Conferences

<h2><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 205)"><strong>The papers presented in Conferences arising out of the work carried out at the Microelectronics &amp; MEMS laboratory during the years </strong> (2006-2013)</span></span></h2>

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    <li>&nbsp;<strong><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:12pt">E. Bhattacharya, A. Chadha, M. S. Veeramani, P. Shyam, N. P. Ratchagar, A silicon MEMS Triglyceride sensor, ISSS National Seminar on MEMS, Coimbatore, 21-22 September, 2012. Invite</span></strong></li>
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    <li><strong>&nbsp;E. Bhattacharya, H.V. B. Achar and S. Sengupta, Biomolecular separation using nanoporous silicon membranes, Symposium on Nanomaterials and Low-dimentional Structures, ICCES 2012, Crete, Greece, April 30 to May 4, 2012. Invited.</strong></li>
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    <li><strong>HVB Achar and E. Bhattacharya, Fabrication and characterization of silicon nanoporous membranes, Porous Semiconductors – Science and Technology, PSST &nbsp;2012, Malaga, Spain, 25-30 March, 2012.</strong></li>
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    <li><strong>M.S. Veeramani, N. P. Ratchagar, P. Shyam, E. Bhattacharya and A. Chadha, A miniaturized potentiometric pH sensor with thin film electrode for bio-sensing, Sixth ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems (ISSS – 2012), January 4-7 2012, Bangalore</strong></li>
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    <li><strong>P. Kumar, R Nagarajan and E. Bhattacharya, Digital Microfluidics platform for Biosensors, IWPSD 2011, Kanpur, Dec 18-22. Best Poster award.</strong></li>
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    <li><strong>V. Sista, E. Bhattacharya, MEMS Test Structure for Accurate Measurement of Knudsen’s forces, Proc. IWPSD 2011, Kanpur, Dec 18-22.</strong></li>
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    <li><strong>&nbsp;<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:12pt">Vikrant Sista, E. Bhattacharya, A Wide Range MEMS Vacuum Gauge Based on Knudsen’s Forces, COMSOL Conference Bangalore 2011, Nov 4-5</span></strong></li>
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>John P.George, N. Dasgupta, and B.K. Das, Compact integrated optical directional coupler with large cross section silicon waveguides, SPIE Proc., vol. 7719, pp1-IX, 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>G.R. Bhatt, P.V. Vivek, and B.K. Das, Attenuation of TM polarized light in metal coated SOI rib waveguides due to plasmonic absorption, PHOTONICS, Guwahati, India, Dec 12-15, 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>I.S. Krubhakar, R. Narendran, Y.K. Karthik, and B.K. Das, Fabrication of 1X8 power splitter in SOI substrate with optimized design parameters, PHOTONICS, Guwahati, India, Dec 12-15, 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>S. Pal, and B.K. Das, Fabrication of ridge waveguide in X-cut lithium niobate for nonlinear optic applications, PHOTONICS, Guwahati, India, Dec 12-15, 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>K. Ajay Giri Prakash, Sanjay Dhabai, Enakshi Bhattacharya and Shanti Bhattacharya, Designing Micro-mirrors for Low Resolution Spectroscopy, APCOT 2010, Perth, Australia, July 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>A. Dey and Amitava DasGupta, An improved analytical solution to surface potential in undoped surrounding gate MOSFET, Proc NSTI Nanotech, June 2010, Anaheim, CA, pp. 797-800. Article #1082</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>John P. George, N. Dasgupta, and B.K. Das, Compact Integrated Optical Directional Coupler with Large Cross Section Silicon Waveguides, Photonics Europe (SPIE), Brussels, Belgium, April 12 - 16, 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Bijoy .K. Das, John P George and Nandita DasGupta, Compact integrated optical directional coupler with large cross section silicon waveguides, SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, April 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>HVB Achar and E. Bhattacharya, Nanoporous silicon membrane for biomolecular separation, International Conference on Nano Science and Technology ICONSAT 2010, held at IIT Bombay, 17-20 Feb 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>L. Sujatha, R. Goswami and E. Bhattacharya, Mitigating the irreversible deformation with pressure in silicon / porous silicon composite membranes, SPIE Photonics West 2010, San Francisco, Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS, Jan 23-28.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>K. Ajay Giri Prakash, Sanjay Dhabai, Enakshi Bhattacharya and Shanti Bhattacharya, Design and Fabrication of a Micro-mirror for Spectroscopy, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, January 2010.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Mohanasundaram S.V, Mercy S, Harikrishna P V, E. Bhattacharya, and A. Chadha, Packaging of miniaturized EISCAP Triglyceride biosensor, Proc. IWPSD 2009, Delhi, Dec 15-19. Best Poster.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Kailash Rani, Mohanasundaram S.V, Mercy S, Arvind B, Anju Chadha, and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Detection of Urea in milk using EISCAP Sensor, Proc. IWPSD 2009, Delhi, Dec 15-19.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Jaibir Sharma, Nagendra Krishnapura and Amitava DasGupta, RF MEMS Switches with Low Pull-in Voltage, 15th International workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2009), Delhi, December 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>J. Chatterjee, T. Sreenidhi, K. Baskar, Amitava DasGupta, and Nandita DasGupta, Fabrication and Characterization of InGaN/GaN MQW Blue LED, 15th International workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2009), Delhi, December 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Kalaiselvi K, Binsu J. Kailath, Amitava DasGupta, and Nandita DasGupta, Ultrathin Gate Oxide by RTO followed by Anodization, 15th International workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2009), Delhi, December 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Nandita DasGupta, Some Challenges in the Fabrication of GaN-based Devices, 15th International workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2009), Delhi, December 2009 (Invited Talk).</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Shanti Bhattacharya, Demystifying Optical MEMS, IWPSD, New Delhi, December 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>John P. George, A. Manjusha, and B.K. Das, Silicon Nitride ARC for SOI Integrated Optical Devices, IWPSD, New Delhi, India, December 15 -19, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>K. Rajneesh, S. Pal, and B.K. Das, Fabrication and Characterization Integrated Optical TE-Pass Polarizer in LiNbO3, ICOP, Chandigarh, India, 30 Oct.-1 Nov. 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Sanjay Dhabhai and Shanti Bhattacharya, Development of a Fibre based Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer, International Conference on Photonics, CSIO, Chandigarh, October 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Binsu J Kailath, Amitava DasGupta and Nandita DasGupta, Ultra thin Oxide by Chemical Vapour Oxidation of Si, II International Conference on Semiconductor Technology for Semiconductor Technology for Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Transistors, Xi'an, China, July 5-10, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>N. Bhagirath, E. Kanhere and E. Bhattacharya, Detection of Thiols by MOS Capacitor for Biosensor Applications, ICMAT &amp; IUMRS-ICA 2009, Symposium B Nanomaterials for Bioimaging and Biosensing, 28 June - 3 July, Singapore.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>G.S. Jayadeva and Amitava DasGupta, Fully analytical surface potential based drain current model of short-channel MOSFETs including quantum mechanical effects, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT-2009), Singapore, June-July 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Jaibir Sharma and Amitava DasGupta, Fabrication of reliable RF MEMS switches in CPW configuration, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT-2009), Singapore, June-July 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>E. Bhattacharya, MEMS Microcantilevers for Metrology and Sensing Applications, Symposium on Emerging Trends in Materials, Metrology and Environmental Sciences (SET MMES)-2009, NPL, Delhi, July 28-29, 2009, Invited.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>G.S. Jayadeva and Amitava DasGupta, Fully analytical charge sheet model with quantum mechanical effects for short channel MOSFETs, 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEDST 2009), June 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Jobymol Jacob, Amitava DasGupta and Anjan Chakravorty, Physics based modeling of non-quasistatic effects in SiGe HBTs, 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEDST 2009), June 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>T. Sreenidhi, Amitava DasGupta and Nandita DasGupta, Thermally Oxidized LPCVD Silicon as Gate Dielectric on GaN, 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEDST 2009), June 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Lekshmi T, Amit Kumar Mittal, Amitava DasGupta, Anjan Chakravorty and Nandita DasGupta, Compact Modeling of SOI-LDMOS including quasi-saturation effect, 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEDST 2009), June 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Rathnamala Rao, Guruprasad Katti, Nandita DasGupta and Amitava DasGupta, Study of random Dopant fluctuation effects in fully depleted silicon on Insulator MOSFET using analytical model, 2nd International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology (IEDST 2009), June 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>N. Chawla, R. Nagarajan and E. Bhattacharya, Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Thermodynamic and Transport Phenomena in Polysilicon and silicon nitride CVD, 215th ECS Meeting, May 24-29 2009, San Francisco.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R.E. Fernandez, A. Chadha and E. Bhattacharya, Polysilicon Microcantilevers as Sensors for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Triglyceride and Urea, International Workshop on Nanomechanical Cantilever Sensors 2009, Jeju, Korea, May 20-22, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Paul Braineard E, Dhiman Chatterjee, Amitava DasGupta, Numerical study of the effect of extension on the performance of valveless micropump, Proc. International Conference on MEMS (ICMEMS 2009), IIT Madras, January 3-5, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>J. Sharma, N. Krishnapura, A. DasGupta, V. Kumar and D.V.K Sastry, Design of high-Isolation and low insertion loss RF MEMS Shunt switches for Ku and K-band application, Proc. International Conference on MEMS (ICMEMS 2009), IIT Madras, January 3-5, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>L. Sujatha, V. S. Kale and E. Bhattacharya, Improvements in Silicon / Porous Silicon Composite Membrane Pressure Sensors, International Conference on MEMS, ICMEMS 2009, 3-5 January, IIT Madras.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>S. Bhat and E. Bhattacharya, Extraction of Residual Stress using Electrical Measurements, International Conference on MEMS ICMEMS 2009, 3-5 January, IIT Madras.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R. E. Fernandez, E. Bhattacharya and A. Chadha, Dynamic response of enzyme immobilized Cantilever beams to Urea, International Conference on MEMS, ICMEMS 2009, 3-5 January, IIT Madras, Best paper award.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a> A. Mittal, A. Dasgupta, A. Chakravorty and N. Dasgupta, Compact Modeling of SOI-DMOS Including Quasi-Saturation Effect, Proc. Int. Conf. IEDST 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Jacob, A. Dasgupta and A. Chakravorty,Physics Based Modeling of Non-Quasi-static Effects in SiGe HBTs, Proc. Int. Conf. IEDST 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>K. Kumar and A. Chakravorty, Physics Based Modeling of RF Noise in SiGe HBTs, Proc. Int. Conf. IEDST 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>A. Chakravorty, Bipolar Transistor Equivalent Circuit Models,Invited talk, pp. 62, Int. Conf. IWPSD 2009 .</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>J. Jacob, A. DasGupta, N. DasGupta, A. Chakravorty, Analysis of LCR network for modeling non-quasi-static effects in SiGe HBTs, pp. 173, Int. Conf. IWPSD 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>K. Siddharth, N. V. Sudheer, and A. Chakravorty, Physics Based Modeling of Carbon Nanotube FET, pp. 167, Int. Conf. IWPSD 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>P. K. Holla, D. Enbasekar, S. Kailash, Swagata K., A. Chakravorty, HIPAX: Simple, Accurate and Automated Parameter Extraction for HICUM/L2, pp. 168, IWPSD, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>J. Jacob, A. DasGupta, A. Chakravorty, Transient Charge-Based Model for SiGe HBTs, Int. Conf. ELECTRO, 2009.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>S. Pal, A.K. Sahoo, and B.K. Das,Experimental Studies on Swelling and Surface Roughness Dependent Guiding Properties of APE:LiNbO3 Channel Waveguides, PHOTONICS, New Delhi, India, December 13-17, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>A.Kulkarni, G. Lakshminarayanan and S. Bhattacharya, Comparison Of Phase Stepping Algorithms Used With An All Fiber Interferometer, International Photonics Conference, New Delhi, December 2008. </strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R. Navalakhe, N. Dasgupta, and B.K. Das, Design of Low-loss Compact 90O Bend Optical Waveguide for Photonic Circuit Applications in SOI Platform, IEEE Region 10 Third International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, Kharagpur, India, December 8-10, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R. Navalakhe, N. DasGupta and B. K. Das, Design of Low-Loss Compact 90o Bend Optical Waveguide for Photonic Circuit Applications in SOI Platform, Third IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, December 8-10, 2008, IIT Kharagpur, India.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R. Navalakhe, N. DasGupta and B. K. Das, Fabrication and Characterization of Single Mode Optical Waveguide in Silicon-On-Insulator,PHOTONICS-2008: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, December 13-17, 2008, IIT Delhi, India.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>V. Hareesh, Y. Shanthi Pavan and E. Bhattacharya, Design of readout circuitry for EISCAP sensor, BIOCAS 2008, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Baltimore, November 20-22, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R. Navalakhe, N. Dasgupta, and B.K. Das, Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Mode Optical Waveguide in Silicon-On-Insulator, PHOTONICS, New Delhi, India, December 13-17, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R.E. Fernandez, S. Stolyarova, A. Chadha, E. Bhattacharya and Y. Nemirovsky, MEMS composite Porous Silicon/Polysilicon cantilever sensor for enhanced Triglycerides biosensing, IEEE Sensors 2008, Leece, Italy, October 26-29 2008, p1468-1471.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Shanti Bhattacharya, An Introduction to Fibre Interferometry, National Conference on Nanophotonic materials, Department of Physics, CUSAT, Cochin, October 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>G.Lakshminarayan, C.A. Khansa, Anil Prabhakar and S. Bhattacharya,Development Of A Fully Automated Fibre Interferometer,IMEKO TC2 Conference, Prague, August 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>Sachin Narwade and Nandita DasGupta, Process Optimization for a Transimpedance Pre-amplifier using Self-aligned GaAs MESFETs on epitaxial wafers, Proc. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering &amp; Technology, Nagpur, pp. 439-442, July 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>R. E. Fernandez, V. Hareesh, E. Bhattacharya, A. Chadha, Comparison of a potentiometric and a micromechanical triglyceride biosensor, Biosensors 2008, Tenth world congress on biosensors, Shanghai, May 14-16, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>A. Mathew, G. Pandian, A. Chadha, E. Bhattacharya, Novel Applications of Silicon and Porous Silicon Based EISCAP Biosensors, Porous Semiconductors - Science and Technology, PSST 2008, Mallorca, Spain, 10-14 March, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>L. Sujatha and E. Bhattacharya, Porous Silicon/Polysilicon for improved sensitivity pressure sensors, Porous Semiconductors - Science and Technology, PSST 2008, Mallorca, Spain, 10-14 March, 2008.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>L.Sujatha and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Sensitivity and stress of composite Si-micro/macro porous silicon membranes for pressure sensors, SPIE Photonics West 2008, Jan 20-25, San Jose, and Microfabrication Process Technology XIII, Editors: Mary-Ann Maher; Jung-Chih Chiao, Paul J. Resnick, Proc. Vol. 6882.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Somashekara Bhat and Enakshi Bhattacharya, An electrical approach to measure undercut and final beam thickness in a micromachined cantilever beam, SPIE Photonics West 2008, Jan 20-25, San Jose, Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS VII, Editors: Allyson L. Hartzell; Rajeshuni Ramesham, Proc. Vol. 6884.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>D.K.Agrawal and S. Bhattacharya, Design and Realization of a MEMS based Variable Optical Attenuator, IWPSD, Mumbai, December 2007.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Somashekara Bhat and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Electrical Measurement of Undercut in Surface Micromachined Structures, Proc. IWPSD 2007, Mumbai Dec16-20.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Renny Edwin Fernandez, C.V. Balaji, Enakshi Bhattacharya, Anju Chadha, Studies on cantilever based triglyceride sensor, Proc. IWPSD 2007, Mumbai Dec16-20.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Uday Bhaskar Katreddi, U. Venu Babu and Enakshi Bhattacharya, A Novel Polysilicon Based Process For Three Terminal Surface Micromachined Cantilever, Proc. IWPSD 2007, Mumbai Dec16-20.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>L.Sujatha and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Sensitivity and Stress in Pressure Sensors with Composite Silicon/Macroporous Silicon Membranes, Proc. IWPSD 2007, Mumbai Dec16-20, Best poster award.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>T. Sreenidhi, Nandita DasGupta and K. Baskar, “Reactive Ion Etching of<br />
    GaN using SF6 + N2/Ar Plasma” 14th International workshop on the Physics of<br />
    Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2007), Mumbai, December 2007 </strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Binsu J. Kailath, S. Bhattacharya, Amitava DasGupta, Nandita DasGupta, D.W. McNeill and H.Gamble , “Effect of Nitridation on Al/HfO2/Ge MIS Capacitors” accepted for presentation at 14th International workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2007), Mumbai, December 2007. </strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Amitava DasGupta, “Multiple Gate MOSFETs: The Road to the Future”, Invited Paper, 14th International workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD2007), Mumbai, December 2007. </strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Binsu J.Kailath, Amitava DasGupta, Nandita DasGupta, S Bhattacharya, B. M.&nbsp;&nbsp; Armstrong, H. S. Gamble and J McCarthy, “Novel low temperature techniques for growth of ultrathin oxides for Strained Si MOS Devices” accepted for presentation at The IEEE International conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2007) Cairo, Egypt, December 2007. </strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Dnyanesh S. Havaldar, Guruprasad Katti, B. M. Jadeja, Rathnamala Rao, Nandita DasGupta and Amitava DasGupta, “Performance Enhancement in Asymmetric Gate Dielectric MOSFET”, accepted for presentation at The IEEE International conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2007) Cairo, Egypt, December 2007. </strong><br />
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    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>M. R.Tejaswini, R. E. Fernandez, B. V. Soma Sekhar, K. Balasubramaniam, E. Bhattacharya, Determination of rheological parameters of microfluids using cantilever based MEMS and Laser vibrometry, National Seminar and Exhibition on Non-destructive Evaluation, NDE 2007, Vadodara, Nov 28-30.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>S. Stolyarova, R.E. Fernandez, A. Chadha, E. Bhattacharya and Y. Nemirovsky, MEMS Composite Porous Silicon/Polysilicon Cantilevers for Biosensing Applications, Third International Conference Micro &amp; Nano 2007, November 18-21, 2007, Athens, Greece.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>V. Hareesh, Renny E. Fernandez, Enakshi Bhattacharya and Anju Chadha, Miniaturized Triglyceride EISCAP Sensor, Proc. of IUMRs-ICAMS 2007, Intl. conference on advanced materials, Bangalore, October, 2007, to be published.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Enakshi Bhattacharya and L Sujatha, Composite silicon/porous silicon membranes for low pressure sensors, Proc. of IUMRS-ICAMS 2007, Intl. conference on advanced materials, Bangalore, October, 2007, Invited.</strong><br />
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    <li><strong>Nandita DasGupta, “Novel oxidation techniques for ultrathin SiO2<br />
    suitable for MOS gate applications” Invited talk presented in the<br />
    International Conference of Advanced Materials (ICAM), Symposium V:<br />
    Nanomaterials and Nanodevices Oct 11-13, Bangalore, India</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>B. N. Singh, P. Misra, A.K. Das, Rajnish Kumar, Binsu J Kailath, M.<br />
    Mishra, D.M. Phase, A. DasGupta, N. DasGupta and L.M. Kukreja, “Laser And Dc- Discharge Assisted Oxi-Nitridation Of Si For Ultra-Thin Gate Dielectric”, &nbsp;<br />
    presented in the International Conference of Advanced Materials (ICAM),<br />
    Symposium V: Nanomaterials and Nanodevices, Oct 11-13, Bangalore, India</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Enakshi Bhattacharya, Somashekara Bhat, Souvik Basu and Anil Prabhakar, Parameter extraction from electrical measurements on cantilever beams, 2nd Chinese-India Workshop on MEMS and NEMS, Beijing, August 4-5, 2007.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Binsu J Kailath, Nandita DasGupta and Amitava DasGupta, "Improved Electrical Characteristics of MOS Devices with Ultrathin Gate Oxide Grown by Chemical Oxidation",&nbsp; ECS Transactions - ULSI vs. TFT Conference Volume 8, from the International Conference on Semiconductor Technology for Ultra Large Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Transistors, July 29-31, Berga, Italy, 2007. </strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Sachin Tyagi, Anil Prabhakar and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Variable optical attenuators on SOI wafers, National Conference on Optoelectronics, Cochin, April 9-12, 2007.</strong></li>
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    <li><strong>E. Bhattacharya, Silicon based MEMS pressure sensors, National Seminar on Sensors, Mumbai, March 8-10, 2007.</strong></li>
</ul>

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    <li><strong>Somashekara Bhat and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Simple Resonance Frequency Measurement of Micromachined Cantilever Beams, Proc. of&nbsp; SPIE’s International Symposium on MOEMS-MEMS 2007 Micro and Nanofabrication: Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS VI, San Jose, 21-26 January, 2007, Eds. A Hartzell and R. Rameshuni, p 64630N01-08.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Jaibir Sharma and Amitava DasGupta, “A novel technique for extraction of material properties through measurement of pull-in voltage and off-capacitance of beams”, SPIE Symposium on MOEMS-MEMS 2007 Micro and Nanofabrication, 20-25 January 2007, San Jose, CA</strong>.<br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>L.Sujatha and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Silicon/Porous Silicon composite membrane for high sensitivity pressure sensor, Proc. of SPIE’s International Symposium on MOEMS-MEMS 2007 Micro and Nanofabrication: MEMS/MOEMS Components and Their Applications IV, San Jose, 21-26 January, 2007, Eds Srinivas A. Tadigadapa, Reza Ghodssi, Albert K. Henning, p 64640O01-08.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>. P. Sakalas, A. Chakravorty, M. Schrö, M. Ramonas, J. Herricht, A. Shimukovitch, C. Jungemann, Modeling of High Frequency Noise in SiGe HBTs, IEEE SISPAD, pp. 271-274, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>P. Sakalas, J. Herricht, A. Chakravorty, M. Schroter, Compact Modeling of High Frequency Correlated Noise in HBTs, IEEE BCTM, pp. 14, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong><a id="Conferencepapers" name="Conferencepapers"></a>J. Herricht, P. Sakalas, A. Chakravorty, M. Schroter, Transistor Kompaktmodell mit korrelierten Rauschquellenfür hohe Frequenzen, ITG/GMM Fachtagung, Analog 2006 .</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Binsu J Kailath, Nandita DasGupta and Amitava DasGupta, "Improved reliability<br />
    characteristics for thermally grown ultra thin gate oxide by optimized anodic<br />
    oxidation", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Reliability<br />
    and Safety Engineering, Dec 18-20, 2006,Chennai, pp 508-514. </strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>L.Sujatha and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Formation and characterization of porous silicon for MEMS application, International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science &amp; Engineering, IIT Madras, December 18-20, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Somashekara Bhat and Enakshi Bhattacharya, Extraction of Young’s modulus and density of polysilicon using resonance frequency and pull-in voltage,&nbsp; International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science &amp; Engineering, IIT Madras, December 18-20, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Renny Edwin Fernandez, Enakshi Bhattacharya and Anju Chadha, Covalent immobilization of lipase on semiconducting materials,&nbsp; International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science &amp; Engineering, IIT Madras, December 18-20, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Somashekara Bhat and Enakshi Bhattacharya, A simple method to find the spacing between plates of a MEMS capacitive sensor using pull-in voltage and resonance frequency, Proc. ISSS-MEMS06: Smart Structures And MEMS Systems For Aerospace Applications, AB-47 p1-6,&nbsp; Hyderabad, 1-2 December, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Jaibir Sharma and Amitava DasGupta, Measurement of internal stress in annealed electroplated Gold using double-supported beam, National Conference on Smart structure and MEMS Systems for Aerospace applications (ISSS-MEMS), 23-24 Nov. 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Hareesh Vemulachedu, Enakshi Bhattacharya, Shanthi Pavan, Miniaturized EISCAP Structures as Biosensors, Proc. ISSS-MEMS06: Smart Structures And MEMS Systems For Aerospace Applications, AB-57 p 1-5, Hyderabad, 1-2 December, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Enakshi Bhattacharya, Manjula S.R., Teweldebhran Kifle, and K.N. Bhat, Modeling of Resistivity and Temperature Coefficient of Resistivity of Heavily Doped Polysilicon, Proc. of IWPSD-2005, Vol 2, Intl. Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, December 13-17, 2005, Delhi, pp 1003-1012, Invited.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Enakshi Bhattacharya, Potentiometric Biosensors Based on Silicon and Porous Silicon, Workshop on MEMS and Nanotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 9 July, 2006, Invited.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>S. Karmalkar “Electroless deposition on polished crystalline silicon” (invited talk) 4th Spring meeting of International Society of Electrochemistry, National University of Singapore, April 17-20, 2006.</strong><br />
    &nbsp;</li>
    <li><strong>Enakshi Bhattacharya, Souvik Basu and Anil Prabhakar, Stiction Force Estimation from Detachment Length and Electrostatic Measurements on Cantilever Beams, Proc. of SPIE’s International Symposium on MOEMS-MEMS 2006 Micro and Nanofabrication: Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS V, San Jose, 21-26 January, 2006, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6111, pp 611101 – 1- 611101-14, Invited.</strong></li>
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