Alumni

Current Position
Assistant Professor at EECS, IISER, Bhopal

Experience
• Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, (Apr 2017 – Sep 2018).
• Post Doctoral Fellow, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (Mar 2016 – Mar 2017).
• Research Associate, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (Aug 2015 – Feb 2016).

Theses Title (Year)
Study and control of electromigration driven material transport for applications in nanofabrication and patterning (2016).

Research Area
MEMS/NEMS

Publications
• “Electrolithography”- A Novel Patterning Technique Using Electric Field Driven Material Transport, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap (To be communicated).

• Creating wavy surfaces on a metallic path using electric field driven mass transport, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap (To be communicated).

• Controlled Material Transport and Multidimensional Patterning at Small Length Scales using Electromigration, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap (Accepted in Current Science).

• Film thickness mediated transition in the kinetics of electric current induced flow of thin liquid metal films, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 104, pp. 214102_1-214102_4, 2014.

• Electric current induced mass flow in very thin infinite metallic films, Santanu Talukder, Praveen Kumar and Rudra Pratap, IEEE Trans. Elec. Dev., vol. 60, pp. 2877-2883, 2013.

• Effect of substrate surface roughness on electric current induced flow of liquid metals, Santanu Talukder, Nalla Somaiah and Praveen Kumar, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 054101 (Jan, 2013).

• Nanoscale Control of Electro-migration for Resistance Tuning of Metal Lines, SantanuTalukder, ArindamGhosh and RudraPratap, Journal of ISSS, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 16-22, (Sept 2012).

Patents
A device, system and method generating structures on a substrate by electromigration, S. Talukder, P. Kumar, and R. Pratap, Indian patent application IPA12130001 (9 December 2014).