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Dr. Ashis Kumar Manna

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Assistant Professor & Assoc. Dean (PG)

Department of Basic Sciences, School of Sciences and Humanities

Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar

5 Years

Nanotechnology, Optoelectronics, Sensor

Metal oxide nanostrucures, Graphene, Thin film technology, Resistitive Switching Memory, Ion-Implantation Technologies, Photocatalysis, Electrochemical Sensors, Photo-detector

Mail: ashiskumar@sru.edu.in

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2020

Ph.D. in Physics from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India

2011

M.Sc. in Physics from University of Calcutta, WestBengal, India

2009

B. Sc. (Physics Honours) from University of Calcutta, West Bengal

Professional
Experience

2024

Assistant Professor at Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science (MITS) Deemed to be University, from 2024-07-20 to 2026-05-20.

2023

Temporary Faculty at NIT Raipur, from 2023-08-21 to 2023-11-03.

2021

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IIT Bhubaneswar, from 2021-04-15 to 2023-04-16.

2020

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar, from 2020-12-28 to 2021-03-31.

2019

Project Associate-I at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, from 2019-12-24 to 2020-12-24.

Key Publications

Indrani Mishra, Shalik Ram Joshi, Subrata Majumder, Ashis K. Manna & Shikha Varma; Low energy ion irradiation of TiO2 (110)-understanding evolution of surface morphology and scaling studies, Radiation effects and defects in solids,171, 7-8, (2016)

Subrata Karmakar, Ashis K. Manna, Shikha Varma and Dhrubananda Behera; Investigation of optical, electrical and magnetic properties of hexagonal NiTiO3 nanoparticles prepared via ultrasonic dispersion techniques for high power applications, Materials Research Express, 5, 5, (2018)

Ashis K. Manna, A. Barman, Shalik R. Joshi, B. Satpati, P. Dash, Ananya Chattaraj, S. K. Srivastava, P. K. Sahoo, A. Kanjilal, D. Kanjilal, and Shikha Varma, The effect of Ti ion implantation on the anatase-rutile phase transformation and resistive switching properties of TiO2 thin films, Journal of Applied Physics 124, 155303, (2018)

P. Dash, Ashis K. Manna, N.C. Mishra, Shikha Varma; Synthesis and characterization of aligned ZnO nanorods for visible light photo-catalysis, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 107, 38-46, (2019)

Jaspal Singh, Ashis K. Manna, R. K. Soni; Bi-functional Au-TiO2 thin films with enhanced photocatalytic activity and SERS based multiplexed detection of organic pollutant, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 30, 16478, (2019)

Jaspal Singh, Subhavna Juneja, Shatrudhan Palsaniya, Ashis K. Manna, Ravi Soni, Jaydeep Bhattacharya: Evidence of oxygen defects mediated enhanced photocatalytic and antibacterial performance of ZnO nanorods, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 184, 110541, (2019)

Ashis K. Manna, Vanaraj Solanki, D. Kanjilal & Shikha Varma; Dynamics of surface evolution of rutile TiO2 (110) after ion irradiation; Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 174, 3-4, (2019)

Jaspal Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Rishikesh, Ashis K. Manna, R. K. Soni: Fabrication of ZnO- TiO2 nanohybrids for rapid sunlight driven photo-degradation of textile dyes and antibiotic residue molecules, Optical Materials, 107, 110138, (2020)

Jaspal Singh, Ashis K. Manna, R. K. Soni, Sunlight driven photo-catalysis and non-enzymatic glucose sensing performance of cubic structured CuO thin films , Applied Surface Science, 530, 147258, (2020)

Ashis K. Manna, A. Kanjilal, D. Kanjilal, Shikha Varma, Dynamic Surface evolution and scaling studies on TiO2 thin films by Ti ion implantation, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, 477, 68-73, (2020)

Ashis K. Manna, Puspendu Guha, Vanaraj J. Solanki, S. K Srivastava, and Shikha Varma; Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing with Cu2O-ZnO Hybrid Nanostructures Prepared by Single Step Co-electro deposition Technique, Journal of solid state electrochemistry, 24, 1647-1658, (2020)

Prescott E Evans, Andrew J Yost, Kayleigh A Mc Elveen, Qin-Yin Shi, Thilini K Ekanayaka, Ashis K. Manna, Vicki Schlegel, Peter A Dowben, Rebecca Y Lai, Shikha Varma: The Role of Amine in the Sequestration of As(III) on Functionalized Indium Tin Oxide, Applied surface science, 538, 147652, (2021)

Ashis K. Manna, Simeon J. Gilbert, Shalik R. Joshi, Takashi Komesu, Peter A. Dowben, Shikha Varma: Tuning photo-response and electronic behavior of graphene quantum dots synthesized via ion irradiation, Physica B: Condensed Matter 613 , 412978, (2021)

Jaspal Singh, Rishikesh Singh, Parul Duhan, Yamini Maan, Ashis K Manna, Debosmita Banerjee and Ravi Kant Soni: Morphology dependent effective charge separation process in nanostructured MoS2 thin films for enhanced photo-degradation behavior, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 54, 375103, (2021)

Ashis K. Manna, P. Dash, Dip Das, S.K. Srivastava, P.K.Sahoo, A.Kanjilal, D.Kanjilal, Shikha Varma, Resistive switching properties and photo-absorption behavior of Ti ion implanted ZnO thin films, Ceramics International, 48, 3303-3310 (2022)

Rakesh K. Sahoo, Ashis K. Manna, Arya Das, Arijit Mitra, Mamata Mohapatra, Sachindra Nath Sarangi, Parveen Garg, Uday Deshpande, Shikha Varma, Facile Synthesis of Super-paramagnetic Au @?-Fe2O3 Hybrid Nanoparticle and its Assembly on Graphene Substrate for Visible Light Photo-catalysis, Applied Surface Science, 577, 151954 (2022)

Ashis K. Manna, Simeon J. Gilbert, Shalik R. Joshi, Takashi Komesu, Shikha Varma, Effect of Topological Non-hexagonal Rings and Stone Wale Defects on the Vibrational Response of Single and Multi-Layer Ion Irradiated Graphene, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 143, 115329, (2022)

Ashis K. Manna, Shalik R. Joshi, B. Satpati, P. Dash, Ananya Chattaraj, S.K. Srivastava, A. Kanjilal, D. Kanjilal and Shikha Varma, Influence of ion implantation on depth dependent Phase transition in TiO2 films, Anatase nanostructures and Photo- absorption Behavior, Current Applied Physics 43, 1-8 (2022)

Sachindra Nath Sarangi, Rakesh K. Sahoo, Ashis K. Manna, P. Dash, Santosh K. Choudhury, Shikha Varma; Room temperature synthesis of structure–morphology tuned copper-doped ZnO nanorods and their photo-physics, Journal of Materials Science: Materials Electronics, 34, 1610 (2023)

Ashis K. Manna, Puspendu Guha, S. K Srivastava and Shikha Varma: Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensors Based on Electrodeposited CuxO-ZnO composite nanostructures, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 35, 188, (2024)

Nallabala Nanda Kumar Reddy, Minnam Reddy Vasudeva Reddy, C. Yuvaraj, M. Ramprasad Reddy, V. Manjunath, Kukkambakam Chandramohan, Ashis K. Manna, Ayman A. Ghfar, R. Ravanamma, P. Rosaiah, Muthukonda Venkatakrishnan Shankar, Salh Alhammadi, Sunil Singh Kushvaha: Improved Ultraviolet Photodetector Performance using Sol-Gel Spin Coated Cost-Effective TiO2 Nano Belts on p-Si, Silicon, 17, (2025) 4395-4407

Ashis K. Manna, Sachindra Nath Sarangi, Jaspal Singh, N. Nanda Kumar Reddy, Shikha Varma, C. Yuvaraj, Facile single-step electrodeposition of flower-shaped Cu doped ZnO nanostructures for optical, photoluminescence and photocatalytic assessment, Optical Materials 169 (2026) 117624.

Nallabala Nanda Kumar Reddy, Venkata Krishnaiah Kummara, Sunil Singh Kushvaha, KV Sreenivasulu, M Ramprasad Reddy, Ashis K Manna, Ayman A Ghfar, Kevin Rueda Castellanos, P Rosaiah, Vasudeva Reddy Minnam Reddy, TVK Karthik, PV Chandrasekar, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Bifunctional WO? NPs/p-Si Heterojunction for Integrated Acetone Gas Sensing and Broadband Photodetection, Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical 410 (2026) 118215

Awards and Honors / Achievements

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Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2013), All India Rank: 44

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