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Dr. Mohammad Adnan
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    M.Sc.(Gold Medalist, AMU), PhD (IIT Delhi), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Assistant Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Nonlinear Optics, Ultrafast Dynamics, 2D Materials, Optoelectronics

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh 202002, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    mohdadnan898@gmail.com

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.TIME_TABLE

    Odd Semester 2024-2025

DEPARTMENT_STAFF.COMPLETE_CV

Dr. Mohammad Adnan did his PhD under the supervision of Prof. G. Vijaya Prakash at Nanophotonics Lab, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi after completing graduate and postgraduate studies at Aligarh Muslim University. During his PhD, he also worked with Prof. Jeremy Baumberg at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK under Newton Bhabha PhD fellowship program. He got the opportunity to attend 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany where he had the privilege of meeting several Nobel laureates and gaining insights from their personal experiences. After PhD, he worked with Dr. Tobias Koenig at King’s lab at IPF Dresden, Germany and later, he was honored to receive a prestigious grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, enabling him to join Prof. Rudolf Bratschitsch at Ultrafast Solid-state Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics Group at University of Muenster, Germany. During his PhD and postdoctoral research, he published total 23 high-impact research papers (as on September 2024) in Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Chemistry of Materials, ACS Nano, Nature-Scientific Reports, Advanced Optical Materials, Applied Surface Science, Journal of Physical Chemistry C and so on. Dr. Adnan received several national and international fellowships viz Gold Medallist in MSc (Physics), DST INSPIRE Scholarship and DST INSPIRE Fellowship, CSIR-JRF, GATE, Newton Bhabha PhD Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Adnan has visited various countries, including the UK, Germany, Egypt, France, the Netherlands, Austria, and Belgium, for conferences and research purposes. He possesses successful links with many world-wide eminent researchers from University of Cambridge (UK), University of Southampton (UK), IPF Dresden (Germany), University of Muenster (Germany), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR-Germany) for wide range of research collaborations.

Dr. Adnan has more than 09 years of doctoral and post-doctoral extensive hands-on experience on light-matter interactions in wide range of novel optical materials, namely Inorganic-Organic hybrid perovskites, Transition metal dichalcogenides, heterostructures, colloidal nanoparticles and other emitting species using highly sophisticated ultrafast laser sources. The expertise, not limited to, is on high-pressure and ultra-low temperature spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy, time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, up-conversion photoluminescence, two-photon and multiphoton absorption induced photoluminescence spectroscopy and imaging, XFROG, back focal plane imaging. These are unique experimental techniques to explore about excited state charge carrier dynamics, exciton lifetimes, and provide understanding about free excitons and crumpled excitons, interlayer and intralayer excitons, dark excitons, trions. Apart from having deep experience with ultrafast optics/spectroscopy, he has equally good expertise in synthesis and fabrication techniques (solid-state and chemical synthesis, various deposition techniques, top-down and bottom-up fabrications), laser interference lithography techniques and typical clean-room characterizations such as PL, absorption, DLS, SEM, TEM, XRD, AFM, Raman etc.

Research interests: Ultrafast dynamics, Femtosecond time-resolved photoluminescence and pump-probe spectroscopy, 2D materials, low temperature spectroscopy, high pressure-induced spectroscopy, self-assembly photonic structures


  1. Publication
    1. Paul Steeger, Mohammad Adnan (equal authorship), Thorsten Deilmann, Xiang Li, Susanne Mu?ller, Katarzyna Skrzyn?ska, Michael Hanfland, Efim Kolesnikov, Jutta Ko?sters, Theresa Block, Robert Schmidt, Ilya Kupenko, Carmen Sanchez-Valle, G. Vijaya Prakash, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Rudolf Bratschitsch, “Hysteretic Piezochromism in a Lead Iodide-Based Two-Dimensional Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Perovskite”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024 , xx, xxxx

      (Impact factor:14.4, link) 
    2. Pawan Kumar Kanaujia, Mohammad Adnan* (corresponding author), Kshetra Mohan Dehury, Mohammad Akram, G. Vijaya Prakash, “Real-Time Monitoring of Progressive Crystal Phase Transformations and Associated Multi-Phase Optical Exciton Dynamics in Mixed (2D/3D) Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Semiconductors”, Chem. Mater., 2023, 35, 7984-7994

      (Impact factor: 10.508, link) 
    3. Mohammad Adnan, Jeremy J. Baumberg and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Linear and nonlinear optical probing of various excitons in 2D inorganic-organic hybrid structures”, Sci. Rep., 2020, 10, 2615.

      (Impact factor: 4.996, link) 
    4. Mohammad Adnan, Pawan K. Kanaujia and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Laser-induced inter-ion migration and the effect of different long alkylammonium halide functionalization on CH3NH3Pb(BrxI1-x)3 colloidal nanoparticles”, Appl. Sur. Sci., 2020, 526, 146789.

      (Impact factor: 7.392, link) 
    5. Mohammad Adnan, Nageswara Rao Kotla, Jitendra Nath Acharyya, Dinesh Kumar, Kshetra Mohan Dehury and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Synthesis, structural, linear and nonlinear optical studies of inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductors (R-C6H4CHCH3NH3)2PbI4, (R=CH3, Cl)”, ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 19565-19572

      (Impact factor: 4.132, link) 
    6. Mohammad Adnan, Kshetra Mohan Dehury, Pawan K. Kanaujia and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Real-time dynamic evolution monitoring of laser-induced exciton phase flips in 2D hybrid semiconductor (C12H25NH3)2PbI4”, J. Appl. Phys., 2020, 128, 023104

      (Impact factor: 2.877, link) 
    7. Mohammad Adnan and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Study of surface and bulk recombination kinetics of 2D IO hybrid semiconductors under linear and nonlinear femtosecond transient absorption analysis”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125, 12166

      (Impact factor:4.189, link) 
    8. Shailabh Tewari, Mohammad Adnan, Vineet Kumar, Balendra, Gaurav Jangra, G. Vijaya Prakash and A. Ramanan, “Properties of Two Closely Related Isostructural Series Based on Anderson-Evans Cluster Coordinated With Lanthanides [Ln(H2O)7{X(OH)6Mo6O18}].yH2O, X=Al, Cr”, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018, 6, 631

      (Impact factor: 5.221, link) 
    9. Jitendra Nath Acharyya, D Narayana Rao, Mohammad Adnan, C Raghavendar, R B Gangineni and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Giant optical nonlinearities of photonic mini-bands in metal-dielectric photonic structures”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 7, 2000035

      (Impact factor: 6.389, link) 
    10. Pawan K. Kanaujia, Mohammad Adnan, Kshetra Mohan Dehury and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Facile growth and re-crystallization of polymer-based Inorganic-Organic 2D hybrid composites and their applications”, J. Alloys and Comp., 2020, 829, 154550

      (Impact factor: 6.371, link) 
    11. Mohini Gupta, Mohammad Adnan, Rajamani Nagarajan and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Color-Tunable Upconversion in Er3+/Yb3+-Codoped KLaF4 Nanophosphors by Incorporation of Tm3+ Ions for Biological Applications”, ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 2275-2282

      (Impact factor: 4.132, link) 
    12. Dinesh Kumar, Shailabh Tewari, Mohammad Adnan, Shahab Ahmad, G. Vijaya Prakash and A. Ramanan, “Isostructural series of [{Al(H2O)6}{Ln(pda)3}].10H2O: Synthesis, structure and photoluminescence”, Inorganic Chimica Acta, 2019, 487, 81-91

      (Impact factor: 2.545, link) 
    13. Chandra Prakash Verma, K. Asokan, Pawan K. Kanaujia, Mohammad Adnan, D. Kanjilal and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Cavity Resonance Tunability of Porous Silicon Microcavities by Ar+ Ion Irradiation”, Appl. Sur. Sci. 2020, 535, 147694.

      (Impact factor: 7.392, link) 
    14. Pawan K. Kanaujia, Kshetra Mohan Dehury, Mohammad Adnan and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Alternative fabrication methodologies for two-dimensional self-assembled Inorganic-Organic hybrid semiconductors”, Opt. Mater. 2020, 110, 110511.

      (Impact factor: 3.754, link) 
    15. K. M. Dehury, P. K. Kanaujia, Mohammad Adnan, M. Kumar, S. Bhattacharya and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Structural Dependent (Non-) Linear Optical Excitons in Primary Cyclic Ammonium (CnH2n-1NH2; n= 3 to 8) based Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Semiconductor Series”, J. Phys. Chem. C. 2021, 125, 6821

      (Impact factor:4.189, link) 
    16. P. Mani, Mohammad Adnan and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Linear and nonlinear excitation induced ultrafast absorption dynamics in laser ablated and chemically synthesized gold nanoparticle colloids”, Opt. Mater. 2021, 117, 111206

      (Impact factor:3.754, link) 
    17. Chandra Prakash Verma, Mohammad Adnan, Pankaj Srivastava, K. Asokan, D. Kanjilal, G. Vijaya Prakash, “Tunable characteristics of porous silicon optical microcavities by energetic N ion beams interactions”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 2021, 55, 015104

      (Impact factor:3.207, link)
    18. Kshetra Mohan Dehury, Jitendra Nath Acharyya, Mohammad Adnan and G. Vijaya Prakash, “Femtosecond optical nonlinearities and ultrafast absorption dynamics of colloidal 2D organometal halide ((C12H25–NH3)2PbI4) nanoparticles and thin films”, Opt. Mater. 2022, 124, 111969

      (Impact factor:3.754, link)

    19. Olha Aftenieva, Julius Brunner, Mohammad Adnan, Swagato Sarkar, Andreas Fery, Yana Vaynzof,

      and Tobias A. F. König, “Directional Amplified Photoluminescence through Large-Area Perovskite-Based

      Metasurfaces”, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 2399

      (Impact factor:17.1, link)

    20. Olha Aftenieva, Markas Sudzius, Anatol Prudnikau, Mohammad Adnan, Swagato Sarkar, Vladimir Lesnyak, Karl Leo, Andreas Fery, and Tobias A.F. König, “Lasing by Template-Assisted Self-Assembled Quantum Dots”, Adv. Optical. Mater., 2023, 11, 2202226

      (Impact factor:10.050, link)

    21. Swagato Sarkar, Anik Kumar Ghosh, Mohammad Adnan, Olha Aftenieva, Vaibhav Gupta, Andreas Fery, Joby Joseph, and Tobias A. F. König, “Enhanced Figure of Merit via Hybridized Guided-Mode Resonances in 2D-Metallic Photonic Crystal Slabs”, Adv. Optical. Mater., 2022, 2200954

      (Impact factor:10.050, link)

    22. Jannis Bensmann, Robert Schmidt, Robert Schneider, Johannes Kern, Paul Steeger, Mohammad Adnan, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Rudolf Bratschitsch, “Nanoimprint strain-engineering of 2D semiconductors”, arxiv, 2022, link

    23. Vasudha Thakur, Jisha Mary Thomas, Mohammad Adnan, Chinnappan Sivasankar, G. Vijaya Prakash, Natesan Thirupathi, “Syntheses, structural, photophysical and theoretical studies of heteroleptic cycloplatinated guanidinate(1?) complexes bearing acetylacetonate and picolinate ancillary ligands”, RSC Adv. 2024 , 14, 13291

      (Impact factor:3.9, link)