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Dr. Mukesh Kumar Sharma

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Associate Professor

Electronics & Communication Engineering

IIT Delhi

7 years

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Active and reconfigurable optical devices, Tunable nanoscale electro-optical devices

Interdisciplinary research including tunable light-matter interactions, Active nanophotonics, Liquid crystal (LC) devices, Active and reconfigurable optical metasurfaces, Hybrid LC-metasurface composite systems, Nonlinear optics and Tunable X-ray imaging.

Educational
Qualifications
(From Highest)

2018

Ph.D in Optoelectronics & Liquid Crystal Photonics from IIT Delhi

2012

M.Tech in Optoelectronics (Optical Communication) from SGSITS, Indore (RGPV, Bhopal)

2007

B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

Professional
Experience

2024

Associate Professor at SR University, Warangal, from 2024-09-18 to .

2023

Research Fellow at NTU Singapore, from 2023-09-25 to 2024-09-01.

2018

Postdoctoral Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, from 2018-11-18 to 2023-03-31.

2007

Research Assistant at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, India, from 2007-12-24 to 2009-03-31.

Student
Supervision

1

PG

2

UG

Key Publications

Mukesh Sharma*, Mai Tal, Cormac McDonnell, and Tal Ellenbogen, “Electrically and all-optically switchable nonlocal nonlinear metasurfaces,” Science Advances, 9, eadh2353 (2023). (Featured article) (I.F.= 11.7) *Corresponding Author

Mukesh Sharma*, Lior Michaeli, Danielle Ben Haim, and Tal Ellenbogen, “Liquid crystal switchable surface lattice resonances in plasmonic metasurfaces,” ACS Photonics, 9, 2702-2712 (2022). (I.F.= 6.5)

Mukesh Sharma* and Tal Ellenbogen, “An all-optically controlled liquid-crystal plasmonic metasurface platform,” Laser Photonics Rev. 14, 2000253 (2020). (Highlighted on the cover page, Laser Photonics Rev. 14 (11)/2020)). (I.F.= 9.8)

Mukesh Sharma*, Netta Hendler, and Tal Ellenbogen, “Electrically switchable color tags based on active liquid?crystal plasmonic metasurface platform,” Adv. Opt. Mater., 8, 1901182 (2020). (I.F.= 10.05)

Lior Michaeli, Danielle Ben Haim, Mukesh Sharma, Haim Suchowski, and Tal Ellenbogen, “Spectral interferometric microscopy for fast and broadband phase characterization,” Adv. Opt. Mater., 8, 2000326 (2020). (I.F.= 10.05)

Mukesh Sharma*, M. R. Shenoy, and Aloka Sinha, “Periodically-segmented liquid crystal core waveguides,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 50(38), 385107 (2017). (I.F. = 3.1)

Mukesh Sharma, M. R. Shenoy, and Aloka Sinha, “A low-loss optical switch using liquid crystal core waveguide with polymer cladding,” IEEE J. Lightwave Technol., 34, 3065-3070 (2016). (I.F.= 4.1)

Mukesh Sharma, Aloka Sinha, and M. R. Shenoy, “Effect of TiO2 nanoparticle doping on the performance of electrically-controlled nematic liquid crystal core waveguide switch,” Opt. Materials, 49, 292-296 (2015). (I.F.= 3.8)

M. R. Shenoy, Mukesh Sharma, and Aloka Sinha, “An electrically-controlled nematic liquid crystal core waveguide with a low switching threshold,” IEEE J. Lightwave Technol., 33, 1948-1953 (2015). (I.F.= 4.1)

Mukesh Sharma, and Suchandan Pal, “Design and analysis of nano-deep corrugated waveguide grating-based dual-resonant filters in visible and infra-red region,” Optik, 124, 3562 (2013). (I.F.= 2.8)

S. Pal, A. Chauhan, P. Kumar, M. Singh, N. Pradhan, Mukesh Sharma, K. Singh, and C. Dhanvantri, “Realization of long-period corrugated grating in silica-on-silicon based channel waveguide,” IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., 21(20), 1490-1492 (2009). (I.F.= 2.3)

S. Pal, A. Chauhan, P. Kumar, M. Singh, S. Das, Mukesh Sharma, N. Pradhan, K. Singh, S. Johari, C. Dhanvantri, A. Bhatnagar, and B. R. Singh, “Fabrication & performance- analysis of a planar silica-based cascaded symmetric Y-branch 1x8 optical power splitter,” J. Optics, 38(3) 149-159 (2009). (I.F.= 1.6)

Awards and Honors / Achievements

Project

Postdoc research was highlighted on the cover page of Q1 journal (I.F.= 9.8) of Laser & Photonics Reviews Journal.

Project

Postdoctoral Fellowship award from Tel Aviv University, Israel and Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (Nov. 2018-March 2023).

award

Institute Research Scholarship award for pursuing Ph.D. from IIT Delhi and MHRD, Govt. of India (2013-2018).

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CSIR Foreign Travel Grant 2017

award

Research Fellowship Award from NTU Singapore (Sept. 2023-Sept. 2024).

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2021 Incubic Milton Chang Travel Grant Award CLEO (Optica/OSA foundation, USA).

Project

Postdoc research was published as a featured article in a Q1 journal (I.F.= 11.7) of Science Advances journal and highlighted in international media press.