Title Prof. First Name Agnikumar Last Name Vedeshwar
Designation Senior Professor
Department Department of Physics and Astrophysics
Email agni@physics.du.ac.in
Webpage
Phone.no 9871301945
Employement Info
Employee Type Nature Of Employment
Teaching Retired
Educational Qualifications
Degree/Certification Name Institution Year of Completion
Ph.D. - Ph D Karnatak University, Dharwad 1988
PG Karnatak University, Dharwad 1983
UG Karnatak University, Dharwad 1981
SSC Karnataka SSLC Board 1976
Fellowship Details
Name Of Fellowship Awarding Body Fellowship Level
National Superconductivity Fellow Dept of Science & Technology National
National Merit Scholarship Govt. of Karnataka National
Junior/Senior Research Fellowship University Grants Commission National
Teaching Experience (Within Institution)
Designation Duration
Research Associate (National Superconductivity Fellow) 06-10-1988 To 31-08-1990 (1 years, 10 months, 25 days)
Research Associate (National Superconductivity Fellow) 08-10-1990 To 30-04-1993 (2 years, 6 months, 22 days)
Lecturer 03-06-1993 To 26-07-1998 (5 years, 1 months, 23 days)
Senior Lecturer 27-07-1998 To 02-05-2002 (3 years, 9 months, 5 days)
Reader 03-05-2002 To 30-06-2006 (4 years, 1 months, 27 days)
Associate Professor 01-07-2006 To 16-12-2009 (3 years, 5 months, 15 days)
Professor 17-12-2009 To 16-12-2019 (9 years, 11 months, 29 days)
Senior Professor 17-12-2019 To 31-12-2022 (3 years, 14 days)
Administrative Experience (Within Institution)
Designation Duration
VC Nominee for the DRC of Chemistry Department 26-10-2016 To 25-10-2018 (1 years, 11 months, 29 days)
Chairman, Governing Body 31-01-2017 To 27-09-2017 (7 months, 27 days)
Head of the Inspection committee 01-01-2017 To 01-01-2019 (2 years)
Member of Senate 10-07-2019 To 10-07-2022 (3 years)
Coordinator, Steering Committee for the Undergraduate Course revision 15-04-2019 To 31-05-2019 (1 months, 16 days)
Research Supervision Overview
PhD Scholars Supervised PhD Degrees Awarded Theses Submitted
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Research Publications
Title of Article Type of Publication Name of Journal ISSN Journal Volume Year Link to Article DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Coherence-mediated squeezing of a cavity field coupled to a coherently driven single quantum dot Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Physical Review A 105 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.033710
Cavity-assisted enhanced and dephasing-immune squeezing in the resonance fluorescence of a single quantum dot Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Physical Review A 102 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.043715
Generation of frequency-tunable squeezed single photons from a single quantum dot Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Journal of the Optical Society of America B 35 doi:10.1364/JOSAB.35.003055
Mapping the conduction band edge density of states of γ-In2Se3 by diffuse reflectance Spectra Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Appl. Phys 123 doi: 10.1063/1.5019809
Phonon-assisted control of the single-photon spectral characteristics in a semiconductor quantum dot using a single laser pulse Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Physical Review A 96 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033808
Crystalline to amorphous phase transformation of Ta2O5 quantum dots driven by residual stress Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Journal of Alloys and Compounds 657 doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.09.220
Pressure dependence of electronic properties of BaI2 Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals AIP Conf. Proc. 1675 doi: 10.1063/1.4929171
Optical properties of scintillator material BaBr2 films Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Materials Letters 157 doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2015.06.007
DFT calculations of structural, electronic, optical and elastic properties of scintillators materials BaCl2 and BaBr2 Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys 48 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/48/10/105301
Residual stress induced crystalline to amorphous phase transformation in Nb2O5 quantum dots Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Appl. Phys 116 doi: 10.1063/1.4890339
Structural and Optical Properties of Sb2S3 Nanocrystals in Glass Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals AIP Conf. Proc. 1591 doi: 10.1063/1.4872590
Growth of Nb2O5 quantum dots by physical vapor deposition Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Materials Letters 126 doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2014.03.107
Optical absorption, photoluminescence and structural analysis of CdS quantum dots in weak confinement Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Physica Scripta 89 doi:10.1088/0031-8949/89/02/025701
Residual stress dependant anisotropic band gap of various (hkl) oriented BaI2 films Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Appl. Phys 114 doi: 10.1063/1.4832437
Growth and characterization of PbI2 thin films by vacuum thermal evaporation Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Journal of Nano Research 24 doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.24.1
Sb2S3 quantum dots: diffusion-controlled growth and characterization Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Phys. Status Solidi RRL 7 DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201308082
Glass viscosity dependent growth of CdS nanocrystals in silicate glass matrix Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals AIP Conf. Proc. 1536 doi:10.1063/1.4810098
The role of glass-viscosity on the growth of semiconductor quantum dots in glass matrices Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Appl. Phys 111 doi.org/10.1063/1.4714357
Correlation of optical energy gap with the nearest neighbor short range order in amorphous V2O5 films Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys 44 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/44/21/215404
Dependence of optical band gap on residual stress in group IIB iodide (ZnI2, CdI2, HgI2) films Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Integrated Ferroelectrics 122 DOI: 10.1080/10584587.2010.492287
Growth of nanostructured amorphous InSb by vacuum thermal evaporation Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Integrated Ferroelectrics 122 DOI: 10.1080/10584587.2010.504414
Quantum confinement in amorphous InSb Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Scripta Materialia 63 doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2010.03.029
Formation of 1D-nanowires and 2D nanophases in heteroepitaxy of Sb on high index Si(5 5 12) surface Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Nano Sci. & Nano Technol. 7 doi:10.166/jnn.2007.727
Optical properties of PbI2 films: Quantum confinement and residual stress effect Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Physical Review B 75 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045409
Excitonic absorption in ZnI2 films Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Appl. Phys 100 DOI: 10.1063/1.2362784
Quantum Dot like behavior of ultra thin PbI2 Films Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Acta Materialia 54 doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2006.04.021
Optical properties of InI3: Density functional theory calculations and experimental results Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Solid State Communications 358 doi.org/10.1016/j.ssc.2022.115014
First principle calculation of structural, electronic, optical, elastic and thermodynamic properties of group IIA metal iodides: Structure-property correlation Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals J. Physics and Chemistry of Solids 175 doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2022.111195
Anisotropic excitonic absorption in SbI3 films: Theory and experiment Research Papers in Scopus Listed Journals Materials Letters 343 doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2023.134359
Non-Journal Publications
Title of Publication Type of Publication Publisher Role ISBN Year Link to Publication Level
Synthesis of Semiconductor Quantum Dots by Physical Vapor Deposition Chapters in Books Nova Science Publishers, New York Author 978-1-62948-232-3 International
Residual Stress in Thin Films Chapters in Books CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, New York Author 13-978--1-4200-4372-3 International
Optical Storage Films, Chalcogenide Compound Films Chapters in Books John Wiley & Sons, New York Author 0-471-17780-6 International
Microwave Measurements of Granular Superconductors Chapters in Books Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York Author 1-56072-360-2 International
Research Projects
Project Title Project Type Year Of Sanction Outcome/Output Duration
Theoretical & Experimental study of Transport Barrier Formation by RF Waves Major 2008 Detailed report submitted to DST 14-11-2008 To 14-11-2011 (3 years)
Optical Properties of Layer structured Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Photonic Materials Minor 2009 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2009 To 28-02-2010 (11 months, 27 days)
Optical Properties of III-V and Layered Structutred Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Photonic Materials Minor 2010 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2010 To 28-02-2011 (11 months, 27 days)
Optical Properties of III-V and Layered Structutred Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Photonic Materials Minor 2011 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2011 To 28-02-2012 (11 months, 27 days)
Optical Properties of III-V and Layered Structutred Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Electronic Structure Calculations Major 2012 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2012 To 28-02-2013 (11 months, 27 days)
Growth, characterization, studying optical properties and electronic structure calculations of Quantum Dots of III-V semiconductors, Metal oxides and Layered Structured Semiconductors Minor 2013 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2013 To 28-02-2014 (11 months, 27 days)
Growth, characterization, studying optical properties and electronic structure calculations of Quantum Dots of III-V semiconductors, Metal oxides, Layered Structured Semiconductors and scintillators materials Minor 2014 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2014 To 28-02-2015 (11 months, 27 days)
Exploration of Smart Materials: Growth, characterization, optical properties and electronic structure calculations of Quantum Dots, Layered Structured Semiconductors and superconductors Minor 2015 Report submitted to DU 01-03-2015 To 29-02-2016 (11 months, 28 days)
Honors and Awards
Name of the Award Awarding Body Award Category Level Award Date
UGC Research Award UGC Research National 21-04-1999
First Prize for the paper presented at MRSI Annual Meeting, 1-3 Feb., 2001, Kolkata Materials Research Society Of India Research National 03-02-2001
Talk Poster Presented
Name of the Activity Role Date of Activity
Role of Electron Microscopy in Materials Research Invited Talk 26-11-2007
Residual stress and its effect on optical properties in thin films Invited Talk 24-10-2008
Investigations of Nucleation and Growth in thin films by Electron Microscopy Invited Talk 17-01-2009
Optical properties of Semiconductor films under stress Invited Talk 13-12-2009
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