Dr. Carmel Mary Esther Alphonse

Profile

Academic positionPhD Candidate
Research fieldsProduction and Properties of Functional Materials,Deposition and Surface Technology
KeywordsChemical vapor deposition techniques, Atomic Layer, Variable emittance, Smart functional surface, Reversible phase transition, TEM, HAADF-STEM and impedance spectroscopy
Honours and awards

2013: Research Fellowship Award, ISRO, India

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityBengaluru
InstitutionVisvesvaraya Technological University

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard WildeInstitut für Materialphysik, Universität Münster, Münster
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2019

Program(s)

2019Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Esther, A and Muralikrishna, G Mohan and Tyler, Bonnie J and Arlinghaus, Heinrich F and Divinski, Sergiy V and Wilde, Gerhard: Interface-Driven Thermo-Electric Switching Performance of VO+ Diffused Soda-Lime Glass. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03330, 2021,
2020M. A. Hasan, A. Carmel Mary Esther, Arjun Dey, A. K. Mukhopadhyay: A review on coronavirus survivability on material’s surfaces: present research scenarios, technologies and future directions. In: Surface Engineering, 2020,
2020K. Prajwal,G. L. Priyanka,Mohammed Adnan Hasan,A. Carmel Mary Esther,N. Sridhara,A. Rajendra, S. B. Arya, Arjun Dey: Development of reflective co-sputtered nanostructured metallic films. In: Surface Engineering, 2020,
2020Carmel Mary Esther Alphonse, Mohan Muralikrishna Garlapati, Sven Hilke, Gerhard Wilde: Double shadow masking sample preparation method for in-situ TEM characterization. In: Nano Select, 2020, 1--6
2020Muralikrishna, Mohan Garlapati and Esther, A. Carmel Mary and Guruvidyathri, K. and Watermeyer, Philipp and Liebscher, Christian H. and Kulkarni, Kaustubh N. and Wilde, Gerhard and Divinski, Sergiy V. and Murty, B S: Novel Multicomponent B2 Ordered Aluminides: Compositional Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Thermal Stability. In: Metals, 10, 2020,
2020M. A. Hasan, Arjun Dey, A. C. M. Esther, P. Maiti, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. Rajendra: Structural, Out-gassing and Nanomechanical Properties of Super Hydrophobic Transparent Silica Aerogels Developed by Ambient Pressure Drying for Space Application. In: Bulletin of Materials Science, 2020,
2019Prajwal, K and Dey, Arjun and Sudhakar, Manju and Nandi, Anuj and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Sridhara, N and Yougandar, B and Kumar, Pradeep and Arya, SB and Rajendra, A: Development of Multifunctional Thin Film Based X-Ray Intensity Filters for Space-Based Payloads. In: Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 28, 2019, 5820--5831
2019Hasan, Mohammed Adnan Hasana Adnan and Dey, Arjun and Rajendraa, A and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar and others: Development of Super Hydrophobic Opaque Silica Aerogel Floats on Water. In: International Journal of Science, Technology, Engineering and Management-A VTU Publication, 1, 2019,
2018Sibin, KP and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Shashikala, HD and Dey, Arjun and Sridhara, N and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Barshilia, Harish C: Environmental stability of transparent and conducting ITO thin films coated on flexible FEP and Kapton{\textregistered} substrates for spacecraft applications. In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 176, 2018, 134--141
2018Hasan, Mohammed Adnan and Rashmi, S and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Bhavanisankar, Prudhivi Yashwantkumar and Sherikar, Baburao N and Sridhara, N and Dey, Arjun: Evaluations of silica aerogel-based flexible blanket as passive thermal control element for spacecraft applications. In: Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 27, 2018, 1265--1273
2018Prajwal, K and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Dey, Arjun: RF transparent vanadium oxide based single and bi-layer thin films as passive thermal control element for satellite antenna application. In: Ceramics International, 44, 2018, 16088--16091
2018Mukherjee, Dipta and Dey, Arjun and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Sridhara, N and Kumar, D Raghavendra and Rajendra, A and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar: Reversible and repeatable phase transition at a negative temperature regime for doped and co-doped spin coated mixed valence vanadium oxide thin films. In: RSC advances, 8, 2018, 30966--30977
2018Mukherjee, Dipta and Dey, Arjun and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Palai, Debajyoti and Sridhara, N and Bera, Parthasarathi and Bhattacharya, Manjima and Rajendra, A and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar: Reversible, repeatable and low phase transition behaviour of spin coated nanostructured vanadium oxide thin films with superior mechanical properties. In: Ceramics International, 44, 2018, 8913--8921
2017Hasan, Mohammed Adnan and Sangashetty, Rashmi and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Patil, Sharanabasappa B and Sherikar, Baburao N and Dey, Arjun: Prospect of thermal insulation by silica aerogel: a brief review. In: Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D, 98, 2017, 297--304
2017Nayak, Manish Kumar and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Bera, Parthasarathi and Dey, Arjun: Sputter-deposited low reflectance vanadium oxide-molybdenum oxide thin films on silicon. In: Infrared Physics \& Technology, 85, 2017, 273--279
2017Dey, Arjun and Nayak, Manish Kumar and Pradeepkumar, Maurya Sandeep and Porwal, Deeksha and Yougandar, B and Carmel Mary Esther, A: Studies on Mo doped vanadium oxide film by pulsed RF magnetron sputtering. In: Surface and Interface Analysis, 49, 2017, 805--808
2016Porwal, Deeksha and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Dey, Arjun and Gupta, AK and Kumar, D Raghavendra and Bera, Parthasarathi and Barshilia, Harish C and Bhattacharya, Manjima and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar and Khan, Kallol and others: Effect of low temperature vacuum annealing on microstructural, optical, electronic, electrical, nanomechanical properties and phase transition behavior of sputtered vanadium oxide thin films. In: Materials Research Express, 3, 2016, 106407
2016Esther, A Carmel Mary and Sridhara, N and Sebastian, Shaji V and Bera, Parthasarathi and Anandan, Chinnasamy and Rangappa, Dinesh and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Dey, Arjun: Evaluation of nanoalumina coated germanium black polyimide membrane as sunshield for application on the communication satellite antenna. In: Ceramics International, 42, 2016, 2589--2598
2016Esther, A Carmel Mary and Dey, Arjun and Rangappa, Dinesh and Sharma, Anand Kumar: Low reflectance sputtered vanadium oxide thin films on silicon. In: Infrared Physics \& Technology, 77, 2016, 35--39
2016Dey, Arjun and Nayak, Manish Kumar and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Pradeepkumar, Maurya Sandeep and Porwal, Deeksha and Gupta, AK and Bera, Parthasarathi and Barshilia, Harish C and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar and Pandey, Ajoy Kumar and others: Nanocolumnar crystalline vanadium oxide-molybdenum oxide antireflective smart thin films with superior nanomechanical properties. In: Scientific reports, 6, 2016, 1--18
2016Palai, Debajyoti and Carmel Mary Esther, A and Porwal, Deeksha and Pradeepkumar, Maurya Sandeep and Raghavendra Kumar, D and Bera, Parthasarathi and Sridhara, N and Dey, Arjun: Reversible phase transition in vanadium oxide films sputtered on metal substrates. In: Philosophical Magazine Letters, 96, 2016, 440--446
2016Bera, B and Esther, ACM and Dey, A and Mukhopadhyay, Anoop Kumar: Structural, optical and electrical properties of V 2 O 5 xerogel thin films. In: Indian Journal of Physics, 90, 2016, 687--692
2015Esther, A Carmel Mary and Dey, Arjun and Sridhara, N and Yougandar, B and Bera, Parthasarathi and Anandan, Chinnasamy and Rangappa, Dinesh and Sharma, Anand Kumar: A study on degradation of germanium coating on Kapton used for spacecraft sunshield application. In: Surface and Interface Analysis, 47, 2015, 1155--1160
2015Esther, A Carmel Mary and Sridhara, N and Sebastian, Shaji V and Bera, Parthasarathi and Anandan, Chinnasamy and Aruna, Singanahalli T and Rangappa, Dinesh and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Dey, Arjun: Optical and RF transparent protective alumina thin films. In: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 26, 2015, 9707--9716
2015Esther, A Carmel Mary and Porwal, Deeksha and Pradeepkumar, Maurya Sandeep and Rangappa, Dinesh and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Dey, Arjun: Optical constants of pulsed RF magnetron sputtered nanocolumner V2O5 coating. In: Physica B: Condensed Matter, 478, 2015, 161--166
2015Porwal, Deeksha and Esther, A Carmel Mary and Reddy, I Neelakanta and Sridhara, N and Yadav, Nagendra Prasad and Rangappa, Dinesh and Bera, Parthasarathi and Anandan, Chinnasamy and Sharma, Anand Kumar and Dey, Arjun: Study of the structural, thermal, optical, electrical and nanomechanical properties of sputtered vanadium oxide smart thin films. In: RSC Advances, 5, 2015, 35737--35745