Tharanga Nanayakkara

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

tnanayakk@bnl.gov

Pronouns: he, him, his

Education | Appointments | Publications

Education

Ph.D.: Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

M.Sc.: Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

B.Sc.: University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Professional Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory 2022-present

Selected Publications

• Nanayakkara TR, Bollinger AT, Li R, et al (2024) Synthesis and electrical transport properties of superconducting platinum silicide thin films and devices. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 42:. https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0004008
• Nanayakkara TR, Wijewardena UK, Withanage SM, et al (2020) Strain relaxation in different shapes of single crystal graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition on copper. Carbon 168:684–690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.07.025
• Nanayakkara TR, Samaraweera RL, Gunawardana B, et al (2018) Electron heating induced by microwave photoexcitation in the GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron system. Physical Review B 98:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.035304
• Wijewardena UK, Nanayakkara TR, Kriisa A, et al (2022) Size dependence- and induced transformations- of fractional quantum Hall effects under tilted magnetic fields. Scientific Reports 12:. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22812-x
• Samaraweera RL, Gunawardana B, Nanayakkara TR, et al (2020) Study of narrow negative magnetoresistance effect in ultra-high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2DES under microwave photo-excitation. Scientific Reports 10:. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57331-9
• Mani RG, Wijewardena UK, Nanayakkara TR, et al (2021) Marginal metallic state at a fractional filling of '8/5' and '4/3' of Landau levels in the GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system. Scientific Reports 11:. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94563-0