Dr.Niraj Sinha

Dr.Niraj sinha
EMail : niraj[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in
Address : School of Engineering

 IIT Mandi,PWD rest house 2nd floor,

near Bus Stand, Mandi - 175001,

 India
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Area of Interests:

  • Design, manufacturing, materials science, nanotechnology and bioengineering.

Educational Qualification


  • Ph.D., Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008.
  • M.Sc., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2004.
  • B.Tech., Department of Manufacturing Engineering, National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), India, 2000.

Work Experience


  • Research Associate 2010-2011 STTARR Innovation Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Professional Service

  • Reviewed papers for following journals: IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Trends in Biotechnology, Nanomedicine, Measurement Science and Technology, Materials Express, Medical Science Monitor, Sensors, International Journal of Aerospace Innovations, and International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications.
  • Reviewed papers for the conferences IEEE Nano 2008 and International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems-2008.

Awards and Honors

  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008-2010 (NSERC stands for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada).
  • Nominated for NSERC Doctoral Prize by Faculty of Engineering,2008 University of Waterloo (Only one thesis is nominated each year by the faculty for the award).
  • NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral 2006-2008.
  • University of Waterloo President's Graduate Scholarship 2006-2008.
  • University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship (Awarded 9 times) 2005-2008.
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology 2005-2006.
  • Conference Travel Award 2005, 2007.
  • International Doctoral Student Award 2004-2005.
  • International Graduate Student Award 2004.

Publications

Peer reviewed journals

  1. Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., Degradation and failure of field emitting carbon nanotube arrays, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 3911-3915, 2011.
  2. Park, S., Sinha, N. and Hamad-Schifferli, K., Effective size and zeta-potential of nanorods by Ferguson analysis, Langmuir, vol. 26, no. 16, pp. 13071-13075, 2010.
  3. Roy Mahapatra, D., Anand, S., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., Enhancing field emission from a carbon nanotube array by lateral control of electrodynamic force field, Molecular Simulation, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 512-519, 2009.
  4. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Sun, Y., Yeow, J.T.W., Melnik, R.V.N. and Jaffray, D.A., Electromechanical interactions in carbon nanotube based thin film field emitting diode, Nanotechnology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 25701 (1-12), 2008.
  5. Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N., Yeow, J.T.W. and Melnik, R.V.N., Field emission from strained carbon nanotubes on cathode substrate, Applied Surface Science, vol. 255, no. 5, pp. 1959-1966, 2008.
  6. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Yeow, J.T.W., Melnik, R.V.N. and Jaffray, D.A., Carbon nanotube thin film field emitting diode: understanding the system response based on multiphysics modeling, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 535-549, 2007.
  7. Melnik, R., Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Coupled nonlinear effects in modeling field emission from CNTs, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, vol. 7, pp. 1030801-1030802, 2007.
  8. Sinha, N., Ma, J., and Yeow, J.T.W., Carbon nanotube based sensors. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 573-590, 2006.
  9. Sinha, N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 180-195, 2005.
  10. Tiwari, M.K., Sinha, N., Kumar, S., Rai, R. and Mukhopadhyay, S.K., A petri net based approach to determine the disassembly strategy of a product, International Journal of Production Research, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1113-1129, 2002.

Book Chapters

  1. Sinha, N., Field emission from carbon nanotube thin films. Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ed. H.S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers. vol. 14, pp. 149-159, 2011.
  2. Sinha, N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Nanotechnology for oncology. Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ed. H.S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers. vol. 19, pp. 249-263, 2011.
  3. Yeow, J.T.W. and Sinha, N., Carbon nanotubes and fullerene sensors. Sensors Based on Nanostructured Materials. Ed. Francisco Arregui, Springer. pp. 11-28, 2009.

Conference papers

  1. Kim, J., Sinha, N., Gasteiger, H.A., Carlton, C.E., Hamad-Schifferli, K. and Shao-Horn, Y., Electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction on different morphology of gold nanoclusters, ACS Fall 2010 National Meeting and Exposition, Boston, USA.
  2. Anand, S., Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N., Yeow, J.T.W. and Melnik, R.V.N., Field emission efficiency of a carbon nanotube array under parasitic nonlinearities, ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Vancouver, Canada.
  3. Sinha, N., Patil, S. and Melnik, R.V.N., Mathematical modeling and physical properties of carbon nanotube sensors with Stone-Wales defects, Proc. 4th International Conference on Sensor Electronics and Microsystems Technology (SEMST-4), Odessa, Ukraine, p. 56, ISBN 978-966-339-4, 2010.
  4. Roy Mahapatra, D., Anand, S., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., High resolution surface imaging using a carbon nanotube array with pointed height distribution, Proc. 12th Annual NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, Houston, USA, vol. 1, pp. 310-313, 2009.
  5. Roy Mahapatra, D., Anand, S., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., Stabilizing a pulsed field emission from an array of carbon nanotubes, Proc. SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, California, USA, vol. 7399, pp. 73990M (1-10), 2009.
  6. Patil, S., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., Modeling of GaN/AlN heterostructure-based nano pressure sensors, Proc. SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, California, USA, vol. 7402, pp. 74020C (1-8), 2009.
  7. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Melnik, R.V.N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Computational implementation of a new multiphysics model for field emission from CNT thin films, Proc. International Conference on Computational Science, Krakow, Poland, 2008. (This paper appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 5102), Part II, pp. 197-206, 2008)
  8. Sinha, N., Sun, Y. and Yeow, J.T.W., Field emission properties of carbon nanotube thin films grown on different substrate materials, Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Arlington, USA, pp. 270-273, 2008.
  9. Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N., Melnik, R.V.N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Design optimization of field emission from a stacked carbon nanotube array, Proc. 11th Annual NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, Boston, USA, vol. 1, pp. 55-58, 2008.
  10. Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N., Melnik, R.V.N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Field emission properties of carbon nanotube arrays with defects and impurities, Proc. 11th Annual NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, Boston, USA, vol. 3, pp. 729-732, 2008.
  11. Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., Field emission enhancement in a patterned CNT array cathode, Proc. 50th Electronic Materials Conference, Santa Barbara, USA, 2008.
  12. Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N., Melnik, R.V.N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Characterizing hysteresis in field emission from carbon nanotube arrays, Proc. 6th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2008.
  13. Sinha, N., Yeow, J.T.W. and Jaffray, D.A., Experimental investigation of the crosstalk phenomenon and current stability in a carbon nanotube array, Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Hong Kong, pp. 194-197, 2007.
  14. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Yeow, J.T.W. and Melnik, R.V.N., Multi-mode phonon controlled field emission from carbon nanotubes: modeling and experiments, Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Hong Kong, pp. 961-964, 2007.
  15. Sinha, N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Carbon nanotube based field emission devices for x-ray generation, Proc. International Conference on Nanomedicine and its Applications, Tanjavur, India, pp. 136-146, 2007.
  16. Melnik, R.V.N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N., Yeow, J.T.W., Jaffray, D.A., Williatzen, M., Lassen, B. and Lew Yan Voon, L., Coupled nonlinear effects in nanostructures and their applications, Proc. 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich, Switzerland. pp. 303-304, 2007.
  17. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Yeow, J.T.W. and Melnik, R.V.N., Modeling the field emission current fluctuation in carbon nanotube thin films, Proc. 10th Annual NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, Santa Clara, USA, pp. 76-79, 2007.
  18. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Yeow, J.T.W., Melnik, R.V.N. and Jaffray, D.A., Characterization of self-assembly and evolution in carbon nanotube thin film field emitter, Proc. 6th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Cincinnati, USA, pp. 673-676, 2006.
  19. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Yeow, J.T.W., Melnik, R.V.N. and Jaffray, D.A., A quantum-hydrodynamic coupled model of field emission from carbon nanotube thin films, Proc. 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 0459, 2006.
  20. Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Yeow, J.T.W., Melnik, R. and Jaffray, D.A., Modeling the field emission properties of carbon nanotube thin film, Proc. International Workshop on Physics of Disordered and Mesoscopic Materials, Kanpur, India, 2006.
  21. Sinha, N. and Yeow, J.T.W., Modeling the behavior of random carbon nanotubes during field emission, Proc. International Conference on MEMS, Nano and Smart Systems, Banff, Canada, pp. 371-376, 2005.
  22. Zhang, W.J., Lin, Y. and Sinha, N., A note on Function-Behavior-Structure framework for design, Proc.2nd CDEN International Conference on Design Education, Innovation and Practice, Kananaskis, Canada, 2005.
  23. Tiwari, M.K., Sinha, N., Kumar, S. and Mukhopadhyay, S.K., Operations planning issues for a disassembly process, Proc. 15th International conference on Production Research, Limerick, Ireland, pp. 491-494, 1999.
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