Dr Girish Lakhwani | ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

Dr Girish Lakhwani

Chief Investigator

Molecular Photophysics Group

Lakhwani's expertise covers chiroptical spectroscopy, single molecule spectroscopy, device physics and master equation based coarse-grained simulations. He coordinates programs across the themes of materials, theory, instrumentation and devices.

Qualifications: 
PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, 2009
M.Sc (Integrated), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 2005
ORCID iD: 
0000000310705859

Publications

Journal Articles
Sharma, A.; Campbell, A.; Leoni, J.; Cheng, Y. Theng; Müllner, M.; Lakhwani, G. Circular Intensity Differential Scattering Reveals the Internal Structure of Polymer Fibrils. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2019, 10 (24), 7547 - 7553 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02993. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02993
Pandya, R.; Steinmetz, V.; Puttisong, Y.; Dufour, M.; Chen, W. M.; Chen, R. Y. S.; Barisien, T.; Sharma, A.; Lakhwani, G.; Mitioglu, A.; et al. Fine Structure and Spin Dynamics of Linearly Polarized Indirect Excitons in Two-Dimensional CdSe/CdTe Colloidal Heterostructures. ACS Nano 2019, 13 (9), 10140 - 10153 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b03252. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b03252
Long, G.; Zhou, Y.; Zhang, M.; Sabatini, R.; Rasmita, A.; Huang, L.; Lakhwani, G.; Gao, W. Theoretical Prediction of Chiral 3D Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites. Advanced Materials 2019, 31 (17), 1807628 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201807628. doi: 10.1002/adma.201807628
Sabatini, R. P.; Zhang, B.; Gupta, A.; Leoni, J.; Wong, W.; Lakhwani, G. Molecularly isolated perylene diimides enable both strong exciton–photon coupling and high photoluminescence quantum yield. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2019, 7 (10), 2954 - 2960 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC00093C. doi: 10.1039/C9TC00093C
Sharma, A.; Athanasopoulos, S.; Tapping, P. C.; Sabatini, R. P.; McRae, O. F.; Müllner, M.; Kee, T. W.; Lakhwani, G. Emission Decay Pathways Sensitive to Circular Polarization of Excitation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (42), 23910 - 23916 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07482. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07482