Sinmat Inc, USA

Technology Manager

Qualifications

2000–2003 Ph.D., Awarded

Publications (selected)

1. “Investigations on the structural and optical properties of the swift heavy ion irradiated 6H-SiC”, E. Viswanathan, Y.S. Katharria, S. Selvakumar,A. Arulchakkaravarthi, D. Kanjilal, and K. Sivaji. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 2011, 269 (10), 1103-1107.
2. “Low Temperature Dielectric Study on Swift Heavy Ion irradiated 6H-SiC crystals”, E. Viswanathan, R. Murugaraj, S. Sankar,A. Arulchakkaravarthi, D. Kanjilal, and K. Sivaji, Transaction of the Indian Institute of Metals, (2011) Vol. 64, Issue 1 & 2, February – April 2011, pp. (Online).
3. Improved Free-Standing GaN Schottky Diode Characteristics Using Chemical Mechanical Polishing,Arul Chakkaravarthi. Arjunan, Deepika Singh, Hung-Ta Wang, Fen Ren, P.Kumar, Rajiv K.Singh, S.J.Pearton, Applied Surface Science 255 (2008)3085-3089.
4. Microlens Array Fabrication by Chemical Mechanical Polishing, Purushottam Kumar,1 Seung-Young Son, Jaeseok Lee, Feng-Chi Chang, Aniruddh Khanna,Arul Chakkaravarthi Arjunan, and Rajiv K. Singh, Electro Chemical Solid State Lettters, Vol.22 (2009)H269-H271.
5. Enhanced energy resolution (22Na, 137Cs and 241Am) and alpha–gamma (241Am + 60Co) and neutron–gamma (241Am–Be) pulse shape discrimination properties of p-terphenyl crystals prepared by modified selective self-seeded vertical Bridgman technique (SSVBT), Solid State Communications, Volume 145, Issues 9-10, March 2008, Pages 482-486 S. Selvakumar,A. Arulchakkaravarthi, Rakesh Kumar, S. Muralithar, S. Sankar and K. Sivaji.
6. Superhydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene thin films with hierarchical roughness.
7. deposited using a single step vapor phase technique ,Sushant Gupta,Arul Chakkaravarthi Arjunan, Sameer Deshpande, Sudipta Seal, Deepika Singh and RajivK. Singh, Thin Solid Films 517 (2009) 4555.
8. Growth of 2,5-diphenyloxazole-doped naphthalene crystal by Bridgman method and its fluorescence studies, Journal of Crystal Growth,Volume 310, Issues 7-9,April 2008,Pages 2115-2119, N. Balamurugan,A. Arulchakkaravarthiand P. Ramasamy.
9. Enhanced fluorescence and time resolved fluorescence properties of p-terphenyl crystal grown by selective self seeded vertical Bridgman technique, Materials Letters, Volume 61, Issue 25, October 2007, Pages 4718-4721,S. Selvakumar, K. Sivaji, A.Arulchakkaravarthiand S. Sankar.
10. Luminescence properties and growth of pure and anthracene-doped naphthalene crystals physica status solidi (a), Vol. 204, No. 10. (2007), pp. 3502-3508, N Balamurugan,AArulchakkaravarthi,P Ramasamy.
11. Phase transition studies in trans -stilbene crystal using 2D-ACAR physica status solidi (c) Volume 4, Issue 10, Date: September 2007, Pages: 3871-3874, K. Sivaji,A. ArulChakkaravarthi,S. Selvakumar, S. Sankar.
12. Controllable 6H-SiC to 4H-SiC polytype transformation during PVT growth Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 299, Issue 1, 1 February 2007, Pages 70-76 E.Y. Tupitsyn, A.Arulchakkaravarthi, R.V. Drachev and T.S. Sudarshan.
13. R. Jain, Y. Gao, J. Zhang, R. Fareed, R. Gaska, J. Li,A. Arjunan,E. Kuokstis, J. Yang, and M. Khan, “Growth of AlN films and their characterization” Physica Status Solidi C 3(6)1491-1494 (2006).
14. Scintillation characteristics on anthracene-doped naphthalene crystal for 137Cs-_ray source Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 568, Issue 2, 1 December 2006, Pages 767-771, N. Balamurugan, A.Arulchakkaravarthiand P. Ramasamy.
15. Growth and characterization of undoped and thallium doped cesium iodide single crystals Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 286, Issue 2, 15 January 2006, Pages 294-299 N. Balamurugan, A.Arulchakkaravarthi, S. Selvakumar, M. Lenin, Rakesh Kumar, S. Muralithar, K. Sivaji and P. Ramasamy.
16. Electron momentum distribution mapping of trans-stilbene single crystal by positron annihilation, Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 412, Issues 4-6, 5 September 2005, Pages 327-330, Krishnan Sivaji, ArjunanArulchakkaravarthi, Sellaiyan Selvakumar, Perumalsamy Ramasamy, Sambasivam Sankar and Babu Varghese.
17. Growth of high-quality naphthalene single crystals using selective self-seeding vertical Bridgman technique (SSVBT) and its characterization, Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 282, Issues 3-4, 1 September 2005, Pages 370-375, S. Selvakumar, K. Sivaji, A.Arulchakkaravarthi, N. Balamurugan, S. Sankar and P. Ramasamy.
18. Optical frequency doubling in microtube Czochralski (μT-CZ) grown benzophenone single crystals Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 281, Issues 2-4, 1 August 2005, Pages 596-603, M. Arivanandhan, K. Sankaranarayanan, C. Sanjeeviraja,A.Arulchakkaravarthiand P. Ramasamy.
19. Raman Spectroscopic studies on irradiated crystals grown by SSVBT technique.A. Arulchakkaravarthi, R. Kesavamoorthy, S. Selvakumar, N. Balamurugan, K. Sivaji, P. Santhanaraghavan and P.Ramasamy, Materials Research Innovations 9 (2005) 379-391.
20. Growth and studies on SSVBT grown p-terphenyl single crystals, Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 275, Issues 1-2, 15 February 2005, Pages e265-e271, S. Selvakumar, K. Sivaji, N. Balamurugan,A. Arulchakkaravarthi, S. Sankar, C. Venkateswaran and P. Ramasamy.
21. Synthesis, crystal growth and characterisation of novel NLO material: 4-Hydroxy benzaldehyde-N-methyl-4-stilbazolium tosylate Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 265, Issues 1-2, 15 April 2004, Pages 260-265, C. K. Lakshmanaperumal,A.Arulchakkaravarthi,N. Balamurugan, P. Santhanaraghavan and P. Ramasamy.
22. Effect of low angle grain boundaries on detection characteristics of trans-stilbene crystals Materials Letters, Volume 58, Issues 7-8, March 2004, Pages 1209-1211,A.Arulchakkaravarthi, N. Balamurugan, Rakesh Kumar, P. Santhanaraghavan, S. Muralithar, T. Nagarajan and P. Ramasamy.
23. Effect of hollow pores on the detection characteristics of trans-stilbene crystals grown by vertical Bridgman technique,Arjunan Arulchakkaravarthi, Parthasarathy Santhanaraghavan, Krishnan Sivaji, Rakesh Kumar, Sivaramakrishnan Muralithar, Rengasamy Gopalakrishnan, Perumalsamy Ramasamy and Tharmalingam Nagarajan, Materials Research Innovations Vol 7 No.4 2003.
24. Detection characteristics of vertical Bridgman grown stilbene crystals for gamma rays using 60Co, 137Cs and 22Na gamma ray sources, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Volume 77, Issue 1, 2 January 2003, Pages 77-80,A. Arulchakkaravarthi,P. Santhanaraghavan, Rakesh Kumar, S. Muralithar, P. Ramasamy, T. Nagarajan and C. W. Lan.
25. Investigations on the swift heavy ion implanted GaAs substrates, Vacuum, Volume 68, Issue 4, 13 December 2002, Pages 291-296, P. Jayavel,A. Arulchakkaravarthi,P. Ramasamy and J. Kumar.
26. Preparation of high-quality anthracene crystals using double run selective self-seeding vertical Bridgman technique (DRSSVBT), Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 246, Issues 1-2, December 2002, Pages 85-89,A. Arulchakkaravarthi, C. K.
27. Laksmanaperumal, P. Santhanaraghavan, K. Sivaji, Rakesh Kumar, S. Muralithar and P. Ramasamy.
28. Pulse shape discrimination of the neutron and two gamma component by using combined 22Na and 252Cf sources from trans-stilbene crystals grown by selective self seeding Bridgman technique as scintillator, Materials Letters, Volume 56, Issue 4, October 2002, Pages 373-378,A. Arulchakkaravarthi,P. Santhanaraghavan, Rakesh Kumar, S. Muralithar, Sandeep Chopra, R. Gopalakrishnan and P. Ramasamy.
29. Microhardness and slip systems of solution grown MHB crystals, Materials Letters, Volume 56, Issue 4, October 2002, Pages 578-586, C. K. Lakshmana Perumal,A.Arulchakkaravarthi, N. P. Rajesh, P. Santhanaraghavan and P. Ramasamy.
30. Investigations on the growth of anthracene and trans-stilbene single crystals using vertical Bridgman technique Materials Science and Engineering B, Volume 95, Issue 3, 1 September 2002, Pages 236-241,A. Arulchakkaravarthi, C. K. Lakshmanaperumal, P. Santhanaraghavan, P. Jayavel, R. Selvan, K. Sivaji, R. Gopalakrishnan and P. Ramasamy.
31. Growth and characterization of methyl-p-hydroxybenzoate (p-MHB): a non-linear optical material, Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 241, Issues 1-2, May 2002, Pages 200-205 C. K. Lakshmana Perumal, A.Arulchakkaravarthi, P. Santhanaraghavan and P. Ramasamy Synthesis, crystal growth and FTIR, NMR, SHG studies of 4-methoxy benzaldehyde-Nmethyl- 4-stilbazolium tosylate (MBST), Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 240, Issues 1-2, April 2002, Pages 212-217, C. K. Lakshmana Perumal,A. Arulchakkaravarthi,N. P. Rajesh, P. Santhana Raghavan, Y. C. Huang, M. Ichimura and P. Ramasamy.
32. Enhancement of photochemical deposition (PCD) and analysis of surface spread of CdS crystalline thin films, Materials Letters, Volume 53, Issues 4-5, April 2002, Pages 321-325, R. Padmavathy, N. P. Rajesh,A. Arulchakkaravarthi,R. Gopalakrishnan, P. Santhanaraghavan and P. Ramasamy.