CORE FACULTY

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

Nanoelectromechanical sensors, Optomechanics, nonlinear dynamics

Recent Publications

• More, S., & Naik, A. (2024). Graphene resonant pressure sensor with ultrahigh responsivity-range product. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 34(7), 075006.
  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6439/ad5561/meta

• Arora, N., Singh, P., Kumar, R., Pratap, R., & Naik, A. (2024). Mixed Nonlinear Response and Transition of Nonlinearity in a Piezoelectric Membrane. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 6(1), 155-162.
  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00735

• Prasad, P., Arora, N., & Naik, A. K. (2023). Tunable nonlinear damping in MoS2 nanoresonator. Applied Physics Letters, 123(26).
  https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/123/26/263509/2931551

• Yarajena, S. S., & Naik, A. K. (2022). Nano Flex Screen Protectors for 2D Material Piezotronics. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 22, 1-7.
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9998109

• Dash, A., Mere, V., Selvaraja, S. K., & Naik, A. K. (2022). Independently Reconfigurable Internal Loss and Resonance Shift in an Interferometer-Embedded Optical Cavity. Physical Review Applied, 18(5), 054032.
  https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.054032

Key Publications

• Prasad, P., Arora, N., & Naik, A. K. (2019). Gate tunable cooperativity between vibrational modes. Nano Letters, 19(9), 5862-5867.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01219

• Dash, A., Selvaraja, S. K., & Naik, A. K. (2018). On-chip optical transduction scheme for graphene nano-electro-mechanical systems in silicon-photonic platform. Optics Letters, 43(4), 659-662. (Editor’s Pick).
  https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.000659

• Samanta, C., Arora, N., Raghavan, S., & Naik, A. K. (2019). The effect of strain on effective Duffing nonlinearity in the CVD-MoS 2 resonator. Nanoscale, 11(17), 8394-8401.
  https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NR10452B

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