CORE FACULTY

Education
• PhD Mechanical Engineering with minor in Electrical Engineering, 2009, Stanford University, USA
• MS Mechanical Engineering, 2005, Stanford University, USA
• B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, 2003, IIT Bombay

Experience
• Assistant Professor, IISC Bangalore, December 2017 – Present
• Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University, March 2017-December 2017
• Research Consultant, IIT Bombay, July 2016 – March 2017
• Advanced Equipment Engineer, Intel October 2010- July 2016
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, April 2009- September 2010

Research Interests
• Energy loss mechanisms in micro/nano scaled resonators
• Wafer scale packaging for MEMS
• Human-computer modality enhancements
• Low cost system development for IC fabrication and characterization

Research Area
MEMS/NEMS fabrication, Materials for MEMS/NEMS, MEMS/NEMS sensors, Study of Energy Loss Mechanisms and Noise in MEMS/NEMS, Phononic crystals, Wafer-scale MEMS Packaging

Recent Publications

• Kumar, V., Tiwari, S., Pillai, G., Pratap, R., & Chandorkar, S. A. (2024). Synchronized Opto-Electro-Mechanical Measurements for Estimation of Energy Dissipation in Thin-Film-Piezoelectric-on-Substrate MEMS/NEMS Devices. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10705914

• Khandelwal, U., Sandilya, R. S., Rai, R. K., Sharma, D., Mahapatra, S. R., Mondal, D., … & Nukala, P. (2024). Large electro-opto-mechanical coupling in VO2 neuristors. Applied Physics Reviews, 11(2).
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0169859

• Parate, S. K., Vura, S., Pal, S., Khandelwal, U., Sandilya Ventrapragada, R. S., Rai, R. K., … & Nukala, P. (2024). Giant electrostriction-like response from defective non-ferroelectric epitaxial BaTiO3 integrated on Si (100). Nature Communications, 15(1), 1428.
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45903-x

Key Publications(*from outside CeNSE)

• Khandelwal, U., Guo, Q., Noheda, B., Nukala, P., & Chandorkar, S. (2023). Dynamics of voltage-driven self-sustained oscillations in NdNiO3 neuristors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 5(7), 3859-3864.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.3c00549

• Tiwari, S., Kumar, R., Chandorkar, S. A., & Pratap, R. (2020). Fully differential actuation and sensing in piezoelectric diaphragm resonators for high signal to background resonant sensing. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 29(5), 888-893.
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9120019

• Rodriguez, J., Chandorkar, S. A., Watson, C. A., Glaze, G. M., Ahn, C. H., Ng, E. J., … & Kenny, T. W. (2019). Direct detection of Akhiezer damping in a silicon MEMS resonator. Scientific reports, 9(1), 2244.*
  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38847-6

 

Patents
• R. Melamud, B. Kim, M. Hopcroft, S. A. Chandorkar, M. Agarwal and T. W. Kenny, “Composite mechanical transducers and approaches therefor”, US 2007/0277620 A1, Dec 6, 2007

• R. Melamud, B. Kim, M. Hopcroft, S. A. Chandorkar, M. Agarwal and T. W. Kenny, “Composite mechanical transducers and approaches therefor”, US 2010/7806586 A1, Oct 5, 2010

• S. A. Chandorkar, Y. K. Liu, P. Warner, M. Penchev, T. Malahat and K. Chakravorty, “Charge accumulation mitigation by surface energy modification”, Intel Trade Secret, Dec 2014