Rana Biswas
Title(s):
Adjunct Professor and Scientist IV
Office
244 Applied Sci. 11925 Scholl Rd.
Ames, IA 500113055
Office
A506 Zaffarano Hall (Physics Addition) # Ames, IA 50011-3160 # Phone: 515-294-6987
Information
AT&T Bell Laboratories; Murray Hill, NJ; Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, 1984-86
Education
Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University (1984)
M.S., Physics, Cornell University (1982)
M.S., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1978)
Research Areas
Core Area(s): Photovoltaic materials, solar cells, photonic crystals and devices, sensors, computational electromagnetics, semiconductors and nanoscale materials
Department’s Strategic Area(s): Materials, devices & circuits; energy infrastructure
Lifetime Fellow, American Physical Society
Senior Member, IEEE
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Member Editorial Board, Journal of Materials Science; Materials in Electronics (Springer)
Member International Program Committee, International Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors
Publications
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q3wSob8AAAAJ&hl=en
- Rick W. Dorn, Bradley J. Ryan, Sujeewa N. S. Lamahewage, Mark V. Dodson, Jeremy B. Essner, Rana Biswas, Mathew G. Panthani, Aaron J. Rossini, Chlorination of Hydrogenated Silicon Nanosheets Revealed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, Chemistry of Materials 35, 2, 539–548 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02980
- Erik Dykstra, Michael Fralaide, Yu Zhang, Rana Biswas, W. Dennis Slafer, Joseph Shinar, Ruth Shinar, OLEDs on Planarized Light Outcoupling-Enhancing Structures in Plastic, Organic Electronics 111, 106648 (2022) DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2022.106648. IF=3.86
- Myung Gi Ji, Mohammed Bazroun, In Ho Cho, W. D, Slafer, Rana Biswas, Jaeyoun Kim, Mechano-triboelectric Analysis of Surface Charge generation on Replica-molded Elastomeric Nanodomes. Micromachines 12, 1460 (2021). DOI: 10.3390/mi12121460 IF = 2.89
- Yu Zhang, Rana Biswas, High light outcoupling efficiency from periodically corrugated OLEDs. ACS Omega 6, 13, 9291–9301 (2021).IF=2.89
- Yu Zhang, Rana Biswas, Ruth Shinar, Joseph Shinar, Simulation of enhanced light extraction from periodic, disordered and quasi-periodic OLED structures, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 38 (9) pp. C144-C152 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.430593 IF=2.18
- I-.H. Cho, Q. Li, R. Biswas, J. Kim, A Framework for Putting Scientists’ Eyes on Glass-Box Physics Rule Learner and Its Application to Nano-Scale Phenomena, Nature Communications Physics 3, 78 (2020). IF=12.12
- Frédéric A. Perras, Sooyeon Hwang, Yixian Wang, Pengcheng Liu, Rana Biswas, Sudhan Nagarajan, Viet Hung Pham, J. Anibal Boscoboinik, Dong Su, Jagjit Nanda, Marek Pruski, and David Mitlin, Site-Specific Sodiation Mechanisms of Selenium in Microporous Carbon Host, Nano Lett. 20, 2, 918–928, (2020) IF=12.7
- Qiang Li, I. Cho, Rana Biswas, Jaeyoun Kim, “Nanoscale Modulation of Friction and Triboelectrification via Surface Nanotexturing”, ACS Nanoletters 19, 2, 850-856 (2019). (IF=12.7) DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04038
- Choudhury, R. Biswas, B.C. Pan, D. Paudyal, Defects in SiC for quantum computing, MRS Advances, Volume 4, Issue 40 (Quantum and Nanomaterials) 2019 , pp. 2217-2222. 15 July 2019 (online), (2019). doi:10.1557/adv.2019.301
- Hosein Monshat, Longju Liu, John McClelland, Rana Biswas, Meng Lu, Infrared emission of a freestanding plasmonic membrane, Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 031104 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5017194