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Dr. Nalin Prashant Poddar

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Assistant Professor

Department of Basic Sciences

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand

4 Years

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Material Science, Thin Films

Material Science, Thin Films, Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCOs), Magnetic Materials

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2021

Ph.D. in Physics from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand

2013

M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand

2009

B.Sc. (H) in Physics from TMBU Bihar

Professional
Experience

2025

Assistant Professor at SR University, Warangal, India, from 2025-07-16 to .

2024

Assistant Professor at Sphoorthy Engineering College (Autonomous), Hyderabad, India, from 2024-08-14 to 2025-07-10.

2024

Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, India, from 2024-01-16 to 2024-07-16.

2022

Research Associate at Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL-DRDO) Hyderabad, India, from 2022-01-10 to 2024-01-09.

Key Publications

Nalin Prashant Poddar, S. K. Mukherjee, “Characterization of TiO2 Thin Films Deposited by using DC Magnetron Sputtering”, Carbon – Sci. Tech. 8/2(2016)1-8, ISSN 0974 – 0546.

Nalin Prashant Poddar, S. K. Mukherjee, Mukul Gupta, “Anatase Phase Evolution and its Stabilization in Ion Beam Sputtered TiO2 Thin Films”, Thin Solid Films, 666 (2018) 113-120. (Impact Factor - 2.0)

Nalin Prashant Poddar, S. K. Mukherjee, “Investigations on Preferentially Oriented Al-doped ZnO Films Developed using RF Magnetron Sputtering”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 30 (2019) 537-548. (Impact Factor - 2.8)

Nalin Prashant Poddar, S. K. Mukherjee, “Effect of Substrates and Post-Deposition Annealing on RF-Sputtered Al-doped ZnO (AZO) Thin Films”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 30 (2019) 14269-14280. (Impact Factor - 2.8)

Nalin Prashant Poddar, J. Arout Chelvane, N. D. Vara Prasad and M. Manivel Raja, “Thickness Dependent Magnetic Anisotropy Studies in Sputtered Fe-Co-Al Thin Films” Surfaces and Interfaces, 41 (2023) 103266. (Impact Factor – 5.7)

Nalin Prashant Poddar, J. Arout Chelvane and M. Manivel Raja, “Growth Rate and Substrate Temperature Dependent Magnetic and Magneto-microstructural Properties of Sputtered Fe-Co-Al Thin Films”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 587 (2023), 171362. (Impact Factor – 2.5)

Nalin Prashant Poddar, J. Arout Chelvane, N. D. Vara Prasad and M. Manivel Raja, “Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Sputtered Ni Films”, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 37 (2024), 1133-1140. (Impact Factor - 1.7)

Nalin Prashant Poddar, J. Arout Chelvane and M. Manivel Raja, “Investigations on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Ni-FeGa Bimorphs for Magnetostrictive Applications”, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 37 (2024), 1629-1633. (Impact Factor - 1.7)

Saroj Kumar Mishra, Ajit Kumar Sahoo, Nalin Prashant Poddar, J. Arout Chelvane, and J. Mohanty, “Investigation of magnetic domain interactions and switching mechanism in sputter deposited Fe-Co-Al thin film”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 610 (2024), 172535. (Impact Factor – 2.5)

Bikram Baghira, Amrit Kumar Mondal, Ajit Kumar Sahoo, Chandan Kumar, Nalin Prashant Poddar , Jeyaramane Arout Chelvane and Anjan Barman, “Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ta/FeGa/Ta Heterostructures: Effects of Strain on Structural Phase Change of Ta”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1014 (2025), 178689. (Impact Factor – 5.8)

Saroj Kumar Mishra, Nalin Prashant Poddar, J. Arout Chelvane and J. Mohanty, “Exploring thickness effects on magnetization reversal mechanism and domain state configuration in ferrimagnetic Gd-Fe thin film”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 36 (2025) 413. (Impact Factor – 2.8)

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