Basanta Bhowmik presently serving as Assistant Professor at University College of Engineering and Technology, (Vinoba Bhave University), Hazaribag, India. He received the B. Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in the year 2009 and M. Tech degree from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior with specialization VLSI Design in 2012. His Doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur and awarded in February 2017. His PhD work has been honored as Best PhD thesis award (2nd place) by Institute of Smart Structure and System, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interest includes Semiconducting material and device characterization and their application as gas sensor and thermoelectric application. He is the author and coauthor of about thirty four research articles in the journals and conferences of international repute. He is the recipient of CSIR SRF fellowship award, sponsored by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India for pursuing his PhD and best poster award in the event Research Scholar Colloquium organized by IIEST Shibpur in 2014. He is also the recipient of few travel grant awards from TEQIP and DST SERB India. He is the member of IEEE, IEEE Electron Device Society, IEEE Sensor Council and IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Presently he is the active reviewer of IEEE Sensor Journal.

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  • Area of Interest
  • Solid State Chemical Sensor/Electron Devices
  • Nano materials for Electronic Devices and Thermoelectric application
  • Low Power Analog Integrated Circuit

Research Publication

Book/Book chapter

  1. Book Chapter: P. Bhattacharyya, B. Bhowmik, A. Hazra, P.P. Chattopadhyay, Potentiality of semiconducting metal oxide nanoforms as solid state vapor sensors, in the book ‘Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends’, Edited by Alex Mason, Springer, 2014. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-12898-6_1
  2. B. Bhowmik, Neural amplifier for bio-potential acquisition system, Lap Lambert academic house publishing, Germany, ISBN NO- 978-3-659-54124-7. https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-659-54124-7/neural-amplifier-for-biopotential-acquisition-system

Peer Reviewed Archival Journals

  1. B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Efficient Gas Sensor Devices based on Surface Engineered Oxygen Vacancy Controlled TiO2 Nanosheets, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE), vol. 64, pp. 2357-2363, May-2017, (Impact factor: 2.605) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7891645/
  2. B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, A Proton Hopping Guided 3-D Space Charge Model for Quantitative Understanding of Humidity Dependent Gas Sensing by TiO2 Nanoflower based Devices, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 180-188, March-2017 (Impact factor: 2.485) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7797516/
  3. K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Resonant Frequency Tuning Technique for Selective Detection of Alcohols by TiO2 Nanorod based Capacitive Device, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (IEEE), vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 820-825, March-2017 ( Impact Factor: 2.485) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7859404/
  4. B. Bhowmik, A. Hazra, K. Dutta, P. Bhattacharyya, Repeatability and Stability of Room Temperature Acetone Sensor based on TiO2 Nanotubes: Influence of Stoichiometry Variation, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials reliability (IEEE), vol. 14, no.1, pp. 961-967, 2014 ( Impact factor: 1.89). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6879286
  5. B. Bhowmik, H.-J. Fecht, P. Bhattacharyya, Vertical Mode Optimal Acetone Sensing Performance of TiO2 Nanotube array by Tuning of Surface Area and Carrier Transport Time via Nanotube Length Variation, IEEE Sensor Journal (IEEE), vol. 15, no.10, pp.5919-5926, 29, 2015 (Impact factor 1.762).http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7134698/

6. B. Bhowmik, V. Manjuladevi, R. K. Gupta, P. Bhattacharyya, Highly Selective Low Temperature Acetone Sensor based on Hierarchical 3-D TiO2 Nanoflowers, IEEE Sensor Journal (IEEE), vol. 16, pp. 3488-3495, 2016 (Impact factor 1.762). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7414397

7. B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, A. Hazra, P. Bhattacharyya, Low Temperature Acetone Detection by p-type Nanocrystalline TiO2 Thin Film: Equivalent Circuit Model an Sensing Mechanism, Solid State Electronics (Elsevier), vol. 99, pp. 84-92, 2014, (Impact factor: 1.504). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7134698/

8. B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Highly Stable Low Temperature Alcohol Sensor Based on Hydrothermally Grown Tetragonal Titania Nanorods, RSC Advances (RSC), vol. 5, pp. 82159-82168, 28, 2015 (Impact factor 3.8). http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/ra/c5ra14518j#!divAbstract

9. P. Bhattacharyya, B. Bhowmik, H. J. Fetch, Operating Temperature, Selectivity and Repeatability of TiO2 Nanotube based Acetone Sensor: Influence of Pd and Ni nanoparticle Modifications, IEEE Transactions on Devices and Materials Reliability (IEEE), vol 14. no. 1, pp. 187-195, 2015 (Impact factor: 1.89).

10. B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Structural and Morphological Optimization of TiO2 nanosheet based alcohol sensor: correlation with defect states and surface roughness, ACS Applied and Material Interfaces (ACS), 2016, , (Impact factor: 7.2)

11. A. Hazra, K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik, P.P. Chattopadhyay, P. Bhattacharyya, Room Temperature Alcohol Sensing by Stoichiometry Controlled TiO2 Nanotube Array, Applied Physics Letter(AIP), vol. 105, pp. 081604-081607, 2014, (Impact Factor: 3.302). http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/105/8/10.1063/1.4894008

12. A. Hazra, B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, P.P. Chattopadhyay, P. Bhattacharyya, Stoichiometry, Length, and Wall Thickness Optimization of TiO2 Nanotube Array for Efficient Alcohol Sensing, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (ACS), vol. 7, pp.9336−9348, 2015 (Impact factor 6.723). http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b01785

13. A. Hazra, B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, V. Manjuladevi, R. K. Gupta, P. P. Chattopadhyay, P. Bhattacharyya, Formation Mechanism of Anodically Grown Free-Standing TiO2 Nanotube Array under the Influence of Mixed Electrolytes, Science of Advance Material (ASP), vol. 6, pp. 714-719, 2014 (Impact factor: 2.598). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/sam/2014/00000006/00000004/art00012?crawler=true

14. N. Banerjee, B. Bhowmik, S. Sarkar, C. K. Sarkar, P. Bhattacharyya, Anomalous Recovery Characteristics of Pd Modified ZnO Nanorod based Acetone Sensor, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(ASP), vol 13, pp.1-8, 2013 (Impact factor: 1.5). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jnn/2013/00000013/00000010/art00047

15. K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik, A. Hazra, P. P. Chattopadhyay, P. Bhattacharyya, An efficient BTX Sensor Based on p-type Nanoporous Titania Thin Films, Microelectronics Reliability (Elsevier), vol. 55, pp. 558–564, 2015 (Impact Factor: 1.433). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026271414005319

16. A. Hazra, K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik, P. Bhattacharyya, Highly Repeatable Low-ppm Ethanol Sensing Characteristics of p-TiO2-Based Resistive Devices, IEEE Sensors Journal (IEEE), vol. 15, no. 1, pp.408-416, 2015, (Impact Factor 1.762). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6871278

17. A. Hazra, K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik, V. Manjuladevi, R. K. Gupta, P. Bhattacharyya, Low Temperature Methanol Sensing by p-titania: Correlation with Defects States and Schottky Barrier Model, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (IEEE), vol 14. no. 1, pp. 187-195, 2014, ( Impact Factor: 1.825).

18. A. Hazra, K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik, V. Manjuladevi, R. K. Gupta, P. P. Chattopadhyay, P. Bhattacharyya, Electrochemically Grown Connected and Free Standing TiO2 Nanotube Array using Mixed Electrolyte: Structural and Optical Characterizations, Journal of Electronic Material (Springer), vol. 43 (9) pp. 3229-3235 , 2014, (Impact factor: 1.798).

National/International Conference

1. B. Bhowmik, P.P. Chattopadhyay, H. J. Fecht and P. Bhattacharyya, 1D and 3D nanostructures of TiO2 as gas sensing element: A Comparative study, 4th Nanotoday Conference, Dubai, 6-10th December 2015.

2. B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta and P. Bhattacharyya, n-TiO2/p-Si Heterojunction Devices as a Potential Ethanol Sensor, Conference on Computers and Devices forCommunication, Swiss hotel, Kolkata, 16-18th 2015.

3. B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Development of Efficient Acetone Sensor based on 0-D, 1-D, 2-D and 3-D Nanostructures of TiO2, Young Scientist Colloquium-2015, Organized by Materials Research Society of India (Kolkata chapter), CSIR-CGCRI Kolkata,11th Sept 2015.

4. B. Bhowmik, A. Hazra, K. Dutta, P. Bhattacharyya, Nanocrystalline p-TiO2 based MIS Device for Efficient Acetone Detection, IEEE SENSORS 2014, vol., no., pp.293,296, Valencia, Spain, 2-5 Nov. 2014

5. B. Bhowmik, A. Hazra, K. Dutta, P. Bhattacharyya, Development of Pd/TiO2/Si MIS Ethanol Sensor using Nano-TiO2 Sensing Layer, International Union of Material Research Society-International Conference in India 2013, IISc Bangalore, India, 16- 20th December, 2013.

6. B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, N. Banerjee, A. Hazra, P. Bhattacharyya, Low Temperature Acetone Sensor Based on Sol-gel Grown Nano TiO2Thin Film, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing, Communication and Nanotechnology (ICE-CCN), 2013, vol., no., pp.553,557, Tutikorin, Tamilnadu, 25-26th March 2013 doi: 10.1109/ICE-CCN.2013.6528561

7. B. Bhowmik, M. Pattanaik, P. Srivastava, A Tunable Amplifier Using Voltage Controlled PseudoResistor for Neural Recording Application, The 2nd International Conference on Electric Technology and Civil Engineering , Three gorges, China, May 18th -20th, 2012.

8. B. Bhowmik, M. Pattanaik, P. Srivastava, State of The Art Pseudo Resistance Techniques for Neural Signal Recording Application” International Conference on Nanomaterials and Electronics Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July24-26, 2012

9. B. Bhowmik, M. Pattanaik, P. Srivastava, A power efficient nanoscale CMOS Operational for Biomedical Application, National Symposium on Recent advances in Nanoscience Engineering &Technology(RANET), IIIT Gwalior, Nov-19-20,2011

10. S. Ghosal, B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Low temperature ethanol sensing performance of hydrothermally grown TiO2 nanoflowers in resistive mode, 4th Nanotoday Conference, Dubai, 6-10th December 2015.

11. K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik, P. P. Chattopadhyay and P. Bhattacharyya, Titania Nanotube based Xylene Sensor; Influence of Anodization Voltage, Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication, Swiss hotel, Kolkata,16-18th 2015.

12. A. Hazra, B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, P. Bhattacharyya, Low Temperature Low ppm Acetone Detection by Pd/TiO2/p-Si Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Devices, 7th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2013)Wellington, New Zealand 3-5th Dec 2013, pp-396-400

13. A. Hazra, B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, P. Bhattacharyya, Sol-gel Derived Nanocrystalline Undoped p-TiO2 Thin Film: Structural, Optical and MIS Device Characteristics, International Union of Material Research Society-International Conference in India 2013, IISc Bangalore, India, 16- 20th December, 2013.

14. K. Dutta, A. Hazra, B. Bhowmik, P.P. Chattopadhyay, P. Bhattacharyya, Mixed Electrolyte: A Controllable Route for Achieving Better Aspect Ratio of TiO2 Nanotubes, International Union of Material Research Society-International Conference in India 2013, IISc Bangalore, India, 16- 20th December, 2013.

14. P. Bhattacharyya, A. Hazra, B. Bhowmik, K. Dutta, Effect of Stoichiometry variation on Alcohol Sensing Properties of Electrochemically Grown TiO2 Nanotubes, 30th European Conference on Surface Science, Antalya, Turkey, 31st Aug-5th Sep 2014

15. K. Dutta, B. Bhowmik and P. Bhattacharyya, Resonant frequency tuning technique for selective detection of alcohols by TiO2 nanorod based capacitive device, 9-12 October, Toulouse, France, NMDC-2016

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