Publications

Liqun Qiu, Janyce Franc, Abhitej Rewari, Daniele Blanc and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* Photolytic formation of Ag nanoparticles in oligomeric organosiloxanes: new photolithographic routes to metallodielectric microperiodic structures. Accepted. J. Mat. Chem. (2008)

Ana Villafranca and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* An Experimental Study of the Dynamics and Temporal Evolution of Self-Trapped Laser Beams in a Photopolymerizable Organosiloxane. Accepted. J. Phys. Chem. C. (2008).

Kailash Kasala and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* Interactions of mutually incoherent self-trapped beams of white light in a photopolymerisable medium. Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 051111-051113 (2008).

Ian B. Burgess, Matthew Ponte and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* Spontaneous formation of 3-D optical and structural lattices from two orthogonal and mutually incoherent beams of white light propagating in a photopolymerisable material. In press. J. Mat. Chem. (published online 20 June 2008; DOI: 10.1039/b805616a). Featured on front cover; top ten most downloaded Journal of Materials Chemistry articles in Sep. 2008.

Jihua Zhang and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* Nonlinear propagation of incoherent white light in a photopolymerizable medium: evidence of the co-existence and competition between spontaneous pattern formation and self-trapping. In press. J. Mat. Sci.: Materials in Electronics, (published online 29 February 2008; DOI: 10.1007/s10854-008-9631-3).

Ian B. Burgess, Whitney E. Shimmell, and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* Spontaneous Pattern Formation Due to Modulation Instability of Incoherent White Light in a Photopolymerizable Medium, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 4738 – 4746 (2007).

Jihua Zhang and Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* The Dynamics of Self-Trapped Beams of Incoherent White Light in a Free-Radical Photopolymerizable Medium. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 14913 – 14923, (2006).

J. Zhang, K. Kasala, A. Rewari and K. Saravanamuttu* Self-trapping of spatially and temporally incoherent light in a photochemical system. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 406-407 (2006).

J. Zhang, M. Sakalauskas, K. Kasala and K. Saravanamuttu* Self-trapped white light beams and their interactions in a photochemical system. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 95, 875-877 (2006).

Before arriving at McMaster

K. Saravanamuttu, C. F. Blanford, D. N. Sharp, E. R. Dedman, A. J. Turberfield* and R. G. Denning* Sol-Gel Organic-Inorganic Composites for 3-D Holographic Lithography of Photonic Crystals with Submicron Periodicity. Chem. Mater. 15, 2301-2304 (2003).

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu* and Mark. P. Andrews Spontaneously ordered sol-gel composites with sub-micron periodicity. Chem. Mater. 15, 14-16 (2003).

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu and Mark. P. Andrews*, Visible Laser Self-focusing in Hybrid Glass Planar Waveguides. Opt. Lett. 27, 1342-1344 (2002).

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu and Mark P. Andrews* Laser Tuning Self-focusing Photo-oriented Polymerization. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 81, 477 (1999).

Daniele Blanc, Serge Pelissier, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, S. Iraj Najafi and Mark P. Andrews* Self-Processing of Surface Relief Gratings in Photosensitive Hybrid Sol-Gel Glasses. Adv. Mater. 11, 1508-1511 (1999).

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, Xin M. Du, S. Iraj Najafi and Mark P.Andrews* Photo-induced Structural Relaxation and Densification in Sol-Gel Derived Nanocomposite Thin Films; Implications in Integrated Optics Device Fabrication. Can. J. Chem. 76, 1717-1729 (1998).

Published Conference Proceedings

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, Mark P. Andrews* and S. Iraj Najafi Light-induced Densification and Mechanisms in Hybrid Sol-Gel Glasses for Photonic Devices. Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3469, 79 (1998).

Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, Mark P. Andrews* and S. Iraj Najafi Photosensitivity of Sol-Gel Derived Nano-composites in Optical Device Deposition: An In Situ Spectroscopic Study. Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3417, (1998).

M. P. Andrews*, K. Saravanamuttu, T. Touam, R. Sara, X. M. Du, S.I. Najafi Collateral Densification Associated with the Photoresponse of Hybrid Sol-Gel Glasses for Depositing Bragg Gratings on Ridge waveguides. Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3282, 50 (1998).

R. Sara, T. Touam, C. Blanchetiere, Z. Saddiki, K. Saravanamuttu, X. M. Du, J. Chrostowski, M. P. Andrews*, S. I. Najafi Photolithography Fabrication of Sol-Gel Ridge Waveguide. Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3469, 118 (1998).

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