Sikdar Nanophotonics and Metamaterial Research Group

Sponsored Projects

S.N.	Title of the Project	Duration	Sponsoring Agency	Value (Rs. in lakhs)	Other Investigators/Co-Investigators
1	Plasmonic metamaterials based optical components for applications in space	3 years (Sep 2021 - Sep 2024)	ISRO	29.67	Dr. Gagan Kumar (PI)
2	Development of thin flexible metamaterials as add-ons to MRI-scanners for making MRI more efficient, affordable, and accessible	3 years (Oct 2021 - Oct 2024)	iHUB Divyasampark, Technology Innovation Hub (TIH), Roorkee	104.06	Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee, Prof. S. Kanagaraj
3	6G: THz Test bed with Orbital Angular Momentum and Multiplexing	3 years (Nov 2023 - Nov 2026)	Consortium of SAMEER, IIT-M, IIT-P, IIT-G	567.53	Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee, Dr. Debabrata Sikdar, Dr. Mahima Arrawatia, Dr. Ashwini Sawant
4	Development of Terahertz Topological Photonic Passive Devices for 6G Applications	3 years (Oct 2024 - Sep 2027)	Department of Telecommunications (DoT, India)	131.61	Dr. Debabrata Sikdar, Prof. Gagan Kumar

S.N.	Title of the Project	Duration	Sponsoring Agency	Value (Rs. in lakhs)	Co-Consultant(s)
1	Design and Development of Robotic Vaccinator for Mass Vaccination	1 year (June 2021 - Aug 2022)	RJ RADCONSULT Limited, UK	3.6	Prof. S. Kanagaraj

S.N.	Title of the Project	Duration	Sponsoring Agency	Value (Rs. in lakhs)	Other Investigators/Co-Investigators
1	Design of smart tunable plasmonic nanoparticle-based optical metadevice	4 years (Dec 2017 - Oct 2021)	IIT Guwahati	5	--
2	iDT-NaPaMeGs: Inverse design tool for nanoparticle meta-grid based photonic devices using computational electromagnetics and deep learning	2 years (Mar 2021 - Sep 2023)	DST (National Supercomputing Mission)	32.35	Dr. Prithwijit Guha
3	Third Party Inspection (TPI) of CIBMS (BOLD-QIT) project at Dhubri	1 year (Apr 2023 - Jan 2024)	BSF, Ministry of Home Affairs	55.63	A team of 14 Faculty members from IITG, HOD, EEE (Co-I)