Introduction
Dr. K. Aravinth, Research Scientist in the SSN Research Centre has 5 years research experience in the field of Crystal Growth. He got his B.Sc and M.Sc. in Physics from Muthyammal College of Arts and Science, Rasipuram. He has finished his Ph.D. in the field of crystal growth in Anna University, Chennai. He has a wide experience on the synthesis and growth of organic, inorganic and semi-organic materialsand instrumentation for materials characterizations. He worked in a DST funded project as a Junior Research Fellow for 3 years and later he got Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in SSN Institutions for 2 years. He has published 50 papers in Refereed International Journals and presented 5 papers in the various National/International conferences. In August 2013, he presented his research papers in the 17th International Conference on Crystal Growth – ICCG 17 held at Warsaw, Poland. He is a life member of Indian Association for Crystal Growth. Currently he is working in the field of energy harvesting piezoelectric materials.
Material Sciences
- Best Teacher award from SSN College of Engineering for the years 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-2016, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-20 & 2020-21.
- IASc -INSA-NASI fellowship to work at X-ray Division, CSIR- NPL, New Delhi from 19-05-2017 to 17-07-2017 (2 months)
- Received best paper presentation award for the paper entitled “ENHANCEMENT OF THE GROWTH RATE AND CRYSTALLINE PERFECTION OF LITHIUM SULFATE MONOHYDRATE: AN EFFICIENT NEGATIVELY SOLUBLE PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTAL” in the International Workshop on Crystalline Materials and Applications during 03 – 05 January 2019 at Crystal growth Centre, Anna University, Chennai
- DST- Travel award to attend International conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT-2011- CGCT-5) which was held in Suntec City, Singapore during 26th June 2011 to 1st July 2011.
- CSIR- Travel award to attend International conference in Crystal Growth -16 (ICCG-16) which was held in Beijing, China during Aug 8-13, 2010.
- SRF award-2010- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.
- DST – JRF award (2007-2010) – Growth of Large size ADP and KDP single crystals by Sankaranarayanan-Ramasamy method.
- Best CRYSTAL presentation award in 14th Seminar on Crystal Growth, held at Department of Physics, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamilnadu, during 10-12 March 2010.
- Best ORAL paper presentation award in National Conference on emerging trends in Crystal Growth and Nanomaterials held at Department of Physics, Loyola College, Chennai – 600 034, During 28 and 29 February 2008.
- Best ORAL paper presentation award in National Seminar on Advances in Materials Science held at Department of Physics, ManonmaniamSundaranar University, Tirunelveli, during March 27 – 28, 2006.
- Growth of salt-inclusion chalcogenides and different- Composition chalcogenides single crystals and Raman spectroscopic studies on these crystals (DST-SERB) Rs 31 Lakhs (2023-26) (PI)
- Design and Development of 800 Kg multicrystalline silicon mc-Si directional solidification furnace and silicon machines for making commercial size mc-Si wafers (DST) Rs 12 Crore (2021-24) (co-PI)
- “Development of ultra-low thermal conductivity high performance thermoelectric TIBiSe2 and TIBiS2 Single crystals” SERB Rs. 23 Lakhs (2028-2021) (PI)