Ph.D. from Cyclotron laboratory, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Research and Development:

Hong Hua Co. Ltd, Sichuan, China (July 2004- July 2005)

Professional Experience:​

• Professor, Dept. of Applied Physics,  Delhi Technological University (DTU), Formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), Govt. of NCT of Delhi, From August 2021. 
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Physics,  Delhi Technological University (DTU), Formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Aug. 2018-Aug. 2021.
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University (DTU), Formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), Govt. of NCT of Delhi, July 2010-Aug. 2018.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics, I.T.S. Engineering College, Greater Noida, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, September 2007 to June 2010.
• Lecturer, Amity School of Enginnering (ASE), Amity University, Noida, August 2005 - August 2007.

Lab-Incharges:

Nanonametrials Research Laboratory (NRL) 

Nuclear Engineering laboratory (NEL)

Advanced Sensor Laboratory (ASL) 

Membership in Scientific Societies:

• Life Member - The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA)-2016
• Life Member - The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)-2016
• Life Member - Indian Society of Radiation Physics (ISRP)  -2001

EIGHT students have Completed the Ph.D.

THREE students Mr. Saood Ahmad, Mr. Gaurav Sharma and Ms. Reetu Kumari defended their respective Ph.D. thesis in 2018 and were awarded their Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) in the 5th convocation-2018.

Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) Awarded under joint Supervision (Prof. Vinay Gupta, University of Delhi): 01

• Savita Sharma (2016) - "Multicomponent based composite materials for multifunctional applications"

                      Awarded under joint Supervision (Dr. Rajesh, NPL): 01

• Vikash Sharma (2017)- "Biomolecular interfacial studies on Carbon nanocomposite materials for Biosensing Applications"

Research Projects: (Ongoing: 04): 38 Lakhs

Sanctioned Major Research Project of Rs. 50 Lacs (Approx.) by SERB-DST, Govt. of India (2017)

Name of the Sponsoring Agencies: (i) DAE-BRNS, Govt. of India, BARC, Mumbai

                                                                      (ii) UGC, Govt. of India, New Delhi

                                                                     (iii) DST, Govt. of India, New Delhi

Selected Publications:

Publications (Dr. Nitin K. Puri): International Refereed Journals

1. Zinc oxide incorporated molybdenum diselenide nanosheets for chemiresistive detection of ethanol gas,  Nitin K. Puri et al. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 955, 10 September 2023, 170178

2. Shreya, Yadav, A., Khatri, R., Jain, N., Bhandari, A., Puri, N.K. (2023). Double Zone Thermal CVD and Plasma Enhanced CVD Systems for Deposition of Films/Coatings with Eminent Conformal Coverage. In: Singari, R.M., Jain, P.K., Kumar, H. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing Technology and Management. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9523-0_31

3. Electrochemical biosensor utilizing dual-mode output for detection of lung cancer biomarker based on reduced graphene oxide-modified reduced-molybdenum disulfide multi-layered nanosheets, Nitin K. Puri et al. Journal of Materials Research volume 37, pages1451–1463 (2022)

4. Electrochemical studies of biofunctionalized MoS2 matrix for highly stable immobilization of antibodies and detection of lung cancer protein biomarker, Nitin K. Puri et al. New J. Chem., 2022,46, 7477-7489

5. Investigation of charge transport mechanism in hydrothermally synthesized reduced graphene oxide (rGO) incorporated zinc oxide (ZnO) nanocomposite films Nitin K. Puri et al. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics volume 33, pages1307–1323 (2022)

6. "Effect of oxygen growth-pressure on microstructural and magnetic properties of pulse laser deposited epitaxial YIG thin films" Nitin K. Puri et al. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 889, December 31, 2021, 161741.

7. "Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Hydrothermally Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets for Applications in Electrochemistry", Kanika Sharma and Nitin K. Puri Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Volume 168, Number 5 (2021). 

8. "Synthesis and fabrication of 2D Tungsten trioxide nanosheets based platform for impedimetric sensing of cardiac biomarker", Nitin K. Puri et al. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research Volume 32, June 2021, 100423

9. "Comparison of Ferroelectric Photovoltaic Performance in BFO/BTO Multilayer Thin Film Structure Fabricated Using CSD & PLD Techniques", Nitin K. Puri et al. Journal of Electronic Materials volume 50, pages 1835–1844 (2021)  

10. Nanoengineered Conductive Polyaniline Enabled Sensor for Sensitive Humidity Detection, Nitin K. Puri et al., IEEE Sensors Journal (June 2020), doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3001599.

11. "Chemiresistive sensing platform based on PdO-PANI/ITO heterostructure for room temperature hydrogen detection", Nitin K. Puri et al., Material Chemistry and Physics (Elsevier), Volume 247, 1 June 2020, 122850 (Accepted for publication, 2020).  

12. "Electrochemical Study of Hydrothermally Synthesised Reduced MoS2 Layered Nanosheets", Nitin K. Puri et al., Vacuum (Elsevier), Volume 175, May 2020, 109250 (Accepted for publication, 2020).  

13. "Electrochemical Hydrogen Gas Sensing Employing Palladium Oxide/Reduced Graphene Oxide (PdO-rGO) Nanocomposites", Nitin K. Puri et al., IEEE sensors, (Accepted for publication) (2019). DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2918360

14. "WO₃/BTO heterostructures based NO₂ sensor with enhanced response characteristics", Nitin K. Puri et al., Integrated Ferroelectrics,193 (1) 106-120 (2019). Taylor and Francis.

15. "Protein functionalized WO₃ nanorods based impedimetric platform for sensitive and label-free detection of a cardiac biomarker" Nitin K. Puri et al. "Journal of Materials Research (JMR), Materials Research Society (MRS) in partnership with Cambridge University Press", 34 (8) 1331-1340 (2019).

16. "Detailed optical analysis of 100 MeV Ni⁷⁺ ion irradiated WO3 thin films using Surface Plasmon resonance", Nitin K. Puri et. al. (In Press), Radiation Physics and Chemistry, An Elsevier Journal (September 2018) avaliable online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2018.09.004

17. "Work function and electrical properties of individual multiwalled carbon nanotube: influenced by nature of catalyst and substrate" Applied Physics A 124(7), July 2018 (DOI: 10.1007/s00339-018-1850-8)

18. "Electron irradiation induced wall-to-wall joining of multiwalled carbon nanotubes" Applied Surface Science, Volume 453, 30th September 2018, Pages 153-158.

19. Ferromagnetic Resonance Tunability by Microwave Frequency in Bilayer Fe97Si3 /Pt Thin Film, Accepted for publication in "Journal of Physics Research and Applications (J Phys Res Appl 2018, 2:1)",  Nitin K. Puri et al. (2018). 

20. "Electrochemical detection of Cardiac biomarker using Functionalized WO3-RGO nanocomposite as an immuno-sensing platform", Nitin K. Puri et al. [Accepted for publication in Journal of Alloys and Compounds (JALCOM), An Elsevier Journal, April 2018]

21. "Electrophoretically deposited nanostructured PdO thin film for room temperature amperometric H2 sensing", Nitin K. Puri et al. [Accepted for publication in Vacuum, An Elsevier Journal, 2018]

22. "WO3/BTO heterostructures based NO2 sensor with enhanced response characteristics", Nitin K. Puri et al. [Accepted for publication in "Journal of Integrated Ferroelectrics", Taylor & Francis, 2018].

23. "Evidence of circular Rydberg states in beam-foil experiments: Role of surface wake field", Nitin K. Puri et al. Euro Physics Letters (EPL), 120(6), 63002, (2018).

24. "Employing X-ray absorption technique for better detector resolution and measurement of low cross-section events" Nitin K. Puri et al. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B (NIMB): Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 419, 15 March 2018, 14–18.

25. "Numerical Simulation of Nanostructured Layered Materials Using IM3D and SRIM" Nitin K. Puri et al. International Journal of Creative Research Thought (IJCRT), Volume 6, Issue 1 January 2018, ISSN: 2320-2882.
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26. "Ion irradiation-induced, localized sp2 to sp3 hybridized carbon transformation in walls of multiwalled carbon nanotubes", Nitin K. Puri et al. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B (NIMB): Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 412, 115-122, (2017)

27. "Role of Magnetic Exchange Interaction due to Magnetic Anisotropy on Inverse Spin Hall Voltage at FeSi3%/Pt Thin Film Bilayer Interface", Nitin K. Puri et al., Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic materials (Elsevier), Volume 443, 1 December 2017, Pages 159-164.

28. "Theoretical approach for detection and lifetime measurement of obscured low cross-sectional processes by the X-ray absorption technique" Nitin K. Puri et al. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B (NIMB): Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 408, 1 October 2017, Pages 289-293.

29. "Lifetime quenching due to surface wake field", Nitin K. Puri et al. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B (NIMB): Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 408, 1 October 2017, Pages 178-181.

30. "Band Gap Engineering of Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons via Mn/Cr Termination", Nitin K. Puri et al. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci.), American Scientific Publishers (ASP), 14, 2401–2404 (2017)
31. “Influence of 100 MeV Au^+ 8 ion on photovoltaic response of BiFeO₃/BaTiO₃ multilayer structures”, Nitin K. Puri et al. Materials & Design, Volume 114, 15 January 2017, Pages 345–354
32. “Photovoltaic response of hydrothermally derived BFO ceramics”, Nitin K Puri et al. Emerging Material Research, Volume 6 Issue 1, January, 2017, pp. 1-4
33. “Biofunctionalized nanostructured tungsten trioxide based sensor for cardiac biomarker detection” Nitin K Puri et al., Materials Letters, Volume 186, 1 January 2017, Pages 202–205.
34. "Measurement of low cross section transition using versatile absorption technique", Nitin K Puri et al., Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 875(5), (2017), 042009
35. "Detection of circular Rydberg states in lifetime measurements",  Nitin K Puri et al., Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 875, (2017), 112010
36. “Effect of low pressure hydrogen environment on crystallographic properties of PdO nanoparticles”, Nitin K Puri et al., International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 41, Issue 47, 21 December 2016, Pages 22155–22161
37. “Signature of triply excited Li-like V states in ion–solid collisions” Nitin K Puri et al., Physics Letters A, Volume 380, Issue 43, 23 October 2016, Pages 3640–3644.
38. “Revised and extended calculations of level energies, M1 and E2 radiative rates for highly charged tungsten ions from W⁵⁷⁺ to W⁶⁰⁺”, Nitin K Puri et al., Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49 (2016) 205002 (8pp).
39. “Prominent photovoltaic response in multiferroic BFO/BTO heterostructures”, Nitin K Puri et al., IEEE transactions, 2016, 1-4. 978-1-5090-1871-0/16/©2016 IEEE.
40. “Photovoltaic effect in BiFeO3/BaTiO3 multilayer structure fabricated by chemical solution deposition technique”, Nitin K Puri et al., Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 93, June 2016, Pages 63–67.

41. "High performance dendrimer functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes field effect transistor biosensor for protein detection", Nitin K. Puri et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 243504 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4972110

42. “Platinum nanoparticles-single-walled carbon nanotubes hybrid based chemiresistive sensor array for myoglobin detection”, Nitin K Puri et al., Materials Research Express, Volume 3, Number 3 Mater. Res. Express 3 (2016) 035006.
43.  “Hybrid of Platinum Nanoparticles and 1-Dimentional Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Based Chemiresistive Biosensor”, Nitin K Puri et al., Sensors & Transducers, Vol. 197, Issue 2, February 2016, pp. 34-38.
44.  “Antibody conjugated metal nanoparticle decorated graphene sheets for a mycotoxin sensor”, Nitin K Puri et al., RSC Advances (RSC Adv.), 2016, 6, 56518-56526.
45.  “Effect of insertion of low leakage polar layer on leakage current and multiferroic properties of BiFeO3/BaTiO3 multilayer structure”, Nitin K Puri et al., RSC Advances (RSC Adv.), 2016, 6, 59150-59154.
46. “Development of a multipurpose beam foil spectroscopy set-up for the low cross-section measurements”, Nitin K Puri et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B (NIMB): Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 380, 1 August 2016, Pages 26–31.
47.  “BiFeO3/BaTiO3 Multilayer Structures for Solar Energy Harvesting Application”, Nitin K Puri et al., Energy Harvesting and Systems. Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 237–243.
48.  “Enhanced dielectric properties of multilayered BiFeO3/BaTiO3capacitors deposited by pulsed laser deposition” Nitin K Puri et al., AIP Conference Proceedings 1724, 020098 (2016); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4945218.
49.  “MONTE CARLO Simulation of Photon Beams for Various Effects on Energy and Angular Distribution using PRIMO” Nitin K Puri et al., International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) Vol. 5 Issue 04, April-2016, 33-39.
50.  “Synthesis of Ni filled multiwalled carbon nanotubes and study of magnetic behaviour” Nitin K Puri et al., Advanced Materials Letters (Adv. Mater. Lett.) 2016, 7(3), 197-200
51.  “Effect of ion beam irradiation on dielectric properties of BaTiO3 thin film using surface plasmon resonance”, Nitin K Puri et al., Journal of Materials Science, April 2016, Volume 51, Issue 8, pp 4055–4060.
52.  “Microwave device jig characterization for ferromagnetic resonance induced spin Hall effect measurement in bilayer thin films”, Nitin K Puri et al., Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, vol. 54, January 2016, pp 60-65.
53.  “Stress induced enhanced polarization in multilayer BiFeO3/BaTiO3 structure with improved energy storage properties”, Nitin K Puri et al., AIP Advances 5, 107216 (2015); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4934578.
54.  “Enhanced ferroelectric photovoltaic response of BiFeO3/BaTiO3multilayered structure”, Nitin K Puri et al., Journal of Applied Physics (JAP) 118, 074103 (2015).
55. “Ultraviolet radiation detection by barium titanate thin films grown by sol–gel hydrothermal method”, Nitin K Puri et al., Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 230, 1 July 2015, Pages 175–181.
56. “Multiferroic BiFeO3/BaTiO3 thin films fabricated by chemical solution deposition technique”, Nitin K Puri et al., MRS, Volume 1805, January 2015, mrss15-2116222. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2015.622.
57. “Multiferroic properties of BiFeO3/BaTiO3 multilayered thin films”, Nitin K Puri et al., Physica B: Condensed Matter, Volume 448, 1 September 2014, Pages 125–127.
58. “Photovoltaic Properties of BiFeO3/BaTiO3 Bilayered Thin Film”, Nitin K Puri et al., Advanced Science Letters, Volume 20, Numbers 7-9, July 2014, pp. 1316-1320(5)
59.  “Properties of Barium Titanate Thin Films Grown by Sol–Gel-Hydrothermal Process” Nitin K Puri et al., Advanced Science Letters, Volume 20, Numbers 5-6, May 2014, pp. 1143-1146(4)
60.  “NO₂ Sensing Properties of WO3 Thin Films Deposited by Rf-Magnetron Sputtering”, Nitin K Puri et al., Hindawi Publishing Corporation Conference Papers in Science Volume 2014, Article ID 683219, 5 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/683219.
61. “Ultraviolet Radiation Detection by Barium Titanate Thin Films Grown by Sol-gel Hydrothermal Method”, Nitin K Puri et al., Procedia Engineering, Volume 87, 2014, Pages 1172-1175.
62. “NOx Sensing Properties of Barium Titanate Thin Films”, Nitin K Puri et al., Procedia Engineering, Volume 87, 2014, Pages 1067-1070.
63. "Label-free detection of cardiac troponin-I using gold nanoparticles functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes based chemiresistive biosensor", Nitin K. Puri et al., Applied Physics Letters (APL) 103 (20), 2013, 203703.
64. "Influence on ferromagnetic resonance signal of perpendicular magnetic anisotropic Co/Pt bilayer thin film due to microwave induced spin-Hall effect", Nitin K. Puri et al., Applied Physics Letters (APL) 103 (3), 2013, 032405.
65. "p-Type gas-sensing behaviour of undoped SnO₂ thin films irradiated with a high-energy ion beam", Nitin K. Puri et al.,   Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical   135 (1), 2008, 35-39.
66. "Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on structure, optical, and gas sensing properties of SnO₂ thin films", Nitin K. Puri et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 266, Issue 9, May 2008, Pages 1987–1992.
67.  "Enhancement of ammonia sensitivity in swift heavy ion irradiated nanocrystalline SnO₂ thin films", Nitin K. Puri et al., Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2008, Article ID 395490, 4 pages(2008) doi:10.1155/2008/395490
68. "Development of regional PIXE facility at Panjab University cyclotron, Chandigarh (India)", N.K.PURI et al, International Journal of PIXE (Int. J. PIXE) 16, 7 (2006). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0129083506000769.
69. "L x-ray production in ₅₇La, ₅₈Ce, ₆₀Nd and ₆₂Sm by 35–60 MeV carbon and oxygen ions" Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Volume 241, Issues 1–4, December 2005, Pages 63–68.
70. "The Elemental Analysis of Ancient Indian Coins of Kusanas and early Medieval Period using Proton Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) Technique", N. K. Puri et al. N. K. PURI et al, International Journal of PIXE (Int. J. PIXE)13, 149 (2003).
    
     

International and National Conferences (2014- present):

1. "Humidity sensing properties of Polyaniline-Cellulose composite: Effects of heterogeneous and secondary nucleation" Samar Singh Sandhu, B.D. Malhotra, Nitin Kumar PURI. Presented as an poster in an International conferece NANO-2018 (XIV International Conference on Nanostructured materials) held in City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, during 24th - 29th, June 2018.
2. “Lifetime quenching due to surface wake field” Nitin K. Puri et al. One of the authors G. Sharma presented poster in 18^th International conference on Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI), held in Kielce, Poland during 11^th – 16^th September, 2016.
3. “Multiferrioc BiFeO3/BaTiO3 thin films fabricated by Chemical Solution Deposition Technique” S. Sharma, M. Tomar, A. Kumar, N. Puri, V. Gupta presented in International conference of Materials Research Society (MRS) held in California, USA during 6^th – 10^th April 2015.
4. “Mechanism Responsible for the formation of Rydberg states in Beam Foil Excitation” G. Sharma, P. Sharma, N.K. Puri, T. Nandi presented at 20^th National Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) held in Thiruvananthapuram, India from 09^th – 12^th December 2014.

Awards and Recognition ( 2014- onwards):