Center for Materials Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Ind ore
Materials Science & Engineering Inter - disciplinary Research Group, IIT Indore
Academic Programs and Facilities Ph.D (Material Science and Engineering) M.Tech ( Material Science and Engineering) Intake : July 2015
Low Power Nanoelectronics Research Group Technologies for beyond the semiconductor roadmap: Alternative materials and innovative device architectures Group: Dr. Abhinav Kranti, Group Leader Ms. Mukta Parihar, Mr. Dipankar Ghosh, Mr. Manish Gupta, Mr. Praveen Dwivedi: PhD candidates Mr. Shankar Prasad, Mr. Ravi Gautam: Undergraduate project students Applications Faster transistors at low power Steeper off-to-on switching Dynamic memories Enhanced gain and bandwidth Sensors Junctionless MOSFET Junctionless Transistors: Ease of fabrication, only one type of dopants
Hydrogen Production: Photo-catalysis of Water Band gap tuning for visible light Photo-Catalysis Here we show how we can design the visible light photo-catalytic materials by tuning their band edge position J. Phy. Chem. C, 117, 13845, 2013 Dr. Biswarup Pathak s Publications I. Journal of Hydrogen Energy 39, 2042, 2014 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 22518, 2013 Journal of Catalysis, 299, 204, 2013 J. Phys. Chem C, 117, 15421, 2013 PhysChemChemPhys, 15, 17150, 2013 J. Phy. Chem. C, 117, 5043, 2013 J. Phys. Chem. C, 116, 22767, 2012 PhysChemChemPhys, 14, 4891, 2012 Applied Physics Letter 100, 182102, 2012 Applied Physics Letter 100, 181903, 2012
Research Areas Computational Material Science I. Journal of Hydrogen Energy 39, 2042, 2014 Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 22518, 2013 AIP Advances 3, 102117, 2013 J. Physical Chem. C, 117, 13845, 2013 J. Physical Chem. C, 117, 5043, 2013 Journal of Catalysis, 299, 204, 2013 Applied Physics Letter, 14, 4891, 2012 J. Physical Chem. C, 117, 15421, 2013 Applied Physics Letter, 100, 023701, 2012 PhysChemChemPhys, 15, 17150, 2013 J. Physical Chem. C, 116, 10861, 2012 Applied Physics Letters, 102, 243905, 2013 Euro Physics Letter, 97, 17014, 2012 Euro Physics Letter 103, 28007, 2013 In. J. hydrogen Energy, 37.11611, 2012 J. Nanoparticle Research 2012 PhotoCatalysis Batteries Molecular Electronics Nanotechnology, 23, 485406, 2012 Euro Physics Letter, 99, 47004, 2012 J Physical Chem. C, 116, 22767, 2012 PhysChemChemPhys, 14, 4891, 2012 ChemPhysChem 13, 300, 2012 Nanotechnology, 23, 385704, 2012 Surface Catalysis
High Temperature Tribological Coating Applications involving Thermal Spray and Laser based Techniques Presently working on Research Group Dr. Kazi Sabiruddin 1. (Asst. Prof.) Dr. Satyajit Chatterjee 2. (Asst. Prof.) 3. Balmukund Dhakar (Research scholar) Tribological and Chemical Characteristics of Thermally Sprayed Alumina Based Coatings. Plasma Nitriding/Nitrocaburising of Insdustrial components Synthesis of self-lubricating tribological coatings through chemically assisted laser surface alloying A Coefficient of friction ( ) 0.30 A1C A2C A6C A3C A5C 0.27 Fully molten region Partially molten region A4C 0.24 0.21 Load: 2.5 Kg 0.18 Time: 15 min Top Coat (Al2O3-4%Cr2O3) Speed: 300 rpm Bond Coat (Ni-5%Al) Sliding Distance: 170 m Counterbody: WC-6(wt.%)Co 0.15 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 Sliding distance (m) 175 200 Substrate (SS) Thermally sprayed coatings Laser surface alloying
Dr. Krushna Mavani Applications of Terahertz Spectroscopy Growth of nano pillars and multilayers of nanometer thickness
Video showing thin film deposition Closed Cycle Cryostat Box Furnace & Tube Furnace Ferroelectric loop tracer Pulsed Laser Deposition System
Dr. Sudeshna Chattopadhyay Surface-Interface and Nanomaterials group Major Research Areas: Surface and Interfaces Solids, liquids, soft matter and nanomaterials Electrical Energy Storage: Building better batteries: exploring novel electrode materials, through surface /interface modification Structure-property relationship: high pressure thermo electric materials. sudeshna@iiti.ac.in Specialization in techniques: Group Members: Surjendu Bikas Dutta Dipayan Pal Jaya Singhal Ajaib Singh Aakash Mathur 26nm 50nm X-ray scattering, (XRD, XRR, SAXS, GISAXS, GIXRD) Spectroscopy (VUV, UV-vis, IR, EELS, XPS, NEXAFS, SIMS) Atomic force microscopy Magnetron sputtering, spin coating, electrochemistry GISAXS: Au nanoparticles In plane correlation length 10nm 26nm 30nm 11nm pixel 20nm 200nm 0nm pixel Self-Assembled NanoMaterials: Electrical Energy Storage: Li+ battery Interaction at water & hydrophobic Interface
Dr. SOMADITYA SEN Associate Professor [sens@iiti.ac.in] Physics, Astrophysics, Materials Science and Eng. In-charge Central Workshop PhD: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Postdoc & Scientist: National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan Univ. of Telecommunications, Tokyo, Japan Univ. of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Current ongoing projects: Single phase solubility limits of TM-doped CeO2, ZnO, SnO2 and TiO2 systems Double phase co-existence of semiconducting simple oxides by introduction of doping or substitution Morphotropic Phase boundary studies on Pb(Ti,Fe)O3, Pb(Ti,Ni)O3, Pb(Ti,Mn)O3, Pb(Ti,Co)O3 systems. Similar projects on BaTiO3 and other Titanates and Manganites. Group Members: Arun Yadav Nasima Khatun Md. Nasir Tulika Srivastava Gautham Kumar Swati Baliyan Deepak Chouhan Collaborators: UWM, NMSU, APS, ANL (USA) RRCAT, IUC, BARC,, UGC-DAE
Dr. Parasharam Shirage Shape and Size Controlled Synthesis of Nano-materials for Energy Applications Material for Supercapacitors Applications NiCo2O4 nanoporous -2 KB-KOH KB-Na2SO4 0.009 0.006 5mm NbSe2 Single Crystal Growth Field Effect Transistor Transparent nano ZnO on Flexible Substrate MC -KOH MC-Na2SO4 0.012 I / ma cm NiO nano-porous Device Fabrications From Single Crystals 0.003 0.000-0.003-0.006-0.009 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 E / VSCE KOH Na2SO4 1.0 E/V 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 0 100 200 300 400 Time / S 500 600 AFM of Nano-NiO ZnO nano-tube For Solar Cell Applications ZnO nano-rods
Group Members Dr. Pankaj R. Sagdeo Dr. Rajesh Kumar Dr. Gayatri Sahu Ravikiran Late Shailendra K. Saxena* Hari Mohan Rai Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors. Semiconductor Nano-clusters & Nanostructures. Local I-V characteristic from single Si nanowire. Study the optical properties (Raman, PL, Uv-Vis spectroscopy ) Red Light Emission from Si Nanowires Aim: To obtain well aligned Si Nanowire for Field Emission.
Dr. I.A.Palani Email: palaniia@iiti.ac.in Liquid assisted Nano-particle generation for surface Palsmonics Dr.I.A.Palani & Dr.Vipul Singh Energy harvesting device on flexible substrate using ZnO Dr.I.A.Palani & Dr.Vipul Singh Laser Induced, Liquid assisted Surface Texturing on Flexible Substrate Dr.I.A.Palani & Dr.Anbarasu Discipline of Material Science and Engineering
Perovskite structured materials Optical characterization of thin film In house development of scientific instruments. Resonant x-ray, electron, neutron scattering experiments. In house developed LowTemperature Resistivity Measurement Setup Magneto resistance Interference pattern of Ta2O5Thin film
Dr. Preeti Bhobe Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics Specializes in - X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS), Photoemission Spectroscopy (PES), and Thermoelectric power measurement. Research Interests: Study of Crystal and Electronic Structure of Functional Materials - Magnetic Shape memory Alloys Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems; Half metals and Semiconducting Materials; Unusual Magnetism across Metal-Insulator transitions etc. Research Facilities: X-ray Absorption Spectrometer - XANES and EXAFS in Transmission & Fluorescence mode. Tri-Arc Furnace - Used for synthesis of Intermetallic & Alloys Electrical resistivity and thermopower setup measurement can be done from 20 K to 300 K EXAFS Spectrometer PES Data
Hybrid Nanodevice Research Group (HNRG) First time demonstration of Dual Ion Beam Sputtered SZO/n-Si heterojunction diode First time demonstration of Dual Ion Beam Sputtered SZO/GZO homojunction diode Principle Investigator: Dr. Shaibal Mukherjee Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore! p-contact p-gan Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, vol. 25, pp. 772-777, 2014. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 146-152(7), 2014. Applied Physics Letters, vol. 103, pp. 072109(1-5), 2013. Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 114, pp. 163107(1-6), 2013. Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 28, pp. 085014(1-7), 2013. IIT Indore p-mgzno InGaN n-contact n-mgzno n-zno Substrate Design and growth optimization by dual ion beam sputtering of ZnO-based high-performance and cost-effective chalcopyrite/kesterite plasmonic solar cell Project Fund Ø FOUR running projects from DST, CSIR, DAE-BRNS Ø External grant is ~INR 1.3 Crores Hybrid Nanodevice Research Group
Model potentials for studying nanomaterials, nanoalloys and organic self-assemblies Dr. Satya S. Bulusu Assistant Professor IIT Indore Theoretical and sbulusu[at]iiti.ac.in Computational +91 731 2438 724 Chemistry Research activity Developing model potentials for nanomaterials using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) Modifying model potentials, Atomic Multipole Optimized Energetics for Bio-molecular applications (AMOEBA), for organic molecules. Representing chemical environments in model potentials. Exploring potential energy surfaces using soft computing techniques. ANN for Metals Self -assembly of Thymine
Organometallics and Nanotech Research Group Objectives oinexpensive/ low-cost metal nanocatalysts oaqueous-phase reactions oaerobic condition reactions oroom temperature reactions Dalton Trans., 42, 10404-10408, 2013 Dr. Sanjay K. Singh Assistant Professor Discipline of Chemistry Material Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Indore Inorg. Chem., 53, 2904-2909, 2014
Dr. Sharad Gupta Nanotechnology Based Biomedical Imaging 3 minutes a) 10 minutes b) 20 minutes 30 minutes 60 minutes c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) k) l) m) n) o) PEG-coated ICG-NCs Biological Nanoparticle Uncoated ICG-NCs Free ICG Polymeric Nanoparticle