Dr Abhimanyu Singh Rana is currently an associate professor and the Director of Research & Development. Dr. Rana is an experimental physicist and heading the research on advanced materials and devices for clean energy and sustainability. He did his PhD in Physics from University of Pune in year 2012, while working at National Chemical Laboratory, India with Prof. Satishchandra Ogale. His PhD research was mainly focused on studying quantum tunneling and resistance switching properties in spintronic materials & devices. Thereafter, he moved for his postdoctoral research at National University of Singapore (2012-2014) with Prof Venky and subsequently at University of Twente (2015-2017) with Prof Hans Hilgenkamp in Netherlands. During postdoctoral research, he led projects on the growth of thin films and nanomaterials using physical vapor depositions, nano- and microfabrication of devices and their characterization.
During his career, he visited some of the top institutes in USA, Australia, Singapore, China, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland for different scientific assignments and conferences.
Research Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/ranaabhisite/Home?authuser=0
• Rana, N. K. Sharma, S. Bera, A. Yadav, G. Gupta, A. Rana*, Tuning the plasmonic resonance in TiN refractory metal, accepted in Scientific Reports 14, 7905 (2024) [IF ~ 5.0, Q1]
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55000-0
• D. Khone, S. Kumar, M. Balal, S. R. Barman, S. Kumar, A. Rana*, Resistive Switching and Battery-Like Characteristics in Highly Transparent Ta2O5/ITO Thin-Films, Scientific Reports 13, 14297 (2023) [IF ~ 5.0, Q1]
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40891-2
• S. Yadav, A. S. Ghrera, A. Devi, A. Rana*, Crystalline flower-like Nickel Cobaltite nanosheets coated with amorphous Titanium Nitride layer as binder-free electrodes for supercapacitor application, Electrochimica Acta 437, 141526 (2023) [IF ~ 7.3, Q1]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141526
• Rana, C. Li, G. Koster, H. Hilgenkamp, Resistive switching studies in VO2 thin films, Scientific Reports 10, 3293 (2020) [IF ~ 5.0, Q1]
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60373-z
• P T P Le, K Hofhuis, A. Rana, M Huijben, H Hilgenkamp, G Rijnders, A Elshof, G Koster, N Gauquelin, G Lumbeeck, C S-Langeheine, H Popescu, F Fortuna, S Smit, X H Verbeek, G A-Kanoutas, S Mishra, I Vakivskyi, H A Durr, M S Golden, Tailoring Vanadium Dioxide Film Orientation Using Nanosheets: a Combined Microscopy, Diffraction, Transport, and Soft X-Ray in Transmission Study, Advanced Functional Materials, 30, 1900028 (2020) [IF ~ 20.0, Q1]https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201900028
• K. Bogle, X Cheng, A. Rana*, N. Valanoor Role of Interfacial Trapped Bismuth on Resistive Switching in Epitaxial TiO2 Nanostructures, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 3, 1706 (2020) [IF ~ 6.14, Q1] https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02416
• Rana, A. Patra, M. Annamalai, A. Srivastava, S. Ghosh, K. Stoerzinger, Y. Lee, P. Pattader, N. Satyanarayana, K. Gopinadhan, M. Dykas, K. Poddar, S. Saha, T. Sarkar, B. Kumar, C. Bhatia, L. Giordano, Y. S-Horn, T. Venkatesan, Correlation of nanoscale behavior of forces and macroscale surface wettability, Nanoscale 8, 15597 (2016) [IF ~ 8.3, Q1]
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR02076C
• Rana, H. Lu, K. Bogle, Q. Zhang, R. Vasudevan, V. Thakare, A. Gruverman, S. Ogale, N. Valanoor, Scaling behavior of the resistive switching in epitaxial bismuth ferrite heterostructures, Advanced Functional Materials 24, 3962 (2014) [IF ~ 20.0 Q1]
https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201400110
