Professional Background

Research Achievements  

• Materials Scientist, General Electric- Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY (2001-2002)
• Post Doctoral Researcher, University of California at Davis, CA (2000)
• Guest Scientist, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany (1998-1999)
• Ph.D. (Materials Science), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (1998)

Awards

• Was interviewed for an article for Nature about job market in nanotechnology. "Small World, Big Hopes" by Myrna Watanabe, Vol. 426, p.478-479 (2003)
• One US patent (2004)
• Invention Fulcrum of Progress- GE Award to Inventors (2002)
• Six Sigma Certification, GE-GRC (2002)

Research Experience

• Synthesis and characterization of nano sized particles with enhanced magnetic properties suitable for perpendicular magnetic recording application
• High temperature corrosion studies of ceramics with basic coal slags generated in coal gasification atmosphere
• High temperature thermochemistry of perovskites: measurement of energetics of crystalline oxides and correlating the thermodynamic properties with chemical bonding, structural parameters, order-disorder, phase transition etc.
• Fuel cells- SOFC and PEM: development of novel materials and microstructural architecture for enhancing the catalytic activity of electrodes, and minimizing the interfacial reactions.
• Luminescence phosphors and scintillator detector materials: materials development, and microstructural & optical characterization
• Superconductors: enhancing YBCO performance through fundamental process improvements, modeling, and characterization
• Power electronic devices: reverse engineering of IGBT''s and MOSFET''s to understand chip configuration. Development of packaging of high voltage, high current power modules for applications at cryogenic temperatures

Selected Achievements

• Development of novel non-stoichiometric substituted hexaferrites with enhanced magnetization and appropriate microstructural characteristics
• Delineated the high temperature corrosion mechanism of ceramics in slag based on the equilibrium dynamics - dissolution, phase formation, basicity and ceramic microstructure
• Investigated the energetics of systems using high temperature transposed temperature drop calorimetry and drop solution calorimetry and thermochemical cycles to calculate the heats of formation and mixing
• Correlation of microstructure of superconducting thin films with electrical properties