Dr. Neha Sardana

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Room: 

Room 423, Satish Dhawan Block
Phone: +91-1881-232406

Designation: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Email: 
nsardana@iitrpr.ac.in
Areas of Research: 
Size-Property (electrical, mechanical and optical) relationship of Nanostructured materials for different applications.
Bulk to Nano: Plasmon based materials and metamaterials for optical sensing devices in Visible and IR regime. Raman Substrates
Bulk to Micro: Electromagnetic response studies in GHz Regime for transmission and receiving applications.
High temperature ternary alloys
Education: 
Ph.D., International Max Planck Research Schools for Science and Technology of Nanostructures and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle (Saale), Germany
Masters (Materials and Manufacturing Engineering), Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
B. Tech. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India
Work Experience: 
Scientist, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, Punjab, India
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Selected Publications/Patents: 
K. Goyal and N. Sardana, Phase stability and microstructural evolution of Ti2AlNb alloys-a review, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020,ISSN 2214 7853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.10.925.
A. Kumar, G. Malik, K. Goyal, N. Sardana, R. Chandra, R. S. Mulik, Controllable synthesis of tunable aspect ratios novel h-BN nanorods with an enhanced wetting performance for water repellent applications, Vacuum, 2020, 109927, doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2020.109927S. 
H. Sammi, R. V. Nair and N. Sardana, Recent advances in nanoporous AAO based substrates for surface-enhanced raman scattering, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2020, ISSN 2214-7853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.233.
S. Samanta, S. Kumar, V. R. Battula, A. Jaryal, N. Sardana and K. Kailasam, Quantum dot-sensitized O-linked heptazine polymer photocatalyst for the metal-free visible light hydrogen generation, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 29633 - 29641 (DOI: 10.1039/D0RA03773G) 
S. Bansal, K. Prakash, K.Sharma, N. Sardana, S. Kumar, N. Gupta and A.K. Singh, A highly efficient bilayer graphene/ZnO/silicon nanowire based heterojunction photodetector with broadband spectral response, Nanotechnology 31 (40), 405205, 2020
GP Singh, N Sardana, Affordable, compact and infection-free BiPAP machine, Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, 1-7 2020
P. Jain, A. Singh, J. Pandey, S.Garg, S. Bansal, M. Agarwal, S. Kumar, N. Sardana, N. Gupta, A.K. Singh, Ultra-thin Metamaterial Perfect Absorbers for Single/Dual/Multi-band Microwave Applications, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation,   Volume: 14 , Issue: 5, p. 390 - 396 2020 (DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2019.0623 ).
V. Chawla*, N. Sardana*, H. Kaur, A. Kumar, R. Chandra, S. Mishra, Effect of annealing parameters and activation top layer on the growth of copper oxide nanowires, Applied Surface Science 504, 144369, 2020 (DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144369).
S. Bansal, A. Das, P. Jain, K. Prakash, K. Sharma, N. Kumar, N. Sardana, A.K. Singh, Enhanced Optoelectronic Properties of Bilayer Graphene/HgCdTe-Based Single-and Dual-Junction Photodetectors in Long Infrared Regime, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 18, 781-789, 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2019.2931814).
S. Bansal, K. Sharma, P. Jain, N. Sardana, S. Kumar, N. Gupta and A. K. Singh, Bilayer graphene/HgCdTe based very long infrared photodetector with superior external quantum efficiency, responsivity, and detectivity, RSC Adv., 2018,8, 39579-39592
B. Sharma, A. Singh, T. Sarma, A. Pal*, N. Sardana*, Chirality control to multi-stimuli responsive and self-healing supramolecular metallo-hydrogels, New Journal Of Chemistry, 2018
N. Sardana*, V. Talalaev, F. Heyroth, G. Schmidt, C. Bohley, A. Sprafke and J. Schilling, Localized surface plasmon resonance in the IR regime; Optics Express, 24 (1) (2016), 254-261
N. Sardana*, T. Birr, S. Schlenker, C. Reinhardt and J. Schilling; Surface plasmons on ordered and bicontinuous spongy nanoporous gold; New Journal of Physics, 16 (2014) 063053
M. Schade, , B. Fuhrmann, C. Bohley, S. Schlenker, N. Sardana, H. S. Leipner and J. Schilling; Regular arrays of Al nanoparticles for plasmonic applications; Journal of Applied Physics, 115 (2013) 084309.
N. Sardana*, F. Heyroth and J. Schilling*; Propagating surface plasmons on nanoporous gold; Journal of the Optical Society of America B 29 (7) (2012) 1778-1783
M. Mis, N. Sardana, and S. Seetharaman*; The synthesis and characterization of Ni-W-C alloy powders by H2-CH4 reaction with oxides; High Temperature Materials and Processes 27 (4) (2008) 209-222