IITKGP

Banibrata Mukherjee

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Advanced Technology Development Centre

+91-3222-281940

banibratam@atdc.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Energy Harvesting for Powering Microsys
  • Electrostatically actuated devices
  • Biomedical instrumentation
  • Sensors and its interfacing circuits
  • MEMS and Microsystems
Research Interests: Energy Harvesting, Piezoelectric and Triboelectric, Sensors and Interfacing Circuits, Sensor Fusion and its Applications, MEMS & Microsystem, Biomedical Instrumentation, Robotics, Electrostatically actuated micro and nano structures, Modeling, Design and Fabrication of Microstructures.
  • A New Analysis on Reduction of Undesired Beam Bending in Electrostatic Comb Drive MEMS Actuator Mukherjee B., Swamy K. , Sen S. By IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69 488-500 (2020)
  • A Differential Output Interfacing ASIC for Integrated Capacitive Sensors Kar S. K., Chatterjee P. , Mukherjee B. , Swamy K. , Sen S. By IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 67 196-203 (2018)
  • Design and Optimization of High-Performance Through Hole Based MEMS Energy Harvester Using PiezoMUMPs Biswal P., Kar S. K., Mukherjee B. By Journal of Electronic Materials 50 375-388 (2021)
  • Performance improvement of low frequency piezoelectric energy harvester incorporating holes with an in-house experimental set-up Biswal P., Kar S. , Mukherjee B. By Meccanica 56 59-72 (2021)
  • Analysis of Static Charge Induced Pull-in of an Electrostatic MEMS Kumar M., Mukherjee B. , Sen S. By Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 96 1-14 (2021)
  • Design of SOI MEMS-based Bennet's Doubler Kinetic Energy Harvester Kumar M., Muralikrishna G. , Mukherjee B. , Sen S. By Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 19 1-14 (2020)
  • Generalized closed form approximations for pull-in characteristics of fixed-fixed nano beam under the influences of van der Waals and Casimir forces Mukherjee B., Sen S. By Microelectronics Reliability 94 32-40 (2019)
  • A Novel Design for Enhancing the Sensitivity of a Capacitive MEMS Device Kumar M., Mukherjee B. , Swamy K. , Sen S. By Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 27 656-666 (2018)
  • Generalized closed form solutions for feasible dimension limit and pull-in characteristics of nanocantilever under the Influences of van Der Waals and Casimir forces Mukherjee B., Sen S. By Materials Research Express 5 045028-045028 (2018)
  • Study on dynamic actuation in double microcantilever-based electrostatic microactuators with an in-house experimental set-up Mukherjee B., Swamy K. , Sen S. By Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 17 015004-015004 (2018)

Principal Investigator

  • Development of a Low Frequency Triboelectric Energy Harvester and its Hybrid Integration with Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Driving Low Power Sensor
  • Development of High Performance GNSS-INS Integration Scheme for Accurate Navigation and Its Implementation in Embedded Platform
  • Development of High Performance Multimodal Hybrid Energy Harvester and its Utilization to Implement Self-Powered Sensor System

Ph. D. Students

Mukunda Mahato

Area of Research: Interfacing circuit for Hybrid Energy Harvester

Souvik Khan

Area of Research: Energy Harvesting