Projects

Title : Development of an agricultural waste based off-the-grid climate control unit for storage and processing of agricultural produce Principal Investigator : Dr. R. Raj (PI) and Dr. Ajay D. Thakur (Co-PI) Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : SERB, IMPRINT II Budget : 98.3554 Lakh Status : Ongoing   Title : Valleytronics in gapped Dirac Materials                                                           Principal Investigator : Prakash Parida Duration : 3 years ( 2018 -2021)  Funding Agency : ECRA, DST-SERB  Budget : 35.4 Lakh  Status : Ongoing   Title : Study of Optical Image Fusion Techniques for Securing Multispectral Data Principal Investigator : Dr. Naveen Kumar Nishchal Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : CSIR New Delhi Budget : 21.24 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Design and Development of an Agricultural Waste Based Gasifier Heating System for GreenCHILLTM Principal Investigator : Dr. Rishi Raj Co-Principal Investigator : Dr. Ajay D. Thakur Duration : 2 years Funding Agency : DST under Ucchatar Aavishkar Yojana Budget : 95.07 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Enhancement of Raman scattering signal of single molecules using photonic nanojet mediated surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique Principal Investigator : Dr. Venkata Ramanaiah Dantham Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : CSIR Budget : 22.00 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Superconducting Spintronics using hybrid Superconducting-Ferromagnetic Metamaterial Principal Investigator : Dr. S. J. Ray Duration : 5 years Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology - INSPIRE Scheme Budget : 35.00 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Novel Spin-triplet Superconductivity using ferromagnetic-superconducting heterostructures Principal Investigator : Dr. S. J. Ray Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : UGC-DAE Budget : 1.35 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Generation, Imaging and Control of Novel Coherent Electronic States in Artificial Ferromagnetic-Superconducting Hybrid Structures and Devices Principal Investigator : Dr. S. J. Ray Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : DST-SERB Budget : 50.00 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Investigations on Thin Films of Discotic Liquid Crystal Molecules for Applications in Organic Electronics Principal Investigator : Dr. Alpana Nayak Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : SERB Budget : 50 Lakhs Status : Ongoing   Title : Development of Indigenous Technology for High Energy Density LiPo Battery for Low Temperature Applications Principal Investigator : Dr. A. K. Thakur Duration : 3 years Funding Agency :  RCI, DRDO Budget : INR (in lakh) - 300.00 (for equipment) + 237.00 (other heads) Status : Approved (equipment purchase by funding agency under process)   Title : Graphene and other 2D materials based spintronics and topological insulators Principal Investigator : Dr. Jayakumar Balakrishnan Duration : 2014-2019 Funding Agency : DST (INSPIRE Faculty Scheme) Budget : 35 Lakh Status : Ongoing Title : Spin transport in graphene/LSMO heterostructures Principal Investigator : Dr. Jayakumar Balakrishnan Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : DST Nanomission Budget : 37.5 lakhs Status : Approved   Title : Identification of Biological Micro-organisms with Digital Holography Principal Investigator : Dr. Naveen Kumar Nishchal Duration : March 2013 – March 2016 Funding Agency : ER & IPR, Defence Research & Development Organisation, DHQ, New Delhi Budget : 16.708 Lakh Status : Ongoing   Title : Study on Digital Holography based Information Security Schemes Principal Investigator : Dr. Naveen Kumar Nishchal Duration : April 01, 2011 – March 31, 2014 Funding Agency : Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi Budget : 10.565 Lakh Status : Completed   Title : Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow Light in a Two dimensional Magneto Optical Trap (2D MOT) Principal Investigator : Dr. Raghavan K Easwaran Duration : 3 years Funding Agency : SERB, DST Budget : 21.2 Lakh Status : Ongoing   Title : Coherent Control & Interferometry using Bose-Einstein Condensate Principal Investigator : Dr. Utpal Roy Duration : Three Years Funding Agency : Science & Engineering Research Board, DST, GoI Budget : 15.24 Lakhh Status : Ongoing   Title : Real time detection and sizing of single protein molecule using a nanoplasmonic-photonic hybrid microresonator Principal Investigator : Dr. Venkata Ramanaiah Dantham Duration : December 2015 - December 2018 Funding Agency : SERB (Extra Mural Research Funding) Budget : 55 Lakh Status : Ongoing   Title : Study of decoherence and sensitivity of quantum superposition structures in realizable systems and their applications. Principal Investigator : Dr. Suranjana Ghosh Duration : 4 Yrs Funding Agency : Department of Science Technology (DST), Govt of India (Fast Track scheme) Budget : 20.82 Lakh Status : Completed   Title : Fluctuations in DNA for molecular recognition Principal Investigator : Dr. Manas Kumar Sarangi Duration : 3 Yrs Funding Agency : Science & Engineering Research Board, DST, India Budget : 43 Lakh Status : Ongoing   Title : Photoionization and Electron Scattering Dynamics of Free and Confined Atomic Systems Principal Investigator : Dr. Jobin Jose Duration : 3 Yrs Funding Agency : Science & Engineering Research Board, DST, India Budget : 25 Lakh Status : Ongoing   Title : Setting up of an advanced multimode scanning probe microscopy facility for device applications. Project coordinator : Dr. Alpana Nayak Project Implementation Group : Dr. V. R. Dantham (HoD Physics), Dr. Manoranjan Kar, Dr. Manas Kumar Sarangi, Dr. Soumya Jyoti Roy. Duration : 5 Yrs Funding Agency : DST under FIST program Budget : 269 Lakh Status : Ongoing