Research

Abstract of Talk:

The main aim of the talk is to impart knowledge on the scope and potential of Photonics and its Technology with main focus on Integrated Photonic Devices. The purpose is to explain about the scenario for research by evaluating the different components and its applications by exploring the potentiality of them.

About the speaker

Dr. Joice Sophia Ponraj obtained her Master of Science in Physics from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India in 2006 and Master of Philosophy in Physics from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2007. In 2014, she was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy in Epitaxial Growth of Germanium, Gallium Arsenide, Indium Gallium Phosphide and their Nanomechanical Studies from Anna University, Chennai, India. She was bestowed “Italian- Indian Bilateral Programme for Young Indian Researchers” hosted by University of Ferrara, Italy and National Doctoral Fellowship by the All India Council of Technical Education, India during her PhD. She was awarded prestigious Training and Research in Italian Laboratories fellowship three times by International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste to work in Istituto dei Materiali per l'Elettronica ed il Magnetismo-CNR, Parma, Italy as a visiting researcher during 2011 to 2014. Joice joined Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials, Suzhou University, China in 2014 for her postdoctoral research and also awarded the individual Chinese Post-doctoral Funding. She worked as Assistant Professor in University of Information Science and Technology, St. Paul The Apostile, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. She returned back to India as she bagged the prestigious INSPIRE Faculty Award for young researcher of India with fellowship award and individual project funding to start as an independent researcher in Department of Nanoscience and Technogy, Bharathiar University. She is working as DST INSPIRE Faculty Awardee from 2016 in the field of advanced photonic materials and devices. During the course, she received the highly competitive SERB Extramural Project Funding to work in wearable sensing devices. She is the Director and Research Professor of Centre for Advanced Materials, Aaivalyam-DIRAC, Coimbatore. Presently, she is working as Researcher in Integrated Photonics Group of Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Her research interests are High Speed Integrated Photonic Components, Mach Zehnder Modulators, synthesis and studies of 2D materials and semiconducting nanostructures; micro/nano fabrication of nanodevices; nanostructures and 2D materials based sensors, sensing system and renewable energy storage and hybrid/coated graphene fibre based wearable electronics and optoelectronics. She has to her credit more than 30 refereed publications and two book chapters in the area of semiconducting thin films and two- dimensional materials that includes several high impact publications including Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Advanced Optical Materials and Nanoscale. As a part of her Inspire Faculty Award, she is in INL as Research Fellow at Department of Micro and Nanofabrication associated with the Microfabrication and Exploratory Nanotechnology (MeN) group. Her research project at INL is aimed at the realization of miniaturized gas sensors from two-dimensional nanosheets and to understand their hybrid devices. Designation: Researcher, Integrated Photonics Group, Department of Photonics, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Director & Research Professor, Centre for Advanced Materials, Aaivalayam-DIRAC, Coimbatore 641046, India