Areas of Research:

• Organic Semiconductors, Organic/Polymer Light Emitting Diodes, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Interfaces, Nanomaterials and Nanostructures, Thin Films, Energy Storage Devices.

Contributions to Teaching:

• October 2022 – Present: Assistant Professor (Guest), Department of Physics, Swami Anandatheertha Campus, Payyanur.
• November 2021 – May 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Gurudev Arts andScience College, Mathil, Payyanur.
• July 2012 – April 2017: Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore.

• December 2019 – March 2020: Senior Facility Technologist, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, Karnataka.
• July 2014 – June 2017: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore.
• July 2012 – June 2014: Junior Research Fellow, Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore.

1. K. M. Nimith, N. S. Sterin, Partha P. Das., G. Umesh & M. N. Satyanarayan. “Capacitance and Impedance Spectroscopy studies of Polymer Light Emitting Diodes based on MEH-PPV:BT blends”. Synthetic Metals. 250, 99-103 (2019). Citations: 7, (Impact Factor: 4)
2. K. M. Nimith, M. N. Satyanarayan & G. Umesh. “Enhancement in fluorescence quantum yield of MEH-PPV:BT blends for polymer light emitting diode applications”. Optical Materials. 80, 143-148 (2018). Citations: 38, (Impact Factor: 3.754)
3. Naveenchandra Pilicode, Praveen Naik, Nimith K. M., Madhukara Acharya, Satyanarayan M. N. & Airody Vasudeva Adhikari. “New cyanopyridine‐based π‐conjugative poly (azomethine)s: Synthesis, characterization and electroluminescence studies”. Polymers for Advanced Technologies 32 (1), 131-14 (2021), (Impact Factor: 3.348)
4. Naveenchandra Pilicode, Praveen Naik, Nimith K. M., Madhukara Acharya, Satyanarayan M. N. & Airody Vasudeva Adhikari. “New cyanopyridine based conjugated polymers carrying auxiliary electron donors: From molecular design to blue emissive PLEDs”. Dyes and Pigments. 174, 108046 (2020). Citations: 4, (Impact Factor: 5.122)
5. Naveenchandra Pilicode, Nimith K. M., Madhukara Acharya, Praveen Naik, Satyanarayan M.N. & Airody Vasudeva Adhikari. “New blue light emitting cyanopyridine based conjugated polymers: From molecular engineering to PLED applications”. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A: Chemistry. 378, 38-45 (2019). Citations: 11, (Impact Factor: 5.141)
6. Naveenchandra Pilicode, Nimith K. M., Satyanarayan M. N. & Airody Vasudeva Adhikari. “New cyanopyridine based conjugative polymers as blue emitters: Synthesis, photophysical,theoretical and electroluminescence studies”. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A:Chemistry. 364, 6-15 (2018). Citations: 10, (Impact Factor: 5.141)
7. K. M. Nimith, M. N. Satyanarayan & G. Umesh. “Electrical Characterization of MEH-PPV based Schottky Diodes”. AIP Conference Proceedings 1728, 020382 (2016).