Dr Shimul Kanti Nath

Dr Shimul Kanti Nath

Research Associate
  • PhD, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University.
  • Master in Nano Sciences, Paris-Saclay University. 
  • BSc (Hons) & MS in Physics, University of Chittagong.

 

Engineering
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering

Dr. Shimul Kanti Nath is currently working as a postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering of The Australian National University in July 2021 and then worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Western Australia. He was one of the winners of the Prestigious Forrest Prospect Fellowship awarded by the Forrest Research Foundation in 2021.

Dr. Nath has extensive research experience and expertise in photodetectors and oxide-based memristors and is currently exploring their potential for emerging technologies, including next-generation remote sensing and brain-inspired computing. To date, he has authored and co-authored more than 31 research articles in prestigious scientific journals and presented his research at leading national and international conferences. A regular update of his publications is available here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-067X

Location
Level 1, Tyree Energy Technologies Building, 229 Anzac Parade, Kensington NSW 2052
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Ahmed T; Hasan S; Nath S; Biswas S; Mithu AI; Debbarma H; Debbarma R; Alom K; Sattar A; Akhter T; Bari M; Siddik AB; Muzaffar SB; Zinner D; Roos C, 2025, 'Mixed-Species Groups and Genetically Confirmed Hybridization Between Sympatric Phayre’s Langur (Trachypithecus phayrei) and Capped Langur (T. pileatus) in Northeast Bangladesh', International Journal of Primatology, 46, pp. 210 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-024-00459-x
    Journal articles | 2025
    Akhter T; H Khan MM; Nath S; Hasan S; Ahmed T, 2025, 'Photographic evidences of Pygmy white-toothed shrew Suncus etruscus in Bangladesh', Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 52, pp. 337 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v52i3.80794
    Journal articles | 2025
    Das SK; Nandi SK; Rúa A; Verbel CA; Nath SK; Lu T; Liu Y; Ratcliff T; Elliman RG, 2025, 'Higher-Order Synchronization, Bursting, and Tunable Phase Dynamics in Capacitively Coupled V3O5Relaxation Oscillators', ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7, pp. 9505 - 9516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.5c01666
    Journal articles | 2025
    Krishnamurthi V; Alluhaybi H; Vashishtha P; Guo X; Nguyen HH; Farsani JK; Zavabeti A; Giridhar SP; Jannat A; Nath SK; Elbourne A; Walia S; Daeneke T; Sabri Y; Nguyen CK; Syed N, 2025, 'Liquid Metal Printed Zinc Tin Composite Oxide Nanosheets: A Platform for Multifunctional Sensing at Room Temperature', Advanced Science, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202510017
    Journal articles | 2025
    Nath SK; Syed N; Pan W; Yu Y; Liu D; Nielsen MP; Yuwono J; Kumar PV; Zhu Y; Cortie DL; Nguyen CK; Fu L; Roberts A; Faraone L; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lei W, 2025, 'Liquid Metal-Exfoliated SnO2-Based Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures for Visible-to-Near-Infrared Photodetection', Advanced Optical Materials, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202500765
    Journal articles | 2025
    Nath SK, 2025, 'A light-driven device for neuromorphic computing', Light Science and Applications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01722-9
    Journal articles | 2025
    Sattar A; Nath S; Mithu AI, 2025, 'Observation of mating behaviour in Phayre’s Langur (Trachypithecus phayrei) in Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh', Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 53, pp. 125 - 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v53i1.82656
    Journal articles | 2024
    Bonagiri A; Das SK; Marquez CV; Rúa A; Puyoo E; Nath SK; Albertini D; Baboux N; Uenuma M; Elliman RG; Nandi SK, 2024, 'Biorealistic Neuronal Temperature-Sensitive Dynamics within Threshold Switching Memristors: Toward Neuromorphic Thermosensation', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16, pp. 31283 - 31293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c03803
    Journal articles | 2024
    Das SK; Nandi SK; Marquez CV; Rúa A; Uenuma M; Nath SK; Zhang S; Lin CH; Chu D; Ratcliff T; Elliman RG, 2024, 'Dynamics of Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons Based on Oxyvanite Memristors for Spiking Neural Networks', Advanced Intelligent Systems, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202400191
    Journal articles | 2024
    Nath SK; Das SK; Nandi SK; Xi C; Marquez CV; Rúa A; Uenuma M; Wang Z; Zhang S; Zhu RJ; Eshraghian J; Sun X; Lu T; Bian Y; Syed N; Pan W; Wang H; Lei W; Fu L; Faraone L; Liu Y; Elliman RG, 2024, 'Optically Tunable Electrical Oscillations in Oxide-Based Memristors for Neuromorphic Computing', Advanced Materials, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202400904
    Journal articles | 2024
    Nath SK; Turan I; Desvignes L; Largeau L; Mauguin O; Túnica M; Amato M; Renard C; Hallais G; Débarre D; Chiodi F, 2024, 'Tuning Superconductivity in Nanosecond Laser-Annealed Boron-Doped Si1–xGex Epilayers', Physica Status Solidi A Applications and Materials Science, 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.202400313
    Journal articles | 2023
    Das SK; Nandi SK; Marquez CV; Rúa A; Uenuma M; Puyoo E; Nath SK; Albertini D; Baboux N; Lu T; Liu Y; Haeger T; Heiderhoff R; Riedl T; Ratcliff T; Elliman RG, 2023, 'Physical Origin of Negative Differential Resistance in V3O5 and Its Application as a Solid-State Oscillator', Advanced Materials, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202208477
    Journal articles | 2023
    Li XJ; Wang XY; Li P; Iu HHC; Eshraghian JK; Nandi SK; Nath SK; Elliman RG, 2023, 'Tri-State Memristors Based on Composable Discrete Devices', International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218127423300185
    Journal articles | 2023
    Nandi SK; Nath SK; Das SK; Murdoch BJ; Ratcliff T; McCulloch DG; Elliman RG, 2023, 'Effect of Interdiffusion and Crystallization on Threshold Switching Characteristics of Nb/Nb2O5/Pt Memristors', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, pp. 58613 - 58622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c14431
    Journal articles | 2023
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; Das SK; Liang Y; Elliman RG, 2023, 'Thermal transport in metal-NbOx-metal cross-point devices and its effect on threshold switching characteristics', Nanoscale, 15, pp. 7559 - 7565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3nr00173c
    Journal articles | 2023
    Nath SK; Sun X; Nandi SK; Chen X; Wang Z; Das SK; Lei W; Faraone L; Rickard WDA; Elliman RG, 2023, 'Harnessing Metal/Oxide Interlayer to Engineer the Memristive Response and Oscillation Dynamics of Two-Terminal Memristors', Advanced Functional Materials, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202306428
    Journal articles | 2023
    Pan W; Ma S; Sun X; Nath SK; Zhang S; Gu R; Zhang Z; Faraone L; Lei W, 2023, 'Structural properties of MBE-grown CdTe (133)B buffer layers on GaAs (211)B substrates with CdZnTe/CdTe superlattice-based dislocation filtering layers', Journal of Applied Physics, 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0143854
    Journal articles | 2023
    Wang X; Zhang X; Dong C; Nath SK; Iu HHC, 2023, 'Design and Application of Memristive Balanced Ternary Univariate Logic Circuit', Micromachines, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14101895
    Journal articles | 2022
    Hasan S; Nath S; Ahmed MT; Tasnim M; Biswas S; Hossain MS; Ahmed T, 2022, 'Masturbation in male capped langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus) at Lawachara National Park, Bangladesh', Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 49, pp. 441 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v49i3.58518
    Journal articles | 2022
    Liang Y; Zhu Q; Wang G; Nath SK; Iu HHC; Nandi SK; Elliman RG, 2022, 'Universal Dynamics Analysis of Locally-Active Memristors and its Applications', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, 69, pp. 1278 - 1290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2021.3130938
    Journal articles | 2022
    Liu X; Zhang P; Nath SK; Li S; Nandi SK; Elliman RG, 2022, 'Understanding composite negative differential resistance in niobium oxide memristors', Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac3bf4
    Journal articles | 2022
    Nandi SK; Das SK; Cui Y; Helou AE; Nath SK; Ratcliff T; Raad P; Elliman RG, 2022, 'Thermal Conductivity of Amorphous NbOx Thin Films and Its Effect on Volatile Memristive Switching', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, pp. 21270 - 21277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c04618
    Journal articles | 2022
    Nandi SK; Puyoo E; Nath SK; Albertini D; Baboux N; Das SK; Ratcliff T; Elliman RG, 2022, 'High Spatial Resolution Thermal Mapping of Volatile Switching in NbOx‑Based Memristor Using In Situ Scanning Thermal Microscopy', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, pp. 29025 - 29031, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c06870
    Journal articles | 2022
    Pan W; Nath SK; Ma S; Gu R; Zhang Z; Fu L; Faraone L; Lei W, 2022, 'Non-invasive and non-destructive characterization of MBE-grown CdZnTe/CdTe superlattice-based dislocation filtering layers', Journal of Applied Physics, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0091573
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wang XY; Dong CT; Zhou PF; Nandi SK; Nath SK; Elliman RG; Iu HHC; Kang SM; Eshraghian JK, 2022, 'Low-Variance Memristor-Based Multi-Level Ternary Combinational Logic', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, 69, pp. 2423 - 2434, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2022.3151920
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hasan S; Ahmed T; Nath S; Biswas S; Muzaffar SB, 2021, 'Observations on The Diurnal Behaviour of Common Palm Civet <i>Paradoxurus hermaphroditus</i> Pallas (carnivora: Viverridae) in Northeast Bangladesh', Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (JBNHS), 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.17087/jbnhs/2021/v118/148755
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; Ratcliff T; Elliman RG, 2021, 'Engineering the threshold switching response of Nb2O5-Based memristors by Ti doping', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 2845 - 2852, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c19544
    Journal articles | 2020
    Nandi SK; Nath SK; El-Helou AE; Li S; Ratcliff T; Uenuma M; Raad PE; Elliman RG, 2020, 'Electric Field- And Current-Induced Electroforming Modes in NbO x', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, pp. 8422 - 8428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20252
    Journal articles | 2020
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; El-Helou A; Liu X; Li S; Ratcliff T; Raad PE; Elliman RG, 2020, 'Schottky-barrier-induced asymmetry in the negative-differential-resistance response of nb/nb ox / pt cross-point devices', Physical Review Applied, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.064024
    Journal articles | 2020
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; Li S; Elliman RG, 2020, 'Metal-oxide interface reactions and their effect on integrated resistive/threshold switching in NbO x', Nanotechnology, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab7889
    Journal articles | 2019
    Hasan S; Maria M; Nath S; Al-Razi H, 2019, 'Sighting of a Yellow-Throated Marten <i>Martes flavigula</i> in Human Dominated Landscape of Northeastern Bangladesh', Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (JBNHS), 116, pp. 57 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.17087/jbnhs/2019/v116/140983
    Journal articles | 2019
    Li S; Liu X; Nandi SK; Nath SK; Elliman RG, 2019, 'Origin of Current-Controlled Negative Differential Resistance Modes and the Emergence of Composite Characteristics with High Complexity', Advanced Functional Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201905060
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nandi SK; Nath SK; El-Helou AE; Li S; Liu X; Raad PE; Elliman RG, 2019, 'Current Localization and Redistribution as the Basis of Discontinuous Current Controlled Negative Differential Resistance in NbOx', Advanced Functional Materials, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201906731
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; Li S; Elliman RG, 2019, 'Detection and spatial mapping of conductive filaments in metal/oxide/metal cross-point devices using a thin photoresist layer', Applied Physics Letters, 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5084060
    Journal articles | 2015
    Nath SK; Chowdhury N; Gafur MA, 2015, 'Effect of Co Doping on Crystallographic and Optoelectronic Properties of ZnO Thin Films', Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 28, pp. 117 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10948-014-2815-6
    Journal articles | 2014
    Nandi SK; Nath SK; Hossain AKMA; Khan JU, 2014, 'Effect of Zn Doping on Structural and Magnetic Properties of Ba4Ni2−xZn xFe36O60 Hexaferrites', Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 27, pp. 2655 - 2662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10948-014-2710-1
    Journal articles | 2013
    Nath SK; Paul DP; Das SK, 2013, 'Structural and Optical Properties of ZnO Thin Films Deposited by Spray Pyrolysis Technique', Advanced Science Focus, 1, pp. 205 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asfo.2013.1042
  • Preprints | 2025
    Nath SK; Syed N; Pan W; Yu Y; Liu D; Nielsen MP; Yuwono J; Kumar P; Zhu Y; Cortie DL; Nguyen CK; Fu L; Roberts A; Faraone L; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Lei W, 2025, Liquid Metal-Exfoliated SnO$_2$-Based Mixed-dimensional Heterostructures for Visible-to-Near-Infrared Photodetection, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2501.13378
    Preprints | 2024
    Nath S; Turan I; Desvignes L; Largeau L; Mauguin O; Túnica M; Amato M; Renard C; Hallais G; Débarre D; Chiodi F, 2024, Tuning superconductivity in nanosecond laser annealed boron doped $Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}$ epilayers, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2404.02748
    Preprints | 2019
    Li S; Liu X; Nandi SK; Nath SK; Elliman RG, 2019, Origin of current-controlled negative differential resistance modes and the emergence of composite characteristics with high complexity, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1907.02651
    Preprints | 2019
    Nandi SK; Nath SK; Helou AE; Li S; Liu X; Raad PE; Elliman RG, 2019, Current localisation and redistribution as the basis of discontinuous current controlled negative differential resistance in NbOx, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1906.08980
    Preprints | 2019
    Nandi SK; Nath SK; Helou AE; Li S; Uenuma M; Raad PE; Elliman RG, 2019, Electric field and current induced electroforming modes in NbOx, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1909.06443
    Preprints | 2019
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; El-Helou A; Liu X; Li S; Ratcliff T; Raad PE; Elliman RG, 2019, Schottky barrier induced asymmetry in the negative differential resistance response of Nb/NbOx/Pt cross-point devices, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1912.08371
    Preprints | 2019
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; Li S; Elliman RG, 2019, Metal-oxide interface reactions and their effect on integrated resistive/threshold switching in NbOx, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1912.08373
    Preprints | 2018
    Nath SK; Nandi SK; Li S; Elliman RG, 2018, Detection and spatial mapping of conductive filaments in metal/oxide/metal cross-point devices, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1811.11889
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Ashifur Rahman M; Hasanuzzaman Shawon M; Kumar Ghosh S; Kanti Nath S, 2014, 'Transient stability enhancement of fuel cell system using D-STATCOM', in Proceedings of 2014 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology Icdret 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdret.2014.6861663
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Ghosh SK; Shawon MH; Rahman MA; Nath SK, 2014, 'Wind energy assessment using Weibull distribution in coastal areas of Bangladesh', in Proceedings of 2014 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology Icdret 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdret.2014.6861731
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Nath SK; Shawon MH; Ghosh SK; Rahman MA, 2013, 'Study of structural and optical properties of spray deposited Co doped Zno thin film', in Proceedings of 2013 2nd International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering Icaee 2013, pp. 43 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICAEE.2013.6750302

  • EDI Outreach Grant, 2025, $5000
  • ARC TMOS Conference Travel Grant, 2025 (transport and accommodation cost)
  • ANSTO Neutron and X-ray Characterization equipment access grant (grant value: ACNS beam time), 2023 - 2024. Proposal number: 17399 (Principal Scientist)
  • FRF Travel Grant, 2023, $5000
  • Forrest Prospect Fellowship, The University of Western Australia (UWA), November 2021 - April 2023, $149,334
  • UWA Relocation Grant, 2021, $5000
  • Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN) Conference Travel Grant, 2020, conference registration fee
  • Mark Ridgway Travel Grant, The Australian National University (ANU), 2019, $1000
  • Vice-Chancellor's Travel Grant, ANU, 2019, $1500
  • ANN Conference Travel Grant, 2017, conference registration fee

 

  • Forrest Foundation Prospect Fellowship, 2021
  • COVID extension scholarship, ANU, 2020    
  • EME 3MT thesis winner by people’s choice, 2018
  • Runner up of the ANN Entrepreneurship Challenge, Adelaide (group performance), 2017
  • ANU International PhD Scholarship, 2016   
  • ANU (HDR) Fee Merit Scholarship, 2016    
  • University of Sydney International PhD Scholarship (did not accept the offer), 2016 
  • NanoSaclay Excellence Laboratory (LaBex) Scholarship, Paris-Saclay University, 2015
  • University of Lyon master’s Scholarship, 2014  
  • University of Chittagong Merit Scholarship, 2011