Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu - McMaster Experts

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McMaster University,
Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, McMaster University
Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellow, Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching, McMaster University
Associate Member, Engineering Physics, Faculty of Engineering
Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science

Research Areas

Nanofabrication, growth and self assembly (RA)
Photonics (RA)
Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications (RA)

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conferences
- Optochemical Self-Organisation of Functional Microstructures. ECS Meeting Abstracts. 1475-1475. 2014
- Multidirectional waveguide arrays in a planar architecture. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014
- Enhancing Solar Energy Light Capture with Multi-Directional Waveguide Lattices. Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. 2013
- Enhancing solar energy light capture with multi-directional waveguide lattices. Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. rm2d.2. 2013
- Nonlinear forms of laser beam propagation in a photopolymerizable medium. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2009
- Optical Self-Trapping and Related Phenomena in Photochemical Systems. ECS Meeting Abstracts. 1271-1271. 2006
- <title>Photo-oriented polymerization in hybrid glass waveguides</title>. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 53-57. 2000
- <title>Photosensitivity of sol-gel-derived nanocomposites in optical device deposition: an in-situ spectroscopic study</title>. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 19-24. 1998
- <title>Light-induced densification and mechanisms in hybrid sol-gel glasses for photonic devices</title>. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 79-87. 1998
- <title>Photolithography fabrication of sol-gel ridge waveguides</title>. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 118-123. 1998
- <title>Collateral densification associated with the photoresponse of hybrid sol-gel glasses for depositing Bragg gratings on ridge waveguides</title>. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 50-58. 1998
- Enhancing Light-Harvesting with Luminescent Waveguide-Encoded Lattices. Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference.
journal articles
- Interplay of Luminophores and Photoinitiators during Synthesis of Bulk and Patterned Luminescent Photopolymer Blends. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 6:6314-6322. 2024
- Developing 3D computational models to capture the spatial, temporal and thermal behavior as laser beams propagate through photo-thermally responsive gels. RSC Applied Interfaces. 1:183-193. 2024
- Roadmap on holography. Journal of Optics (India). 22:123002-123002. 2020
- Opto-chemo-mechanical transduction in photoresponsive gels elicits switchable self-trapped beams with remote interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117:3953-3959. 2020
- 3-D Spiraling Self-Trapped Light Beams in Photochemical Systems. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10:5957-5962. 2019
- Shaping LED Beams with Radially Distributed Waveguide‐Encoded Lattices. Advanced Optical Materials. 7. 2019
- A soft photopolymer cuboid that computes with binary strings of white light. Nature Communications. 10:2310. 2019
- Waveguide-Imprinted Slim Polymer Films: Beam Steering Coatings for Solar Cells. ACS Photonics. 6:878-885. 2019
- A Slim Polymer Film with a Seamless Panoramic Field of View: The Radially Distributed Waveguide Encoded Lattice (RDWEL). Advanced Optical Materials. 7. 2019
- Single‐Step Generation of Flexible, Free‐Standing Arrays of Multimode Cylindrical Waveguides. Advanced Engineering Materials. 21. 2019
- Self-Organized Lattices of Nonlinear Optochemical Waves in Photopolymerizable Fluids: The Spontaneous Emergence of 3-D Order in a Weakly Correlated System. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9:1146-1155. 2018
- Spontaneous Formation of Fractal Aggregates of Au Nanoparticles in Epoxy-Siloxane Films and Their Application as Substrates for NIR Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Polymers. 9:507-507. 2017
- Coupling nonlinear optical waves to photoreactive and phase-separating soft matter: Current status and perspectives. Chaos. 27:104611. 2017
- Waveguide Encoded Lattices (WELs): Slim Polymer Films with Panoramic Fields of View (FOV) and Multiple Imaging Functionality. Advanced Functional Materials. 27. 2017
- 3D Nonlinear Inscription of Complex Microcomponents (3D NSCRIPT): Printing Functional Dielectric and Metallodielectric Polymer Structures with Nonlinear Waves of Blue LED Light. Advanced Materials Technologies. 2. 2017
- Reversibly Trapping Visible Laser Light through the Catalytic Photo-oxidation of I^– by Ru(bpy)₃²⁺. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 7:1585-1589. 2016
- Spontaneous Emergence of Nonlinear Light Waves and Self-Inscribed Waveguide Microstructure during the Cationic Polymerization of Epoxides. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119:20606-20617. 2015
- Collective dynamics of populations of weakly correlated filaments of incoherent white light. Journal of Optics (India). 15:035201-035201. 2013
- An optochemically organized nonlinear waveguide lattice with primitive cubic symmetry. Optics Express. 21:4205-4205. 2013
- Optochemical Organization in a Spatially Modulated Incandescent Field: A Single-Step Route to Black and Bright Polymer Lattices. Langmuir. 29:1221-1227. 2013
- Modulation instability of incandescent light in a photopolymer doped with Ag nanoparticles. Journal of Optics (India). 14:125202-125202. 2012
- Coaxial Self-Trapping of White and Gray Regions of an Incandescent Field: A Bright Core with a Dark Cladding. Physics Research International. 2012:1-5. 2012
- Diversity and slow dynamics of diffraction rings: a comprehensive study of spatial self-phase modulation in a photopolymer. Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics. 29:2357-2357. 2012
- A Black Beam Borne by an Incandescent Field Self-Traps in a Photopolymerizing Medium. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134:14195-14200. 2012
- Optical self-trapping in a photopolymer doped with Ag nanoparticles: a single-step route to metallodielectric cylindrical waveguides. Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics. 29:1085-1085. 2012
- Nonlinear Light Propagation in Photopolymers: From Self-Trapped Beams to 3-D Optical Lattices. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2012-01:821-821. 2012
- Optochemical self-organisation of white light in a photopolymerisable gel: a single-step route to intersecting and interleaving 3-D optical and waveguide lattices. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 22:12281-12281. 2012
- Spontaneous and sequential transitions of a Gaussian beam into diffraction rings, single ring and circular array of filaments in a photopolymer. Optics Express. 19:15560-15560. 2011
- Diffraction rings due to spatial self-phase modulation in a photopolymerizable medium. Journal of Optics (India). 11:125202-125202. 2009
- Nonlinear propagation of incoherent white light in a photopolymerizable medium: evidence of the co-existence and competition between spontaneous pattern formation and self-trapping. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics. 20:380-384. 2009
- Photolytic formation of Ag nanoparticles in oligomeric organosiloxanes: new photolithographic routes to metallodielectric microperiodic structures. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 19:373-378. 2009
- An Experimental Study of the Dynamics and Temporal Evolution of Self-Trapped Laser Beams in a Photopolymerizable Organosiloxane. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112:17388-17396. 2008
- An experimental study of the interactions of self-trapped white light beams in a photopolymer. Applied Physics Letters. 93:051111. 2008
- Spontaneous formation of 3-D optical and structural lattices from two orthogonal and mutually incoherent beams of white light propagating in a photopolymerisable material. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 18:4133-4133. 2008
- Spontaneous Pattern Formation Due to Modulation Instability of Incoherent White Light in a Photopolymerizable Medium. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129:4738-4746. 2007
- The Dynamics of Self-Trapped Beams of Incoherent White Light in a Free-Radical Photopolymerizable Medium. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128:14913-14923. 2006
- Self-trapped white light beams and their interactions in a Photochemical system. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 232:473-473. 2006
- Self-Trapping of Spatially and Temporally Incoherent White Light in a Photochemical Medium. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128:406-407. 2006
- Sol−Gel Organic−Inorganic Composites for 3-D Holographic Lithography of Photonic Crystals with Submicron Periodicity. Chemistry of Materials. 15:2301-2304. 2003
- Spontaneously Ordered Sol−Gel Composites with Submicrometer Periodicity. Chemistry of Materials. 15:14-16. 2003
- Visible laser self-focusing in hybrid glass planar waveguides. Optics Letters. 27:1342-1342. 2002
- Self-Processing of Surface-Relief Gratings in Photosensitive Hybrid Sol-Gel Glasses. Advanced Materials. 11:1508-1511. 1999
- Laser tuning self-focusing photo-oriented polymerization.. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 218:U635-U635. 1999
- Photoinduced structural rela×ation and densification in sol-gel-derived nanocomposite thin films: implications for integrated optics device fabrication. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 76:1717-1729. 1998
other
- Comment on Spontaneously Ordered Sol−Gel Composites with Submicrometer Periodicity. Chemistry of Materials. 195-195. 2004
- Reply to the Comment on Spontaneously Ordered Sol−Gel Composites with Submicrometer Periodicity. Chemistry of Materials. 196-197. 2004
posters
- Bio-inspired Slim Polymer Films With Wide Fields Of View And Multiple Imaging Capabilities 2018
preprints