Short Biographical Data
Dr. R. K. Pandey
( rpandey@bama.ua.edu; www.emdtech.eng.ua.edu)
EDUCATION:
D.Sc, Physics, University of Cologne, Germany, 1967;
M.Sc, Physics, Patna University, India, 1959;
B.Sc, Honors in Physics, Bihar University, India, 1957.
EXPERIENCE:
Academic= 30 years; Administrative and Industry = 12 years
Most Recent Positions:
Cudworth Professor of Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL,
November, 2002- Present.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, September 1999 – Present.
Member, Tricampus Materials Science Ph.D. Program, University of Alabama System; and Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Huntsville, March 2000 – Present.
Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, September 1997 – August 1999.
Director (founding), NSF/IUCRC Center for Electronic Materials, Devices & Systems (CEMDAS), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 1995 – August 1997.
Director (founding), Center for Electronic Materials: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, January 1990 – April 1995.
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 1982 – August 1997.
FIELD OF SPECIALTY AND TECHNICAL INTERESTS
Growth of Bulk Single Crystal and Thin Film of Electronic Materials; Electrical, Magnetic and
Dielectric Characterization.; Fabrication and Performance Evaluation of Integrated Structured Devices, Detectors and Sensors; Spintronics, MEMS and Nano-technology.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Cudworth Professor of Engineering (2002), The University of Alabama; Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (1998); Outstanding
Research Award from the Commonwealth of Virginia for the “advancement of technology and its transfer through collaboration with
small- business company” (with American Research Corporation of Virginia, Radford, VA), (1998); Teacher/Scholar Award (1996), Texas
A&M University; Brockett Professor (1994), Texas A&M University; Who's Who in Science and Engineering, First Edition, (1991);
Halliburton Professor (1989), Texas A&M University; and Senior Member of the Inst. of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1982).
Organizer and Chair of "Integrated Thin Films of Electronic Materials and Applications Symposium", Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, 1997.
Organizer and Chair of "Current Issues on Crystal Growth of Novel Electronic Materials Symposium", Annual Meeting of American Ceramic Society, 1995.
Member, Organizing Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, 1994. Chairperson for Proceeding of IEEE/ISAF 94 Conference,1994.
Member, Organizing Committee, Eighth International Meeting on Ferroelectricity, Chairman of Student Participation, 1993.
Books & Book Chapters:
"Integrated Thin Films and Applications," Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 86, American Ceramic Society, 1998, Editors: R. K. Pandey, David E. Witter and Usha Varshney, (1998).
"Crystal Growth of Novel Electronic Materials," Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 60, American Ceramic Society, Editors: R.K. Pandey and Ruyan Guo, (1995).
Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF '94), Editors, R. K. Pandey, Michael Lu and Ahmad Safari, (1995).
"Single Crystal Growth of 123 YBCO and 2122-BCSCO Superconductors" by R. K. Pandey in Superconductivity and Application, Editor; Hois Kwok, Plenum Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 591-598, (1990).
"Growth and Applications of Ferroelectric Crystals" by R. K. Pandey in Recent Trends in Crystal Growth, Editor: P. Ramasamy, Published by COSTED (Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries), Madras, India, pp. 165-185, (1988).
Patents and Publications:
(Over 100 publications, 6 U.S. Patents, 3 Invention Disclosures (in preparation), and 15 major Research Reports)
U.S. Patent No.6,264,750 (July 2001) : “Method and System for Forming SbSI Thin Film,” Inventors: R. K. Pandey, K. K. Raina and N. Solayappan.
U.S. Patent No. 6,153,262 (November, 2000): "Method for Forming SbSI Thin Films" Inventors: R. K. Pandey, N. Solayappan and K. K. Raina.
U.S. Patent No. 5,407,906 (April 1995): "Epitaxial Layers of 2122 BCSCO Superconductor Thin Films Having Single Crystalline Structure"; Inventors: R. K. Pandey, K. K. Raina and N. Solayappan.
U.S. Patent No. 5,314,869 (May 1994): "Method for Forming Single Phase, Single Crystalline 2122 BCSCO Superconductor Thin Films By Liquid Phase Epitaxy"; Inventors: R. K. Pandey, K. K. Raina and N. Solayappan.
U. S. Patent No. 3,939,252 (February 1976): "Dilithium Heptamolybdotetragadolinate, Li2Gd4(MoO4)7"; Inventor: R. K. Pandey.
U. S. Patent No. 3,929,556 (December 1975): "Nucleating Growth of Lead-Tin-Telluride Single Crystal with an Oriented Barium Fluoride Substrate": Inventor: R. K. Pandey.
Most Recent Referred Publications:
Shyam Surthi, S. Kotru and R.K. Pandey and P. Fournier, “Double-peak resistivity transport properties of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 Ceramics,” Solid State Communications, 125(2), (2003), 107.
P. Padmini, M. Pulikkathara, R. Wilkins and R. K. Pandey, “Neutron radiation effects on the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics of ilmenite-hematite ceramics,” Applied Physics Letters, 82(4), (2003), 586.
Feng Zhou, Sushma Kotru and Raghvendra K. Pandey, “Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics of ilmenite–hematite ceramic” Materials Letters, 57, (2003), 2104
Shyam Surthi, Sushma Kotru and R.K. Pandey, “Preparation and electrical properties of ferroelectric SbSI films by pulsed laser deposition,”J. Materials Science Letters, 22,(2003), 591.
Shyam Surthi, Sushma Kotru and R. K. Pandey, “SbSI films for ferroelectric memory applications,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, 48(1), (2002), 263.
Shyam Surthi, Sushma Kotru and R.K. Pandey: “ Low-voltage varistors based on La-Ca-Mn-O ceramics”, Materials Letters, 57 (4), (2002), 887.
Feng Zhou, Sushma Kotru and R.K. Pandey: “Pulsed laser-deposited ilmenite-hematite films for application in high temperature electronics”, Thin Solid Films, 408, (2002), 33.
B, I. Belevtsev, V.B. Krasovitsky, D.G. Naugle, K.D.D. Rathanayaka, A. Parasiris, S.R. Surthi, R.K. Pandey and M.A. Rom: “ Transport and magnetic anisotropy in CMR thin film La1-xCaxMnO3 (x = 1/3) induced by a film-substrate interaction”, phys.stat.sol (a), 188(3), (2001), 1187.