ICES Research Faculty
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Nisha Shukla, Ph.D.
Special Faculty at ICES, Carnegie Mellon University Email: nisha@andrew.cmu.edu Phone: 412-268-4827 1215 Hamburg Hall Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 |
Nisha's work involves nanotechnology and using chemical sciences for developing devices.
She is working on the synthesis of selectively shaped nanoparticles of ternary quantum dots
for utilizing them in solar cells. One of her project in nanotechnology involves study of
nanoparticulate catalyst in collaboration with NETL.
In addition, her interest includes understanding and studying tribology and surface science
of probe storage in high density data recording media. She is setting up a non-linear
characterization tool and other instrumentations for the newly established Center for
Nano-enabled Device and Energy Technologies at CMU.
She is also interested in surfaces for the separation of chiral molecules, which are used by
the pharmaceutical industry for drug separation.
Nisha’s background is in surface science and the surface analysis of semiconductors and metal surfaces.
She obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff in the United Kingdom and did a post
doc in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University for one year. During her Ph.D she also got research
experience at UMIST (Manchester U.K.) and at Imperial College London.
- Press Release "Oriented self-assembly of cubic FePt nanoparticles", Materials Letters 60 (8), 2006, 995".
- News Alert "Surfactant effects on the shapes of cobalt nanoparticles" Materials Letters 60(16), 2006, 1950.
- News Alert "Long range ordering of self-assembled monolayer of FePt nanoparticles on modified substrates", Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 201, Issue 6, 2006, 3810.
- Oriented self-assembly of cubic FePt nanoparticles Materials Letters, Volume 60, Issue 8, April 2006, Pages 995-998
- Surfactant effects on the shapes of cobalt nanoparticles Materials Letters, Volume 60, Issue 16, July 2006, Pages 1950-1955.
- Sakhrat Khizroev, Dimitri Litvinov, Nisha Shukla, Roy Gustafson “Perpendicular Reader with a Differentiating Shield” US Patent Number 6,738,233, issued May 18, 2004.
- Dimitri Litvinov, Nisha Shukla, Erik B. Svedberg, Sakhrat Khizroev, Dieter K. Weller, “Selective annealing of magnetic recording films,” US Patent Number 6,884,328, issued April 26, 2005.
- Dieter Weller, Niel Deeman, Rene van de Veerdonk, Nisha Shukla “Magnetic Recording Media Having Self-organized Magnetic Arrays” US Patent Number 7,041,394, issued May 9, 2006.