Saranyan Vijayaraghavan

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information
Gender Male
Country of India
Origin
Date of Birth 8-march-1984
Family Status Single
Permanent 5B, Gandhi Road, Kurichi colony, Salem - 636007, Tamil Nadu, India
address
Email saranyan.v@outlook.com
Mobile +91 9487758501

Present position
2015- Scientist, Central Electrochemical Research Insitute (CECRI), Karaikudi, Electrochemi-
cal STM, AFM, SECM.

Education
2014–2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, .
2010–2013 PhD in Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany, .
2006–2008 Masters in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2006-2008, .
◦ Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2006-07
◦ Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 2007-08
2002–2005 Bachelor of Physics, Loyola College, University of Madras, India.

NIMS Research associate

2014–2015 MANA postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Materials Science
(NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Studied molecular switches based on single porphyrin molecules
√ √ and the electronic structure of
single Fe, Mn, Cu phthalocyanine molecules on Si(111)- ( 7 × 3)-In for understanding molecular
superconductors and Kondo resonances.

PhD - Applied Physics

2010–2013 PhD description, Technische Universität München, Germany.
Studied molecule-molecule interaction, molecule-substrate interactions and host-guest molecular
systems using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The geometry and electronic structure of
various molecules were studied on noble metal surfaces.

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 Research Techniques: Scanning tunneling microscopy, Elastic and inelastic spectroscopy,
Semiconductor wafer fabrication, Novel nano materials, Ultra-High vacuum techniques,
Hyperchem, Optical microscopy, Experience with Graphene, Fullerene and carbon nan-
otube materials, thin film deposition and characterisation.

Masters Thesis
Title Room temperature fabrication of nano gaps for molecular electronic devices
Description Nanometer scale separation was created on gold nano wires using electromigration
technique and compared to electrochemically etched nano gaps.
Techniques Clean room fabrication techniques, Nanofabrication, Silicon wafer technology, e-beam
learnt evaporation, e-beam lithography, photolithography, chemical etching, Labview program-
ming, basic electrochemical methods.

Experience
2009–2010 Research assistant, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Room temperature and low-temperature STM studies of porphyrin molecules.
Miscellaneous
2005 Summer internship, TVS Motors, Salem, India.
Worked in an automobile manufacturing plant for understanding internal combustion engines.
2005 Nanoscience project, Nanoscience and technology corporation, New Delhi, India.
The use of sol-gel in nanotechnology.

Awards
2006 Erasmus Mundus Postgraduate Scholarship for Masters in Nanoscience-K.U.Leuven,
Belgium.
2010 Chess-Gold medal for playing for Loyola college, Chennai and TU Delft, The Netherlands
and prizes in various national and international tournaments.

Computer skills
Basic C programming, PYTHON
Intermediate LabView, html, LATEX, Office programs, Linux, Autocad, IGOR programming, MATLAB
programming.
Advanced Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw

Conferences and Workshops

2009 Trends in Nanotechnology, Conference,Barcelona, Spain
2009 Molecular Electronics Workshop, Bern, Switzerland
2009 Workshop on Nanoscience, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Nanostructures on Surfaces, Summer school, Sandbjerg, Denmark
2010 Conference ECOSS, Gröningen, The Netherlands
2011 Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Dresden, Germany
2011 International Scanning Probe Microscopy, Munich, Germany
2011 Latest Developments in Scanning Probe Techniques focused on Nanotechnology, Winter
School , Bad Honnef, Germany
2012 Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin Germany
2012 International Conference on Nanotechnology,Paris, France
2014 Functionality of Ordered Nanostructures, Tokyo, Japan
2015 MANA International Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan

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2015 Japanese Physical Society, Tokyo, Japan

Publications
◦ Petra Fesser, Cristian Iacovita, Christian Wäckerlin, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Nirmalya
Ballav, Kara Howes, Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht, Maura Crobu, Corinne Boudon, Meike Stöhr,
Thomas A. Jung, François Diederich. Visualizing the Product of a Formal Cycloaddition
of 7,7,8,8-Tetracyano-p-quinodimethane (TCNQ) to an Acetylene-Appended Porphyrin
by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Au(111). Chemistry - A European Journal , 17
(19) 5246-5250 (2011). Impact factor : 5.8
◦ David Écija, Willi Auwärter, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Knud Seufert, Felix Bischoff,
Kentaro Tashiro, Johannes V. Barth. Assembly and Manipulation of Rotatable Cerium
Porphyrinato Sandwich Complexes on a Surface. Angewandte Chemie International
Edition, 50 (17), 3872-3877 (2011). Impact factor : 13.73
◦ Willi Auwärter, Knud Seufert, Felix Bischoff, David Écija, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan,
Sushobhan Joshi, Florian Klappenberger, Niveditha Samudrala, Johannes V. Barth. A
surface-anchored molecular four-level conductance switch based on single proton transfer.
Nature Nanotechnology, 7, 41-46 (2011). Impact factor : 31.17
◦ David Écija, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Willi Auwärter, Sushobhan Joshi, Knud Seufert,
Claudia Aurisicchio, Davide Bonifazi, and Johannes V. Barth.. Two-Dimensional Short-
Range Disordered Crystalline Networks from Flexible Molecular Modules. ACS Nano
(2012). Impact factor : 12.06
◦ Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, David Écija, Willi Auwärter, Sushobhan Joshi, Knud Seufert,
Ari P. Seitsonen, Kentaro Tashiro, and Johannes V. Barth. Selective Supramolecu-
lar Fullerene-Porphyrin Interactions and Switching in Surface-Confined C60 -Ce(TPP)2
Dyads. Nano Lett. (2012). Impact factor : 13.02
◦ Cristian Iacovita, Petra Fesser, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Mihaela Enache, Meike Stöhr,
François Diederich, Thomas A. Jung. Controlling the Dimensionality and Structure of
Supramolecular Porphyrin Assemblies by their Functional Substituents: Dimers, Chains,
and Close-Packed 2D Assemblies. Chemistry - A European Journal (2012). Impact
factor : 5.8
◦ Sushobhan Joshi, David Écija, Ralph Koitz, Marcella Iannuzzi, Ari P. Seitsonen, Jürg
Hutter, Hermann Sachdev, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Felix Bischoff, Knud Seufert, Jo-
hannes V. Barth, Willi Auwärter. Boron Nitride on Cu(111): An Electronically Corrugated
Monolayer. Nano Lett. (2012). Impact factor : 13.02
◦ Felix Bischoff, Knud Seufert, Willi Auwärter, Sushobhan Joshi, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan,
David Écija, Katharina Diller, Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Sybille Fischer, Francesco
Allegretti, David A. Duncan, Florian Klappenberger, Florian Blobner, Runyuan Han,
Johannes V. Barth. How Surface Bonding and Repulsive Interactions Cause Phase
Transformations: Ordering of a Prototype Macrocyclic Compound on Ag(111). ACS
Nano (2013). Impact factor : 12.06
◦ David Écija, José I. Urgel, Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Sushobhan Joshia, Willi Auwärter,
Ari P. Seitsonenb, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Sybille Fischer, Saranyan Vi-
jayaraghavan, Joachim Reicher, Johannes V. Barth. Five-vertex Archimedean surface
tessellation by lanthanide-directed molecular self-assembly. PNAS (2013). Impact factor
: 9.73
◦ Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Sybille Fischer, Seung Cheol Oh, Özge Sağlam, Joachim
Reichert, Alissa Wiengarten, Knud Seufert, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, David Écija, Willi
Auwärter, Francesco Allegretti, Robert G. Acres, Kevin C. Prince, Katharina Diller, Florian
Klappenberger, and Johannes V. Barth. Self-Terminating Protocol for an Interfacial
Complexation Reaction in Vacuo by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS
Nano (2013). Impact factor : 12.06

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 ◦ Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, David Écija, Willi Auwärter, Sushobhan Joshi, Knud Seufert,
Mateusz Drach, Damian Nieckarz, Pawel Szabelski, Claudia Aurisicchio, Davide Bonifaz
and Johannes V. Barth.Supramolecular Assembly of Interfacial Nanoporous Networks with
Simultaneous Expression of Metal-Organic and Organic-Bonding Motifs. Chemistry -
A European Journal (2013). Impact factor : 5.8
◦ Knud Seufert , Willi Auwärter, F. J. García de Abajo, David Ecija, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan,
Sushobhan Joshi, and Johannes V. Barth. Controlled Interaction of Surface Quantum-
Well Electronic States. Nano Lett., (2013). Impact factor : 13.02
◦ José I. Urgel, David Écija, Willi Auwärter, Anthoula Papageorgiou, Ari P. Seitsonen,
Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Sushobhan Joshi, Sybille Fischer, Joachim Reichert and Jo-
hannes V. Barth.Five-vertex lanthanide coordination on surfaces: A route to sophisticated
nanoarchitectures and tesselations. Chemistry - A European Journal (2014). Impact
factor : 5.8
◦ Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Willi Auwärter, David Écija, Knud Seufert, Uta Schlickum,
Markus Etzkorn, Stefano Rusponi, Sebastian Stepanow, Torsten Houwaart, Philippe
Sautet, Marie-Laure Bocquet, H. Brune, Johannes V. Barth. Restoring the Co magnetic
moments at interfacial Co-porphyrin arrays by site-selective uptake of iron, ACS Nano
(2015). Impact factor : 12.06
◦ Puneet Mishra, Jonathan Hill, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Wim Van Rossom, Shunsuke
Yoshizawa, Maricarmen Grisolia, JorgeEcheverria, Teruo Ono, Katsuhiko Ariga, Philippe
Sautet, Tomonobu Nakayama, Christian Joachim, Takashi Uchihashi. Current driven
supramolecular motor with in-situ surface chiral directionality switching, ACS Nano
(2015). Impact factor : 12.06
◦ Torsten Houwaart, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan et al. Reversible atom switching in a surface
anchored Fe/porphyrin dyad. (In preparation)

Interests
- Classical Guitar - Chess
- Psychology - Hiking
- Photography

References

Dr. Willi Auwärter Prof. Dr. Johannes Barth

Physik Department Physik Department
TU München TU München
James-Franck-Str.1 James-Franck-Str.1
D-85748 Garching, Germany D-85748 Garching, Germany
B wau@tum.de B jvb@tum.de
T +49 89 289 12399 T +49 89 289 12609

Dr. David Écija Dr. Krishna Kowlgi

IMDEA Nanoscience-Organic Molecular Former Director of Technology @ minus9
Materials Lab Technology
C/Faraday, 9 Julianalaan 136
Campus Universitario de Cantoblanco 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
28049 Madrid - Spain B kkowlgi@gmail.com
B david.ecija@imdea.org T +31 6175 68041
T +34 91 299 88 55

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