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Name Dr. Shushant Kumar Singh
Designation Assistant Professor in Physics
Qualification M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph. D
Email singhshushant86@gmail.com
Phone No. 9694462109
Specialization  Material Science, Nanomaterials and its applications

Teaching

Research: 04 years (Post Doc.)
Post-Graduation: 01 years
Graduation: 02 years

Research

Area of Research:

Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Applications, Optoelectronic Materials for plasmonic, High Energy Ion Beam Synthesis and modifications of materials, Energy Materials for Photovoltaic Applications.

Publications:

  • “Thermal annealing and SHI irradiation induced modifications in sandwiched structured Carbon-gold-Carbon (a-C/Au/a-C) nanocomposite thin film” S.K.Singh, R. Singhal, Nuclear Instruments andMethods in Physics Research B, 407 (2017) 118-124.
  • “Study on swift heavy ions induced modifications of Ag-ZnO nanocomposite thin film” S.K. Singh,R. Singhal, V.V. Siva Kumar, Superlattices and Microstructures, 103 (2017) 195-204.
  • “Swift heavy ion induced optical and structural modifications in RF sputtered nanocrystalline ZnO thinfilm” S.K. Singh, R. Singhal, R. Vishnoi, V.V. Siva Kumar and P.K. Kulriya, Indian Journal ofPhysics, 91 (2017) 547-554.
  • “Ag-ZnO Nanocomposite Thin Film by RF-Sputtering: An Electrical and Structural Study” S.K. Singh, R. Singhal, V.V. Siva Kumar, Macromolecular Symposia, 376 (2017) 1600197.
  • “Synthesis and annealing study of RF sputtered ZnO thin film” S.K Singh, H. Sharma, R. Singhal,V.V. Siva Kumar and D.K. Avasthi, AIP Conference Proceeding, 1731 (2016) 080063.
  • “Structural and Optical Investigations of 120 keV Ag Ion Implanted ZnO Thin Films” S.K. Singh, R.Singhal, Thin Solid Films, 653 (2018) 377-383.
  • “Thermal-induced SPR tuning of Ag-ZnO nanocomposite thin film for plasmonic application” S.K. Singh, R. Singhal, Applied surface sciences, 439, (2018), 919-926.
  • “Thermal induced structural and optical investigations of Ag-ZnO nanocomposite thin films” S.K. Singh, R. Singhal, Superlattices and microstructures, 119 (2018), 72-80.
  • “Investigation of structural and optical properties of ZnO thin films of different thickness grown bypulsed laser deposition method” V. Kumar, S.K. Singh, H. Sharma, Shailendra Kumar, M.K. Banerjee,Ankush Vij, Physica B: Condensed Matter, 552 (2018), 221-226.
  • “Defect free enhanced NBE emission in pulsed laser deposited ZnO/c-sapphire nanocrystalline thinfilms” V. Kumar, H. Sharma, S.K. Singh, Shailendra Kumar, Ankush Vij, Applied Physics A, 125(2019) 212.
  • “Gallium nitride nanocrystals formation in Si3N4 matrix by ion synthesis” Manoj Kumar Rajbhar,Saravanan Rajamani, S.K. Singh, Sergey Surodin, Dmitry Nikolichev, Ruslan Kryukov, DmitryKorolev, Alyona Nikolskaya, Alexey Belov, Alexey Nezhdanov, Alexey Mikhaylov, DavidTetelbaum, Mahesh Kumar, Bulletin of Materials Science 43 (2020) 234.
  • “Structural and optical modifications of RF‐sputtered ZnO thin films using low energy Ar ionirradiation” S.K. Singh, V.V. Siva Kumar, Pravin Kumar, Applied Physics A (2021) 127,524.
  • “Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Structure as a Conductive and Transparent Layer for Energy andOptoelectronic Applications” Vikas Sharma, Himanshu Sharma, S. K. Singh, Rajesh Kumar, YogitaKumari, Kanupriya Sachdev, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 3, 4 (2021) 1601-1609.
  • “Tuning the optical and electrical properties of magnetron-sputtered Cu-ZnO thin film using lowenergy Ar ion irradiation” S.K. Singh, Puneeta Tripathi, V.V. Siva Kumar, Pravin Kumar, OpticalMaterials, 114 (2021) 110985.
  • “Probing pure and mixed neon ECR plasma – an effort for understanding the mechanism of isotopeanomaly and gas mixing effect” Puneeta Tripathi, S.K. Singh, Pravin Kumar, Physics of Plasmas, 28(2021) 33508.
  • “Structural, morphological, and phase transformation studies of 1.4 MeV Kr ion beam irradiatedzirconia thin films” Ankit Kumar, S.K. Singh, Pravin Kumar, A.S. Dhaliwal, Journal of MaterialsResearch, 37, (2022), 3547-3558.
  • “Studies of ECR Plasmas and materials modification using low energy ion beam facility at IUAC”Puneeta Tripathi, S.K. Singh, Pravin Kumar. 13th Int. Particle Acc. Conf., IPAC 2022-Bangkok,JACoW Publishing, 2022.
  • “Studies of pure and N2 gas mixed xenon ECR plasma: Signature of abundance dependent unusualtrends in isotope anomaly” Puneeta Tripathi, S.K. Singh, Pravin Kumar, Journal of MassSpectrometry, 57 (2022), 4891.
  • “Study of surface evolution and self-affine properties of Germanium by off-normal Kr ion beam sputtering” Puneeta Tripathi, S.K. Singh, Pravin Kumar, AIP Conference Proceeding, 2995 (2024), 020084.
  • “Processing of Hafnium Oxide thin films by 2 MeV Kr ion beam for opto-electrical applications” Sikta Mandal, S.K. Singh, Pravin Kumar, Udai P. Singh, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, (Under Review).

Seminars / Conferences / Symposium / Workshop:

  • Short term course on “Frontier Materials” held at MNIT during August 12-17, 2013.
  • National seminar on “Role of Ion Beam in Materials Science and Acquaintance Programme on Ion Beam Facilities at IUAC” held on 20 September 2013 organized jointly by Department of Physics, C.C.S. University Meerut and Inter University Accelerator Centre New Delhi.
  • Three days refresher Course on “Characterization and Deformation Behaviour of Materials for Strategic Application” under TEQIP-II at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, MNIT Jaipur during October 3-5, 2013.
  • One week short term course on “Nanotechnology and its Applications” held during October 7-11, 2013 at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur.
  • National education summit “Towards Educating Young India” held on 10-11 January 2014 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat organized jointly by knowledge consortium of Gujarat and various universities/ Institutions in Gujarat.
  • Presented a talk in two day national workshop on “Particle Accelerators for Interdisciplinary Research” held on February 18-19, 2014 organized by Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.
  • Presented a poster in national conference on “Perspectives of Physics in Multi-disciplinary Research” held on 12-13 March 2014 at Department of Physics, Rajasthan University Jaipur.
  • Attended a “School on Accelerator Science and Technology (SAST-2014)” held on 12-23 May 2014 at Inter University Accelerator Centre new Delhi sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
  • Participated in “56th Accelerator Users Workshop” and presented a low energy ion beam facility proposal entitled “Ion Beam Irradiation Induced Modifications in Structured Properties of Au/a-C and Ag/a-C Nanocomposite thin film” held on 5 July 2014 at Inter University Accelerator Centre New Delhi.
  • Attended a course module entitled “Energy loss of MeV Ions in Solids” of Ph.D. teaching program from 19 August to 6 September 2014 and obtain the grade A- at Inter University Accelerator Centre New Delhi.
  • Presented a poster in national workshop on “Advanced Functional Materials (AFM-2014)” on 5th September 2014 held at MNIT Jaipur organized jointly by Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Department of Physics MNIT Jaipur.
  • Attended an international school on “Ion Beam in Materials Science (IBMS-2014)” held during 8-13 October 2014 at Inter University Accelerator Centre New Delhi.
  • Presented o poster in international conference on “Swift Heavy Ions in Materials Engineering and Characterization (SHIMEC-2014)” held during 14-17 October 2014 at NIPGR/IUAC New Delhi.
  • Attended a workshop on “Technical Manuscript Preparation with LaTex” on 19 September 2015 at Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, MNIT Jaipur.
  • Attended a school on “Simulation of Ion Beam and its Effects” held during 24-26 October 2015 at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur organized by Inter University Accelerator Centre New Delhi.
  • Presented a paper in “60th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium” held during 21-25 December 2015 at Amity University, Noida, U.P.
  • Participated and presented a proposal in two days national workshop on “Ion Beam Induced Growth and Engineering of Materials” held on 4-5 March 2016 at Department of Physics, Kurukshetra University, and Kurukshetra.
  • Participated in INUP familiarization workshop on “Nanofabrication Technologies” held at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur form 26-27 August 2016.
  • Two days international workshop on “Surface Engineering” form December 9-10, 2016 organized by Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Materials research Centre, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur.
  • Presented a paper in 2nd international conference on “Soft Materials” held during 12-16 December 2016 at Hotel Vrisha and organized jointly by Soft Materials Research Society, Jaipur and Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur.
  • Participated in one day workshop on “Emerging Materials and Devices for nanotechnology Application” held at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur on 27 July 2017 under the aegis of Electronics & ICT Academy, MNIT Jaipur sponsored by Deity, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India.
  • Delivered a lecture as an expert in One Week Online Faculty Development Program on “Recent Advances in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering” organized by Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur under the Activity of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme – III (Activity under TEQIP – III from 28th Sept. 2020 – 03rd Oct. 2020).
  • Participated in 8th PSSI PLASMA SCHOLARS COLLOQUIUM (PSC 2020) held online during 8-9 October, 2020, organized by PSSI in association with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
  • Participated in the school “ECR Ion Source Technology: Opportunities and Future Challenges” held at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, (online mode) during 5-6, November, 2020.
  • Participated in the school “International Virtual School in Ion Beams in Material Science (IBMS-2020)” held at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, during 1-5 December 2020.
  • Presented a poster in international conference “Ion Beams in Materials Engineering and Characterization (IBMEC-2020)” with Title of the paper: Optical and structural tuning of Cu doped ZnO nanocomposite thin films by 800 keV Ar ion beam for optoelectronic applications which held during 8-11 December 2020, organized by IUAC, New Delhi.
  • Delivered a lecture as an expert during a webinar on the topic “Fabrication and characterization of nanocrystalline thin films for various applications” organized by Parul Institute of Technology, Parul University Vadodara Gujarat on 12 Feb. 2021.

Development

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Training

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Extension

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Other Information

  • Awarded post-doctoral funding project (File No. 09/760(0036)/2019-EMR-1) as a CSIR-Research Associate by CSIR-New Delhi.
  • Received TEQIP fellowship during doctoral research work at MNIT Jaipur.
  • Life time membership of Ion Beam Society of India.
  • Successfully got beam time account for experimental work during Ph.D. from Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. (BTA No.-55201) and Guru-Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya Bilaspur (C.G.) and Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
  • Gold-medal in M.Sc. (2011-Batch) from the D.N. College (affiliated by CCS University) Meerut.