Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
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Dr. Rishi Sharma

Joined Institute on : 2-Apr-2008

  • Assistant Professor
  • Physics
  • M.Sc., M.Tech, Ph.D.
Contact Address

D 1 / 10 Institute Campus, Near R & D Building, BIT Mesra, Ranchi

201 Nirav Appartment, Agra

  • Phone Office - 9431585496
  • Phone Residence - 9431585496
  • Email - rsharma@bitmesra.ac.in
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

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  1. Vikash Kumar, Bashudeb Prakash, Rishi Sharma, Manish Roy; Mechanical, Tribological, and Corrosion Resistant Behaviour of Nanocrystalline Diamond Film Deposited on M50 Steel Using HFCVD (2025) Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (Accepted) https://doi.org/10.1177/09544062251391905
  2. Sanat Kumar and Rishi Sharma; Tribological study of MoS2-based composite coating on steel surface (2025) Surface Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 10-12, Page No. 1036-1044. https://doi.org/10.1177/02670844251380472
  3. Ille C. Gebeshuber, Sayak Khawas, Rishi Sharma and Neelima Sharma; Bioprinted Scaffolds for Biomimetic Applications: A State-of-the-Art Technology (2025) Biomimetics, Vol. 10, Issue 9, Page No. 595.  https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10090595
  4. Sibasish Mandal, Sipun Mohanty, Rishi Sharma, Samrat Mukherjee; Near room temperature magnetic entropy change and unconventional critical behavior in Pr-doped lanthanum-based manganites (2025) Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 200, Page No. 109997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2025.109997
  5. Neha Chakraborty, Rishi Sharma; Corrosion and Charge Transfer Dynamics of ITO-coated-PET/Graphite-Substrates with Polyaniline/PMMA Gel-Electrolytes (2025) Surface Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 7, Page No. 807-817. https://doi.org/10.1177/02670844251365891
  6. Satyam Upadhyay, Bashudeb Prakash, Vikash Kumar, and Rishi Sharma; Ti-Al-doped MoS2 Coatings on M50 steel for superior tribological applications (2025) Surface Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 6, Page No. 664-673. https://doi.org/10.1177/02670844251356730
  7. Vikash Kumar, Rishi Sharma, Manish Roy; Superlubricant Behaviour of HF-CVD Grown Nanocrystalline Diamond Film (2025) Surface Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 4, Page No. 502-510. https://doi.org/10.1177/02670844251334574
  8. Manu Priyadarshani, Kumari Neha, Rupali Rani, and Rishi Sharma; A Systematic Investigation of the Structural Changes in Chemically and Thermally Reduced Graphene Oxide using Raman and XRD (2025), Surface Review and Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 01, Page No. 2450105.  https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218625X24501051
  9. Manu PriyaDarshani and Rishi Sharma; Exposing graphene oxide’s function in enhancing dye-sensitized solar cell efficiency (2024) Petroleum Science and Technology, Vol. 43, Issue 7, Page No. 746–766. https://doi.org/10.1080/10916466.2024.2413875
  10. Kumar Anand, Rishi Sharma, Neelima Sharma; Recent advancements in natural polymers-based self-healing nano-materials for wound dressing (2024) Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, Vol. 112, Issue 6, Page No. e35435. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.b.35435  
  11. Sipun Mohanty, Sibasish Mandal, Rishi Sharma, Samrat Mukherjee; Correlating the structural and magnetic properties of the non-cubic double perovskites with Ir5+ ions (2024) Solid State Sciences, Vol. 150, Page No. 107480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2024.107480
  12. Manu PriyaDarshani, Rishi Sharma; Controlling the bandgap of graphene oxide via varying KMnO4 (2024) Optical Materials, Vol. 147, Page No. 114634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2023.114634
  13. Manu PriyaDarshani, Ritu Shaw and Rishi Sharma; Investigation of the trail environment to enhance the efficiency of the solar cell through pre-installation study (2023) Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research, Vol. 82, Issue 3, Page No. 307-315. DOI: 10.56042/jsir.v82i03.61784
  14. Abhilash Bajpai, Neelima Sharma, Prabhat K. Dwivedi and Rishi Sharma; Rapid fabrication of graphene layers over polymeric substrates using Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet (2023) IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 51, Issue 3, Page No. 726-732. DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2023.3250394
  15. 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 (2023) Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences, Vol. 30, Page No. 298-304. DOI: 10.56042/ijems.v30i2.1633
  16. 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 (2022) NANO, Vol. 17, Issue 14, Page No. 2250115. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793292022501156
  17. Sipun Mohanty, Rishi Sharma, S K Rout, Samrat Mukherjee; Evidence of structural and two magnetic phase transitions in Cu doped La2FeMnO6 double perovskites (2022) Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 918, Page No. 165694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.165694
  18. Abhilash Bajpai and Rishi Sharma; Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet: Formation of Wenzel's model supportive surface modification on PMMA (2023) Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Page No. 332-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/2374068X.2022.2092683
  19. Rishi Sharma, Vikash Kumar, Vijay Chatterjee, N. Woehrl, Volker Buck; Field Emission study of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films using STM (2022) Nanotechnology Perceptions, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 36–45. DOI: 10.4024/N10SH21A.ntp.18.01; https://nano-ntp.com/index.php/nano/article/view/212  
  20. Neelima Sharma, Ramashish Bhattacharjee, Rishi Sharma; Synthesis of Biocompatible carboxylic acid functionalized Graphene Oxide as a stimulator of bacterial growth (2021) Acta Microbiologica Bulgarica, Vol. 37, Issue 4, Page No. 195-201. https://actamicrobio.bg/archive/issue-4-2021/amb-4-2021-article-4-summary.html
  21. 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 (2021) Materials Science & Engineering B, Vol 263, Page No. 114864. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2020.114864
  22. Abhilash Bajpai and Rishi Sharma; Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet: A complete tool for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates preparation (2020) Vacuum, Vol. 172, Page No. 109033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2019.109033
  23. Kumar Amit, Rishi Sharma, Gaurav Pransu, and R. L. Boxman; Evaluation of the Photo Electrode Degradation in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (2019) Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, Vol. 55, Issue 9, Page No. 829-840. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1023193519090039
  24. Kumar Amit and Rishi Sharma; The role of pressure to quantify the defects and its effect on the morphology of graphene layers (2018) Surface Review and Letters, Vol. 25, Issue 2, Page No. 1850055. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218625X18500555
  25. Mayukh Chakravarty, Rishi Sharma, Kumar Amit, Neelima Sharma, S. K. Pradhan; Synthesis and bio-compatibility study of thermal-CVD grown graphene (2016) International Journal of nanoscience, Vol. 15, Issue 5 & 6, Page No. 1660016. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219581X16600164
  26. 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 (2016) Advanced Materials Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 11, Page No. 903-909. https://doi.org/10.5185/amlett.2016.6050
  27. 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 (2014) International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 8, Page No. 15510-15517. DOI: 10.15680/IJIRSET.2014.0308060
  28. 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 (2014) Advanced Materials Letters, Vol 5, Issue 4, Page No. 172-179.  https://doi.org/10.5185/amlett.2013.10550 
  29. P. K. Barhai, Rishi Sharma and B. B Nayak; Deposition of wide band gap DLC films using R.F. PECVD at very low power (2011) International Journal of Modern Physics B, Vol. 25, Issue 29, Page No. 3941-3949. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979211100102
  30. 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 (2011) Thin Solid Films, Vol. 519, Issue 22, Page No. 7632-7637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2011.05.006
  31. P. K. Barhai, Rishi Sharma, Vijay Chatterjee, N. Woehrl and Volker Buck; Synthesis and electron field emission studies of nanocrystalline diamond films (2011) World Journal of Engineering, Supplement, Vol 3, Page No. 93-94.
  32. R. Sharma, N. Woehri, P. K. Barhai and V. Buck; Nucleation density enhancement for nanocrystalline diamond films (2010) Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 9, Page No. 1915-1920. https://joam.inoe.ro/articles/nucleation-density-enhancement-for-nanocrystalline-diamond-films/
  33. 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 (2010) Surface and Coating Technology, Vol. 205, Issue 7, Page No. 2495-2502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2010.09.054
  34. 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 (2009) ECS Transactions, Vol. 25, Issue 8, Page No. 829-836. DOI 10.1149/1.3207673; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1.3207673
  35. Rishi Sharma, P. K. Barhai and Neelam Kumari; Corrosion resistant behavior of DLC films (2008) Thin Solid Films, Vol. 516, Issue 16, Page No. 5397-5403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2007.07.099 

Full paper in Conference Proceeding

  1. Vijay Chatterjee, Rishi Sharma and P. K. Barhai; Development of Ultrananocrystalline diamond films deposited at low microwave power (2011) Proceeding of the National Seminar on Nanomaterals and their applications (NANOMAT 2011), Page No. 129-135.
  2. Vikash Kumar, Rishi Sharma, Manish Roy; Effects of TiC interlayer coating on nanocrystalline diamond film deposited on stainless steel-321 using hot-filament CVD technique (2024) AIP Conference Proceeding, Vol. 2995, Issue 1, Page No. 020094. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0178667
  3. Neha Chakraborty and Rishi Sharma; Energy harvesting advancements: Exploring the role of emerging DSSC technologies (2024) AIP Conference Proceeding, Vol. 3196, Issue 1, Page No. 030001.  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0227939
  4. Satyam Upadhyay, Sanat Kumar, Vikash Kumar and Rishi Sharma; A Study of MoS2-Based Solid Lubricant Coating Using RF Magnetron Sputtering (2024) AIP Conference Proceeding, Vol. 3196, Issue 1, Page No. 040007. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0228290
  5. Sanat Kumar and Rishi Sharma; Structural Analysis of Sputtered MoS2 Film Leading to the Superlubricity (Submitted for 69th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium: 69th DAE SSPS 2025, December 19-23, 2025, at IIT Roorkee) for conference proceedings.
  6. Sanat Kumar and Rishi Sharma; Sputtered deposited Ti-doped MoS2 and Al-doped MoS2 based Solid Lubricant Coatings for Tribological Applications (Submitted for 2nd International Conference on Advances in Condensed and Nano Materials: ICACNM 2025, 27-30 October, Chandigarh, India) for conference proceedings.

 

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 (25.03.2017) Editors: Vijay Nath; Springer Nature, Vol. 403, Page No. 371–379, eBook ISBN 978-981-10-2999-8; Print ISBN978-981-10-2998-1. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2999-8_31
  2. Vikash Kumar, Rishi Sharma and Manish Roy; Book Chapter: Nanocrystalline diamond films as solid lubricant coatings for extreme tribological environments; Book Title: Nanofabrication: Enrapturing Cues and Prodigal Applications, 1st ed. (13.09.2024) Editors: Dr. Gajendra Prasad Singh, Dr. Anal Kant Jha and Prof. Kamal Prasad; Location: Boca Raton CRC Press Page No. 241 – 263 (eBook ISBN: 9781003083351). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003083351
  3. Neha Chakraborty, Kumar Amit, Gaurav Pransu and Rishi Sharma; Book Chapter: Corrosive behaviour of transparent conducting electrodes in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs); Book Title: Proceedings of 2nd Indo European Symposium on Surface Engineering: Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering (2025) Editors: Manish Roy, Rishi Sharma and J. Paulo Davim (Accepted).
  4. Manu PriyaDarshani and Rishi Sharma; Book Chapter: Optimizing graphene oxide thin film thermal conductivity for next generation solar cells; Book Title: Proceedings of 2nd Indo European Symposium on Surface Engineering: Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering (2025) Editors: Manish Roy, Rishi Sharma and J. Paulo Davim (Accepted).
  5. Vikash Kumar, Rishi Sharma, Manish Roy and Ram Janay Choudhary; Book Chapter: Pulsed Laser Deposited MoS2 Coatings For Tribological Applications; Book Title: Proceedings of 2nd Indo European Symposium on Surface Engineering: Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering (2025) Editors: Manish Roy, Rishi Sharma and J. Paulo Davim (Accepted).
  6. Apurva Singh, Rishi Sharma and Neelima Sharma; Book Chapter: Recent advances in coating technologies for enhancing the performance and longevity of orthopaedic implants; Book Title: Proceedings of 2nd Indo European Symposium on Surface Engineering: Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering (2025) Editors: Manish Roy, Rishi Sharma and J. Paulo Davim (Accepted).

 

 

Book Edited:

  1. Book entitled, “Proceedings of 2nd Indo European Symposium on Surface Engineering, Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering” publisher: Springer Nature Singapore; Editors: Manish Roy, Rishi Sharma and J. Paulo.
  2. Book entitled, “Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation of Complex Systems – ICSCS 2025 publisher: Springer Nature Singapore; Editors: Rishi Sharma, Nishi Srivastava, Madhu Priya, Sanat Kumar Mukherjee.
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 ?46.904 lakhs from DST-SERB for the project entitled, “Development of solid lubricant coatings for bearing components using custom made agnetron sputtering system” (from 13.02.2023 to 12.07.2026).
  2. Received ?1.35 lakhs from UGC-DAE CSR for the project entitled, “Development of self-lubricating coating for bearing applications” (from 24.06.2022 to 23.06.2027).
  3. Received ?2.124 lakhs from National Engineering Industries (NEI) Ltd. (NBC Bearing) for the project entitled, “Deposition of Ti-Al doped MoS2 coating on ball bearings” (from 11.04.2023 to 10.10.2023).
  4. Received ?26.115 lakhs from AR&DB, DRDO for the project entitled, “Development of super-lubricated Nano-crystalline Diamond film on bearing materials for aerospace applications” (from 06.02.2020 to 05.02.2023).
  5. Received ?24.385 lakhs from BRNS, DAE for the project entitled, “Development of atmospheric pressure plasma jet sources and their characterization” (from 16.03.2011 to 31.10.2015).
  6. Received ?0.80 lakhs from BIT Mesra (Under Seed Money Scheme) for the project entitled, “Synthesis of graphene by chemical method for large area transparent substrates” (from 13.11.2015 to 12.11.2016).

As Co-Investigator

  1. Received ?5.50 lakhs from JCSTI for the project entitled, “Fabrication of graphene oxide infused natural polymer based self-healing dressing foams using medicinal plants of Jharkhand” (from 29.05.2025 to 28.05.2028).
  2. Received ?1.34097 lakhs from UGC-DAE CSR for the project entitled, “Synthesis of Reduced Graphene Oxide- metal nanoparticles for early detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma through Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy” (from 24.06.2022 to 23.06.2026).
  3. Received ?34.21264 lakhs from ANRF-SERB for the project entitled, “Atmospheric plasma surface treatment and development of graphene-reinforced zinc-rich nanocomposite coatings on aircraft structure materials for superior corrosion and wear resistance” (13.02.2023 to 12.05.2026).
  4. Received ?36.12768 lakhs from DST for the project entitled, “Synthesis of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond films for Field Emission Applications using Microwave Plasma Enhanced     Chemical Vapour Deposition” (from 03.09.2009 to 02.09.2013).

International Projects (as Co-PI)

  1. Received ?12.54 lakhs from DST, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi and the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Republic of Austria for the project entitled, “Advanced 3D bioprinted vascularized skin tissue scaffolds for regenerative medicine and preclinical testing as an alternative to animal model” (from 02.07.2025 to 01.07.2027).
  2. Received ?12.54 lakhs from DST, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi and Office of Chief Scientists, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of Israel, Jerusalem for the project entitled, “Development of photovoltaic solar cell with nanostructured graphene-modified and doped zinc oxide electrodes”
  3. Field Emission Study of Diamond-like Carbon and Nano-Crystalline Diamond Film funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, and DST, Government of India, New Delhi, amount ?5.808 lakhs (from 07.02.2008 to 06.02.2010), as a member of the project team from the Indian Side.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
  1. 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; Application Number 1327/KOL/2007, Applicant: Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Inventors: P. K. Barhai and Rishi Sharma.
  2. A method for preparing nanoparticle-based substrate for improved Raman profiling, Application No. 202531125360 filed on December 11, 2025, Applicant: Birla Institute of Technology Mesra; Inventor(s): Neelima Sharma and Rishi Sharma.

 
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.