Akshay Naik

Professor

Room No:

FF 13

Email:

anaik@iisc.ac.in

Group Webpage:

http://www.cense.iisc.ac.in/anaik/

Education:

Ph. D. Electrical Engineering, 2006, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
M. Sc. (Physics), 1999, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
B. Sc. (Physics), 1997, Mumbai University, India.

Experience:

Associate Professor, IISc, Bangalore, Nov 2018 - present
Assistant Professor, IISc, Bangalore, December 2011 – Oct 2018.
Research Engineer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, August 2008 – November 2011.
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, November 2006 – August 2008.

Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics in 2D nanoelectromechanical systems
Noise in nanoelectromechanical systems
Strain engineering in 2D materials

Research Area

MEMS/NEMS MEMS and NEMS Sensors Fundamental research in NEMS/MEMS

Publications

“On-Chip Optical Transduction Scheme for Graphene Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems in Silicon-Photonic Platform”, Aneesh Dash, S.K. Selvaraja, and A. K. Naik, Optics letters 43 (4), 659-662. (Editor’s Pick)
“Parametric amplification in MoS2 drum resonator “, P. Prasad, N. Arora, A. K. Naik, Nanoscale, 2017.
“Graphene Electrodes as Barrier-Free Contacts for Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors “, P. R. Yasasvi Gangavarapu , Punith C. Lokesh, K. N. Bhat , A. K. Naik, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Volume: 64, Issue: 10, Oct. 2017.
“Gallium-Doped Piezoresistive Sensor with Optimized Focused Ion Beam Implantation”, A Sharma, BN Suma, KN Bhat, A. K. Naik, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 26 (1), 127-134. 2016
“Frequency fluctuations in silicon nanoresonators”, Marc Sansa, Eric Sage, Elizabeth C Bullard, Marc Gély, Thomas Alava, Eric Colinet, Akshay K Naik, Luis Guillermo Villanueva, Laurent Duraffourg, Michael L Roukes, Guillaume Jourdan, Sébastien Hentz, Nature Nanotechnology 11, 552–558 (2016) 2015
“Nonlinear mode coupling and internal resonances in MoS2 nanoelectromechanical system”, C. Samanta, P. R. Yasasvi Gangavarapu and A. K. Naik, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 173110 (2015).
“Dynamic range tuning of graphene nanoresonators”, Marsha M. Parmar, P.R. Yasasvi Gangavarapu, A. K. Naik, Appl. Phys. Lett., 107, 113108 (2015).

Patents

1. Single molecule mass spectroscopy enabled by nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS-MS)

ML Roukes, A Naik, MS Hanay,

US Patent 8,227,747

2. Single-protein nanomechanical mass spectrometry in real time

ML Roukes, MS Hanay, S Kelber, A Naik

US Patent 9,347,815

Conference and Seminars

“Parametric Amplification in MoS2 Drum Resonator and Effects of Nonlinearity”, Parmeshwar Prasad, Nishta Arora and A K Naik, Oral presentation, APS March Meeting 2018, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
“Performance of Solution-Processed Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors using Graphene Electrodes”, P R Yasasvi Gangavarapu, Punith C Lokesh, K N Bhat and A K Naik, Oral presentation, APS March Meeting 2018, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
“Top-gated n-type Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors using SiNx dielectric for Logic Circuit Applications”, P R Yasasvi Gangavarapu, Anjanashree M R and A K Naik, Poster presentation, APS March Meeting 2018, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
"PECVD Grown Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) as Passivation Layer and Gate Dielectric for n- type CNTFETs", P R Yasasvi Gangavarapu, Anjanashree M R and A K Naik, 19th International Workshop on The Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD 2017) at New Delhi, India, Dec 11 - 15, 2017
"Polyethyleneimine (PEI) doping of CNTFET: Effect of Solvent and Optimization of Doping Parameters", P R Yasasvi Gangavarapu, Anjanashree M R and A K Naik, 19^th International Workshop on The Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD 2017) at New Delhi, India, Dec 11 - 15, 2017.
“NEMS on flexible substrates for strain engineering in sensing applications”, S. More and A. K. Naik, 19th International Workshop on The Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD 2017) at New Delhi, India, Dec 11 - 15, 2017
“MoS2 resonators for enhanced sensing through Parametric Amplification”, N. Arora, P. Prasad and A. K. Naik, 19th International Workshop on The Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD 2017)at New Delhi, India, Dec 11 - 15, 2017
“Accurate Backbone Curve for Ultrathin NEMS with Geometric Imperfection”, Marsha Parmar, N. Kacem and A. K. Naik, 19th International Workshop on The Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD 2017) at New Delhi, India, Dec 11 - 15, 2017
“Control and Manipulation of Nonlinearities in Ultrathin Nanoresonators”, Chandan Samanta, Nistha Arora, AK Naik, “Advanced School on Foundations and Applications of Nanomechanics" and “School on Foundations and Applications of Nanomechanics", 18-29 September 2017 at ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
“Parametric Amplification in MoS2 Drum Resonator”, P. Prasad, Nistha Arora, AK Naik, “Advanced School on Foundations and Applications of Nanomechanics" and “School on Foundations and Applications of Nanomechanics", 18-29 September 2017 at ICTP, Trieste, Italy.