Sayan Kanungo

Research Area : Semiconductor Devices

Skills

Technical Skills : Semiconductor Device Design and Modelling, 2D Material Design and Modelling, Nanoelectronic Device Design, Numerical Device (Sentaurus TCAD and NanoTCAD Vides) Simulation, First Principle (Quantum Espresso, ATK QuantumWise) Simulation

Experimental Skills : 2D materials Synthesis and Characterization

Presently working at : Assistant Professor (Grade-I), BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Work Experience :

Assistant Professor (Academic Level 12)  in Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad from July 2018 – Present

Research Associate (CSIR) in School of VLSI Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur from May 2018 – July-2018

Senior Research Fellow (CSIR)  in School of VLSI Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur from April 2013 - March 2017

Project Faculty (SMDP-II)  in School of VLSI Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur from October 2012 - March 2013

Software Engineer in HCL Technologies, India from October 2008 - July 2009

Awards

• National Doctoral Fellowship- SRF awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India in April’2013
• National Post-Doctoral Fellowship- RA awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India in May’2018     
• Recognition- Golden Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices awarded by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for 2018 and 2019
• Recognition- Trusted Reviewer for IOP awarded by Institute of Physics in September’2020
• Invited Talk- Delivered guest lecture through Webinar on the topic- “2D materials and its application in gas sensing and miniaturize transistor design” on 9th August’2020, organized by Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra (Deemed University by UGC).
• Invited Talk- Delivered guest lecture through Webinar on the topic- “Electronic Property Calculation of Materials using Density Functional Theory (DFT) Simulation” on 30th September’2020, organised by IEEE Education Society, New South Wales Chapter, Australia.
• Research Funding- Research Initiation Grant of INR 2 Lakhs, awarded by Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani on November’2018 (Ongoing)
• Research Funding- Outstanding Potential in Research and Academics Grant of INR 21 Lakhs, awarded by Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani on July’2018 (Ongoing )
• Research Funding- Start-up Research Grant of INR 11 Lakhs, awarded by DST-SERB, Govt. of India on October’2020 (Approved )
• Professional Membership- Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India),  April’ 2010 – Present
• Professional Membership- Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, December’ 2018 - Present (Electron Device Society, Nanotechnology Council and Sensor Council)
• Journal Reviewer-  IEEE Trans. on Electron Device,   IETE Technical Review,   IET Circuits, Devices & Systems,  IEEE Sensor Journal,   IOP Engineering Research Express, Elsevier Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
• Review Committee Member-   International Conference on Modelling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing, Dubai, 2020,  IEEE Sensor Conference, Netherland, 2020

Publications

Journal :

1. S. Kanungo, S. Chattopadhyay, P.S. Gupta and H. Rahaman, “Comparative Performance Analysis of the Dielectrically Modulated Full- Gate and Short-Gate Tunnel FET-Based Biosensors,” IEEE Trans. on Electron Device, Vol. 62, Issue. 3, pp. 994 - 1001 (2015)
2. S. Kanungo, S. Chattopadhyay, P.S. Gupta, K. Sinha and H. Rahaman, “Study and Analysis of the Effects of SiGe Source and Pocket Doped Channel on Sensing Performance of Dielectrically-Modulated Tunnel FET based Bio-Sensors,” IEEE Trans. on Electron Device, Vol. 63, Issue. 6, pp. 2589 - 2596 (2016)
3. S. Kanungo, S. Chattopadhyay, K. Sinha, P.S. Gupta and H. Rahaman, “A Device Simulation based Investigation on Dielectrically Modulated Fringing Field Effect Transistor for Biosensing Applications,” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 17, Issue. 5, pp. 1399 - 1406 (2016)
4. S. Kanungo, S. A. Mondal, S. Chattopadhyay, and H. Rahaman, “Design and Investigation on Bio-Inverter and Bio-Ring-oscillator for Dielectrically Modulated Biosensing Applications,” IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, Vol. 16, No. 6,pp. 974 - 981 (2017).
5. S. Sharma, S. K. Ganeshan, P. K. Pattnaik, S. Kanungo, K. N. Chappanda, “Laser induced flexible graphene electrodes for electrochemical sensing of hydrazine,” Materials Letters, Vol. 262, pp. 127150 (2019).
6. P. M. P. Raj, V J. Louis, S. K. Chatterjee, S. Kanungo, S. Kundu, “Ferroelectric Memristive Networks for Dimensionality Reduction: A Process for Effectively Classifying Cancer Datasets,” Integrated Ferroelectrics, Vol. 201, Issue.1, pp. 126-141 (2019).
7. D. Som, B. Majumdar, S. Kundu, S. Kanungo ." Investigation of Charge Plasma Enhanced Tunnel Field Effect Transistor for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Application ". IEEE Sensors Letter, Vol. 4, Issue. 6 (2020).
8. S. Kanungo,  B. Majumdar, S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Som, S. Chattopadhyay, and H. Rahaman. " Investigation on the Effects of Substrate, Back-Gate Bias and Front-Gate Engineering on the Performance of DMTFET based Biosensors". IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 20, Issue. 18, pp. 10405-10414 (2020).
9. P. K. R. Boppidi, P. Joshna, D. Som, H. Renuka, P. Biswas, D. Bhattacharyya, S. Kanungo, S. Banerjee, and S. Kundu, “Understanding the Efficacy of Cu in creating Oxygen Vacancies and Temperature Dependent Electrical Transport in Solution Processed Cu: ZnO Thin Films”, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol.120, pp. 105331, (2020).
10. V. Selamneni, S. Kanungo and P. Sahatya " Large area growth of SnS2/Graphene on cellulose paper as a flexible broadband photodetector and investigating the band structure through First Principle Calculations". ACS Electronic Materials (under review).
11. A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Kanungo and H. Rahaman "Effect of Stacking Arrangement on Device Behavior of Bilayer MoS2 FETs ". Journal of Computational Electronics (under review).

Book-Chapter :

1. D. Som, A. Paul, Tanu, A. Mukhopadhyay, N. Thakur and S. Kanungo, “First Principle  Calculation Based Investigation on the Two Dimensional Sandwiched Tri-layer Van der Waals Hetero-structures of MoSe2 and SnS2”, N Goel et al. (eds.), Modelling, Simulation and Intelligent Computing, Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering (Springer), 659, pp. 40-47 (2020).
2. D. Som, S. Trivedi, A. Chatterjee and S. Kanungo, “Van der Waals Hetero-structures based on Transition Metal Di-Chalcogenides- Current Status and Prospects in Broad-Band Photo-detector Applications”, S. Goel et al. (eds.),  Microelectronics and Signal Processing: Advanced Concepts and Applications , (Taylor & Francis), (Accepted).   

Conference :

1. S. Kanungo, P.S. Gupta, H. Rahaman and PS Dasgupta “A Simple Analytical Model of Silicon On  Insulator Tunnel FET,” 5th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication, Kolkata, India, Dec. 16-18, (2012).
2. S. Kanungo, P.S. Gupta, H. Rahaman and PS Dasgupta “A detail simulation study on Extended Source Ultra-Thin Body Double-Gated Tunnel FET,” 5th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication, Kolkata, India, Dec. 16-18, (2012).
3. S. Kanungo, P.S. Gupta and H. Rahaman, “Effects of Germanium mole fraction variation at the source of a dielectrically modulated Tunneling FET based biosensor,” 2nd International Conference on Devices Circits and Systems, Coimbatore, India, Mar. 6-8, (2014).
4. S. Kanungo, S. Chattopadhyay and H. Rahaman, “Investigating the performance of Short Gate Insulator Less Dielectrically Modulated Tunnel Field Effect Transistor based Bio-Sensors,” 6th International Conference on Computers and Devices for Communication, Kolkata, India, Dec. 16-18, (2015).
5. S. Kanungo, “Introduction to Dielectrically Modulated Biological Field Effect Transistor”, in proceedings of International Symposium on Devices, Circuits and Systems, March. 29-31 Kolkata, India (2018).