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Prof. Atul Kumar Nishad

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

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Room No: ECE 308 +91-870-2462424 atul@nitw.ac.in Bio Sketch

    Key Notes

    • Journal(s): 11
    • Book Chapter(s): 1
    • PhD: Current - 2  Awarded - 2

    12

    PUBLICATIONS

    4

    DOCTORAL STUDENTS

    Research Areas

    2D materials
    3D ICs
    Cryogenic Electronics
    First-Principle Study
    Metamaterials based Sensors
    Neuromorphic Computing & Quantum Computing
    Spintronics
    Superconductor Electronics
    THz Electronics
    VLSI Interconnects and Devices
    EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
    Degree Institute Year
    Doctor of Philosophy Indian Institute of Technology Ropar 2016
    COURSES HANDLED
    Course L-T-P Credit Degree Level
    Computer Organization and Architecture(EC1263) 3-0-2 4 UG
    VLSI Interconnects(EV418) 3-0-0 3 UG
    VLSI Verification and Testing(EV352) 3-0-0 3 UG
    Signals and Systems(EC262) 3-0-0 3 UG
    Digital Electronics(EC281) 3-0-0 3 UG
    Basic Electronics Engineering(EC131) 3-0-0 3 UG
    VLSI design(EC5314) 3-0-0 3 PG
    Advanced VLSI Interconnects(EC5268) 3-0-0 3 PG
    VLSI System Design(EC5104) 3-0-0 3 PG
    Low power VLSI Design(EC5253) 3-0-0 3 PG
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    PUBLICATIONS
    Journal(s)
    Design and Optimization of Ferroelectric Spacer Engineered Modified Bi-Level Negative Capacitance FET: An Analog/RF Evaluation Perspective, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol.32 (1), pp.222-230, 2025
    Anisotropy-tuned stability and size reduction of high-speed skyrmioniums for narrow magnetic nanotracks, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IOP, Physica Scripta, vol.100 (12), pp.125528, 2025
    Quantum conductance states in Ni/Mo/MoO3/Ni memristors: implications for multi-level neuromorphic computing, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IOP, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol.58 (25), pp.255101, 2025
    A novel step architecture based negative capacitance (SNC) FET: Design and circuit level analysis, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., ScienceDirect, Microelectronics Journal, vol.146, pp.106139, 2024
    Nanoscale Ni/Mo/MoO3/Ni memristor for synaptic applications, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IET, Electronic Letters, vol.60, pp.e13131, 2024
    On the design of p-channel step-FinFET at sub-10nm node: A parametric analysis, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., ScienceDirect, Microelectronics Journal, vol.126, pp.105505, 2022
    First-Principle Analysis of Transition Metal Edge-Passivated Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons for Nanoscale Interconnects, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol.20, pp.92-68, 2021
    Lithium-Intercalated Graphene Interconnects: Prospects for On-Chip Applications, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IEEE, IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol.4 (6), pp.485 - 489, 2016
    Performance improvement in SC-MLGNRs interconnects using interlayer dielectric insertion, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, vol.3 (4), pp.470 - 482, 2015
    Self‐consistent capacitance model for multilayer graphene nanoribbon interconnects, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IET, Micro & Nano Letters, vol.10 (8), pp.404-407, 2015
    Analytical time-domain models for performance optimization of multilayer GNR interconnects, By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al., IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol.20 (1), pp.3700108, 2014
    Book Chapter(s)
    Performance Evaluation of AsF5-intercalated Top-Contact Multilayer Graphene Nanoribbons for Deeply Scaled Interconnects By Atul Kumar Nishad et. al. in High-Speed and Lower Power Technologies, CRC Press, Engineering & Technology, 2018
    PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
    RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
    Current PhD Students
    Kadavergu Swamy
    Area of Research: Neuromorphic Computing System
    Syeda Firasath Fatima
    Area of Research: Spintronics
    Previous PhD Students
    Maryala Praveen (2025)
    Area of Research: Design and Modelling of Conductance Quantized Ni/Mo/MoO3/Ni Memristors for Memory, Neuromorphic and Quantum-Inspired Computing
    Santosh Kumar Padhi (2025)
    Area of Research: Modified Bi-Level Negative Capacitance FET Design for Low Power Electronics
    CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
    AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
    2016
    DST Young Scientist Travel Award
    2014
    CEFIPRA ESONN Fellowship [Indo-French]
    Best Paper Award
    ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
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