Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Rishi Sharma
Assistant Professor, Physics
M.Sc., M.Tech, Ph.D. 		Contact Address
Permanent Address 201 Nirav Appartment, Agra
Local Address D 1 / 10 Institute Campus, Near R & D Building, BIT Mesra, Ranchi
Phone (Office) 9431585496
Phone Residence 9431585496
Email Id rsharma@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 2-Apr-2008
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 15 Years

Research : 18 Years
  Professional Background

Working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.
  Research Areas
 
  • Materials Science & Nanotechnology
  • Cold Plasma processing of the Materials
  • Thin Film Technology
  • Solar Cells: Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
  • Hard Coatings: Diamond-like Carbon films, Nanocrystalline Diamond films
  • Solid lubricant Coatings: Doped MoS2 coating
  • Graphene
  Award and Honours
 
  • Visiting Scholar at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany under DST-BMBF, Indo-German Bilateral Cooperation in Science & Technology (From 2008 to 2010).
  • Session Chair in 2nd International Conference on Microelectronics Computing and Communication Systems (MCCS-2017) on 13-14th May-2017.
  • Session Chair in 1st International Conference on Nano-electronics, Circuits & Communication Systems (NCCS-2015) on 9-10th May-2015.
  • One-day Workshop on TEACHING LEARNING IN A DIGITAL AGE: MOOCS on September 13, 2019 (As an Organizing Secretaries)
  • Science Academies 99nd Refresher Course on Experimental Physics, funded by Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, and The National Academy of Science, India, Allahabad at Department of Physics, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, from June 14 to 29, 2018. (As a Co-coordinator)
  • UGC-SAP sponsored "One Day Workshop On Solar Cell" at Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra 835215, Ranchi, India on May 15, 2014, (As a Convener).
  • Visited Nanyang Technological University, Singapore to attend The 3rd International Conference on Advances of Thin Films and Coatings “Thin Film 2006”, Singapore (Form 11 Dec 2006 to 15 Dec 2006).

Scholarship :

  • TEQIP Scholarship (February 2006 to March 2008)
  • Institute Scholarship ( July  2005 to  January  2006)  
  • GATE scholarship during M.Tech. (August 2003 to June 2005)
  Publications
 

Publications

  1. Manu PriyaDarshani, Rishi Sharma, Controlling the bandgap of graphene oxide via varying KMnO4, Optical Materials, Volume 147, 2024, 114634, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2023.114634.
  2. Manu PriyaDarshani, Ritu Shaw and Rishi Sharma, Investigation of the trail environment to enhance the efficiency of the solar cell through pre-installation study, Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research Vol. 82, 2023, pp. 307-315 DOI: 10.56042/jsir.v82i03.61784.
  3. Abhilash Bajpai, Neelima Sharma, Prabhat K. Dwivedi and Rishi Sharma, Rapid fabrication of graphene layers over polymeric substrates using Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 726-732, March 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPS.2023.3250394.
  4. Neelima Sharma, Surajit Mondal, Hari Om Yadav, Rishi Sharma, Graphene oxide-Silver Nanocomposite induced apoptosis in human hepatoma (HepG2) cells through oxidative stress and caspase dependent signalling pathway, Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences Vol. 30, 2023, pp. 298-304 DOI: 10.56042/ijems.v30i2.1633.
  5. Neha Chakraborty, Rishi Sharma, Rajan Kumar Singh, Sanat Kumar Mukherjee, Neelima Sharma; PEDOT:PSS doped graphene oxide as an alternative to hole transport material and transparent conducting electrode; NANO (2022) Vol. 17, No. 11 (2022) 2250115.
  6. Sipun Mohanty, Rishi Sharma, S K Rout, Samrat Mukherjee; Evidence of structural and two magnetic phase transitions in Cu doped La2FeMnO6 double perovskites; Journal of Alloys and Compounds Vol. 918 (2022) 165694.
  7. Abhilash Bajpai and Rishi Sharma; Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet: Formation of Wenzel's model supportive surface modification on PMMA; Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies 9:1, 332-350, 2023.
  8. Rishi Sharma, Vikash Kumar, Vijay Chatterjee, N. Woehrl, Volker Buck; Field Emission study of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films using STM; Nanotechnology Perceptions (2022) Vol. 18, 36–45.
  9. Neelima Sharma, Ramashish Bhattacharjee, Rishi Sharma; Synthesis of Biocompatible carboxylic acid functionalized Graphene Oxide as a stimulator of bacterial growth; Acta Microbiologica Bulgarica Vol 37 (2021) 195-201.
  10. Mritunjoy Prasad Ghosh, Subhadeep Datta, Rishi Sharma, Kamar Tanbir, Manoranjan Kar, Samrat Mukherjee; Copper doped nickel ferrite nanoparticles: Jahn-Teller distortion and its effect on microstructural, magnetic and electronic properties; Materials Science & Engineering B, Vol 263 (2021) 114864.
  11. Abhilash Bajpai and Rishi Sharma; Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet: A complete tool for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates preparation; Vacuum, Vol. 172, (2020), 109033.
  12. Kumar Amit, Rishi Sharma, Gaurav Pransu, and R. L. Boxman; Evaluation of the Photo Electrode Degradation in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells; Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, Vol. 55, No. 9 (2019) 829-840.
  13. Kumar Amit and Rishi Sharma; The role of pressure to quantify the defects and its effect on the morphology of graphene layers; Surface Review and Letters, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2018) 1850055.
  14. Mayukh Chakravarty, Rishi Sharma, Kumar Amit, Neelima Sharma, S. K. Pradhan; Synthesis and bio-compatibility study of thermal-CVD grown graphene; International Journal of nanoscience Vol. 15, No 5 & 6 (2016) 1660016.
  15. Rishi Sharma, Neelima Sharma, Rahul Parmar, Vijay Chatterjee, Anoop Kumar, N. Woehrl, V. Buck and P. K. Barhai; Nanocrystalline Diamond Films as A Protective Coating For Implantable Bio-devices; Advanced Materials Letters, Vol. 7, No. 11 (2016) 903-909.
  16. S. Mahanti, Rishi Sharma, Ashwini Kr. Singh, Neelima Sharma, S. K. Pradhan, and P. K. Barhai; Correlation of Mechanical Properties with Surface Morphology of Diamond-Like Carbon Films Deposited By Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition Technique; International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 3 No. 8 (2014) 15510-15517.
  17. Vijay Chatterjee, Rishi Sharma and P. K. Barhai; Effect of Process Parameters On The Properties Of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films Deposited Using Microwave Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition; Advanced Materials Letters, Vol 5, No. 4 (2014), 172-179.
  18. P. K. Barhai, Rishi Sharma and B. B Nayak; Deposition of wide band gap DLC films using R.F. PECVD at very low power; International Journal of Modern Physics B, Vol. 25, No. 29 (2011) 3941-3949.
  19. Rishi Sharma, Nicolas Woehrl, Milan Vru?ini?, Monika Timpner, Volker Buck and P.K. Barhai; Effect of microwave power and C2 emission intensity on structural and surface properties of nanocrystalline diamond films; Thin Solid Films Vol. 519, No 22 (2011) 7632-7637.
  20. P. K. Barhai, Rishi Sharma, Vijay Chatterjee, N. Woehrl and Volker Buck; Synthesis and electron field emission studies of nanocrystalline diamond films; World Journal of Engineering, Supplement Vol 3 (2011) 93-94.
  21. R. Sharma, N. Woehri, P. K. Barhai and V. Buck; Nucleation density enhancement for nanocrystalline diamond films; Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 12, No. 9, (2010) 1915-1920.
  22. Rishi Sharma, Alok Kr. Pandey, Neelima Sharma, D. Sasmal and P. K. Barhai; Diamond like carbon films as a protective surface on PMMA for biomedical applications; Surface and Coating Technology Vol. 205, No. 7 (2010) 2495-2502.
  23. P. K. Barhai, Rishi Sharma, Anoop Kr. Yadav, Ashwini Kr. Singh, Himani Gaur and Volker Buck; Surface modification of PMMA with DLC using RF-PECVD; ECS Transactions, Vol. 25, No. 8 (2009) 829-836.
  24. Rishi Sharma, P. K. Barhai and Neelam Kumari; Corrosion resistant behavior of DLC films; Thin Solid Films, Vol. 516, No. 16 (2008) 5397-5403.

 

Full paper in Conference Proceeding:

  1. Vijay Chatterjee, Rishi Sharma and P. K. Barhai. Development of Ultrananocrystalline diamond films deposited at low microwave power. Proceeding of the National Seminar on Nanomaterals and their applications (NANOMAT 2011) 2011, p 129-135.
  2. Vikash Kumar, Rishi Sharma and Manish Roy, “Effects of TiC Interlayer Coating on Nanocrystalline Diamond Film Deposited on Stainless Steel-321 using Hot-Filament CVD Technique”, Accepted in AIP proceeding at the 66th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (DAE SSPS 2022) (2022).

 

Book Chapters

  1. Rishi Sharma, Kumar Amit, P. K. Barhai and R. L. Boxmann; Book Chapter: Evaluating the performance of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell with the various key components like Electrodes, Dyes & Electrolytes; Book Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Nano-electronics, Circuits & Communication Systems; Editors: Vijay Nath, Series Volume 403, eBook ISBN 978-981-10-2999-8, Springer Nature.
  2. Vikash Kumar, Rishi Sharma and Manish Roy; Nanocrystalline diamond films as solid lubricant coatings for extreme tribological environments; Book Title: Nanofabrication: Enrapturing Cues and Prodigal Applications; Editors: Dr. Gajendra Prasad Singh, Dr. Anal Kant Jha and Prof. Kamal Prasad;  CRC Press, Tylor & Francis group (In press)
  Member of Professional Bodies
 
  1. Life member of Indian Association of Physics Teachers
  2. Life member of Plasma Science Society of India
  3. Life member of Indian Physics Association
  4. Life member Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers
  Current Sponsored Projects
 

As Principal Investigator

  1. Received Rs. 46.904 Lakh for three years from DST-SERB for the project entitled, “Development of solid lubricant coatings for bearing components using custom made agnetron sputtering system” (Ongoing).
  1. Received Rs. 2.124 Lakh for six months from National Engineering Industries (NEI) Ltd. (NBC Bearing) for the project entitled, “Deposition of Ti-Al doped MoS2 coating on ball bearings” (Ongoing).
  1. Received Rs. 1.35 Lakh for three years from UGC-DAE CSR for the project entitled, “Development of self-lubricating coating for bearing applications” (Ongoing).
  2. Received Rs. 26.115 Lakh for three years from AR&DB, DRDO for the project entitled, “Development of super-lubricated Nano-crystalline Diamond film on bearing materials for aerospace applications” (Completed).
  3. Received Rs. 24.385 Lakh for four years and six months from BRNS, DAE for the project entitled, “Development of atmospheric pressure plasma jet sources and their characterization” (Completed).
  4. Received Rs. 0.80 Lakh for one year from BIT Mesra (Under Seed Money Scheme) for the project entitled, “Synthesis of graphene by chemical method for large area transparent substrates” (Completed).
  Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
 

“A method of generating low energy ions for deposition of insulating nano-structured diamond like carbon film”, Patent Number: 276735; Date of Grant: 28/10/2016.

 
  Member, Editorial Board
 
  1. Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Recent advances in Physics (IJRAP)
  2. Member of the Reviewer Board of International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT)
  3. Technical Member of IETE Student's chapter.
  4. Member of Anti Ragging Committee.
  5. Member of Internal Quality Assurance Cell.