Publications

Publications are listed starting with the most recent

2024


              Cyrille Armel Sayou Ngomsi, Tamanna Joshi, and Pratibha Dev, “Optimum surface-passivation schemes for

                   near-surface spin defects in silicon carbide,” Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 056202 (2024).


2023


        ❖  Jennifer E. DeMell, Ivan Naumov, Gregory M. Stephen, Nicholas A. Blumenschein, Y.-J. Leo Sun, Adrian

                  Fedorko, Jeremy T. Robinson, Paul M. Campbell, Patrick J. Taylor, Don Heiman, Pratibha Dev, Aubrey T.

                  Hanbicki, Adam L. Friedman, “Spintronic Quantum Phase Transition in a Graphene/Pb0.24Sn0.76Te 

                  Heterostructure with Giant Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 2311875 (2023). 


        ❖  Ivan I. Naumov and Pratibha Dev, “Coexistence of quantum spin Hall and magnetic states in zigzag bismuth  

                  nanoribbons,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 093104 (2023).


        ❖  Sharmila N. Shirodkar, Cyrille Armel Sayou Ngomsi, and Pratibha Dev, “Small Electron Polaron in Carbon- 

                   Doped Cubic Boron Nitride,” ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 5, 3, 1707–1714 (2023).


        ❖  Sai Krishna Narayanan and Pratibha Dev, “Substrate-Induced Modulation of Quantum Emitter Properties 

                   in 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Implications for Defect-Based Single Photon Sources in 2D Layers,” ACS 

                   Appl. Nano Mater. 6, 5, 3446–3452 (2023).


        ❖  Ivan I. Naumov and Pratibha Dev, “One-dimensional magnetism and Rashba-like effects in zigzag bismuth

                  nanoribbons,” Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 026204 (2023).


2022


        ❖  Scott Melis, Samantha Hung, Chaitali Bagade, Yuri Chung, Eleni Hughes, Xinran Zhang, Paola Barbara, Peize 

                  Han, Tingting Li, Daniel McCusker, Robert Hartsmith, Jeffery Bertke, Pratibha Dev, Iris Stone, Jaydeep 

                  Joshi, Patrick Vora, and Edward Van Keuren, “Charge Transport through Superexchange in Phenothiazine–  

                  7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane (PTZ–TCNQ) Cocrystal Microribbon FETs Grown Using Evaporative 

                  Alignment,” ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 4, 12, 5973–5983 (2022).


        ❖  Gregory M. Stephen, Ivan Naumov, Nicholas A. Blumenschein, Y-J Leo Sun, Jennifer E. DeMell, Sharmila N.

                   Shirodkar, Pratibha Dev, Patrick J. Taylor, Jeremy T. Robinson, Paul M. Campbell, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Adam

                    L. Friedman, “Magnetotransport in Graphene/Pb0.24Sn0.76Te Heterostructures: Finding a Way to Avoid 

                    Catastrophe”, ACS Nano 2022, 16, 11, 19346–19353 (2022).


        ❖  Sharmila N. Shirodkar, Gregory M. Stephen, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Adam L. Friedman, and Pratibha Dev, 

                  “Healing Se Vacancies in Bi2Se3 by Ambient Gases,” J. Phys. Chem. C 126, 39, 16877-16884 (2022).

 

        ❖  Pankaj Kumar, Vinit Sharma, Sharmila N. Shirodkar, and Pratibha Dev, “Predicting phase preferences of 

                  two- dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides using machine learning,” Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 094007  

                  (2022).


        ❖  Sharmila N Shirodkar and Pratibha Dev, “Non-linear hybrid surface-defect states in defective Bi2Se3,” J. 

                   Phys. Chem. C 126, 28, 11833-11839 (2022).


        ❖  Tamanna Joshi and Pratibha Dev,“Site-dependent properties of quantum emitters in nanostructured silicon 

                   carbide”, PRX Quantum 3, 020325 (2022).


        ❖  Tamanna Joshi, Pankaj Kumar, Bipul Poudyal, Sean Paul Russell, Priyanka Manchanda, and Pratibha Dev,     

                  “Doping limitations of cubic boron nitride: Effects of unintentional defects on shallow doping,” Phys. Rev. B 

                  105, 054101 (2022).


2021


        ❖  Rabindra Pahari, Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Ahsan Ullah, Priyanka Manchanda, Hiroaki Komuro,

                  Robert Streubel, Christoph Klewe, Shah R. Valloppilly, Padraic Shafer, Pratibha Dev, Ralph Skomski, and

                  David J. Sellmyer, “Peripheral chiral spin textures and topological Hall effect in CoSi nanomagnets,” Phys. 

                  Rev. Materials 5, 124418 (2021).


        ❖  EH Lock, JC Prestigiacomo, Pratibha Dev, A Nath, RL Myers-Ward, TL Reinecke, DK Gaskill, MS Osofsky, 

                  “Quantum transport in functionalized epitaxial graphene without electrostatic gating,” Carbon 175, 

                  490-498 (2021).


        ❖  Priyanka Manchanda, Pankaj Kumar and Pratibha Dev, “Defect-induced 4p-magnetism in layered platinum  

                  diselenide,” Physical Review B 103 (14), 144403 (2021) .


        ❖  Churna Bhandari, Aleksander L Wysocki, Sophia E Economou, Pratibha Dev, Kyungwha Park,

                  Multiconfigurational study of the negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond,Physical 

                  Review B 103 (1), 014115 (2021).


2020


        ❖  Gregory M Stephen, Ivan Naumov, Siddharth Tyagi, Owen A Vail, Jennifer E DeMell, Michael Dreyer, Robert 

                  E  Butera, Aubrey T Hanbicki, Patrick J Taylor, Isaak Mayergoyz, Pratibha Dev, Adam L Friedman, “Effect of 

                  Sn Doping on Surface States of Bi2Se3 Thin Films,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124 (49), 

                  27082-27088 (2020).


        ❖  Pankaj Kumar, Ivan I. Naumov, Priyanka Manchanda, Pratibha Dev, “A new class of intrinsic magnet: two-

                  dimensional yttrium sulphur selenide,” arXiv:2009.07232 (2020).


        ❖  Vinit Sharma, Pankaj Kumar, Pratibha Dev, Ghanshyam Pilania, “Machine learning substitutional defect 

                  formation energies in ABO3 perovskites,” Journal of Applied Physics 128, 034902 (2020).


        ❖  Pratibha Dev, “Fingerprinting quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride using strain,” Phys. Rev. 

                  Research 2, 022050(R) (2020).


        ❖  Ivan I. Naumov and Pratibha Dev, “Quantum materials interfaces: Graphene/bismuth (111) 

                  heterostructures,” Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023157 (2020).


        ❖  Priyanka Manchanda, Pankaj Kumar and Pratibha Dev, “Thickness dependence of hydrogen-induced phase 

                  transition in MoTe2,” Phys. Rev. B 101, 144104 (2020).


        ❖  Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Priyanka Manchanda, Rabindra Pahari, Zhen Chen, Wenyong Zhang, Shah 

                  R Valloppilly, Xingzhong Li, Anandakumar Sarella, Lanping Yue, Ahsan Ullah, Pratibha Dev, David A Muller, 

                  Ralph Skomski, George C Hadjipanayis, David J Sellmyer, “Chiral Magnetism and High-Temperature 

                  Skyrmions in B20-Ordered Co-Si,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057201 (2020).


2015-2019


        ❖  Daniel C Ratchford, Christopher J Winta, Ioannis Chatzakis, Chase T Ellis, Nikolai C Passler, Jonathan 

                  Winterstein, Pratibha Dev, Ilya Razdolski, Joseph R. Matson, Joshua R. Nolan, Joseph G Tischler, Igor 

                  Vurgaftman, Michael B Katz, Neeraj Nepal, Matthew T Hardy, Jordan A Hachtel, Juan Carlos Idrobo, 

                  Thomas L Reinecke, Alexander J Giles, D Scott Katzer, Nabil D Bassim, Rhonda M Stroud, Martin Wolf, 

                  Alexander Paarmann, Joshua D Caldwell, “Controlling the Infrared Dielectric Function through Atomic-

                  Scale Heterostructures,” ACS Nano 13, 6730 (2019).


        ❖ Ciaran Lyons, Pratibha Dev, Pathik Maji, Neelima Rathi, Praveen K Surolia, Owen Byrne, Xinxin Xiao, Niall J 

                  English, Edmond Magner, JMD MacElroy, K Ravindranathan Thampi, “Silicon-bridged triphenylamine-

                  based organic dyes for efficient dye-sensitised solar cells,” Solar Energy, 160, 64 (2018).


        ❖  Ciaran Lyons, Neelima Rathi, Pratibha Dev, Owen Byrne, Praveen K Surolia, Pathik Maji, JMD MacElroy, 

                  Aswani Yella, Michael Grätzel, Edmond Magner, Niall J English, K Ravindranathan Thampi, “Organic Dyes 

                  Containing Coplanar Dihexyl-Substituted Dithienosilole Groups for Efficient Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells,” 

                   International Journal of Photoenergy, 2017, Article ID 7594869 (2017).


        ❖  Sophia E. Economou and Pratibha Dev, “Spin-photon entanglement interfaces in silicon carbide defect         

                  centers,” Nanotechnology, 27, 504001 (2016).


        ❖  Cory D. Cress, Scott W. Schmucker, Adam L. Friedman, Pratibha Dev, James C. Culbertson, Joseph W. 

                  Lyding, and Jeremy T. Robinson, “Nitrogen-Doped Graphene and Twisted Bilayer Graphene via 

                  Hyperthermal Ion Implantation with Depth Control,” ACS Nano, 10 (3), 3714-3722 (2016).


        ❖  Ö. O. Soykal, Pratibha Dev and Sophia E. Economou, “Silicon vacancy center in 4 H-SiC: Electronic structure

                  and spin-photon interfaces,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 081207(R) (2016).


        ❖  S. G. Carter, Ö. O. Soykal, Pratibha Dev, Sophia E. Economou and E. R. Glaser, “Spin coherence and echo 

                  modulation of the silicon vacancy in 4H-SiC at room temperature," Phys. Rev. B 92, 161202(R) (2015).  


        ❖  Pratibha Dev and T. L. Reinecke, “Stabilizing graphene-based organometallic sandwich structures through 

                  defect engineering," Phys. Rev. B, 91, 035436 (2015).


2014 & Earlier


        ❖  S. Tsoi, Pratibha Dev, A. L. Friedman, R. Stine, J. T. Robinson, T. L. Reinecke, and P. Sheehan, “van der Waals 

                  screening by single-layer graphene and molybdenum disulphide," ACS Nano, 8 (12), 12410-12417 (2014). 


        ❖  Pratibha Dev and Thomas L. Reinecke, “Substrate Effects: Disappearance of adsorbate-induced magnetism 

                  in graphene," Phys. Rev. B, 89, 035404 (2014).


        ❖ Pratibha Dev, S. Agrawal and N. J. English, “Functional assessment for predicting charge-transfer 

                  excitations of dyes in complexed state: A study of triphenylamine-donor dyes on titania in dye-sensitized 

                  solar cells," J. Phys. Chem. A, 117 (10), 2114-2124 (2013).


        ❖  Pratibha Dev, S. Agrawal and N. J. English, “Determining the appropriate exchange-correlation functional 

                  for time-dependent density functional theory studies of charge-transfer excitations in organic dyes," J. 

                  Chem. Phys. 136, 224301 (2012).


        ❖  S. Agrawal, Pratibha Dev, N. J. English, R. Thampi and J. M. D. MacElroy, “A TD-DFT study of the effects of 

                  structural variations on the photochemistry of polyene dyes," Chemical Science, 3, 416-424 (2011).


        ❖  T. A. Abtew, Y. Y. Sun, Bi-Ching Shih, Pratibha Dev, S. B. Zhang and Peihong Zhang, “Dynamic Jahn-Teller 

                  Effect in the NV- Center in Diamond," Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 146403 (2011).


        ❖  R. S. Kavathekara, Pratibha Dev, N. J. English, and J. M. D. MacElroy, “Molecular dynamics study of water in 

                  contact with the TiO2 rutile-110, 100, 101, 001 and anatase-101, 001 surface," Molecular Physics, 109, 

                  1649 (2011).


        ❖ S. Agrawal, Pratibha Dev, N. J. English, R. Thampi and J. M. D. MacElroy, “First principles study of excited

                  state properties of coumarin-derived dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells," J. Mater. Chem. 21, 11101 (2011). 


        ❖  T. A. Abtew, Bi-Ching Shih, Pratibha Dev, Vincent H. Crespi and Peihong Zhang, “Prediction of a Multi-   

                  Center Bonded Solid Boron Hydride for Hydrogen Storage," Phys. Rev. B 83, 094108 (2011). 


        ❖  Pratibha Dev, Hao Zeng and Peihong Zhang, “Defect-Induced Magnetism in Nitride and Oxide Nanowires:

                  Surface Effects and Quantum Confinement," Phys. Rev. B 82, 165319 (2010). 

                 *Selected for the October 18, 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science &Technology


        ❖  Pratibha Dev and Peihong Zhang, “Unconventional Magnetism in Semiconductors: Role of Localized 

                  Acceptor States," Phys. Rev. B 81, 085207 (2010).


        ❖  Pratibha Dev, Yu Xue and Peihong Zhang, “Defect induced intrinsic magnetism in wide-gap III nitrides," 

                  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 117204 (2008).


        ❖  Peihong Zhang, Yu Xue and Pratibha Dev, “Electron-phonon renormalization and phonon anharmonicity in 

                  metals," Solid State Communications, 148, 151-154 (2008).