Prof. Aloka Sinha
Current Students
Name: Deepak Verma
Email: vermadeepak154@gmail.com
Research Area: Development and Study of Liquid Crystal Composites with Organic and Inorganic Functional Dopants for Electro-optic and Sensing Applications
Year: 2019 - Present
Name: Dhananjoy Mandal
Email: mandaldhananjoy94@gmail.com
Research Area: Liquid crystal-based nanocomposites-applications & generalizations
Year: 2019 - Present
Name: Kaustav Jit Bora
Email: jitkaustav@gmail.com
Research Area: Liquid crystal polymer composite based energy harvesting devices
Year: 2021 - Present
Name: Debasish Bag
Email: debasishbag792@gmail.com
Research Area: Liquid crystal based optical devices and interferometers
Year: 2022 - Present
Name: Rohit Shimpi
Email: phz258750@physics.iitd.ac.in
Research Area: Liquid crystal multi lens array devices
Year: 2025 - Present
Past Students
Name: Dr. Aysha Rani
Email: aysharani456@gmail.com
Research Area: Augmenting the dielectric, electrical and electro-optic properties of liquid crystals by means of nano-inclusion
Year of Completion: 2025
Name: Dr. Shilpi Bose
Email: sbshilpibose@gmail.com
Research Area: Tunable Multifunctional Materials for Memory, Terahertz and Thermoelectric Applications
Year of Completion: 2025
Name: Dr. Rishikesh Kushawaha
Email: rishikesh.kushawaha@physics.iitd.ac.in
Research Area: Design and fabrication of electro-optic devices using liquid crystals and their integration with polymers.
Year of Completion: 2025
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at POSTECH, South Korea
Name: Dr. Vaibhav Sharma
Email: vaibhavsharma0495@gmail.com
Research Area: Development of Liquid Crystal-based Devices for Optical and Solar Energy Harvesting Applications
Year of Completion: 2025
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Name: Dr. Rahul Panchal
Email: rahulpanchal212@gmail.com
Research Area: Design, fabrication, and characterization of liquid crystal infiltrated electro-optic devices and fiber optic sensors.
Year of Completion: 2024
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at NYCU Taiwan
Name: Dr. Asha Kumari
Email: asha52192@gmail.com
Research Area: Design and Development of Polymer Altered Liquid Crystal for Electro-Optic and Thermoelectric Applications
Year of Completion: 2023
Current Position: Product Integration Engineer, Micron Technology, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Name: Dr. Sourav Patranabish
Email: souravpatranabish@gmail.com
Research Area: Studies on the nematic phases of flexible and rigid bent-core liquid crystals - extension to polymers for energy harvesting applications
Year of Completion: 2022
Current Position: 1. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Aerospace Structures and Materials, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands 2. Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of EEMCS, TU Delft, Netherlands
Name: Dr. Amina Nafees
Email: aminanafees17@gmail.com
Research Area: Investigation on Polar Liquid Crystal
Year of Completion: 2021
Name: Dr. Mukesh Kumar Sharma
Email: mukeshnice@gmail.com
Research Area: Liquid Crystal Waveguide
Year of Completion: 2019
Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Advanced Engineering (SoAE), Electrical Cluster, UPES Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Name: Dr. Pradeep Kumar
Email: pkd009@gmail.com
Research Area: Liquid Crystal Nanocomposites
Year of Completion: 2019
Current Position: Associate Professor, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad
Name: Dr. Gaurav Verma
Email: gaurav.sgs85@gmail.com
Research Area: Biometric based Information Security Systems
Year of Completion: 2017
Current Position: Assistant Professor, LNMIIT, Jaipur
Name: Dr. Nirmala Saini
Research Area: Investigation on Biometric based Information Security Systems
Year of Completion: 2010
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Miranda House, University of Delhi
Name: Dr. Narendra Singh
Research Area: Investigation on Information Security Techniques using Chaotic Maps
Year of Completion: 2010
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi
Former Project Staff
1. Dr. Susanta Chakraborty - August 2019 – May 2024
2. Mr. Avinash Kishore - November 2017- June 2018
3. Mr. Himanshu Nagdev - November 2017- June 2018
4. Mr. Parag Gughlani - September 2017- October 2017
Project Students (M.Tech./M.Sc./B.Tech.)
| Sr. No. | Name | Title of Thesis | Year (Course) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Deepak Kararwal | Design, fabrication and characterization of a liquid crystal- based polarization rotator | 2022 (M. Tech) |
| 2. | Akriti Singh | Design of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal for Electro-optic Shutters | 2020 (M.Sc.) |
| 3. | Aman Mishra | Design of devices based on the Liquid Crystal Waveguide | 2020 (M.Tech) |
| 4. | Rahul Patel | Physical Property of Nematic Liquid Crystal Doped with Fe3O4 | 2019 (M.Sc.) |
| 5. | Mathukmi Jajo | ||
| 6. | Ram Ashish Yadav | Liquid Crystal Based Ultraviolet (UV) Sensor | 2018 (M.Tech) |
| 7. | Ashutosh Mohan | Design and Fabrication of Nematic Liquid Crystal Core Waveguide Based 1X2 Optical Power Splitter | 2017 (M.Sc.) |
| 8. | Sarthak Wahal | Optical Encryption Technique with Attack Analysis | 2017 (B.Tech.) |
| 9. | Anirudh Agrawal | ||
| 10. | Shreyansh Ratnam Khare | Study of Bent-core Liquid Crystals | 2016 (B.Tech.) |
| 11. | Hari Nath | ||
| 12. | Hemant Kumar | Biometrics Based Recognition System | 2016 (B.Tech.) |
| 13. | Navjot Kaur | ||
| 14. | Sunil Kumar | Investigation on Optical Encryption Techniques | 2014 (M.Tech.) |
| 15. | Vanya Bisht | Characterization of Liquid Crystal Nanocomposite | 2014 (B.Tech.) |
| 16. | Ankita Vishwakarma | Simulation of Liquid Crystal Waveguide | 2014 (B.Tech.) |
| 17. | Charul Aseri | ||
| 18. | Veerla Swarnalatha | Liquid Crystal Composite | 2013 (M.Tech.) |
| 19. | Sahdev Kumar | Tunable Focus Cylindrical Liquid Crystal Lens | 2013 (M.Tech.) |
| 20. | Sobhan Kumar Ray | Liquid Crystal Based Patch Antenna | 2013 (M.Sc.) |
| 21. | Sandeep Kumar | ||
| 22. | Suman Kalyan Manna | Study of Liquid Crystal Nanocomposites | 2012 (M.Tech.) |
| 23. | Jeeban Kumar Nayak | Study on Electro-optic Switching (Bi-Stable and V-Shaped) in Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal | 2012 (M.Tech.) |
| 24. | Manoj Prasad | Investigation in Ferro-electric and Ani-ferroelectric Liquid Crystal | 2011 (M.Tech.) |
| 25. | Ravi Prakash Atreya | Optical Image Encryption | 2009 (M.Tech.) |
| 26. | Libin Kuriakose | Biometric Based Recognition System | 2007 (M.Tech.) |
| 27. | Ayush Jain | Biometric Based Recognition Using Rough Set Theory | 2007 (B.Tech.) |
| 28. | Kumar Nikhil |