Short Curriculum Vitae and Summary of Scientific Activities Dr P. Joice Sophia, DST-INSPIRE Faculty of Nanoscience and Technology , Coimbatore 641046, India e-mail: [email protected]

Academic Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, , Chennai, India-2014 Master of Philosophy in Physics, Anna University, Chennai, India-2007 Master of Science in Physics, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, , India- 2006 Bachelor of Science in Physics, Sarah Tucker College, Palayamkottai, India-2004

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Epitaxial Growth of Germanium, Gallium Arsenide, Indium Gallium Phosphide and their Nanomechanical Studies

Career and Appointments

DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India (2016 – till date) Assistant Professor, Faculty of Communication Networks and Security, University of Information Science and Technology, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia (2015-2016) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Functional Nano & Soft Materials Laboratory (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, China (2014-2015) ICTP-TRIL Fellow, Guest Researcher, Istituto dei Materiali per l' Elettronica ed il Magnetismo (IMEM-CNR), Parma, Italy (2014) ICTP-TRIL Fellow, PhD Exchange, IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy (2013-2014) ICTP-TRIL Fellow, PhD Exchange, IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy (2011-2012) Indo-Italian Young Researcher, PhD Exchange, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy (2010-2011) National Doctoral Fellow, AICTE, Anna University, Chennai, India (2008-2010)

Research Area of Interest

Synthesis and Studies of 2D Materials and Semiconducting Nanostructures; Micro/Nano Fabrication and Semiconductor Nano-devices; Nanostructures and 2D Materials based Sensors, Sensing System and Renewable Energy Storage; Hybrid/Coated Graphene Fibre based Wearable Electronics and Optoelectronics; Nanostructures and 2D Materials based active and Intelligent Packaging;

Executive summary of scientific production and impact

Total number of publications 20 Referred publications 20 Proceedings 1 Reports 1 Book edited - Cumulative Impact Factor 76 (as on January 2017) Total number of ISI-citations 99 (as on January 2017) Average number of citations per article 4.95 h-index 5 (as on January 2017) Total number of conference/seminar/workshop papers 19 Total number of invited presentations 1

Distinctions

ICTP-TRIL Fellowship, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste and IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy [01/03/2014 to 29/05/2014] Travel Grant Award, 15th International Summer School on Crystal Growth, August 4-10, 2013, Gdansk, Poland ICTP-TRIL Fellowship, ICTP, Trieste and IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy [15/07/2013 to 14/01/2014] ICTP-TRIL Fellowship, ICTP, Trieste and IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy [02/11/2011 to 01/07/2012] Indo-Italian Fellowship for young Indian Researchers, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of Italy, University of Ferrara, Italy [01/02/2010 to 31/01/2011] National Doctoral Fellowship by All India Council for Technical Education, India [07/03/2008 to 31/01/2010] Best oral presentation award, National conference on Recent Advances in Materials Science, Sree Sevugan Annamalai College, Devakottai, 21-22 August 2009 Two months Summer Training Fellowship, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam during the year 2005 for young Masters’ students XV Rank in Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, B.Sc Physics, 2001-2004

Research Activities

Research Projects

“Next-generation Hybrid Graphene and Two-Dimensional Materials based Nanophotonic Devices” in the field of Material Science, INSPIRE Faculty award, (DST/INSPIRE/04/2016/000292) Government of India, Ministry of Science & Technology, Department of Science & Technology. Rs. 3500000 (@ Rs. 700000/year) of research grant have been offered for five years. “Mechanical Strain induced Nanoscopy to explore Black Phosphorus” in the field of Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics, China Post-Doctoral Fund, Government of China (No. 2015M571801) in 2015. The funding of 50000 RMB was received regarding the project based on Basic Research (Grade: 2)

Research Experience

FUNSOM, Soochow University, Suzhou, China-Post-doctoral Researcher  Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene and two-dimensional materials  Transition metal dichalcogenide based photodevices  Mechanical straining of black phosphorus Istituto dei Materiali per l' Elettronica ed il Magnetismo (IMEM-CNR) , Parma, Italy -ICTP-TRIL Fellow- Guest Researcher  Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth  Studies of SiC and SiC-SiO2 core-shell nanowires  Applications of nanostructures towards Nanomedicines IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy -ICTP-TRIL Fellow-PhD Exchange  Atomic layer deposition (ALD) growth  Synthesis and studies of metal oxide thin films  Vapor Phase growth of SiC nanowires  Combining nanostructures with oxide coating by ALD  Applications in memristive devices IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy- ICTP-TRIL Fellow-PhD Exchange  Growth by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE)  Structural and morphological studies of Ge, GaAs, InGaP on different substrates for photovoltaic and thermo-photovoltaic applications  Mechanical studies of the grown films by nanoindentation University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy-Indo-Italian Young Research Fellow – Ph.D Exchange  Low energy plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (LEPECVD) technique  Bent or curved crystals obtained for gamma-ray focusing applications  Mechanical studies of the grown Ge/Si by nanoindentation Anna University, Chennai, India-Research Scholar-National Doctoral Fellow  Growth of epitaxial films by different techniques  Special emphasis on developing the fundamental understanding and knowledge of mechanical properties  Characterized using Nanoindentation, HRXRD, AFM and HRTEM

Significant publications

 Emerging trends in making way for phosphorene fabrication towards next generation devices, Sathish Chander Dhanabalan, Joice Sophia Ponraj, Zhinan Guo, Qiaoliang Bao and Han Zhang, Advanced Science, Accepted in Press, (2017) Impact factor: 6.0  Evaluation of nanoindentation and nanoscratch characteristics of GaN/InGaN epilayers, D. Geetha, P. Joice Sophia, R. Radhika and D. Arivuoli, Materials Science and Engineering A, 683, 64-69 (2017) Impact factor: 2.647  Present Perspectives of Broadband Photo-detectors based on nanobelts, nanoribbons, nanosheets and the emerging 2D materials, Sathish Chander Dhanabalan, Joice Sophia Ponraj, Qiaoliang Bao and Han Zhang, Nanoscale, 8, 6410-6434 (2016) Impact Factor: 7.394  Zhiteng Wang, Yanhua Xu, Sathish Chander Dhanabalan, Joice Sophia, Chujun Zhao, Changwen Xu, Yuanjiang Xiang, Jianqing Li and Han Zhang, “Black phosphorus quantum dots as an effcient saturable absorber for bound soliton operation in an erbium doped fiber laser”, IEEE Photonics Journal, 8 (5), (2016) Impact factor: 2.32  Scalable Production of Few-Layer MoS2/WS2 Vertical Heterojunction Array and Its Application for Photodetectors, Yunzhou Xue, Yupeng Zhang, Yan Liu, Hongtao Liu, Jingchao Song, Joice Sophia, Jingying Liu, Zai-quan Xu, Qingyang Xu, Ziyu Wang, Jialu Zheng, Yunqi Liu, Shaojuan Li, and Qiaoliang Bao, ACS Nano, 10, 573-580 (2016) Impact Factor: 13.334  Photonics and Optoelectronics of Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene, Joice Sophia Ponraj, Zai-Quan Xu, Sathish Chander Dhanabalan, Haoran Mu, Yusheng Wang, Jian Yuan, Pengfei Li, Siddharatha Thakur, Mursal Ashrafi, Kenneth Mccoubrey, Yupeng Zhang, Shaojuan Li, Han Zhang & Qiaoliang Bao (2016), Nanotechnology, 27(46) 462001 (2016) Impact Factor: 3.573  Synthesis and Transfer of Large-Area Monolayer WS2 Crystals: Toward the Recyclable Use of Sapphire Substrates, Zaiquan Xu, Yupeng Zhang, Shenghuang Lin, Changxi Zheng, Yuling Zhong, Xue Xia, Zhipeng Li, Joice Sophia P, Michael S. Fuhrer and Qiaoliang Bao, ACS Nano, 9 (6), 6178–6187 (2015) Impact Factor: 13.334  SiC Nanostructures Towards Biomedical Applications and its Future Challenges, P. Joice Sophia, D. Sathish Chander, G. Attolini and G. Salviati, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Material Sciences, 1-17 (2016) Impact Factor: 5.556  Influence of doping on the nanomechanical behavior of InGaP/Ge thin films, P. Joice Sophia, D. Geetha, M. Bosi, G. Attolini, E. Buffagni and C. Ferrari, Materials Letters, 171, 95-99 (2016) Impact factor: 2.437  MOVPE growth and characterization of heteroepitaxial germanium on silicon using iBuGe as precursor, G. Attolini, J. S. Ponraj, C. Frigeri, E. Buffagni, C. Ferrari, T. Asar, N. Musayeva, R. Jabbarov and M. Bosi, Applied Surface Science, 360, 157-163, (2016) Impact Factor: 3.150

Professional Activities

Editorial Board

Journal of Materials Science Research

Reviewer

Nanotechnology, Materials Technology Communications, Micro Nano Letters, IEEE Magnetics Letters, Current Organic Chemistry, Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, Crystal Research and Technology

Membership

European COST Action: MP1402 HERALD Hooking together European research in Atomic Layer Deposition

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