Dr T. D. Dongale from Shivaji University tell us about his team's experience with the ArC One.

"We purchased the ArC ONE in 2018 with the help of a small grant received to me by my School. Initially, I was planning to purchase Kethley's source measurement unit but one of my colleagues suggested buying ArC ONE. Initially, I was sceptical to buy the ArC ONE but then I saw some of the papers Prof. Prodromakis had produced and then I finally decided to buy the instrument. 

The learning curve of the instrument is very simple, therefore, all of my students can easily handle the instrument. We are basically working with oxide nanomaterials and some biomaterials. We also check and compare a few devices with the semiconductor parameter analyzer and the results are very satisfactory. Further, the updated control and firmware also gives us additional advantages for the electrical measurements. 

With the help of ArC One, we have published many papers, and therefore, my master students get good placements in industry and academia."

Few Selected Publications

 A. A. Patil, S. V. Wagh, T. D. Dongale, and D. Kim, Electrospun 1D f-MWCNTs-TiO2 composite nanofibers for resistive memory and synaptic learning applications. Materials Letters, Vol. 280, p.128587, 2020. IF- 3.20 (Elsevier)

S. T. Killedar, N. A. Ahir, P. J. Morankar, A. P. Tiwari, P. B. Patil, T. D. Dongale, and D. Kim, Organic dye-sensitized f-MWCNTs-TiO2 composite for optically controlled resistive switching memory applications. Optical Materials, Vol. 109, p.110333, 2020. IF-2.77 (Springer)

A. A. Patil, S. S. Khot, R. U. Amate, P. N. Kamble, P. B. Patil, R. N. Bulakhe, I. In, T. D. Dongale & D. Kim, Bipolar-resistive switching and memristive properties of solution-processable cobalt oxide nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 31, pp. 9695–9704, 2020. IF-2.22 (Springer)

G. M Sangaonkar, M. P. Desai, T. D. Dongale, K. D. Pawar, Selective interaction between phytomediated anionic silver nanoparticles and mercury leading to amalgam formation enables highly sensitive, colorimetric and memristor-based detection of mercury, Scientific Reports, Vol. 10 (1), pp. 1-12, 2020. IF- 3.99 (Nature)

P. T Chandane, T. D Dongale, P. B Patil, A. P Tiwari, Organic resistive switching device based on cellulose-gelatine microcomposite fibers, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 30, pp. 21288–21296, 2019. IF-2.22 (Springer)  

M. Y. Chougale, S. R. Patil, S. P. Shinde, S. S. Khot, A A. Patil, A. C. Khot, S. S. Chougule, C. K. Volos, S. Kim, T. D. Dongale, Memristive switching in ionic liquid–based two-terminal discrete devices, Ionics, Vol. 25, pp. 5575–5583, 2019. IF-2.39 (Springer) 

A. V. Pawar, S. S. Kanapally, K. D. Kadam, S. L. Patil, V. S. Dongle, S. A. Jadhav, S. Kim, T. D. Dongale, MemSens: a new detection method for heavy metals based on silver nanoparticle assisted memristive switching principle, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 30, pp. 11383–11394, 2019. IF-2.22 (Springer)

The group has had over 23 students using the ArC One with several prestigious placements at international universities, several students went on to Research and development roles in industry and a few went on to Publishing houses including Springer-Nature.