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Raj Kumar Gupta

Professor, Department of Physics,
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Soft Condensed Matter
Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.
Associate Dean, Grants, Consultancy and Industrial Research (GCIR), Pilani Campus.

Research

 

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Group members:

  • Prof. V. Manjuladevi

Students:

  • Dr. C. Karthik
  • Monika Poonia
  • VP Devanarayanan
  • Keerti Choudhary
  • Jitendra Kumar
  • Parul Taneja

 

 

My Publication statistics in different fields (31 articles in peer reviewed international journal, Jan 2016):

 

 

 

 

 

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Collaboration

 

  • Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur
  • Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
  • CEERI Pilani
  • IISER, Mohali
  • IISc, Bangalore
  • Delhi University

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KushagraGarg(2006A8PS255)

Avinash Upadhyay (2009A1PS511P)

Niranjan Natekar (2010B5A3629P)

Adbhut Gupta (2010B5A3672P)

Shantanu Bhate (2009A3A7165P)

Cherin Joseph (2005B5A3358)

Namit Sharma(2009C6PS754P) 

Vishvamitra Belsare (2009B5A7495P)

Soumya Sahai (2011B5A7581P)

 Hitesh Agarwal(2012B5PS986P)
Sanjay Reddy(2013A7PS189) 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, MS program, 2014

University of California, San Diego, MS Program 2014

University of Minnesota, PhD, 2015

Virginia Tech University, PhD 2015

University of Wisconsin, MS Program, 2015

University of Wisconsin, MS Program, 2014

University of North Carolina, MS, 2015

University of North Carolina, MS, 2016

University of Cornell, PhD, 2016

Inst. Photonic Science, Barcelona, Spain, 2017 
University of Massachusettes, USA 2018 

 

Members

 

Students working for their PhD

 
9) Ms. Preeti (2022PHXP0059P, September 2022, BITS Pilani Sponsored)
 
PREETI
 
 
 
8) Mr Akash Gayakwad (2019PHXP0428P, Jan 2020, CSIR-NET Sponsored)
 
  • PhD qualifying completed on 17th March 2021.
  • PhD thesis proposal on 4th May 2021.
  • Thesis proposal approved on 22nd July 2021.
  • Research Article Publications: 2 (J. Mol. Liq., {IF::6.165}, IEEE Sensors)
 
7) Mr Amrit Kumar (2019PHXF0063P, June 2019, DST sponsored)
 
Mr-Amrit-Kumar
 
  • Thesis proposal presentation on 11/11/2020 on "Studies on thin films of organic and nanomaterials at interfaces and applications"
  • Thesis proposal approved on 25/11/2020. 
  • Research Articles published: 5 (JPCM (IOP), Plasmonics (2), Europhysics Letters, IEEE TED)
  • JRF to SRF conversion: 5th June 2021
 
 
 
 
 

GRADUATED STUDENTS

 
 
 
1) Dr. C. Karthik (BSR Fellow, UGC India, ID: 2007PHXF401P )
  • Thin films of liquid crystals (PhD pre-submission seminar held on 28/5/2015)
  • Thesis submitted on 8th July 2015
  • Thesis defended on 21st March 2016. Thesis examiners: (a) Prof Dipak Goswami (IITKGP) (b) Prof A Patnaik (IITM)

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Present Address: Pilani 
 
2) Dr. Monika Poonia (BITS Pilani Sponsored, ID: 2011PHXF028P)
  • Thin films of nanomaterials (PhD pre-submission seminar held on 10/5/2016)
  • Thesis submitted on 15th September 2016
  • Thesis defended on 25th November 2016.
  • Present Address: Ohio State University, USA (March 2022), University of Rhode Island till 2022.
 
3) Dr. Devanarayanan V. P. (DST Sponsored, ID:2011PHXF045P)
  • Development of surface plasmon resonance instrument (DST sponsored Project) 
  • PhD Pre-submission seminar held on 21st November 2016
  • Thesis submitted on 15th December 2016
  • Thesis defended and degree awarded on 26th June 2017.
  • Present Address: IIT Madras. 
 
4) Dr. Parul Taneja (DST Sponsored, ID:2016PHXF0010P)
  • Detection of contaminants in water using functional ultrathin  films(Sponsored by BITS under WWE, DST INDIA)
  • Supervisor: Prof R. K. Gupta (BITS Pilani, Physics Dept)
  • Co-Supervisor: Prof. K. K. Gupta (BITS Pilani, EEE Dept)
  • Thesis proposal presentation on 17/4/2017 on "Development of thin film based sensor"
  • Thesis Proposal Approved: 8/7/2017
  • PhD Thesis Pre-submission seminar: 23rd October 2021
  • PhD Thesis Submission: 24th November 2021
  • PhD Thesis Defended: 1st April 2022. External Examiners: (i) Prof. Dipak K Goswami* (IITKGP) & (ii) Prof Sandip Dhara (IGCAR)
  • Presently @ IIT Roorkey
  • Research Articles published: 5 (Cols. Surf. B, IEEE Sensors, Sens & Actu. B, Liq. Cryts., Mol. Sym. )
Dr. Parul Taneja
 
 
 
 
5) Dr Ashutosh Joshi (2017PHXF0035P, March 2017, DST Sponsored)
 
 
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  • Development of Surface Plasmon Resonance Instruments (Funded by DST India), Joined in March 2017    
  • Thesis proposal presentation on 14/11/2017 on "Development of surface plasmon resonance instrument for sensing and other applications"
  • Thesis Proposal Approved: 29/1/2018
  • Research Articles published: 6 (Nanotechnology; Plasmonics; Materials Today(2); EuroPhys Letts; J. Mol. Liq; )
  • Pre-Thesis Seminar : 23rd Nov 2022
  • PhD Thesis submitted on 29th Dec 2022
  • PhD Thesis Defended on 20th June 2023, Examiners: Prof Arghya Narayan Banerjee of Yeungnam University, South Korea (Examiner for Viva Voce) & Prof Sujeet Chaudhary of IIT Delhi.
 
 

 As Co-Supervisor:

 
6) Dr Punit Khatri (2017PHXF0009P, Dept of EEE, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)
    Supervisor: Prof. K. K. Gupta, BITS Pilani, Dept of EEE.
    Co-Supervisor: Prof. R. K. Gupta, BITS Pilani, Dept of Physics
    DST & CSIR Sponsored. 
  • Thesis proposal presentation on 15/11/2017
  • PhD Thesis Pre-submission seminar: 17th November 2021
  • Research Articles published: 5 (MESE, SNCS, JAIHC, IJESD,MAPAN) + 1 book chapter (Springer Nature).
  • Pre-Submission Seminar of PhD Thesis: 17th Nov 2021
  • Thesis Submission: 3rd January 2021
  • Thesis Defended: 26th May 2022