Electronics, Optics & Photonics, Computational Electrodynamics

• Ph. D. , 2020 , Delhi Technological University
• M. Sc. , 2013 , University of Delhi
• B. Sc. , 2011 , University of Delhi

Guest Faculty at Delhi Technological University

Guest Faculty at Department of Physics & Astrophysics, University of Delhi

Research Associate at the School of Physics, University of Hyderabad

Applied Physics

Nanophotonics & Nanoelectronics

Advanced Electronics

C Language Programming

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Application-specific metamaterial structures, devices, and components

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS I HAVE BEEN A PART OF

• DST-RMES (Indo-Russian) joint research project on “All-Dielectric, Plasmonic and Hybrid Photonic Nanostructures”

• DST-RFBR (Indo-Russian) joint research project entitled “From Plasmonic to Dielectric and Hybrid Nanoantenna: Novel approaches to control electromagnetic waves and light.”

• DST, Govt. of India for BRICS multilateral project on “All-Dielectric and Hybrid Nano Antennas for Multifunctional Sensors”

1. Nishant Shankhwar and Ravindra Kumar Sinha, Zero index metamaterials trends and applications, Springer Nature (2021) [Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0188-0]

1. Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, Yogita Kalra, Sergey Makarov, Alexander Krasnok, Pavel Belov, "High Quality Laser Cavity based on All-Dielectric Metasurfaces ", Photonic and Nanostructures- Fundamentals and Applications 24 (2017): 18-23, Elsevier. [ISSN: 1569-4410]

2. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra and Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Splitnanotube based negative index metamaterial at mid infrared wavelengths ". Journal of Nanophotonics 11.2 (2017): 026014, SPIE - The international society for optics and photonics. [ISSN:1934-2608]

3. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra and Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "LiTaO3 based metamaterial perfect absorber for terahertz spectrum", Superlattices and Microstructures, 111 (2017): 754-759, Elsevier. [ISSN: 0749-6036]

4. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra and Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "All dielectric zero-index metamaterial for TE/TM polarization", Journal of Optics 20.11 (2018): 115101, Institute of Physics Publishing. [ISSN: 2040-8986]

5. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Qiang Li and Ravindra Kumar Sinha,” Zero-index metamaterial based all-dielectric nanoantenna”, AIP Advances 9.3 (2019): 035115, American Institute of Physics [ISSN: 2158-3226]

1. Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, “Design of Near-field Superlens with silver multilayer in silicon host”, Proceedings of International OSA Network of Students Asia 6, 10 -12 December 2014, Kharagpur, West Bengal , India.

2. Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Design and analysis of near perfect metamaterial reflector in visible range." Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2015. Vol. 9544. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2015.

3. Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, Yogita Kalra, "Controlling the evanescent waves using metamaterials." Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2016. Vol. 9918. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016.

4. Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha and Yogita Kalra, "Magnetic response of split nanotube type metamaterial at near infrared frequency." Frontiers in Optics. Optical Society of America, 2016.

5. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, and Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "LiTaO 3 microcubes based metamaterial perfect absorber." Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2017. Vol. 10343. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017

6. Shubhanshi Sharma, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Design and analysis of tip slotted square patch nano-antenna." Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2017. Vol. 10343. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017.

7. Sonia Tomar, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Plasmonic waveguides based optical AND gate." Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XV. Vol. 10346. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017

8. Reena Dalal, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ajeet Kumar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "All-dielectric cylindrical nanoantennas in the visible range." Nanophotonic Materials XIV. Vol. 10344. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017.

9. Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha and Yogita Kalra, "Magnetic response of split nanotube type metamaterial at near infrared frequency." Frontiers in Optics. Optical Society of America, 2016.

10. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Dielectric veins type photonic crystal as a zero-index-metamaterial." Frontiers in Optics. Optical Society of America, 2017.

11. Parul Goyal, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Design of a cross structure nanoantenna." AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2009. No. 1. AIP Publishing, 2018.

12. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, " All Dielectric Zero Index Metamaterial Based Beam Splitter", AIP conference proceedings Vol. 2009, for AMN-2018, 15-17 March 2018 in Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida.

13. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Highly reflective broadband dielectric metasurface for terahertz applications", IEEE International Conference on Photonics & High Speed Optical Networks (ICPHON 2018), 12-13 April 2018, S. A. Engineering College, Chennai.

14. Parul Goyal, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Field enhancement in Victoria cross type nanoantenna", IEEE International Conference on Photonics & High Speed Optical Networks (ICPHON 2018), 12-13 April 2018, S. A. Engineering College, Chennai.

15. Parul Goyal, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, " Design and Analysis of a Polarization Independent Flower Shaped Nanoantenna", International Conference on Advances in Science & Technology (ICAST-2018), 04-05 May 2018, Swami Keshavananda Institute of Technology, Management and Gramothan, Jaipur.

16. Parul Goyal, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra,"Design and analysis of a hollow bowtie nanoantenna." Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XVI. Vol. 10722. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2018

17. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, Ravindra Kumar Sinha, "Dielectric zero-index metamaterial filled photonic crystal defect waveguide: design and analysis." Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2018. Vol. 10719. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2018.”

18. Ritika Ranga, Nishant Shankhwar, and Yogita Kalra. "Design and Analysis of Broadband Square Spiral Shaped Nanoantenna." Frontiers in Optics. Optical Society of America, 2018.

19. Parul Goyal, Nishant Shankhwar, and Yogita Kalra. "Near Field Enhancement in a Hollow Flower Shaped Nanoantenna." Laser Science. Optical Society of America, 2018.

20. Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, and Ravindra Kumar Sinha. "Honeycomb photonic crystal as a zero index metamaterial." Laser Science. Optical Society of America, 2018.

21. Nishant Shankhwar, Ritika Ranga., Yogita Kalra, & Ravindra Kumar Sinha (2019, September). Dielectric ring based metamaterial perfect reflector. In Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2019 (Vol. 11080, p. 110802W). International Society for Optics and Photonics.

22. Ritika Ranga, Nishant Shankhwar, Yogita Kalra, and Kamal Kishor. "Design of hexameric flower shaped nanoantenna for energy harvesting." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2136, no. 1, p. 030005. AIP Publishing LLC, 2019.

23. Nishant Shankhwar, Ritika Ranga, Yogita Kalra, and Ravindra Kumar Sinha. "Controlling the radiation pattern of a microstrip patch antenna using a checkerboard patterned metasurface." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2136, no. 1, p. 030003. AIP Publishing LLC, 2019.

An online talk on " Zero-index metamaterials" during a one-week IEEE Workshop on Advances in Nanophotonic devices & Sensors - 2020 at NIT- Surathkal, Karnataka on December 9th, 2020.