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Dr. Sk. Masiul Islam joined as a Scientist at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India in 2016. Currently, he is working as a Scientist E in Semiconductor Sensors and Microsystems Group, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani. He is also serving as Assistant Professor in Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India. He has been awarded Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India. His current research interest is focused on Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Power Semiconductor Devices, Graphene/CNT Based Flexible & Wearable Electronics, Sensors, Electronic Materials & Devices. Dr. Islam has published over 45 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters with international reputes as well as presented papers in national and international conferences.
Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=NNKfsxoAAAAJ&hl=en
RESEARCH AREAS
- Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
- Power Semiconductor Devices
- Graphene/CNT Based Flexible & Wearable Electronics
- Sensors
- Electronic Materials & Devices
EDUCATION
- B. Tech.: Electronics & Communication Engineering from GNIT (Affiliated to MAKAUT, formerly WBUT, Approved by AICTE) (2009) – Attained: First Class.
- M. Tech.: Materials Science and Nanotechnology from Jadavpur University (2011)– Attained: First Class.
- Ph.D.:
Thesis Title: Studies on MOCVD Grown InAs Quantum Dots as Charge Storage Elements in GaAs Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Based Non-Volatile Flash Memory Applications.
Time period: December, 2011 to October, 2015.
Institute: Materials Science Centre, IIT Kharagpur, India.
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
| S. No. | Title of Project | Sponsoring Agency | Role | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Design and Development of Gallium Oxide Power FETs Under Development of wide-bandgap semiconductors based highly efficient power electronics systems for Electric Vehicle” through Electric Vehicle Mission under Mission for High Impact Areas (MAHA) program. | EV MAHA Mission, ANRF | PI | May 2025 – April 2028 |
| 2 | Development of Graphene Based Flexible and Wearable Strain Sensors for Prosthetic Hand Application | SERB-DST | Co-PI | Sept. 2022 – Aug. 2025 |
| 3 | MEMS Based Tunable Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators with Magnetostrictive/Piezoelectric Bilayer Composite Thin Films | AR & DB, New Delhi | Member | Sept. 2022 – Sept. 2025 |
| 4 | Bulk Acoustic Wave Based MEMS Sensor for Environmental Monitoring | SERB-DST | Member | Feb. 2022 – Feb. 2024 |
| 5 | Design and Development of MEMS based Hydrogen Sensors | In-house | Member | Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 |
| 6 | Development of III-Nitride White and UV-LED Technology for Green Energy & Societal Impact | PSA, Govt. of India | Member | Sept. 2017 – Oct. 2020 |
| 7 | Design and development of photonic crystal (PhC)-based sensor platform | CSIR-Healthcare Mission | Member | April 2018 – March 2020 |
| 8 | Development of new generation nano metal-oxide/graphene-polymer composite materials for use in wearable electronics Development of new generation nano metal-oxide/graphene-polymer composite materials for use in wearable electronics | CSIR-NCP Project | Member | August 2018 –March 2020 |
| 9 | Development of GaN based High Brightness LEDs for Solid State Lighting Applications | CSIR Network Project under TAPSUN | Member | – |
| 10 | Novel GaN/InGaN Solar Cells Grown by MOCVD under D-NEED (Development of Novel Materials for Next Generation Energy Efficient Devices) | CSIR Network Project | Member | – |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed International Journals
- M. Farman, S.M. Islam, G. Purohit, S. Singh, Flexible Piezo-resistive Strain Sensors Using Ternary Conductive Hybrid Nanocomposites Integrated into Wearable Smart Gloves for Human-Machine Interface, IEEE Sensors Journal, 26 (2026) 5606-5613.
- R.K. Maurya, A. Agarwal, R.K. Gupta, S.M. Islam, R. Sharma, Recent technological advancement in asymmetric supercapacitors: A comprehensive review, Journal of Power Sources, 640 (2025) 236818.
- Vinita, D. Pareek, S.M. Islam, J. Singh, Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators for Sensing Applications: A Review, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 378 (2024) 115839.
- P. Kachhawa, S.M. Islam, N. Chaturvedi, Gallium Oxide Based Field Effect Transistor: A Review, Physica Status Solidi (a) – applications and materials science (pss a), 221 (2024) 2400400.
- R. Mahato, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, Flexible Piezo-resistive Strain Sensors Based on Silver Nanowires and Graphene Nanoplatelets Reinforced Polydimethylsiloxane for Human Motion Detection, Materials Today Communications, 40 (2024) 110056.
- R. Mahato, S.M. Islam, R.K. Maurya, S. Kumar, G. Purohit, S. Singh, Flexible Piezo-resistive Strain Sensors Using All-Polydimethylsiloxane Based Hybrid Nanocomposites for Wearable Electronics, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 26 (2024) 95-104.
- R.S. Shekhawat, S.M. Islam, S. Kumar, S. Singh, D. Singh, S. Bhattacharya, Fabrication and Characterization of a Silicon Carbide Based Schottky Barrier Diode, Journal of Electronic Materials, 52 (2023) 7221-7229.
- R. Get, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, P Mahala, Design and fabrication of graphene/CdS Schottky junction for photovoltaic solar cell applications, Optik, 266 (2022) 169560.
- R. Get, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, P Mahala, Organic polymer bilayer structures for applications in flexible solar cell devices, Microelectronic Engineering, 222 (2020) 111200.
- T.J. Singh, S. Singh, S.M. Islam, R. Get, P. Mahala, K.J. Singh, Flexible organic solar cells with graphene/PEDOT:PSS Schottky junction on PET substrates, Optik, 181 (2019) 984-992.
- Z.A. Ansari, T.J. Singh, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, P. Mahala, A. Khan, K.J. Singh, Photovoltaic solar cells based on graphene/gallium arsenide schottky junction, Optik, 182 (2019) 500-506.
- A. Khan, S.M. Islam, S. Ahmed, R.R. Kumar, M.R. Habib, K. Huang, M. Hu, X. Yu, D. Yang, Direct CVD Growth of Graphene on Technologically Important Dielectric and Semiconducting Substrates, Advanced Science, 1800050 (2018) 1-29.
- A. Khan, M.R. Habib, R.R. Kumar, S.M. Islam, V. Arivazhagan, M. Salman, X. Yu, D. Yang, Wetting behaviors and applications of Metal-Catalyzed CVD Grown Graphene, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6 (2018) 22437–22464.
- C. Gautam, S.M. Islam, S. Sadistap, U. Sarma, Effect of microwave heat on the nutritional properties of infected red kidney beans, IEEE Access, 6 (2018) 57137-57143.
- R.K. Mondal, V. Chatterjee, S. Singh, S.M. Islam, S. Pal, Optimization of structure parameters for highly efficient AlGaN based deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes, Micro and Nanostructures (Formerly Superlattices and Microstructures), 112 (2017) 339.
- S.M. Islam, K. Sarkar, P. Banerji, K.J. Sarkar, B. Pal, Leakage current characteristics in MOCVD grown InAs quantum dots embedded GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor, RSC Advances, 5 (2015) 83837.
- S.M. Islam, P. Banerji, Size effect of InAs quantum dots grown by metal organic chemical vapor deposition technique in storing electrical charges for memory applications, RSC Advances, 5 (2015) 6906.
- S.M. Islam, P. Biswas, P. Banerji, S. Chakraborty, InAs quantum dots as charge storing elements for applications in flash memory devices, Materials Science and Engineering B, 198 (2015) 102.
- S.M. Islam, P. Banerji, S. Banerjee, Electrical bistability, negative differential resistance and carrier transport in flexible organic memory device based on polymer bilayer structure, Organic Electronics, 15 (2014) 144.
- S.M. Islam, P. Biswas, P. Banerji, R. Mukherjee, Low temperature MOCVD growth of high density and defect-free InAs quantum dots on (100) p-GaAs substrates for non-volatile flash memory applications, Journal of Nanoscience Letters, 4 (2014) 26.
BOOK CHAPTER
| S. No. | Title | Authors Name | Publisher | Year of Publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piezoelectric MEMS based sensors and actuators: Current Status and Future Prospective | Vinita, S.M. Islam, J. Singh | CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group | 2025 |
| 2 | Fabrication and Characterization of a Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator Using ZnO Piezo-layer (Chapter 4) | S.M. Islam, H. Saini, Vinita, J. Singh | Springer Nature | Feb 2025 |
| 3 | Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Assisted Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Ink for Paper-Based Humidity Sensor (Chapter 28) | R. Mahato, A. Chauhan, S.M. Islam, S. Singh | Springer Nature | Feb 2025 |
| 4 | Carbon Nanotube Alignment Techniques and Their Sensing Applications | P.B. Agarwal, S.M. Islam, R. Agarwal, N. Kumar, A. Kumar | Springer, Singapore | May 2021 |
| 5 | Gallium Nitride (GaN) Nanostructures Based Sensors (Chapter 11) | S.M. Islam, V. Chatterjee, S. Pal, A. Khan, R.R. Kumar, S. Ahmed, A. Umar | American Scientific Publisher (California, USA) | July 2018 |
| 6 | One-Dimensional Silicon Carbide (SiC) Nanostructures and Their Sensor Applications (Chapter 10) | A. Khan, R. R. Kumar, S. Ahmed, S.M. Islam, X. Yu, A. Umar, Y. Wang | American Scientific Publisher (California, USA) | July 2018 |
International Conference, Proceedings, etc.
- S.M. Islam, H. Saini, Vinita, J. Singh, Fabrication and Characterization of a Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator Using ZnO Piezo-layer, 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano (ETMN 2024)—November 22-23, 2024.
- R. Mahato, A. Chauhan, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Assisted Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Ink for Paper-Based Humidity Sensor, 6th International Conference on Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano (ETMN 2024)—November 22-23, 2024.
- R. Mahato, G. Tejaswi, H. Raj, R.K. Reddy, G. Purohit, S. Kumar, R.K. Maurya, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, Fabrication and Characterization of Graphene-Based Flexible Piezo-resistive Stain Sensors for Wearable Electronics, XXII International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD, IIT Madras, Society for Semiconductor Devices (SSD) and Semiconductor Society India)—December 13-17, 2023.
- Z.A. Ansari, S. Baloda, S. Powar, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, Flexible Resistive Strain Sensors for Application in Wearable Electronics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 2294 (2020) 020005.
- Z.A. Ansari, S. Baloda, S. Powar, S.M. Islam, S. Singh, Flexible Resistive Strain Sensors for Application in Wearable Electronics, FlexEV – 2020, March 05-06, Manipal University Jaipur, 303007, India.
- Z.A. Ansari, S. Baloda, S. Powar, S.M. Islam, N. Gupta, S. Singh, Flexible Strain Sensors Based on Solution-Processed Graphite-PDMS Composite for Wearable Electronics, Symposium on 2D Materials and Devices – S2DMD 2019, September 27-28, IIT Jodhpur, 342037, India.
- C. Gautam, S.M. Islam, U. Sarma, S. Sadistap, Physical and Engineering Characteristics of Microwave Treated Red Kidney Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), International Conference on Recent Advances in Food Processing Technology, (iCRAFPT’18), August 2018, Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT), Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
- D. Chettri, S.M. Islam, S. Pal, Design and analysis of a photonic crystal platform on silicon-on-insulator substrate for refractive index-based sensing, Photonics-2018: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, December 12-15, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India. ISBN: 978-93-88653-41-1.
- B. Pal, K. Sarkar, K.J. Sarkar, S.M. Islam, P. Banerji, Photoresponse of Si/InP Core-Shell Radial Nanowire Heterojunction Photodetectors Using MOCVD on Etched Silicon Nanowire Templates, 18th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD, IISc Bangalore, India)–2015.
- S.M. Islam, S. Chowdhury, K. Sarkar, B. Nagabhushan, P. Banerji, S. Chakraborty, R. Mukherjee, GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor based non-volatile flash memory devices with InAs quantum dots as charge storage nodes, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1665 (2015) 050035.
- S.M. Islam, S. Chowdhury, K. Sarkar, B. Nagabhushan, P. Banerji, S. Chakraborty, R. Mukherjee, GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor based non-volatile flash memory devices with InAs quantum dots as charge storage nodes, 59th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium — (2014).
- S.M. Islam, P. Biswas, P. Banerji, R. Mukherjee, Charge storage properties of MOCVD grown InAs quantum dots in GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor based non-volatile flash memory devices, 4th Molecular Materials Meeting (M3)- An International Conference on Sustainable Materials and Technologies (Biopolis, Singapore) — (2014).
- S.M. Islam, P. Biswas, P. Banerji, R. Mukherjee, Low temperature MOCVD growth of high density and defect-free InAs quantum dots on (100) p-GaAs substrates for non-volatile flash memory applications, International Conference on Nanotechnology (HIT, Haldia, India) — (2013).
- P. Biswas, S.M. Islam, P. Banerji, Chemically synthesized ZnO based ultraviolet sensors: effect of nanosize, International Conference on Nanotechnology (HIT, Haldia, India) — (2013).
- S.M. Islam, N. N. Halder, P. Banerji, Carrier transport in flexible organic memory device based on bilayer polymer structure, 6th India-Singapore Joint Physics Symposium (ISJPS) on Physics of Advanced Materials (IIT Kharagpur, India) — (2013).
