About
Shikhar Misra, Assistant Professor
- Specialization: Functional thin films, epitaxy, ceramic nanocomposites, optical metamaterials
- Areas of Interest: Ceramic Nanocomposite Designs, Processing and Characterizations for Microelectronics, Optics, and Energy applications, Machine learning for Materials Database Mining and Structural Refining
- Email: shikharm@iitk.ac.in
- Office: Faculty Building 411
- Phone: +91 512 259 2257
- CV: (Click here)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
2020
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Master of Technology
2015-2016
Materials Science and Engineering-IIT Kanpur
Bachelor of Technology
2011-2015
Materials Science and Engineering-IIT Kanpur
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor
Nov 2021 - Present
Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Module Integration and Yield Engineer
Oct 2020 - Sept 2021
Intel Corporation
Honors and Awards
Affiliations
Research
Our research interests lie in engineering the light-matter interaction at nanoscale of multi-phase thin film nanocomposites. This is achieved by exploring the use of epitaxial strain, compositional strain gradients, interface engineering, generating artificial ordered heterostructures and varying the growth kinetics to produce emergent physical properties.
Research Directions
- Our research focuses in the following directions
- Understanding the growth mechanisms and achieving enhanced spatial ordering of complex oxide-based nanocomposite systems towards metamaterial application.
- Discovering new self-assembled oxide-based vertically aligned nanocomposites (VANs) through strain engineering and achieving tunable physical properties to enable a wide range of coupled functionalities spanning the electrical, magnetic and optical properties including piezoelectric, ferromagnetic, optical permittivity and others.
- Integrating different machine learning tools such as Natural Language Processing and Image Processing in the conventional materials tetrahedron to facilitate accelerated materials discovery.
Recent Work
Teaching
Fall 2023
- MSE628: Electronic Devices and Characterization
Spring 2023
- MSE604: Science and Technology of Thin Films and Device Fabrication
Fall 2022
- MSE652: Nanocomposite Thin Films and Applications
- TA201: Manufacturing Processes (Tutor)
Spring 2022
- PSO 201: Introduction to Quantum Physics (Tutor)
Team
Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Gurukrishna Bhat
IPDF
Dr. Amit Kumar Rana
Ph.D. Students
Aditya Uday Kamat
Ph.D
Harsh Joshi
Ph.D
Dual Degree Student
Mayank Pratap Singh
Dual Degree
M.Tech. Students
Gokul Jayakumar
M. Tech
Vinayaka D. Rao
M. Tech
Past Students
Name | Year | |
---|---|---|
Chintu Aditya Santosh Naidu | M.Tech | Now at SAIL |
Rishi Verma | Dual Degree | - |
Harsh Mishra | Dual Degree | Now at JP Morgan Chase |
Rajan Kumar | Dual Degree | Now at K-12 Education Pvt Ltd |
Mukund Soni | Dual Degree | Now at Third Frontier |
Prashant Sinha | Dual Degree | Now at Nation With NaMo |
GVSS Manoj Kumar | M.Tech | Data Analyst |
Pushpanshu Tripathi | UG Project | Now pursuing MS at Cornell University |
Ashish Omar | Summer 2023 | BS at IISc Bangalore |
Shubham Joshi | Surge 2022 | |
Ablokit Joshi | Surge 2022 | |
Rajarshi Dutta | Surge 2022 |
Fun
Among other things, I like swimming, playing cricket, soccer, volleyball, badminton and many other sports. I am also an avid traveler and have traveled the length and breadth of India and continue to be fascinated by different cultures and food around the world.
I also create YouTube videos and some of them are linked below.