Biodegradable Piezoelectric Transducer for Biomedical Applications
Piezoelectric and Triboelectric Energy Harvester
Magnetoelectric Device based Wireless Power Transfer
Biodegradable and Wearable Electronics
Wireless Powering Implantable Devices and Medical Treatment
Ultrasound and Magnetic Filed based Wireless Energy Harvesters
Self-heal/Bendable Piezoelectric Organic Crystal, Inorganic Perovskites
Magneto-strictive Materials based Thin Films
Advanced Nanomaterials and Metal-Oxides based Graphene Composites
Polymer Nanocomposites
Take leading role in government funded research projects (NSF, AFOSR, ONR) in USA and (DST, CSIR) in India.
NSF grant “Towards Internet of Implantable Things: A Micro-Scale Magnetoelectric Intra-Body Communication”.
U.S. Army grant “On-demand adaptive power” and MMECH multi-source energy harvester.
ONR grant “Nanostructured Carbonaceous Coatings for Acoustic Attenuation in Phononic Waveguides”.
ONR grant “Ultrasound based Acoustic Waveguide for Structural health Monitoring”.
South Korea-BK21 grant for research on triboelectric nanogenerator for e-health care monitoring applications.
DST INSPIRE grant from DST, India for polymer composite and bioinspired materials-based materials.
Special grant (~$42,364) from Director, IIT-Kharagpur, India for our outstanding Ph.D. research works.
Responsible for training and maintenance of lab equipment such as LDV, Electromagnet, Magnetic coils, AFM, PL, PVD etc.
Instruments used and operated extensively:
• Deposition and Clean room facility: Magneton sputtering technology (RF/DC), Nanofabrication, Thin film deposition etc.
• Polymer Processing: Compression molding, Injection-molding, Extrusion.
• Piezoceramic: Processing of random and textured piezoelectric ceramics
• 3D Printing Technology: Experience to fabricate 3D printed stuff for different applications.
• Magnetic Property: Expetize to operate VSM instrument for magnetic properties measurements
• Device fabrication: Magnetoelectric, piezoelectric, triboelectric and multi-structured small devices
• Electrical measurements: Function generator, Power amplifier, Oscilloscope, Helmholtz coil, Electrometer, Current Preamplifier, d33 piezometer for evaluation of piezoelectric co-efficient (d33, d31 and d15) and hysteresis loop tester for P-E, C-V, Strain measurement etc.
• Structural, Morphological and Thermal Characterization: XRD, FTIR, Raman, UV-VIS, UTM, FESEM, DSC/ TGA etc.
• Electrochemical and EMI Shielding Measurements: Biologic-SP 150 for electrochemical measurements for supercapacitor and Vector Network Analyzer for EMI shielding materials.
• Dicing machine: Small area based ceramic, metals and others
• Simulation: Simulation via Finite Elemental Method (COMSOL multi-physics), expert in MATLAB.