Dr. T. Arun Kumar

Papers Published

Journal Publications:

1. Ramesh Manda, Pagidi Srinivas, Surjya Sarathi Bhattacharyya, Hye Sun Yoo, Arun Kumar T, Young Jin Lim, and Seung Hee Lee “Ultrafast switching blue phase liquid crystals diffraction grating stabilized by chiral monomer”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51, 185103(2018) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aab83f 2. Chang Suk Lee, Tatipamula Arun Kumar‡, Jin Ho Kim, Joong Hee Lee, Jin Seog Gwag, Gi-Dong Lee and Seung Hee Lee, “Electrically switchable visible to infra-red dual frequency cholesteric liquid crystal light shutter”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 6, 4243-4249 (2018) ‡ Co-first author http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8TC00368H 3. Miri Gelbaor Kirzhner, Tatipamula Arun Kumar, Ashok Chaudhary, Matvey Klebanov, and I. Abdulhalim, “Polar Anchoring Energy Measurement of Photoaligned Nematic Liquid Crystal on Nanodimensional Chalcogenide Glass Films”, J. Mol. Liq. 267, 182-186 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2018.02.088 4. Lewis Sharpnack, Miri Kirzhner, Dena Agra-Kooijman, Ashok Chaudhary, T. Arun Kumar, Matvey Klebanov, Nina Sheremet, Yuri Reznicov, Ibrahim Abdulhalim, and Satyendra Kumar, “Liquid Crystal Photoalignment and Morphological Anisotropy of Nano-Dimensional Arsenic triSulfide Films”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst, 647, 307-319 (2017) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2017.1289619 5. N V Sheremet, L Sharpnack, M Gelbaor-Kirzhner, D M Agra-Kooijman, A Chaudhary, T A Kumar, M Klebanov, I Abdulhalim, S Kumar and Yu A Reznikov, “Liquid crystal photoalignment on As2S3 chalcogenide thin films”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50, 065306 (2017) doi:10.1088/1361-6463/50/6/065306 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/50/6/065306/meta 6. Solodar, T. Arun Kumar, G. Sarusi, and I. Abdulhalim,” Infrared to visible image up-conversion using optically addressed spatial light modulator utilizing liquid crystal and InGaAs photodiodes”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 021103 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4939903 7. T. Arun Kumar, M. A. Mohiddon, N. Dutta, Nirmal K. Viswanathan, and Surajit Dhara,” Detection of phase transitions from the study of whispering gallery mode resonance in liquid crystal droplets”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 051101 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4906615 (i) Cover page http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/106/5/section?pageSize=20&page=1 (ii) Best of the featured articles of 2015 8. Tsofnat Safrani, Tatipamula Arun Kumar, Matvey Klebanov, Neta Arad-Vosk, Rotem Beach, Amir Sa’ar, Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Gabby Sarusi and Yuval Golan,” Chemically deposited PbS thin film photoconducting layers for optically addressed spatial light modulators”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 9132 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4tc01571a 9. D. Venkata Sai, T. Arun Kumar, W. Haase, Arun Roy and Surajit Dhara, “Effect of smectic short-range order on the discontinuous anchoring transition in nematic liquid crystals”, J. Chem. Phys. 141, 044706 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4890532 10. T. Arun Kumar, K. V. Le, S. Aya, K. Fukuda, F. Araoka, K. Ishikawa, J. Watanabe, S. Dhara, and H. Takezoe, “Anchoring transition in a nematic liquid crystal doped with chiral agents”, Phase Trans. 85 888 (2012) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01411594.2012.692092 11. T. Arun Kumar, V. S. S. Sastry, K. Ishikawa, H. Takezoe, N. V. Madhusudana and S. Dhara, “Effect of Electric Field on Defects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal with Variable Surface Anchoring”, Liq. Cryst. 38, 971 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2011.587962 12. T. Arun Kumar, K. V. Le, J. K. Kim, H. Takezoe and S. Dhara, “Alignment of Unconventional Nematic Liquid Crystals”, Liq. Cryst. 38, 917 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2011.585522 13. T. Arun Kumar, H. Takezoe and S. Dhara, “Perfluoropolymer as Planar Alignment Layer for Liquid Crystal Mixtures”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 50 040203 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.50.040203 14. P. Sathyanarayana, T. Arun Kumar, V. S. S. Sastry, M. Mathews, Q. Li, H. Takezoe and S. Dhara, “Rotational Viscosity of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal”, Appl. Phys. Exp. 3, 091702 (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/APEX.3.091702 15. T. Arun Kumar, P. Sathyanarayana, V. S. S. Sastry, H. Takezoe, N. V. Madhusudana and S. Dhara, “Temperature and electric-field-induced inverse Freedericksz transition in a nematogen with weak surface anchoring”, Phys. Rev. E 82, 011701 (2010) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011701 16. S. Dhara, T. Arun Kumar, K. Ishikawa and H. Takezoe, “Thermotropic uniaxial nematic liquid crystal with ±1/2 strength disclinations: defect-antidefect production and correlation”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 505103 (2009) http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/21/50/505103

Subjects Taught

Engineering Physics

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