures, 101 :8-14. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Wight N.; Acosta E.; Vijayaraghavan R.; McNally P.; Smirnov V.; Bennett N. (2017) 'A universal method for thermal conductivity measurements on micro-/nano-films with and without substrates using micro-Raman spectroscopy'. Thermal Science And Engineering Progress, 3 :95-101. [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Vijayaraghavan, R.K.; Chandran, D.; Vijayaraghavan, R.K.; McCoy, A.P.; Daniels, S.; McNally, P.J. (2017) 'Highly enhanced UV responsive conductivity and blue emission in transparent CuBr films: Implication for emitter and dosimeter applications'. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Cowley, A; Steele, JA; Byrne, D; Vijayaraghavan, RK; McNally, PJ (2016) 'Fabrication and characterisation of GaAs nanopillars using nanosphere lithography and metal assisted chemical etching'. RSC Advances, 6 :30468-30473. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Bose A.; Vijayaraghavan R.; Cowley A.; Cherman V.; Varela Pedreira O.; Tanner B.; Danilewsky A.; De Wolf I.; McNally P. (2016) 'Nondestructive Monitoring of Die Warpage in Encapsulated Chip Packages'. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 6 (4):653-662. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Byrne, C; Brady, A; Walsh, L; Mccoy, AP; Bogan, J; McGlynn, E; Rajani, KV; Hughes, G (2016) 'Chemical and electrical characterisation of the segregation of Al from a CuAl alloy (90%:10% wt) with thermal anneal'. Thin Solid Films, 599 :59-63. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | E.-R. Carl, J. Richter, A. N. Danilewsky, R. K. Vijayaraghavan, S. Kelly, P. McNally, Z. Konopkova and H.-P. Liermann (2016) 'Phase transitions of silicon under dynamic and non-hydrostatic conditions'. Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography, A72 . | |
| 2016 | Eltayeb A.; Vijayaraghavan R.; McCoy A.; Cullen J.; Daniels S.; McGlynn E. (2016) 'Control of crystal structure, morphology and optical properties of ceria films by post deposition annealing treatments'. Thin Solid Films, 603 :363-370. [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Vijayaraghavan, RK; Gaman, C; Jose, B; Mccoy, AP; Cafolla, T; McNally, PJ; Daniels, S (2016) 'Pulsed-Plasma Physical Vapor Deposition Approach Toward the Facile Synthesis of Multilayer and Monolayer Graphene for Anticoagulation Applications'. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 8 :4878-4886. [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Eltayeb A.; Vijayaraghavan R.; McCoy A.; Venkatanarayanan A.; Yaremchenko A.; Surendran R.; McGlynn E.; Daniels S. (2015) 'Control and enhancement of the oxygen storage capacity of ceria films by variation of the deposition gas atmosphere during pulsed DC magnetron sputtering'. Journal of Power Sources, 279 :94-99. [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Inguva, S.; Marka, S.K.; Vijayaraghavan, R.K.; Mcglynn, E.; Srikanth, V.V.S.S.; Mosnier, J.P. (2015) 'Crystalline ZnO/amorphous ZnO core/shell nanorods: Self-organized growth, structure, and novel luminescence'. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Inguva S.; Vijayaraghavan R.; McGlynn E.; Mosnier J. (2015) 'Highly transparent and reproducible nanocrystalline ZnO and AZO thin films grown by room temperature pulsed-laser deposition on flexible Zeonor plastic substrates'. Materials Research Express, 2 (9). [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Cherunilam J.; Rajani K.; Byrne C.; Heise A.; McNally P.; Daniels S. (2015) 'Interaction of SF6 and O2 plasma with porous poly phenyl methyl silsesquioxane low-κ films'. Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics, 48 (12). [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Vijayaraghavan R.; McCoy A.; Chauhan L.; Cowley A.; Morris R.; Daniels S.; McNally P. (2014) 'Influence of oxygen plasma on the growth, structure, morphology, and electro-optical properties of p-type transparent conducting CuBr thin films'. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118 (40):23226-23232. [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Cherunilam J.; Rajani K.; McCoy A.; Heise A.; Daniels S. (2014) 'Investigation of O2 and SF6plasma interactions on thermally stable damage resistant poly phenyl-methyl silsesquioxane low-k films'. Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics, 47 (10). [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Lubwama, M.; Corcoran, B.; Rajani, K.V.; Wong, C.S.; Kirabira, J.B.; Sebbit, A.; McDonnell, K.A.; Dowling, D.; Sayers, K. (2013) 'Raman analysis of DLC and Si-DLC films deposited on nitrile rubber'. Surface and Coatings Technology, 232 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Rajani, K.V.; Daniels, S.; Rahman, M.; Cowley, A.; McNally, P.J. (2013) 'Deposition of earth-abundant p-type CuBr films with high hole conductivity and realization of p-CuBr/n-Si heterojunction solar cell'. Materials Letters, 111 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Rajani K.; Daniels S.; McNally P.; Krishnamurthy S. (2013) 'Soft x-ray spectroscopic investigation of Zn doped CuCl produced by pulsed dc magnetron sputtering'. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 25 (28). [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Manickam G.; Gandhiraman R.; Vijayaraghavan R.; Kerr L.; Doyle C.; Williams D.; Daniels S. (2012) 'Protection and functionalisation of silver as an optical sensing platform for highly sensitive SPR based analysis'. The Analyst, 137 (22):5265-5271. [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Rajani K.; Daniels S.; McGlynn E.; Gandhiraman R.; Groarke R.; McNally P. (2012) 'Low temperature growth technique for nanocrystalline cuprous oxide thin films using microwave plasma oxidation of copper'. Materials Letters, 71 :160-163. [DOI] | |
| 2011 | Rajani K.; Olabanji Lucas F.; Daniels S.; Danieluk D.; Bradley A.; Cowley A.; Alam M.; McNally P. (2011) 'Growth of n-type γ-CuCl with improved carrier concentration by pulsed DC sputtering: Structural, electronic and UV emission properties'. Thin Solid Films, 519 (18):6064-6068. [DOI] | |
| 2011 | Alam M.; Cowley A.; Rajani K.; Daniels S.; McNally P. (2011) 'Evaluation of conduction mechanism and electronic parameters for Au/organic-inorganic CuCl hybrid film/ITO structures'. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 26 (9). [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Rajani, KV; Daniels, S; McNally, PJ; Lucas, FO; Alam, MM (2010) 'PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE'. Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials, 207 :1586-1589. [DOI] | |
| 2010 | Rajani K.; Daniels S.; McNally P.; Lucas F.; Alam M. (2010) 'Ultrathin chromium transparent metal contacts by pulsed dc magnetron sputtering'. Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials, 207 (7):1586-1589. [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Alam, M.M.; Lucas, F.O.; Danieluk, D.; Bradley, A.L.; Rajani, K.V.; Daniels, S.; McNally, P.J. (2009) 'Hybrid organic-inorganic spin-on-glass CuCl films for optoelectronic applications'. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 42 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Rajani, KV; Rajesh, S; Murali, KP; Mohanan, P; Ratheesh, R (2009) 'Preparation and Microwave Characterization of PTFE/PEEK Blends'. Polymer Composites, 30 :296-300. [DOI] | |
| 2009 | Rajesh, S; Murali, KP; Rajani, KV; Ratheesh, R (2009) 'SrTiO3-Filled PTFE Composite Laminates for Microwave Substrate Applications'. International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, 6 :553-561. [DOI] |
Other Publication
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2016 | Sharma, S.; Gahan, D.; Scullin, P.; Doyle, J.; Lennon, J.; Vijayaraghavan, R.K.; Daniels, S.; Hopkins, M.B. (2016) Measurement of deposition rate and ion energy distribution in a pulsed dc magnetron sputtering system using a retarding field analyzer with embedded quartz crystal microbalance. [Link] [DOI] |
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