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  • [In preparation] Design and characterization of a high-performance wavemeter based on crossed fringe Fizeau interferometer
    Saurabh Kumar Singh, Avinash Kumar and Pranav R. Shirhatti
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  • Dissociation Dynamics of CO2 on Cu(110) Studied over a Wide Range of Incident Energies
    Saurabh Kumar Singh and Pranav R. Shirhatti
    J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 49, 20841–20848; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c05642
    ChemRxiv version DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-22gt7-v2
  • [Review] Vibrational Energy Transfer in Collisions of Molecules with Metal Surfaces
    Igor Rahinov, Alexander Kandratsenka, Tim Schäfer, Pranav Shirhatti, Kai Golibrzuch and Alec M. Wodtke
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 26, 15090-15114 (2024); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP00957F 
  • [Popular science article] Seeing with Atoms: Using Atomic Beams as Probes for Microscopy
    Pranav R. Shirhatti
    Physics News, Indian Physics Association    , Vol. 53-3, 19 (2024), (link)

  • The curious case of CO2 dissociation on Cu(110)
    Saurabh Kumar Singh and Pranav R. Shirhatti
    J. Chem. Phys. 160, 024702 (2024); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0176642

  • [Patent application filed] A Multistage Thermal Drift Compensated Cross-Fringed Fizeau Interferometer Wavemeter and Method Thereof
    Patent:  Indian App. No. 202321048766 dated 20-Jul-2023 – TIFR
    Inventors: Saurabh Kumar Singh, Avinash Kumar and Pranav R. Shirhatti, TIFR, Hyderabad
  • A versatile and narrow linewidth infra-red radiation source for ro-vibration state selected preparation of molecules in molecular beams
    Avinash Kumar, Saurabh Kumar Singh and Pranav R. Shirhatti
    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 94, 113001 (2023); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0157912
  • Contrast inversion in neutral atom scattering microscopy using cluster atom beams
    Geetika Bhardwaj and Pranav R. Shirhatti
    Phys. Rev. A 107, 062813 (2023); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.062813
  • [Preprint] Identifying signatures of thermal and non-thermal reaction pathways in plasmon-induced H2 + D2 exchange reaction
    Amaraja Taur, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Pranav R. Shirhatti, (link)
  • Simple and low-cost setup for part per billion level frequency stabilization and characterization of red He-Ne laser
    Saurabh Kumar Singh, Avinash Kumar, Pranav R. Shirhatti
    HardwareX, Volume 14, June 2023, e00421; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00421
  • A compact and highly collimated atomic/molecular beam source
    Geetika Bhardwaj, Saurabh Kumar Singh and Pranav R. Shirhatti
    Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 043305 (2023); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0145956
  • Neutral-atom-scattering-based mapping of atomically thin layers (ArXiv)
    Geetika Bhardwaj, Krishna Rani Sahoo, Rahul Sharma, Parswa Nath, Pranav R. Shirhatti
    Phys. Rev. A 105, 022828 (2022); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.022828
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  • Following the microscopic pathway to adsorption through chemisorption and physisorption wells
    Dmitriy Borodin, Igor Rahinov, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Meng Huang, Alexander Kandratsenka, Daniel J. Auerbach, Tianli Zhong, Hua Guo, Dirk Schwarzer, Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos and Alec M. Wodtke
    Science, September 2020: Vol. 369, Issue 6510, pp. 1461-1465, DOI: 10.1126/science.abc9581
  • Translational Inelasticity of NO and CO in Scattering from Ultrathin Metallic Films of Ag/Au (111)
    Steinsiek, Christoph, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jan Geweke, Jascha A. Lau, Jan Altschäffel, Alexander Kandratsenka, Christof Bartels, and Alec M. Wodtke.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122, no. 33 (2018): 18942-18948.
  • Work Function Dependence of Vibrational Relaxation Probabilities: NO (v = 2) Scattering from Ultra-Thin Metallic Films of Ag/Au(111)
    Christoph Steinsiek, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jan Geweke, Christof Bartels, and Alec M. Wodtke.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122 (2018), 10027-10033
  • Observation of the adsorption and desorption of vibrationally excited molecules on a metal surface
    Pranav R. Shirhatti, Igor Rahinov, Kai Golibrzuch, Jörn Werdecker, Jan Geweke, Jan Altschäffel, Sumit Kumar, Daniel J. Auerbach, Christof Bartels, and Alec M. Wodtke.
    Nature Chemistry,  10, 592–598 (2018)
    [Also check the news & views article: Vibrations that live long and prosper by Arthur L. Utz, Nature Chemistry volume 10, pages 577–578 (2018)]
  • Vibrational energy transfer near a dissociative adsorption transition state: A state-to-state study of HCl collisions at Au(111)
     Jan Geweke, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Igor Rahinov, Christof Bartels, and Alec M. Wodtke.
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, 145(5):054709, 2016.
  • Activated dissociation of HCl on Au(111)
         Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jan Geweke, Christoph Steinsiek, Christof Bartels, Igor Rahinov, Daniel J. Auerbach, and Alec M Wodtke.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 7:1346–1350, 2016.
  • Electronically nonadiabatic vibrational excitation of N2 scattered from Pt(111)
     Jörn Werdecker, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Kai Golibrzuch, Christof Bartels, Alec M. Wodtke and Dan J. Harding.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119:14722–14727, 2015.
  • Observation of translation-to-vibration excitation in acetylene scattering from Au(111): A REMPI based approach
     Kai Golibrzuch, Joshua H. Baraban, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jörn Werdecker, Christof Bartels and Alec M. Wodtke.
    Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 229(10-12):1929–1949, 2015.
  • CO desorption from a catalytic surface: Elucidation of the role of steps by velocity-selected residence time measurements
     Kai Golibrzuch, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jan Geweke, Jörn Werdecker, Alexander Kandratsenka, Daniel J. Auerbach, Alec M. Wodtke, and Christof Bartels.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(4):1465–1475, 2015.
  • Electron hole pair mediated vibrational excitation in CO scattering from Au(111): Incidence energy and surface temperature dependence
     Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jörn Werdecker, Kai Golibrzuch, Alec M. Wodtke, and Christof Bartels.
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141(12):124704, 2014.
  • The importance of accurate adiabatic interaction potentials for the correct description of electronically nonadiabatic vibrational energy transfer: A combined experimental and theoretical study of NO (v = 3) collisions with a Au(111) surface
     Kai Golibrzuch, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Igor Rahinov, Alexander Kandratsenka, Daniel J. Auerbach, Alec M. Wodtke, and Christof Bartels.
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, 140(4):044701, 2014.
  • Incidence energy dependent state-to-state time-of-flight measurements of NO (v = 3) collisions with Au(111): The fate of incidence vibrational and translational energy
     Kai Golibrzuch, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Igor Rahinov, Daniel J. Auerbach, Alec M. Wodtke, and Christof Bartels.
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16(16):7602–7610, 2014.
  • C–H···N hydrogen-bonding interaction in 7-azaindole·CHX3 (X = F, Cl) complexes
     Pranav R. Shirhatti, Dilip K. Maity, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    ChemPhysChem, 15(1):109–117, 2014.
  • O–H· · ·S hydrogen bonds conform to the acid-base formalism
     Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Aditi Bhattacherjee, Pranav R. Shirhatti, and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117(34):8238–8250, 2013.
  • State-to-state time-of-flight measurements of NO scattering from Au(111): Direct observation of translation-to-vibration coupling in electronically nonadiabatic energy transfer
     Kai Golibrzuch, Pranav R. Shirhatti, Jan Altschäffel, Igor Rahinov, Daniel J. Auerbach, Alec M. Wodtke, and Christof Bartels.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117(36):8750–8760, 2013.
  • C–H· · ·Y hydrogen bonds in the complexes of p-cresol and p-cyanophenol with fluoroform and chloroform
     Pranav R. Shirhatti, Dilip K. Maity, and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117(11):2307–2316, 2013.
  • Mass analyzed threshold ionization (MATI) spectroscopy of p-cresol
    Pranav R. Shirhatti and S. Wategaonkar.
    Indian Journal of Physics, 86(3):159–164, 2012. 
  • Structure of the indole-benzene dimer revisited
     Himansu S. Biswal, Eric Gloaguen, Michel Mons, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Pranav R. Shirhatti, and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 115(34):9485–9492, 2011.
  • Blue shifted hydrogen bond in 3-methylindole·CHX 3 complexes (X = Cl, F)
    Pranav R. Shirhatti and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,12(25):6650–6659, 2010.
  • O–H· · ·O versus O–H· · ·S hydrogen bonding 2: Alcohols and thiols as hydrogen bond acceptors
     Himansu S. Biswal, Pranav R. Shirhatti, and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114(26):6944–6955, 2010.
  • O–H· · ·O versus O–H· · ·S hydrogen bonding 1: Experimental and computational studies on the p-cresol·H2O and p-cresol·H2S complexes
     Himansu S. Biswal, Pranav R. Shirhatti, and Sanjay Wategaonkar.
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 113(19):5633–5643, 2009.