Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Anand Kumar Srivastava
Associate Professor and In-Charge, Physics
Ph.D., M.Tech., M.Sc. 		Contact Address
Permanent Address C-26, Anand Vihar, Jagatpura, Jaipur
Local Address C-26, Anand Vihar, Jagatpura, Jaipur
Phone (Office) 0141-4019807
Phone Residence 8107005029
Email Id aksrivastava@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 4-Nov-2009
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 14 Years

Research : 21 Years

Individual: 21 Years
  Professional Background

1. Ph.D. thesis title: Experimental studies on atmospheric pressure glow discharge plasma

    Research Center: Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar

2. R&D of Plasma Display Panel at Samtel Color Limited, Ghaziabad.
  Research Areas
 

Plasma Physics, Dielectric Barrier Discharge, Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas, Plasma Displays, Discharge Instabilities, Industrial Plasma Applications

 
  Award and Honours
 
  • Certificate of Reviewing -2020 from Journal of Electrostatics, Elsevier.
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award -2018 from Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Publishing, UK.
  • ICTP Grant received to attend Joint IAEA-ICTP School on Atomic Processes in Plasmas, 27 February – 3 March 2017 by International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
  • Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award-2014  for academic excellence conferred by GSHEG, Delhi during a National Seminar on 10th Feb 2014.
  • ISCA Best Paper (Poster) Presentation Award in Physical Sciences during 101st Indian Science Congress, University of Jammu, 3-7 February 2014.
  • DST, Govt of India-International Travel support (ITS) for young scientists, received to attend 4th International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-4) at Orleans, France, 17-21 June 2012.
  • PSSI-Best Paper (poster) Award-2010 in Plasma Physics during PSSI national symposium, PLASMA-2010, Guwahati.
  • CSIR-UGC (NET) JRF-June 2002, Examination (Physics) qualified.
  • JEST-2001 Examination (Physics) qualified.
  • BHU Medal for standing first at M.Tech. Examination in Biomedical Engineering 2001.
  • GATE-1999 Examination (Physics) qualified.
  • Government scholarships at college level.
  Publications
 

 

Journal Papers:

  1. A. K. Srivastava, G. Prasad, Vinay Kumar, M. B. Chowdhari and Ram Prakash, “Experimental studies on Atmospheric pressure glow discharge for drag reduction and microwave invisibility” Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, Vol. 57, No. 1, 17-23, Feb (2005).
  1. A. K. Srivastava, M. K. Garg, G. Prasad, Vinay Kumar, M. B. Chowdhari and Ram Prakash, “Characterization of atmospheric pressure glow discharge in helium using Langmuir probe, emission spectroscopy and discharge resistivity” IEEE Transaction on Plasma Sciences, Vol. 35, Issue 4, 1135(2007).
  1. A. K. Srivastava, G. Prasad, P. K. Atrey and Vinay Kumar, “Attenuation of microwaves propagating through parallel-plate helium glow discharge at atmospheric pressure”,  Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, 033302 (2008).
  1. A. K. Srivastava and G. Prasad, “Spatio-temporal dynamics of plasma spots in helium surface barrier discharge”, Physics Letters A, Vol. 372, 6101-6106 (2008).
  1. A. K. Srivastava and G. Prasad, “ Low frequency ionization waves in helium surface barrier glow discharge at atmospheric pressure”, Physics Letters A, Vol. 374, 3960-3966 (2010).
  1. Maharshi Samanta, A. K. Srivastava, S. Sharma, A. Rastogi and H. K. Dwivedi, “Electrical discharge as an inspection method for imperfect plasma display cells”, IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series 208 (2010) 012113.
  1. Shashank Sharma, A. K. Srivastava, Harmeet Singh, M. Raja and H. K. Dwivedi, “Optimization of sustain pulse parameters for luminous efficacy improvement in an AC plasma display panel”, Displays, Elsevier 31, 122-127 (2010).
  1. A. K. Srivastava, Shashank Sharma and H. K. Dwivedi, “Electrostatic analysis for designing of efficient discharge cell structures in AC plasma displays”,  Journal of Electrostatics, 68, 394-399 (2010).
  1. A. K. Srivastava and G. Prasad, “Characteristics of uniform parallel-plate and planar-surface dielectric barrier glow discharge at atmospheric pressure”, Journal of Electrostatics, Vol.72, 140-146 (2014).
  1. Anand Kumar Srivastava, “Observation of self-organized square lattice pattern formation in surface barrier discharge plasma”, Journal of Electrostatics, Vol.82, 72-78 (2016).
  1. Anand Kumar Srivastava, “Dielectric Erosion and Sub-micron Polymeric Particles Formation in Planar Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma”, Advanced Science Letters, Vol.22, No.11, 3879-3881 (2016).
  1. Ravindra Kumar, A. K. Srivastava and S. Konar, “Evaluation of surface properties of various plasma nitride low alloy steels”, Advanced Science Letters, Vol.22, No.11, 3919-3923 (2016).
  1. Anand Kumar Srivastava, “Selection of Dielectric Material for Producing Diffuse Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma at Atmospheric Pressure”, Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier, Vol 18, 1033-1038, 2019.
  1. S. Patel, A. K. Srivastava, M.B. Chowdhuri, R. Manchanda, J. Ghosh, A. Bhattacharya, J. Raval, U. Nagora, P.K. Atrey and R. L. Tanna, “Study of Iron impurity behaviour using VUV spectroscopy in ADITYA and ADITYA-U Tokamak” NUCLEAR FUSION, 59, 086019, 2019.
  2. M. B. Chowdhuri, Anand K. Srivastava et. al, “Impurity Behaviour in high performance ADITYA tokamak plasmas”, PLASMA AND FUSION RESEARCH, 17, 2402011, 2022.
  3. Anand Kumar Srivastava, “Microwave Attenuation Measurement as a Diagnostic Method to Estimate Electron Density in Planar Surface Barrier Discharge Plasma”, Indian Journal of Physics, Springer, https:/doi.org/10.1007/s12648-023-02988-2, 2023.

 

Conference papers (full-length)

  1. “Experimental studies on Atmospheric pressure glow discharge for drag reduction and microwave invisibility” in proceedings of AERO-INDIA 2005, International Seminar, Bangalore, India, February 2005.
  1. “Atmospheric pressure glow discharge for microwave invisibility: Experimental steps towards realization” in proceedings of the National Symposium on Plasma science and Technology, PLASMA-2005, Cochin, India, December 2005.
  1. “Development of low-cost ITO-less fence electrode PDP cell structure” PDP 1-3, ‘Cell Technology’ in proceedings of International Display Workshop, IDW-2008, at Niigata, Japan, 05-08 December 2008.
  1.  “Progress on Development of Low Temperature Processing of Low-Cost ITO-free PDP using Soda-lime-silica Glass Substrate” PDP1-2, ‘Novel PDPs’ in the proceedings of International Display Workshop, IDW-2009, at Miyazaki, Japan, 8-10 January, 2009.
  1. “Effect of vacuum level and gaseous impurities on performance of Plasma Display TV” in proceedings of National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications, VEDA-09, at IT-BHU, Varanasi, January, 2009.
  1.  “Design study of discharge cell structure for efficiency improvement in AC plasma display TV” in proceedings of National Conference on Vacuum Electronics Devices and Applications, VEDA-09, at IT-BHU, Varanasi, January, 2009.
  1.  “Fast Rise-time asymmetric bipolar waveform for driving high luminous efficacy plasma displays” in the proceedings of Asia Display, IMID-2010, at Kintex, Seoul, Korea, 11-15 October, 2010.
  1. “Non-thermal atmospheric pressure glow discharge plasmas for prospective applications”, in the proceedings of “First International Conference on Plasma Processing of Organic Materials and Polymers, PPOMP-2011” at Kottayam, Kerala, India, 25-27 November 2011.
  1. “Dielectric barrier discharge plasma sources for Industrial research and development” in the proceedings of National Conference on Vacuum Electronic Devices and Applications, VEDA-2012, at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan, September, 2012.
  1. “Optimization study of dielectric barrier discharge plasma cells for efficient UV/VUV emission” in the proceedings of National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2012, Pondicherry, India, December 2012.
  1. “Patenting in plasma technology: example of plasma TV development in India” in the proceedings of International conference on plasma science, technology and application (ICPSTA-2016), Lucknow, India, January 2016.
  1. “Development of dielectric-controlled cold atmospheric pressure plasma sources” in the proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Physics, Materials and Ultrasonics (ICEPMU), NCU Gurgaon, India, June 2016.
  1. S. Patel, A. K. Srivastava, M.B. Chowdhuri, R. Manchanda, J. Ghosh, A. Bhattacharya, J. Raval,  U. Nagora, P.K. Atrey And R. L. Tanna, “Study of Iron impurity behaviour using VUV spectroscopy in ADITYA and ADITYA-U Tokamak” (EX-P4-3 (1-7)) in the Proceedings of 27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Ahmedabad, India, 22-27 Oct, 2018.

 

Conference papers :Abstracts (Poster Presentations)

  1. “Experimental study of atmospheric pressure glow discharge plasma” in proceedings of the National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2002, Coimbatore, India, December 2002.
  1. “Production of surface glow discharge at atmospheric pressure and observation of waves with the formation of plasma bubbles” in proceedings of the National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2003, Ranchi, India, December 2003.
  1. “Comparative study of plasma diagnostics in helium atmospheric pressure glow discharge using Langmuir probe and emission spectroscopy” in proceedings of International congress on Plasma Physics, ICPP-2004, Nice, France, 2004.
  1. “Observation of Acoustic wave phenomenon in Atmospheric pressure surface glow discharge” in proceedings of International conference on Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, FPPT-2005, Goa, India, 2005.
  1. “Experimental study of microwave interaction with collisional glow discharge plasma” in proceedings of National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2005, Cochin, India, December 2005.
  1. “Observation of localized plasma structures in planar surface barrier discharge” in proceedings of the National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2005, Cochin, India, December 2005.
  1. “Observation of structures and striations in atmospheric pressure helium surface glow discharge” in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 1D5, ICOPS-2006, Traverse city, Michigan, USA, 04-08 June, 2006.
  1. “Dissipation of microwaves propagating through atmospheric pressure glow discharge plasma” in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, 3P70, ICOPS-2006 at Traverse city, Michigan, USA, 04-08 June, 2006.
  1. “Microwave attenuation measurement as a diagnostic tool for atmospheric pressure glow discharge plasma” in proceedings of the national symposium on plasma sciences, PLASMA-2006, MNIT, Jaipur, India, December 2006.
  1. “Observation of self-excited ionization waves in a planar dielectric barrier discharge system at atmospheric pressure” in proceedings of the National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2010, Guwahati, India, December 2010.
  1. “Comparative Study of parallel-plate and planar-surface dielectric barrier glow discharge at atmospheric pressure” in proceedings of the National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, PLASMA-2011, BIT, Patna, India, December 2011.
  1. “DBD Cell Designs for Efficient UV/VUV Production Suitable to Biomedical Treatment and Sterilization,” in the proceedings of 4th International Conference on Plasma Medicine, ICPM-4, Orleans, France, June 2012.
  1. “Design and Characteristics of atmospheric-pressure dielectric barrier discharge plasma sources for daily-life requirements” in the proceedings of 101st Indian Science Congress, Jammu, India, February 2014.
  1. “Observation of Self-organized Square Lattice Pattern in Planar Surface Barrier Discharge Plasma at Atmospheric Pressure”  in the proceedings of 102nd Indian Science Congress, Mumbai, India, January 2015.
  1. “Evaluation of dielectric barrier discharge plasma sources for industrial applications” in the proceedings of 103rd Indian Science Congress, Mysore, India, January 2016.
  1. “Atmospheric Pressure Non-thermal Plasmas for Biomedical Applications” in the proceedings of National conference on Energy for sustainable development, Sagar, India, March 2017.
  1.  “Estimation of Emissivity of Fe14+ and Fe15+ VUV Spectral Lines Relevent to Aditya-U Tokamak Plasma” (343/PD-06/P) in the proceedings of 32nd National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA-2017), IPR, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 07-10 November 2017.
  2. “Simulation of Radial Profile Of Fe14+ &Fe15+ Emissions In Aditya-U Tokamak Plasma” (PD-06) in the proceedings of NFP-PFRC Vision Meeting, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 26-28 April, 2018.
  3. “Modeling of Experimental VUV Spectra from ADITYA-U Tokamak” in proceedings of 33rd National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA-2018), University of Delhi, 4-7 December 2018.
  4. “Stationary and Moving Pattern formation in Surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma” in the proceedings of 106th Indian Science Congress, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, 3-7 January 2019.
  5. “Atmospheric Pressure Cold Plasma Sources for Biomedical Applications” in the proceedings of 12th International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA-2019), University of Lucknow, 11-14 November 2019.
  6. “Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge Plasma Devices for Bio-Medical Applications” in the proceedings of International Conference on Energy & Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for Industries, MNIT Jaipur, 28-29 December 2019.
  7. “Estimation of Iron Impurity Transport Parameters in Aditya Tokamak Plasma” in the proceedings of 107th Indian Science Congress, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 3-7 January 2020.
  8. “Iron Impurity Behavior Study in the ADITYA Tokamak” in the proceedings of National Symposium for Commemorating 30-years of Aditya Tokamak at IPR Gandhinagar, 27-28 January 2020.
  9. “Utilization of Dilelctric Barrier Discharge Plasma for Benefit of Mankind” in the proceedings of 36th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA-2021), BIT Mesra, Jaipur Campus, 13-15 December, 2021.

 
  Member of Professional Bodies
 
  • Life member of PSSI, Plasma Science Society of India.
  • Life member of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies, Division of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP), Japan.
  • Member of ISPM, International Society of Plasma Medicine, USA.
  • Former student member (2006-2007) of IEEE society, USA.
  • Former student member (2006-2007) of IEEE communication society, USA.
  • Life member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA).
  • Member of Global Society for Health and Educational Growth, New Delhi.
  • Life member of Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT).
  • Life member of Indian Physics Association (IPA).
  Current Sponsored Projects
 

Project title: Studies of High Z impurity behavior using VUV spectral emissions from the tokamaks in IPR.

Duration: 2017-2020

Funding Agency: BRNS, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India

Sanctioned Grant: 25.6 Lakh

Status: Completed

Role: Principal Investigator
  Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
 

 

Patent Applications filed:

  1. The patent entitled “A plasma display panel and its manufacturing thereof” filed at Indian patent office, New Delhi on August 6, 2007 with application no. 1885/DEL/2007.
  1. The patent entitled “A plasma display panel and with reduced address voltage” filed at Indian patent office, New Delhi on October 25, 2007 with application no. 2341/DEL/2007.
  1. The patent entitled “A plasma display panel and enhanced luminance efficacy” filed at Indian patent office, New Delhi on October 19, 2007 with application no. 2188/DEL/2007.
  1. The patent entitled “A plasma display panel and its manufacturing thereof” filed at Indian patent office, New Delhi on March 10, 2008 with application no. 598/DEL/2008.
  1. The patent entitled “Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same” filed at Indian patent office, New Delhi on December 02, 2008 with application no. 2719/DEL/2008.
  1. The patent entitled “Plasma display apparatus and method for driving thereof” filed at Indian patent office, New Delhi on July 16, 2009 with application no. 1459/DEL/2009.
  Member, Editorial Board
 

      Reviewed Papers for the following international journals,

      1. Journal of Applied Physics

      2. Applied Physics Letters

      3. Plasma Sources Science and Technology

      4. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

      5. Journal of Electrostatics, Elsevier