Dr. Rakesh S. Moirangthem

Designation: Associate Professor

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Contact:

Email: rakesh[AT]manipuruniv.ac.in

PH.D. IN NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2007?2011, Taiwan

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Dr. Rakesh S. Moirangthem

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

2F, Department of Physics, Manipur University, Canchipur-795003, Imphal, Manipur, India

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Education

TIGP, ACADEMIA SINICA / NATIONAL TSHING HUA UNIVERSITY Taipei / Hsinchu, Taiwan

PH.D. IN NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2007?2011

• Received Tiawan International Graduate Program Fellowship for PhD studies in Nano Science and Technology.

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI Delhi, India

M.SC. IN PHYSICS 2003–2005

• Cleared CSIR?UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship in Indian Universities.

HINDU COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI Delhi, India

B.SC.(HONS.) IN PHYSICS 2000–2003

 

 

Experience

TEACHING

02/2023 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Manipur University, Imphal, India Counting 04/2021 Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India 1 year, 10 months 07/2013 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India 8 years

RESEARCH

02/2023 Associate Professor, Manipur University, Imphal, India Counting 07/2013 Associate Professor & Assistant Professor, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, India 9 years, 7 months 06/2012 Post-Doctoral Scholar, Max?Planck?Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany 1.1 years 11/2011 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Centre for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 6 months

07/2009 PhD Graduate Student, TIGP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 5 years

 

Research Interest

PLASMONIC SENSORS 11 years of experience

(Label?free optical sensors) 2011 onwards

• Developed portable proto?type surface plasmon resonance sensor unit.

• Integrated surface plasmon resonance sensor unit with a commercial spectroscopic ellipsometer.

• Investigate sensor’s sensitivity and deployed for detection of chemical and biological molecules.

OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS 11 years of experience

(Active whispering gallery mode microresonators) 2011 onwards

• Preparation of Zinc oxide microspheres using hydrothermal technique.

• Preparation of fluorescent protein microspheres using emulsion technique.

• Investigation of whispering gallery modes in individual microspheres using micro?PL.

• Analysis of whispering gallery modes using Mie?theory and Finite?element method.

• Label?free & ultra?sensitive whispering gallery mode optical sensing.

NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY (NIL) 9 years of experience

(Nanofabrication of periodic nanostructures) 2013 onwards

• In?housed developed magnetic force assisted nanoimprint lithography tool.

• Fabricated one? & two?dimensional periodic nanostructures over large area using sequential NIL.

• Plasmonic sensing using periodic nanostructures.

FABRICATION OF FLEXIBLE SERS SENSING PLATFORM 6 years of experience

(SERS Sensors) 2017 onwards

• Synthesis of core?shell gold and silver nanoparticles

• Fabrication plasmonic nanopyramids arrays on a flexible substrate.

• Analysis of optical field confinement using numerical simulation.

• Detection of hazardous dye molecules and protein biomarkers.