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Dr. Shashi P. Karna

Dr. Shashi P. Karna

Adjunct Professor

PhD, Banaras Hindu University

Physical Chemistry

Phone: 906.487.2086

Fax: 906.487.2933

Email: skarna@mtu.edu

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Awards and Fellowships

Professional Membership and Affiliation

Recent Publications

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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

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

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Recent Publications



1.

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



2.

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



3.

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



4.

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



5.

Pineda AC, Karna SP
(Hyper)polarizabilities of isolated GaN nanoclusters 
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS 429 (1-3): 169-173 SEP 29 2006



6.

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



8.

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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