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Dhara Jayshankar Trivedi

Dhara Trivedi

Dhara Trivedi

Assistant Professor
Physics

Email: dtrivedi@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315/268-2398
Office: 263 Science Center
Mailbox: CU Box 5820
Website: https://dharatrivedi.github.io/

Department(s): Department of Physics, The Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP)
School(s): School of Arts and Sciences, Institute for STEM Education
  • Biography
  • Research Interests
  • Publications
Education
Ph.D. - 2015
University Of Rochester
M.Sc, B.Sc -
Gujarat University
Courses Taught
PH669 Quantum Mechanics
PH663 Electromagetism
PH661 Classical Mechanics
PH681 Specialized Topics in Physics
Experience
Postdoctoral Scholar Northwestern University, 2018
Biography

Dhara Trivedi was born and grew up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India. She received her Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Physics, from Gujarat University in India. Trivedi earned her PhD in Physics from University of Rochester in 2015. Under the guidance of Prof. Oleg V. Prezhdo, her doctoral research focused on the timedomain density functional theory to model non-adiabatic molecular dynamics in various nanoscale systems. In the period of 2015-2018, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate in George Schatz's group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. During this time, she worked on applications of plasmonics properties of nanoscale systems. In 2018 she joined the Physics Department at Clarkson University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She began as an Assistant Professor at Clarkson University in 2019. 

Research Interests
  • Charge and energy transfer in various large scale systems (e.g.: metals, semi- conductors, Perovskites, 2D materials and their interfaces) 
  • Plasmon-based hybrid systems  
  • Characterization of materials  

Current Research

Our research efforts aim to understand, tailor, and manipulate the atomistic level description of a system with the development and implementation of quantum-classical dynamics. It explores the details of underlying processes that influence this system, providing a better insight into the cutting edge experimental research and have high potential to impact the society by enabling new technologies or by improving the existing ones.  

Publications

M. Hassan, R. Stanton, J. Secora, D. Trivedi, and S. Andreescu, Ultra-Fast Removal of Phosphate from Eutrophic Waters using Cerium-based Metal-Organic Framework, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 52788, 2020.

D. J. Trivedi, B. Barrow, and G. C. Schatz, Understanding the Chemical Contribution to the Enhancement Mechanism in SERS: Connection with Hammett Parameters, J. Chem. Phys. (Invited), 153, 124706, 2020.

S. Agrawal, W. Lin, O. V. Prezhdo, and D. J. Trivedi, Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics of Charge Carriers in Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets, J. Chem. Phys., 153, 054701, 2020.

D. Wang, M. Bourgeois, W. Lee, R. Li, D. Trivedi, M. Knudson, W. Wang, G. C. Schatz, T. W. Odom, “Stretchable Nanolasing from Hybrid Quadrupole Plasmons” Nano Lett., 18 (7), 4549 (2018).  

D. Trivedi, D. Wang, T. W. Odom, G. C. Schatz, “Model for Describing Plasmonic Nanolasers using Maxwell-Liouville Equations with Finite-Difference-Time-Domain” Phys. Rev. A, 96, 053825 (2017). 

S. Pal, D. Trivedi, A. V. Akimov, B. Aradi, T Frauenheim, O. V. Prezhdo, “Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics for Thousand Atom Systems: A Tight-Binding Approach toward PYXAID” J. Chem. Theory and Comp., 12 (4), 1436 (2016).

 S. Dong, D. Trivedi, S. Chakrabortty, T. Kobayashi, Y. Chan, O. V. Prezhdo, Z. Loh, “Observation of an Excitonic Quantum Coherence in CdSe nanocrystals” Nano Lett., 15 (10), 6875 (2015).  

A. V. Akimov, D. Trivedi, L. Wang, O. V. Prezhdo, “Analysis of the Trajectory Surface Hopping Method from the Markov State Model Perspective” J. Phys. Soc., 84(9), 094002 (2015).

 D. Trivedi, O. V. Prezhdo, “Decoherence Allows Model Reduction in Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations” J. Phys. Chem. A, 119 (33), 8846 (2015).  

D. Trivedi, L. Wang, O. V. Prezhdo, “Auger-Mediated Electron Relaxation is Robust to Deep Hole Traps: TimeDomain Ab Initio Study of CdSe Quantum Dots”, Nano Lett., 15 (3), 2086 (2015).

 L. Wang, D. Trivedi, O. V. Prezhdo, “Global Flux Surface Hopping Approach for Mixed Quantum-Classical Dynamics” J. Chem. Theory and Comp., 10 (9), 3598 (2014).

 P. Li, D. Trivedi, H. Dery, “Spin-Dependent Optical Properties in Strained Silicon and Germanium” Phys. Rev. B, 87, 115203 (2013).  

F. Pezzoli, F. Bottegoni, D. Trivedi, F. Ciccacci, A. Giorgioni, P. Li, S. Cecchi, E. Grilli, Y. Song, M. Guzzi, H. Dery, and G. Isella “Optical Spin Injection and Spin Lifetime in Ge Heterostructures” Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 156603 (2012).  

Book Chapters:  

B. Barrow, D. Trivedi, “Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies of Excited State Dynamics at Nanoscale Interfaces” in ACS Symposium Series Computational Photocatalysis: Modeling of Photophysics and Photochemistry at Interfaces (In Print) (2019), Edited by Dmitri Kilin  

L. Wang, R. Long, D. Trivedi, O. V. Prezhdo, “TimeDomain Ab Initio Modeling of Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Nanomaterials” in book Green Processes for Nanotechnology, ISBN: 978-3-319-15460 Springer International Publishing (2015).  

 
 

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