Post Docs

Education
• PhD Physics (2017) ,Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India.
• M.Sc. Physics (2008-2010), Utkal University, Vanivihar Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
• B.Sc. (Physics) honors (2005 – 2008) , Utkal University, Vanivihar Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Experience
• Postdoctoral research associate at Center for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE) IISC Bangalore with Prof. Shankar Kumar Selvaraja, October 2020-Present
• Postdoctoral research associate at Rochester Institute of Technology, United States, February 2020 – May 2020.
• Postdoctoral research associate at University of Pittsburgh, United States with Prof. Sanford Asher, in Asher Research Group, May 2018 – February 2020.
• Research Associate at IIT Delhi, India, with Prof. Joby Joseph in the Photonics Research Lab, January 2018 – April 2018.
• Project associate at IIT Kanpur, India, with Prof. R. Vijaya (aftersubmitting PhD thesis), May 2017 – November 2017.

Research Area
Photonics

Publications
• Dipak Rout*, Ivan G. Pallares*, Thomas Deering, Kyle Hufziger, Sergei Bykov, Sanford A. Asher, “Colloidal self-assembly of highly-ordered silica inverse opals for deep ultraviolet diffraction,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater. Vol. 3, 4135-4146 (2020). * equal contribution

• Dipak Rout*, Govind Kumar*, and R Vijaya, “Interplay of dual photonic stopband in fluorescence enhancement from dye-doped photonic crystal hetero-structures,” J. nanophoton. Vol. 13, 046005 (2019). (* equal contribution)

• Sravya Rao, Rahul Shaw, Dipak Rout, Govind Kumar, R. Vijaya, Shilpi Gupta, “Diffraction imaging of cracks in self-assembled photonic crystals” Optical Materials Vol. 91, 189-194 (2019).

• Dipak Rout, Govind Kumar and R. Vijaya, “Amplified emission and modified spectral features in an opal hetero-structure mediated by passive defect mode localization,” J. Phys. D Appl. Phys., Vol. 51, 015112 (2018).

• Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya, “Role of stopband and localized surface plasmon resonance in raman scattering from metallo-dielectric photonic crystals,” Plasmonics, Vol. 12, 1409-1416 (2017).

• Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya, “Localized surface plasmon-influenced fluorescence decay in dye-doped metallo-dielectric opals,” J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 119, 023108 -1-5 (2016).

• Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya, “Plasmonic resonance-induced effects on stopband and emission characteristics of dye-doped opals,” Plasmonics, Vol. 10, 713-719 (2015).

Conference and Seminars
• Metamaterials and Photonic Nanostructures – MPNS 2013, IIT Kanpur, “Angle dependent Goos-Hanchen shift from glass-Ag interface,” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Poster presentation)

• International Conference on Optics & Optoelectronics – ICOL 2014, IRDE Dehradun, “Optical properties of silver coated polymeric opals,” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Oral presentation)

• The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics – PHOTONICS 2014, IIT Kharagpur, “Gold Assisted Plasmonic Resonance in Polymeric Opals,” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Poster presentation)

• Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics – WRAP 2015, IISc Bangalore, “Raman scattering from metallo-dielectric opals influenced by surface plasmons and stopband features,” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Poster presentation)

• 3rd Annual International Conference in Optoelectronics Photonics and Applied Physics – OPAP 2016, Singapore, “Effect of localized surface plasmon on fluorescence lifetime in dye doped metallo-dielectric opals,” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Selected for oral presentation but could not present)

• The 9th International Conference on Nanophotonics – ICNP 2016, Taiwan, “Localized Surface Plasmon Effect on Fluorescence Lifetime in Photonic Crystals,” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Poster presentation)

• The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics – PHOTONICS 2016, IIT Kanpur, “Dye emission in an opal hetero-structure mediated by plasmonic absorption and defect mode localization” Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Poster presentation)

• The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics – PHOTONICS 2016, IIT Kanpur, “Optical study of defects in self-assembled three-dimensional photonic crystals” Rahul Shaw, Dipak Rout, R. Vijaya and Shilpi Gupta. (Poster presentation)

• Advanced Photonic Congress-2017, Louisiana, New Orleans, USA “Enhancement and spectral narrowing of emission from photonic crystal hetero-structure mediated by band edge modes,” Govind Kumar, Dipak Rout and R. Vijaya. (Oral presentation)

• UV and High Energy Photonics: From Materials to Application 2019, San Diego, California, USA “Deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopy for stand-off detection,” Sergei V Bykov, Kyle T Hufziger, Ryan D Roppel, Dipak Rout, Ivan G Pallares, Ryan S Jakubek, Sanford A Asher.

• Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2019 Washington DC, USA “Diffraction imaging of self- assembled photonic crystals” Sravya Rao, Rahul Shaw, Dipak Rout, Govind Kumar, R Vijaya, Shilpi Gupta