Pradyumna Prabhumirashi
Department of Materials Science
Northwestern University
2220 Campus Dr., Cook Hall
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847.491.7798
Fax: 847.491.7820
Email: p-prabhumirashi@northwestern.edu
Educational/Background
Welcome to the world of atomic scale studies of materials! I'm a
fifth year graduate student (as of fall 2003) in Prof. Dravid's
group, and am in the business of investigating materials phenomena
at sizes a billion-fold smaller than we are. Prior to joining this
group, I earned my bachelor’s degree (1998) in Metallurgical Engineering
and Materials Science from Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay. I originally am from Pune,
a city knows as one of the eminent centers for education in India.
Research/Education Interests
I'm intrigued with the small scale and the methods used to study
such a level. My research interests include the use of diverse analytical
techniques to observe nanoscale phenomena in materials:
· Particularly advanced transmission
electron microscopic techniques such as EELS, STEM, Electron
holography, EDX, Diffraction, Energy filtered imaging
· Scanning probe techniques
such as AFM, NSOM, Scanning Impedance Microscopy
· SIMS
I love teaching and have been blessed with lots of teaching experience
here at Northwestern. Until this year, I was actively involved in
teaching lab sections of basic as well as advanced electron microscopy
courses. During this year I have realized that teaching is something
I cannot stay away from. So, some day, I hope to be a university
professor!
Research Projects:
For a brief summary (and recent results) of each project, please click
on the link. In past couple of years I have been working on 3 different
research projects (1 funded by the US-DOE and the other two funded
by NSF-MRSEC at Northwestern). My recent collaborations are with Prof.
Wessels group (Ferroelectric domain dynamics in BTO) and with Prof.
Barnett (Electron holography of modulation doped ZnO multilayer films).
In past I have collaborated with Prof. Ramesh at University of Maryland
(Growth of STO thin films by pulsed laser deposition), Dr. Steve Pennycook
and Dr. Bernhard Frost at ORNL (High resolution electron microscopy
and electron holography).
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