Rajratan Basu

United States Naval Academy — United States

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Liquid Crystal Research Advancements(65), Photonic Crystals and Applications(23), Photonic and Optical Devices(15), Mechanical and Optical Resonators(14), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation(13)

Publications76 total

Ion-order coupling in nematic liquid crystals
Physical review. E·2025
Accelerated Electro-Optic Switching in Liquid Crystal Devices via Ion Trapping by Dispersed Helical Carbon Nanotubes
Micromachines·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Ion Trapping by Dispersed Helical Carbon Nanotubes for Accelerated Electro-Optic Switching in Liquid Crystal Devices
Preprints.org·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Reduced ionic effects and enhanced spontaneous polarization in a ferroelectric liquid crystal device employing a two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride planar-alignment agent
Physical review. E·2025· 1 cited
Utilizing 2D materials in liquid crystal–based electro-optic devices: A perspective
Applied Physics Letters·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Ion trapping, reduced rotational viscosity, and accelerated electro-optic response characteristics in gold nano-urchin–nematic suspensions
Physical review. E·2023· 10 cited
Electro-optic hybrid aligned nematic device utilizing carbon nanotube arrays and two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride nanosheet as alignment substrates
Physical review. E·2021· 9 cited
Graphene as an alignment agent, an electrode, and a source of surface chirality in a smectic-<i>A</i> liquid crystal
Physical review. E·2021· 8 cited
Homeotropic liquid crystal device employing vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays as the alignment agent
Physical review. E·2020· 24 cited
Electro-optic liquid crystal device employing two-dimensional WSe<sub>2</sub> as the planar-alignment layers
Optical Materials Express·2020· 13 citedOpen Access
Application of monolayer WSe 2 as the planar-alignment agent in an electro-optic liquid crystal device
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2020
Effect of transverse magnetic fields on an isotopically engineered diamond NV ensemble
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2020
Dielectric and Electro-Optic Effects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Doped with h-BN Flakes
Crystals·2020· 17 citedOpen Access
Enhancement of effective polar anchoring strength and accelerated electro-optic switching in a two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride/polyimide hybrid liquid crystal device
Applied Optics·2019· 10 cited
Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheet as the Planar-Alignment Agent in a Liquid Crystal-Based Electro-Optic Device
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2019
Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheet as an Ion-Capturing Planar-Alignment Agent in a Liquid Crystal-Based Electro-Optic Device
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2019
Reduced ionic effect and accelerated electro-optic response in a 2D hexagonal boron nitride planar-alignment agent based liquid crystal device
Optical Materials Express·2019· 25 citedOpen Access
Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride nanosheet as the planar-alignment agent in a liquid crystal-based electro-optic device
Optics Express·2019· 26 citedOpen Access
Characterizations of a graphene-polyimide hybrid electro-optical liquid crystal device
OSA Continuum·2018· 11 citedOpen Access
Ion trapping by the graphene electrode in a graphene-ITO hybrid liquid crystal cell
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2018
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Frequent Co-authors

Charles Rosenblatt(10), Germano S. Iannacchione(9), Lukas J. Atwood(7), Alfred Garvey(6), Robert P. Lemieux(6), Daniel Kinnamon(5), Rolfe G. Petschek(3), Samuel Shalov(2), Krysta A. Boccuzzi(2), Sameh Ferjani(2), Nicole Skaggs(2), Parvathalu Kalakonda(2), Ian R. Nemitz(2), Derek T. Gess(2), Peter Brereton(2), C. Kehr(2), Chia-Ling Chen(1), Andrew Lee(1), James E. Womack(1), Ravindra Kempaiah(1)