Alumni

Current Position
Academia Sinica Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Experience
• Researcher, New Industry Creation Hatchery Centre, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (May 2017-Sep 2017).
• NEDO postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, (Oct 2016 – Apr 2017).

Theses Title (Year)
Engineering the properties of elemental 2D materials using first-principles calculations, (2016).

Research Area
Devices on 2D Materials

Publications
• Aaditya Manjanath*, Ahin Roy*, Atanu Samanta, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Negative differential resistance in armchair silicene nanoribbons”, Nanotechnology, Just accepted, May 2017 *Equal contribution.

• Ryoji Sakurada et al., Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “First-Principles Study of the Effect of Trace Impurity on Initial Water Adsorption onto Belite”, J. Civil Engg Arch. Res. 3, 12, 1826-1832, December 2016.

• Arun Nissimagoudar, Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Diffusive nature of thermal transport in stanene”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 21, 14257-14263, April 2016.

• Babu Ram, Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Simultaneous tunability of electronic and phononic gaps in SnS2 under normal compressive strain”, 2D Mater. 3, 1, 015009:1-9, February 2016.

• Rahul Hardikar, Atanu Samanta, Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Vacancy mediated clipping of multi-layered graphene: A precursor for 1, 2, and 3D carbon structures”, Carbon 94, 67-72, June 2015.

• Aaditya Manjanath*, Atanu Samanta*, Tribhuwan Pandey*, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Semiconductor to metal transition in bilayer phosphorene under normal compressive strain”, Nanotechnology 26, 7, 075701:1-8, January 2015 *Equal contribution.

• Babu Ram Sharma*, Aaditya Manjanath*, and Abhishek K. Singh, “pentahexoctite: A new two-dimensional allotrope of carbon”, Sci. Rep. 4, 7164, 1-6, November 2014 *Equal contribution.

• Aaditya Manjanath, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Low formation energy and kinetic barrier of Stone-Wales defect in finite and infinite silicene”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 592, 52-55, December 2013.

• Aaditya Manjanath, Vijay Kumar, and Abhishek K. Singh, “Mechanical and electronic properties of pristine and Ni-doped Si, Ge, and Sn sheets”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 4, 1667-1671, November 2013.