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Bindu Krishnan




Dr. Bindu Krishnan
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Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Thiruvananthapuram - 695 022
Phone:0471 2563466 (Off)
0487 2335603 (Res)
Fax:0471 2564806
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 Dr. Bindu Krishnan  


Education:
  • Ph.D. (CUSAT, Cochin)
  • M.Tech. (CUSAT, Cochin)
  • M.Sc. (CUSAT, Cochin)


    Area of Research:
    Photonics, Nonlinear optics, Interaction of laser with nano systems, Applied optics.


    Courses offered:
    Undergraduate: Physics I & II


    Experience:
    • Project fellow at Dept of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of science, Bangalore on the development of Integrated Optical Chip for gyroscopes as part of a defense project.
    • M.Tech. project on Fiber Optic temperature sensor carried out in Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
    • Senior Scientific Asst. Jan 2001-Sept 2007 At Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) Under Ministry of Information Technology, Govt. of India, Thrissur Kerala – 680771.

    Research work:
    Photonics, Nonlinear optics, Interaction of laser with nano systems, random lasers, nanocomposites, electroceramics, tape casting of ceramics.


    Selected Publications:
    1. Bindu Krishnan, A Deepthy, Litty Irimpan, V J Dann and V P N Nampoori; “Back scattering from nano-sized ZnO colloids” Physica E, 35, 23-26 (2006)
    2. Bindu Krishnan and V. P. N Nampoori, “Line narrowing effects and enhanced back scattering from ZnO colloids”, J.Material Science, vol. 41, p.2387-2391, (2006).
    3. Bindu Krishnan, K.Sasidharan and Raghu Natarajan,”Aqueous tape casting route for microwave substrates”, Ferroelectrics, 327,p.3-9, (2005).
    4. Bindu Krishnan and Raghu Natarajan ,”Dispersion and tape casting of Silicon Carbide through aqueous route”, Journal of Materials Science, 40, p.5511-5516, (2005).
    5. Bindu Krishnan, Litty Irimpan, V. P. N. Nampoor, V. Kumar “Synthesis and nonlinear optical studies of nano ZnO colloids”, Physica E,(in press).
    6. Bindu Krishnan, N.P.Prasanth, Justin.M.Varghese, K. Prasad, A.Seema, K.R.Dayas “Tape casting of Nickel manganite NTC ceramics for chip Thermistors”, Journal of Material Science, (in press).
    7. Bindu Krishnan, N.P.Prasanth, Syed Ibrahim, K.R.Dayas, Effect of process variables on the dispersion and tape casting of Nickel manganite based thermal sensors, Advances in applied Ceramics:Structural,Functional and Bioceramics, (in press).
    8. Litty Irimpan, A Deepthy, Bindu Krishnan, V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan, ‘Size dependent fluorescence spectroscopy of nanocolloids of ZnO’, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 063524 (2007)
    9. Litty Irimpan, Bindu Krishnan, A Deepthy, V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan; ‘Excitation wavelength dependent fluorescence behaviour of nano colloids of ZnO’ J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40, 5670 (2007)
    10. Annieta Philip K, Lyjo K. Joseph, Litty M. Irimpan, Bindu Krishnan, P. Radhakrishnan, V. P. N. Nampoori and Raghu Natarajan “Thermal Characterization of Ceramic Tapes using Photoacoustic Effect” Physica Status Solidi (a), 204 (3), 737 (2007).
    11. Jisha.A, Bindu Krishnan, Rani Panicker and Raghu Natarajan,” Dispersion, rheology and aqueous tape casting of Alumina-Zirconia composites”, Advances in Applied ceramics.
    12. Raghu Natarajan, Seema Ansari, Dhanya Krishnan, Bindu Krishnan, Sasidharan Kunnambath, Unnikrishnan Gopinath, “A re-look at critical factors influencing single-phase formation of Ba2Ti9O20 microwave dielectrics”, Bulletin of Material Science, (In print).
    13. Raghu Natarajan, Seema Ansari, Dhanya Krishnan, Bindu Krishnan, Sasidharan Kunnambath, Unnikrishnan Gopinath, “Synthesis of polytitanates by carbonate-gel precipitation route” Material Research Bulletin, Vol.40, p.1408-14, (2005).
    14. Litty Irimpan, A Deepthy, Bindu Krishnan, L M Kukreja, V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan; “Effect of self assembly on the nonlinear optical characteristics of ZnO thin films” Optics Communications (in press).
    15. Litty Irimpan, A Deepthy, Bindu Krishnan, V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan; “Nonlinear optical characteristics of self assembled films of ZnO” Appl. Phys. B (in press).
    16. Litty Irimpan, Bindu Krishnan, A Deepthy, V P N Nampoori and P Radhakrishnan; “Size dependent enhancement of nonlinear optical properties in nano colloids of ZnO” Journal of applied physics (in press).
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