Amrita presented her poster titled "Artificial synapse based on Carbon Quantum Dots dispersed in Indigo molecular layer for Neuromorphic device application" at the 34th Annual General Meeting of Materials Research Society of India and 5th Indian Materials conclave, held at IIT (BHU), Varanasi during 12-15 December 2023.

Amrita presented her research work on "Carbon Quantum Dots based Neuromorphic Device" at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology held during 20-21 November 2023 at Vienna, Austria.

NeoSMaRT group members participated and volunteered for the International Conference on Functional Materials for Future Technology (IC-FMFT 2023) hosted by the Centre for Functional Materials at VIT Vellore, India from April 19-21, 2023.

• Ashly, Amrita, Keval, Meenu and Sreelakshmi participated in Poster Presentation, and also volunteered for the conference.

• Girish actively volunteered in designing and compiling the official Book of Abstracts, and served as the Master of Ceremonies for the inaugural event.

• Dr. Ramesh Thamankar served as the Chair for some technical sessions and organised the events as the Convener of the conference.

Amrita's paper on "Artificial synapse based on carbon quantum dots dispersed in indigo molecular layer for neuromorphic applications" co-authored with Dr. R. Thamankar, is published in APL Materials by AIP Publishing. (I.F. 6.635)

Link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0143219

Girish and Amrita attended the 3-days INUP-i2i online Familiarization Workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies, conducted by IIT-Bombay during 23-25 January 2023.

Amrita, Meenu and Girish attended a 6-day virtual workshop on "Research Opportunities in Semiconductor Materials and Devices" (ROSMD-2022) jointly organised by SRMIST, Chennai and IIITDM, Kancheepuram.

Amrita qualifies the national level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Physics 2021.