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Dr. Shashi P. Karna is a Senior Research Scientist-ST with the US Army Research Lab, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. His work there involves theory, method development, and modeling of electronics, photonic, and nanoenergetic materials; theory and experimental studies of functional nanomaterials (organic nanostructures, carbon nanotubes, semiconductor quantum dots) and nano-bio interface for molecular nanoelectronics and sensors applications.
Awards and Fellowships
1994 - 1997
1990 - 1992
1987
1976 - 1980
1974 - 1976
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NRC Senior Fellowship
IBM Software Development Award
NATO Visiting Scientist Award (3 months to visit U. Bonn)
CSIR of India Junior Research Fellowship
National Merit Scholarship of India |
Professional Membership and Affiliation
Fellow, American Physical Society, Elected 2006
Fellow, Army Research Laboratory, Elected 2005
Fellow, Optical Society of America, Elected 2003
Senior Member, IEEE , Elected 2000.
Member, American Chemical Society
Member, American Physical Society
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Recent Publications
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Karrea PSK, Bergstrom PL, Mallick G, et al.
Room temperature operational single electron transistor fabricated by focused ion beam deposition
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 102 (2): Art. No. 024316 JUL 15 2007 |
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Gowtham S, Scheicher RH, Ahuja R, et al.
Physisorption of nucleobases on graphene: Density-functional calculations
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 76 (3): Art. No. 033401 JUL 2007 |
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He HY, Pandey R, Karna SP
Electronic structure mechanism of spin-polarized electron transport in a Ni-C-60-Ni system
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 439 (1-3): 110-114 MAY 4 2007 |
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Dunlap BI, Karna SP, Zope RR
Dipole moments from atomic-number-dependent potentials in analytic density-functional theory
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 125 (21): Art. No. 214104 DEC 7 2006 |
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Pineda AC, Karna SP
(Hyper)polarizabilities of isolated GaN nanoclusters
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 429 (1-3): 169-173 SEP 29 2006 |
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He HY, Pandey R, Karna SP
Theoretical study of molecule mediated spin-polarized electron tunneling between magnetic materials
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 428 (4-6): 411-415 SEP 20 2006 |
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He HY, Pandey R, Pati R, et al.
Spin-polarized electron transport of a self-assembled organic monolayer on a Ni(111) substrate: An organic spin switch
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 73 (19): Art. No. 195311 MAY 2006 |
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Lau KC, Pandey R, Pati R, et al.
Theoretical study of electron transport in boron nanotubes
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 88 (21): Art. No. 212111 MAY 22 2006 |
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Lastella S, Mallick G, Woo R, et al.
Parallel arrays of individually addressable single-walled carbon nanotube field-effect transistors
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 99 (2): Art. No. 024302 JAN 15 2006 |
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Pati R, Pineda AC, Pandey R, et al.
Ab initio quantum chemical study of electron transfer in carboranes
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 406 (4-6): 483-488 MAY 2 2005 |
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