ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Head of Department

Dr. Prabir Kumar Saha
Ph.D(IIEST)

E-mail:
hod.ec@nitm.ac.in

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Dr. Abhishek Sarkhel Assistant Professor

Ph.D, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur

abhishek.sarkhel@nitm.ac.in
9485177039
https://nitmeghalaya.irins.org/profile/101591

Research Interest

Microwave Antenna & Electromagnetic Metasurface for Radar Cross Section Reduction

Education Qualification

Ph.D, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur

Academic Background

1. Ph.D, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, 2018

2.ME, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pillani,2009

3. B.Tech, West Bengal University of Technology,2006

 

Work Experience

1. Organization: National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Assistant Professor (AGP-6000/- Under 3 Tier) (August 2013-February 2018) 

2. Organization: National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Assistant Professor (Grade II) (February 2018 to till this date) 

RF & Microwave System Design Laboratory

Project

S.No.

Title of Project

PI

Co-PI

Funding Agency

Sanctioned Amount

Start Yr - End Yr (Duration)

Status

Project Type

1

Compact Antenna System for High-Speed Device to Device Communication

Dr. Abhishek Sarkhel

 

TEQIP-III

1,99,000 INR

 

2021-2022

Completed

Sponsored

2

AI-Empowered Advanced Wireless Communication Systems

Dr. Prabir Kumar Saha

1.Dr. Abhishek Sarkhel

2.Dr. Shravan Kumar Bandari

3.Dr. Shubhankar Majumdar

4.Dr. Satyendra Singh Yadav

DST sponsored FIST Level - 1

80,00,000 INR

( Sanction Number: SR/FST/ET-I/2020/689

)

2021-2026

On-going

Sponsored

Research Group

Ph.D (Completed)
1. Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh,  Design and Analysis of Compact Implantable Antenna for Biotelemetry Application, June 2023.
Ph.D (Ongoing)
1. Soumendu Ghosh, Development of Electromagnetic Metasurface for Stealth and Radome Applications
2. Sreenivasa Rao Devireddy, Development of RF Passive Component using Substrate Integrated Waveguide for 5G Applications
3. Sunanda Mukhopadhyay, Intelligent Reflective Surface (Under joint supervision with Dr. Satyendra Singh Yadav) 
4. Debojyoti Chattapadhyay
5.Habanaibok Suting (Under joint supervision with Dr. Prabir Kumar Saha) 

Postgraduate:
1. Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh, Studies on Implantable Antenna for Biomedical Application, 2017-2018
2. Durga Prasad Purbey, Studies on Substrate Integrated Wave Guide for Antenna Application, 2018-2019 
3. Avinash Sahoo, Co-design of Asymmetric Coupled BPF and PA,2021-2022

Undergraduate:
1. Pankaj Tiwari & Pushpendra Bharti, Antenna Miniaturization using Metamaterial Inspired Technique, 2013-2014
2. Abhishek Biyani & Chandrahas Balleda, Miniaturization of Slot Antenna using SRR Loading, 2013-2014
3. Anurag Madheshiya & Rohit Suryawanshi, Antenna Miniaturization using Reactive Impedance Substrate, 2013-2014 
4. Sabyasachi Das Choudhury & Dinesh Kumar Kalotra, B.Tech, Miniaturized Slot Antenna Design Using Metamaterial Based Techniques, 2014-2015
5. Nitish Kumar & Bhawna, Design of Multi-band and Broadband Absorber, 2015-2016
6. Komal Priya & Vinay Kumar Verma, Antennas for Biomedical Application & Prospects of Graphene, 2016-2017
7. Albert Suja & Devoraj Hajong, Studies on Performance enhancement of Wearable Antenna by using electromagnetic Bandgap Structure, 2017-2018
8. Ananya Bhattacharya, Studies on Performance Enhancement of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Based Antenna using Electromagnetic Band Gap structures, 2018-2019
9. Afrid Sabhah Ahmed & Pearleshwari Rani Boro, Studies on Metasuraces for Different Microwave Applications, 2018-2019
10. Rajoo Kumar Gautam & Kishan Chaursia, Studies on Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Backed Slot Antenna,2019-2020
11. Caldinus Nongrang & Ngamla Rangnamei, Studies on Compact Quad-band Metamaterial Polarization Insensitive Absorber, 2020-2021
12. Preeti Polai & Pragati Kumari, Study on Wireless Power Transfer,2021-2022
13. Jatin Kumar Singh & Akash Patel, Rasorber for Radar Cross Section Reduction,2022-23


Publications

International Journals:

1.  Jeet Ghosh, Rahul Dutta, Abhishek Sarkhel, and Qammer H. Abbasi. "Design of miniaturize flexible wideband frequency selective surface for electromagnetic shielding application." Waves in Random and Complex Media (2022): 1-21.

2. Rahul Dutta, Jeet Ghosh, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "Planar Frequency Selective Surface-Based Switchable Rasorber/Absorber for Airborne Application." IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 21, no. 9 (2022): 1842-1846.

3. Soumendu Ghosh, Jeet Ghosh, Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "A Low-Profile Multifunctional Metasurface Reflector for Multiband Polarization Transformation." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2022).

4. Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh, Sourav Roy, Jeet Ghosh, Ujjal Chakraborty, Soumendu Ghosh, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "Design and Analysis of Compact Dual-Band Antenna System for Scalp and Skin Implantation." Progress in Electromagnetics Research C 125 (2022).

5.  Soumendu Ghosh, Sourav Roy, Ujjal Chakraborty, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "An ELC meta-resonator inspired wideband wearable MIMO antenna system for biotelemetry applications." Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications 36, no. 8 (2022): 1113-1129.

6.  Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh, Jeet Ghosh, Soumendu Ghosh, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "Miniaturized dual-antenna system for implantable biotelemetry application." IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 20, no. 8 (2021): 1394-1398.

7. Sourav Roy, Ashim Kumar Biswas, Soumendu Ghosh, Ujjal Chakraborty, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "Isolation improvement of dual-/quad-element textile MIMO antenna for 5G application." Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications 35, no. 10 (2021): 1337-1353.

8. Abhishek Sarkhel and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "Compact quad-band polarization-insensitive ultrathin metamaterial absorber with wide angle stability." IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 16 (2017): 3240-3244.

9.  Abhishek Sarkhel and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "Enhanced-gain printed slot antenna using an electric metasurface superstrate." Applied Physics A 122, no. 10 (2016): 1-11.

10. Abhishek Sarkhel, Debasis Mitra, and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "A compact metamaterial with multi-band negative-index characteristics." Applied Physics A 122, no. 4 (2016): 1-10.

11. Abhishek Sarkhel, Debasis Mitra, Sandip Paul, and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "A compact meta atom for dual-band negative permittivity metamaterial." Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 57, no. 5 (2015): 1152-1156.

12. Debasis Mitra, Bratin Ghosh, Abhishek Sarkhel, and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "A miniaturized ring slot antenna design with enhanced radiation characteristics." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 64, no. 1 (2015): 300-305.

13. Debasis Mitra, Abhishek Sarkhel, Olyvia Kundu, and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "Design of compact and high directive slot antennas using grounded metamaterial slab." IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 14 (2014): 811-814.

 

International Conferences:

1.  Sourav Roy, Soumendu Ghosh, Puspendu Bikash Saha, Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh, Abhishek Sarkhel, and Soumya Pattanayak. "Design and Analysis of Low Cost Biodegradable Substrate Material for Microwave device Application." In 2021 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), pp. 614-617. IEEE, 2021.

2.  Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh, Sourav Roy, Soumendu Ghosh, and Abhishek Sarkhel. "Wearable textile based MIMO antenna for 5G Application." In 2021 IEEE Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP), pp. 159-162. IEEE, 2021.

3. Moirangthem Santoshkumar Singh and Abhishek Sarkhel. "Isolation Enhancement of Antenna Pair for Implantable Application." In 2020 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (URSI-RCRS), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2020.

4.  Abhishek Sarkhel and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "Design of miniaturized PIFA with magnetic resonator metamaterial loading." In 2015 IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC), pp. 1-2. IEEE, 2015.

5. Abhishek Sarkhel and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. "Design of a compact triple-band metamaterial absorber with wide angle of incidence using connected resonator topology." In 2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), pp. 1239-1242. IEEE, 2015.

6. Abhishek Sarkhel and Sekhar Ranjan Bhadra Chaudhuri. Article: Magnetic Response of Rectangular and Circular Split Ring Resonator: A Research Study. IJCA Proceedings on International Conference on Communication, Circuits and Systems 2012 iC3S(3):8-12, June 2013.

Associated Research Laboratory & Laboratory Facility Developed

Associated Research Laboratory:

1. Faculty In Charge of RF and Microwave Laboratory (2013 to till this date)

2. Faculty In Charge of Center of Excellence in Wireless Communication (2019 to till this date) 

Laboratory Facility Developed:

1. RF Circuit Simulation Laboratory ( UG, PG & PhD)

2. RF Microwave Laboratory ( UG, PG & PhD)

3. Anechoic Chamber: Ongoing (PG & PhD)

Conference/Workshop/Seminar Attended

SL No

Conference/Workshop/Seminar

Period

Place

National|International

1

International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)

September 7-11, 2015

Torino, Italy

International

2

IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference

December 18-21, 2015

IIT Guwahati, India

International

3

URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science ( URSI-RCRS)

February 12-14, 2020

IIT BHU, Varanasi,India

International

4.

Recent Trends in Microwave and Antenna Technology

May-18-22, 2015

NIT Silchar, India

National

5.

Indo-French Workshop on Microwave Nanotechnologies (MiNa)

July 3-4, 2017

CeNSE, IISC Bangalore, India

International

6.

2nd International Workshop on Metamaterial and its Applications

July 17-23, 2021

IEEE APS JAIPUR Section

International

Outreach Activities

1. Wiley International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering

2. Reviewer of IEEE Access

3. Reviewer of AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier.

4. Reviewer of  The Journal of Engineering, IET.

Professional Membership




IEEE  

Courses Taught

Previous/Other Semester/Year

  • 1. Basic Electronics, Spring Semester, 2014,2015,2016,2017
  • 2. Principles of Communication, Autumn Semester, 2016
  • 3. Wireless & Mobile Communication, Spring Semester, 2017,2019
  • 4. Microwave Engineering, 2014-2021
  • 5. Electromagnetic Waves & Radiating Patterns , 2014-2021
  • 6. Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, Spring Semester, 2018
  • 7. RF And Microwave Engineering, Autumn Semester, 2018

Administrative Responsibility

  • 1. Warden, Samanjanai Boys' Hostel Polo Hills,  from 2017 -2018
  • 2. Member, Institute Library Committee, from 2018 to2022
  • 3. Member, UG PEC, from 2019 to 2021
  • 4. Member, B.Tech Admission Committee, CSAB 2020, CSAB 2021 & CSAB 2022
  • 5. Member, Institute Furniture  Committee, from 2021 to 2022