Dr. Anitharaj N
Dr. Anitharaj N
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Specialization:
  • Nanophotonics
Professional Summary
Dr. Anitharaj N began her career at GAT in March 2024. In 2017, she was selected to pursue dual doctoral degrees in Nanophotonics and Plasmonics at Shizuoka University, Japan, and SRM University, Chennai, respectively, under the prestigious Japanese government scholarship, MEXT. She has expertise in nanodevice theoretical modeling, simulation, nano fabrication, characterization, and optical measurement. Her current research interests include computational nanotechnology and its applications to nanosensors for advanced imaging techniques and optical biosensing. Dr. Anitharaj is committed to encouraging and training students in the field of nanophotonics and promoting global collaborations.
Academic Qualifications
  • Ph.D.: Nanophotonics: Shizuoka University, Japan
  • Plasmonics: SRM University, Chennai
  • M.Tech: Nanotechnology: PMU, Thanjavur
  • B.E.: Electronics and Communication Engineering: Anna University, Trichy
Research Interests
  • Silicon photodetectors, 2D Materials, Semiconductor Nanodevices, Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, Computational Electromagnetics (FDTD)
Publications
  • Optimization of electric field enhancement of Ag@ SiO2 trimer nanospheres by finite difference time domain method. Applied Surface Science
  • Angle-sensitive detector based on silicon-on-insulator photodiode stacked with surface plasmon antenna. Sensors
  • FDTD study on evolution of trimer silver@ silica nanospheres to dimer for SERS characteristics. Plasmonics
  • Angular selectivity of SOI photodiode with surface plasmon antenna. IEICE Electronics Express
Conference Papers
  • Engineering Trimer Ag@SiO2 Nanospheres Clusters for Double Resonance SERS Substrate on a Single Chip Using FDTD Method, Bengaluru India Nano, 2024, Poster Presentation
  • SERS Characteristics of Heptamer Core-Shell Nanocluster By FDTD Method, ICAM 2024
  • Nano-SOI Photodetectors for High Sensitivity and Unique Functionality, 2022 IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW)
  • Satoh, Hiroaki, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Revathi Manivannan, and Durgadevi Elamaran. "Silicon-On-Insulator Photodetectors: Opportunity and Challenge." Ilkogretim Online 20, no. 1 (2021). Link
  • Inokawa, Hiroshi, Hiroaki Satoh, Amit Banerjee, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Revathi Manivannan, Alka Singh, Tomoki Nishimura, and Koki Isogai. "Nanometer-scale photodetectors for high performance and unique functionality." Trends in Wireless Communication and Information Security: Proceedings of EWCIS 2020 (2021): 389-394. Link
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Pandian Chelliah, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa. "Impact of Geometry on Electric Field Enhancement in Hexamer Core-Shell Nanospheres", International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2021) (Chennai, India, Feb. 1-3, 2021).
  • Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Hiroaki Satoh, Hiroshi Inokawa, "Core-Shell Nanoantenna: Plasmon Induced Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering", The 7th International Symposium "ISFAR-SU 2021" (Hamamatsu, Japan, Mar. 5, 2021).
  • Nagarajan, Anitharaj, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa. "Polarization Dependence of Incident Angle Sensitivity in Soi Photodiode with 2d Hole Array Grating." In 2020 IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW), pp. 63-64. IEEE, 2020. Link
  • Nagarajan, Anitharaj, Shusuke Hara, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa. "Azimuth and Elevation Angle Dependence of Light Sensitivity in SOI Photodiode with Gold Grating." In JSAP Annual Meetings Extended Abstracts The 67th JSAP Spring Meeting 2020, pp. 1139-1139. The Japan Society of Applied Physics, 2020. Link
  • Hiroshi Inokawa, Hiroaki Satoh, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Revathi Manivannan and Durgadevi Elamaran, "Silicon-On-Insulator Photodetectors: Opportunity and Challenge," International Conference on Electronics, Photonics and Smart Technologies (ICePhaST-2020) (Chennai, India, Nov. 16-18, 2020).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Shusuke Hara, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Hiroaki Satoh and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Wide-angle sensitivity of SOI photodiode with line and space grating," The 6th International Symposium toward the Future of Advanced Researches in Shizuoka University (ISFAR-SU 2020) PS-44, p. 86 (Hamamatsu, Japan, Mar. 5, 2020).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "A Study on Directivity of SOI Photodetector with 2D Hole Array Type Gold Grating," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) Abstracts, p. 267 (Xiamen, China, Dec. 17-20, 2019).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Azimuth and Elevation Angle Dependence of SOI Photodiode Characteristics with 2D Hole Array Grating," The 4th International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering (ISBE 2019) P1-07, pp. 74-75 (Hamamatsu, Japan, Nov. 14-15, 2019).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Numerical study of the azimuth-elevation angle dependences of SOI photodetector for lensless imaging," The 5th International Symposium toward the Future of Advanced Researches in Shizuoka University 2019, p. 50 (Shizuoka, Japan, Mar. 6, 2019).
  • Shusuke Hara, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa. "Evaluation of Directivity for Light Sensitivity in SOI Photodiode with Metallic Grating Type SP Antenna," IEICE Technical Report OPE2019-29 (2019-07) pp. 113-116 (Hakodate-shi Central Library, 2019.7.18-19) [in Japanese].
  • Hiroshi Inokawa, Hiroaki Satoh, Amit Banerjee, Yash Sharma, Durgadevi Elamaran, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Alka Singh, Tomoki Nishimura (Invited) "Nanodevices for Photodetection Applications," International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2019) p. 15 (Chennai, India, Jan. 28-30, 2019).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Sam Richard Cornelious, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Pandian Chelliah, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Electric Field Enhancement of Hexagonal Core-shell Nanoclusters," International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2019) p. 1063 (Chennai, India, Jan. 28-30, 2019).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Analysis of Directivity for SOI Photodiode with Gold Hole Array Surface Plasmon Antenna by FDTD Analysis," International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2019) p. 1226 (Chennai, India, Jan. 28-30, 2019).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Directivity of SOI Photodiode with Gold Hole Array Grating by FDTD Analysis," Joint 20th Takayanagi Kenjiro Memorial Symposium and 4th International Conference on Nano Electronics Research and Education (ICNERE), pp. 107-108 (Hamamatsu, Japan, Nov. 27-29, 2018).
  • Nagarajan, Anitharaj, Shusuke Hara, Hiroaki Satoh, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, and Hiroshi Inokawa. "Directivity of SOI photodiode with gold surface plasmon antenna." In 2019 Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW), pp. 1-2. IEEE, 2019. Link
  • Hara, Shusuke, Anitharaj Nagarajan, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa. "Evaluation of Directivity for Light Sensitivity in SOI Photodiode with Metallic Grating-Type SP Antenna." IEICE Technical Report; IEICE Tech. Rep. 119, no. 128 (2019): 113-116. Link
  • NAGARAJAN, ANITHARAJ, ARUNA PRIYA PANCHANATHAN, PANDIAN CHELLIAH, HIROAKI SATOH, and HIROSHI INOKAWA. "LSPR Tuning of Ag@ SiO2 Core-Shell Nanosphere Trimer Configurations." In JSAP Annual Meetings Extended Abstracts The 65th JSAP Spring Meeting 2018, pp. 1159-1159. The Japan Society of Applied Physics, 2018. Link
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Aruna Priya Panchanathan, Pandian Chelliah, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa, "Symmetry Breaking of Trimeric Ag@SiO2 Core-shell Nanospheres," The 4th International Symposium toward the Future of Advanced Researches in Shizuoka University 2018, PS-T10 (Hamamatsu, Japan, Mar. 6, 2018).
  • Anitharaj Nagarajan, Angeline Little Flower, Sam Richard Cornelius, Anne Sujatha, Trilochan Sahoo, Aruna Priya Panchanathan and Pandian Chelliah, "LSPR Studies of Silver Nanospheres Aggregates," International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2017) (Chennai, India, Aug. 9-11, 2017).
Patent::
  • “Substrate for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) and a method of use thereof,” Published date: 26.02.2021, Patent ID 525205. Link
Collaborations:
  • Research Institute of Electronics (RIE), Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan
  • Biosensors Lab, CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu
Professional Memberships
  • Member, IAENG (525195)
  • JSAP (Japan Society of Applied Physics)
Awards and Honors
  • 2017-2020: MEXT Scholarship (Japanese government scholarship)
  • 2019: Best Presentation Award in “ISFAR-SU2019,” Japan, March
  • 2015: Won a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 in National Level Nanotechnology competition at PSG Tech, India
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