Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Tarun Kanti Bhattacharya

Ph.D.(Jadavpur Univ)
Professor, Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
Prof-in-charge, Advanced VLSI lab

T K Bhattacharya joined the Institute in 2000

Contact Addresses

Residence	A-143, IIT Campus, Kharagpur 721302
Phone (office)	+91 - 3222 - 283554
Phone (residence)	+91 - 3222 - 283555 (IIT Phone)
email	tkb @ ece.iitkgp.ernet.in
Personal web page	http://www.ecdept.iitkgp.ac.in/index.php/home/faculty/tkb

Research Areas

MEMS and Microsystems
RF and Analog VLSI
Nano- electronics
Thinfilms
Nano-scale Biosystems Engineering

Awards & Honours

IBM Faculty Award (2012)
Design of Microfluidic system for controlled Drug delivery has been selected among top 50 by India innovation growth program 2016, by DST, Lockheed Martin , Indo-US S&T forum, Stanford Graduate Scho (2016)

Member of Professional Bodies

Member : IEEE

Current Sponsored Projects

Project Title : Development of cost effective non-invasive blood pressure measurement equipment for assessment of broader perspective of Cardiovascular
Principal Investigator : T K Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : G Saha , Dipankar Chakrabarti
Sponsor : MHRD, Govt of India
Project Title : Development of readout system for Muon system in CBM experiment at FAIR (NSC)
Principal Investigator : Dr. T. K. Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Achintya Halder
Sponsor : VECC, Kolkata/Govt. of India
Project Title : Developmet of MEMS based components for RF applications
Principal Investigator : Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : B K Sarkar
Sponsor : NPMASS
Project Title : Development of MEMS based Accelerometers for Aerospace Application (NPMASS)
Principal Investigator : T.K. Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : S. Das
Sponsor : NPMASS, ADA, Bangalore
Project Title : MEMS based micropropulsion devices for micro satellite program
Principal Investigator : T K Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : S Das
Sponsor : ISRO
Project Title : Upgrading Facilities for MEMS design activities at National resource centre
Principal Investigator : T.K. Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : S. Das
Sponsor : NPMASS, ADA, Bangalore
Project Title : Design & Fabrication of high sensitivity micro machined Silicon tunneling accelerometer with micro-g resolution
Principal Investigator : T.K. Bhattacharyya
Sponsor : ISRO, IIT Kharagpur Cell 721302
Project Title : Synthesis of functional groups for imobilization of functional proteins on MEMS based micro-sensor surfaces
Principal Investigator : T.K. Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : S. Das, T K Maiti
Sponsor : Indo-Trento Program for Advanced Research
Project Title : SPECIAL MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR CHIPS TO SYSTEM DESIGN (MDD)
Principal Investigator : P K Biswas
Co-Principal-Investigators : T K Bhattacharyya
Sponsor : DeiTy (Govt. Of India)
Project Title : Development and Realization of Silicon Tunneling Accelerometer
Principal Investigator : Dr.T.K Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. P.K Guha & Dr. S Das
Sponsor : ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU)
Project Title : AVLSI Consortium
Principal Investigator : Dr.T.K Bhattacharyya
Sponsor : Multiple Industrial Organisation
Project Title : DST FIST PROJECT TO STRENGTHEN THE RESEARCH FACILITIES IN THE DEPARTMENT (DPF)
Principal Investigator : Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya
Co-Principal-Investigators : P K Guha
Sponsor : DST

Patents

Uniaxial MEMS piezoresistive accelerometer with enhanced cross axis signal rejection : Filed (Ref : 737/KOL/2013 )
Stripline fed printed sandwich monopole antenna : Filed (Ref : 381/KOL/2014 )
Methods of loop bandwidth calibration and phase noise cancellation circuits in a fractional –N PLL with a special switching charge pump circuit to reduce the leakage current, o/p noise and spur : Filed (Ref : 0957/KOL/2013 )
A novel high speed pulse swallow based fractional - N frequency divider circuit : Patent filed (Ref : 0680/KOL/2014 1-46 )
Auto calibrated delta - sigma fractional - N frequency synthesizers with loop bandwidth calibration and phase noise cancellation unsing a PFD/DAC based unit current cell : Patent filed (Ref : 1004/KOL/2015 1-43 )

Member, Editorial Board

Editorial board member : Journal of ISSS

Publications: 2015 - 2016

Low-field transport in bovine serum albumin functionalized ZnO nanoparticle networks by Sasmal, M, Roy, A. L., and Bhattacharyya, T. K. IEEE Electron Device Letter, vol.37, pp.100-102 (2016)
Synthesis of Bovine Serum Albumin conjugated with ZnO nanosphere for high speed humidity sensing application by Sasmal, M, Maiti T.K., and Bhattacharyya, T.K. IEEE Sensor Journal, Vol.16, pp.1510-1517 (2016)
A Compact Yagi-Uda Type Pattern Diversity Antenna Driven by CPW-Fed Pseudo-Monopole by Bhattacharya, R. Garg, R. Bhattacharyya, T.K. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 64, pp.25-32 (2016)
Humidity Sensor Based on High Proton Conductivity of Graphene Oxide by Ghosh, S., Ghosh, R., Guha, P. K., and Bhattacharyya.,T.K. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol.14, pp. 931-937 (2015)
Ultra-Low Level Detection of L-Histidine Using Solution-Processed ZnO Nanorod on Flexible Substrate by Sasmal, M. Maiti, T.K. Bhattacharyya, T.K. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Vol.14, pp.634 - 640 (2015)
Design of a PIFA-Driven Compact Yagi-Type Pattern Diversity Antenna for Handheld Devices by Bhattacharya, R. Garg, R. Bhattacharyya, T. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol.15. pp.255-258 (2015)
A fast automatic frequency and amplitude control LC-VCO circuit with noise filtering technique for a fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer by Hati, M. K. Bhattacharyya, T.K. Microlectronics Journal, vol.52, pp.134-136 (2016)
Development of defector cavity and RF amplifier for bunch length detector system by Pandey, H.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K Chakrabarti, A. IOP Journal of Instrumentation, vol.11, T02001 (2016)

Publications: 2014 - 2015

Electrothermal Characteristics of Electroplated Ni Based Tunable MEMS Inductor on High-Resistivity Substrate With Displacement Actuator by A Bhattacharya and T K Bhattacharyya IEEE Magnetics Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LMAG.20 (2015)
A 1.3–2.4-GHz 3.1-mW VCO Using Electro-Thermo- Mechanically Tunable Self-Assembled MEMS Inductor on HR Substrate by A Bhattacharya, D Mandal and T K Bhattacharyya IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol: 63(2) 459 - 469 (2015)
Synthesis of ZnO Nanosphere for Picomolar Level Detection of Bovine Serum Albumin by Sasmal, M. Maiti, T.K. Bhattacharyya, T.K. Transactions on NanoBioscience, IEEE, Vol14(1) 129-137 (2015)
Selective Detection of Hg(II) Over Cd(II) and Pb(II) Ions by DNA Functionalized CNT by Paul, A. Bhattacharya, B. Bhattacharyya, T.K. Sensors Journal, IEEE, Vol:15(5)2774 - 2779 (2015)
Electric-field assisted desorption of water molecules in DNA functionalized CNT network by Paul, A. Bhattacharya, B. Bhattacharyya, T.K. Sensors Journal, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN. (2015)
Prediction of reference spur in frequency synthesisers by Debashis Mandal, Pradip Mandal, Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds (2015)
Spur reduction in frequency synthesizer with an array of switched capacitors by Debashis Mandal, Pradip Mandal, Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, DOI: 10.1002/cta.204 (2014)
Design, modeling and FEM-based simulations of a 1-DoF MEMS bulk micromachined piezoresistive accelerometer by R Mukhiya, R Gopal, BD Pant, VK Khanna, TK Bhattacharyya Journal of Microsystem Technolgy, DOI 10.1007/s00542-0 (2014)

Publications: 2013 - 2014

MEMS based normally closed silicon microregulator for gas and water by B. Pramanick, S. Das and T.K. Bhattacharyya Sensors and Actuators A : Physical, 205 15-25 (2014)
A Spur Reducing Architecture of Frequency Synthesizer using Switched Capacitors by Debasish Mandal, Pradip Mandal and T K Bhattacharyya IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, 10.1049/iet-cds.201 (2014)
A high precision SOI MEMS-CMOS ±4g Piezoresistive Accelerometer by Anindya Lal Roy, Hrishikesh Sarkar, Anupam Dutta andTarun Kanti Bhattacharyya Sensors and Actuators A : Physical, 210, 77-85 (2014)
Fabrication and performance of solution based micro-patterned DNA functionalized carbon nanotube network as humidity sensors by Ambarish Paul, Baidurya Bhattacharyya and Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 13, 335-342 (2014)
Effect of Temperature Variation and Packaging on SOI MEMS Inductor With DRIE Trench on Low-Resistivity Substrate by Anirban Bhattacharya and Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 61, 400-407 (2014)
Design, fabrication and characterization of high performance SOI MEMS piezoresistive accelerometers by Anindya Lal Roy and Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya Microsystem Technologies, Available online (2013)
A high o/p resistance, wide swing and perfect current matching charge pump having switching circuit for PLL by Manas Kumar Hati and Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya Microelectronics Journal, 44, 649-657 (2013)

Publications: 2012 - 2013

“ Nanowire Embedded Hydrogen Peroxide Monopropellant MEMS Thruster” by Kundu, P. Sinha, A. K. Bhattacharyya, T. K. Das, S. IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems( JMEMS), 22 (2) , pp 406-417 (2013)
“DNA functionalized carbon nanotube network as humidity sensors” by Ambarish Paul, Bidhan Pramanick, Baidurya Bhattacharya and T K. Bhattacharyya IEEE Journal of Sensors, In press (2013)
“Electroplated nickel based micro-machined disk resonators for high frequency applications” by Ritesh Ray Chaudhuri and Tarun K Bhattacharyya Microsystem Technologies, 19(4) pp. 525-535 (2013)
“Electro-thermal analysis of an embedded boron diffused microheater for thruster applications” by Pijus Kundu, Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya, Soumen Das Microsystem Technologies, in press (2013)
“Influence of flow rate on different properties of diamond-like nanocomposite thin films grown by PECVD” by TS Santra, TK Bhattacharyya, FG Tseng, TK Barik AIP Advances, 2(2), pp-022132-10 (2012)
“Temperature Effect on the Sensitivity of a Highly Sensitive Micro-Machined Displacement Sensor by Tania Mukherjee and Tarun K Bhattacharyya Advanced Materials Research, 622, 1396-400 (2013)
“Microelectromechanical system cantilever-based frequency doublers” by Joydeep Basu and Tarun K Bhattacharyya Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 24(2), pp 240-246 (2013)
“PDMS Membrane based SU-8 Micropump for Drug Delivery System” by 1. Bidhan Pramanick, P. K. Dey, Soumen Das, and T. K. Bhattacharyya Journal of ISSS, Volume 2 (2013)

Publications: 2011 - 2012

Compatibility study of thin passivation layers with hydrazine for silicon-based MEMS microthruster by P. Kundu, A. Ghosh, S. Das and TK Bhattacharyya Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 45, 095302 (2012)
Design, fabrication and performance evaluation of a vaporizing liquid microthruster by P. Kundu, T. K. Bhattacharyya and S. Das Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 22, 025016 (2012)
Biomedical Applications of Diamond-Like Nanocomposite Thin Films by T. S. Santra, T. K. Bhattacharyya, P. Mishra, F. G. Tseng and T. K. Barik Science of Advanced Materials, 4 (1), 110-113 (2012)
Pyrex/Si-bonded microvalve performance for precision applications in micropropulsion systems by B. Pramanick, S Das, TK Bhattacharyya Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS, 11, 013008 (2012)
Parasitic aware impedance matching techniques for RF amplifiers by K. Dasgupta, A. Dutta and T. K. Bhattacharyya Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 1-12 (2011)
Static characterization of bulk micromachined accelerometer structure using a nanoindenter by R. Mukhiya, A. Kumar, S. V. Kamat and T. K. Bhattacharyya Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, (2011)
Structural and tribological properties of diamond-like nanocomposite thin films by T. S. Santra, T. K. Bhattacharyya, P. Patel, F. G. Tseng and T. K. Barik Surface & Coatings Technology, 206 (2-3), 228-233 (2011)
A top-down design methodology of MEMS varactor for RF applications based on a substrate-induced capacitive model by A. Bhattacharya, S. Chakraborty and T. K. Bhattacharyya Microsystem Technologies, 1-10 (2011)
Microelectromechanical resonators for radio frequency communication applications by J. Basu and T. K. Bhattacharyya Microsystem Technologies, 1-24 (2011)
Comparative analysis of a variety of high-Q capacitively transduced bulk-mode microelectromechanical resonator geometries by J. Basu and T. K. Bhattacharyya Microsystem Technologies, 1-11 (2011)
Diamond like Nano composite films for MicroElectromechanical Systems (MEMS) by T. S. Santra, T. K. Bhattacharyya, F. G. Tseng and T. K. Barik International Journal of Computer Application (IJCA), 6(2), Page 6-9 (2011)
Position Mutated Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization and its application in synthesis of unequally-spaced antenna arrays by R.Bhattacharya, T.K Bhattacharyya and R.Garg IEEE Transcation on Antenna and Propagation, (in Press) (0)

Publications: 2010 - 2011

Characterization of diamond-like nanocomposite thin films grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition by T. S. Santra, C. H. Liu, T. K. Bhattacharyya, P. Patel, and T. K. Barik Journal of Applied Physics, 107 (9 pages) (2010)
Development of surface micro-machined binary logic inverter for ultra low frequency MEMS sensor applications by Subha Chakraborty and T. K. Bhattacharyya Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 20 (15 pages) (2010)
Solution of Euler-Bernoulli equation using a semianalytical technique for steady state deflection of microelectromechanical cantilever under electrostatic actuation by S. Chakraborty and T. K. Bhattacharyya IET, Micro & Nano Letters, 5 (215-218) (2010)
An experimental analysis of pull-out voltage of electro-statically actuated micro-cantilever beam based on contact-stiction model by Subha Chakraborty, A. Bhattacharya and T.K. Bhattacharyya IET, Micro & Nano Letters, 6 (43-47) (2011)
Experimental study and analysis of corner compensation structures for CMOS compatible bulk micromachining using 25 wt% TMAH by �? Mukhiya. R, Bagolini.A, Bhattacharyya, T.K. ,Lorenzelli. L, Zen.M. Microelectronics Journal, 42 (1), p.127 (2011)
An experimental analysis of electrostatically vibrated array of polysilicon cantilevers by S.Chakraborty,K.B.M Swamy,S.Sen,T.K .Bhattacharyya Microsystem Technologies, 16 ( pp 2131-2145) (2010)
The evolution of graphene-based electronic devices by Joydeep Basu, Jayanta Kumar Basu, and Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 1 ( pp 201-223) (2010)

Publications: 2009 - 2010

A Technique to Improve the Linearization of Frequency - Voltage Characteristic of LC-VCO by Debashis Mandal and T K Bhattacharyya Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol 62(2), 253-257 (2010)
Compatibility Study of diamond-like nanocomposite thin films with Hydrazine propellant for MEMS Microthruster by P. Kundu, A. Ray Chaudhuri, S. Das and T. K. Bhattacharyya Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 74 , pp 269-272 (2009)
Development and Characterisation of Surface Micro-Machined MEMS Based Varactor by Subha Chakraborty, A. Bhattacharya, Ashesh Ray Chaudhuri and T.K. Bhattacharyya International Journal on Smart Sensing and Inteligent System, VOL. 3, NO. 1 (2010)

Publications: 2008 - 2009

Single spin implementation of a multiplexer by A.Neogy, D.Bhowmik and T K Bhattacharyya Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, (2009)
Parasitic-aware Robust Concurrent Dual-band Matching Network for a Packaged LNA by Ashudeb Dutta, Kaushik Dasgupta and T K Bhattacharyya IET Journal of Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation., In Press (2009)
Carbon microelectromechanical systems as a substratum for cell growth by G Turon Teixidor, R A Gorkin III, P P Tripathi, GS Bisht, M Kulkarni, T K Maiti , T K Bhattacharyya, J R Subramanium, Ashutosh Sharma, B V Park and M Madou Biomedical Materials, 3 (2008) 034116 (2008)

Publications: 2007 - 2008

Compact small signal modeling and PSO based input matching of a packaged CMOS LNA in subthreshold region by Ashudeb Dutta, Kaushik Dasgupta and T K Bhattacharyya Microelectronics Journal, Vol 38 ( 10-11) 105 (2007)
Effect of active Q enhancement on oscillator phase noise: an analysis by Prabir K Saha, Ashudeb Dutta and Tarun K Bhattacharyya Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol52,99-107 (2007)
Implementation of CMOS lowpower Integer-N frequency synthesizer for SOC design. by Debasish Mandal and T K Bhattacharyya Journal of Computer, (2008)

Publications: 2006 - 2007

A Nonlinear Transient Analysis of Regenerative Frequency Dividers by Kaushik Sengupta, T.K.Bhattacharyya, Hossein Hashemi IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems-1: Regular paper 2007(in press)., Vol 54 (2007)
Universal Toffoli Gate in Ballistic Nanowires by Angik Sarkar and T K Bhattacharyya Applied Physics Letters, 90,173101 (2007)
A nonmagnetic spintronic adder by Angik Sarkar and T K Bhattacharyya Journal of Applied Physics, 101,036180 (2007)
Broad band behavioral modeling of on chip RF inductors and transformers by R Bhattacharya and T K Bhattacharyya Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol 49(9) 2212-2216 (2007)
Microcontact Printing of Concanavalin A and its effect on mammalian cell Morphology by Tamal Das, Sanjaya K Mallick, Debashish Paul, Sujit K Bhutia, Tarun K Bhattacharyya and Tapas Kumar Maiti Journal of Colloid & Interface Science.( JCIS), In Press (2007)
Impact of PMD induced timing missallignment jitter in a dispersion managed IMDD optical transmission link by Somnath Chandra, T K Bhattacharyya and R Gangopadhyay Journal of Optical Communication Accepted, In Press (2007)
Joint compensation of fiber dispersion and non linear effects by OPC-DRA combination in a millimeter wave radio over fiber transmission by Somnath Chandra, T K Bhattacharyya and R Gangopadhyay Journal of Optical Communication, In Press (2007)

Publications: 2005 - 2006

Towards Quantum Logic Processor: Implementation with Electronic Mach ZehnderInterferometer based Devices by Angik Sarkar, T.K.Bhattacharyya, Ajay Patwardhan. Applied Physics Letter, 88, 213113 (2006)
Biocompatibility of Diamond Like Nanocomposite Thinfilms by T. Das, D. Ghosh, T.K. Bhattacharyya, T.K. Maiti Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine,, (2006)
Design Steps For Bulk Micro Machined Single Axis Silicon Capacitive Accelerometer with Optimized Device Dimensions by Vivek Agarwal, Tarun K Bhattacharyya and Subhadeep Banik Journal of Physics:, Vol 34, 722-727. (2006)

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