Faculty Details

• PhD in Theoretical and Computational Plasma Physics from Centre for Plasma Physics - Institute for Plasma Research (2005)
• MSc in Physics, specialising in Plasma and Space Physics from Delhi University (1996)
• BSc in Physics from Hindu College, Delhi University (1994)

• Professor at Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru (2021-Present), Teaching UG, PG, and administrative duties
• Head at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (2019-2021), Teaching UG, PG, and administrative duties
• Associate Professor at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (2009-2015)
• Assistant Professor II at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (2004-2008)
• Lecturer at St. Xavier's Jr. Science College (2004)
• Post-Doctoral Research at Centre for Plasma Physics - Institute for Plasma Research (2003)
• Researcher at Centre for Plasma Physics - Institute for Plasma Research, DAE institute (2000-2003)
• Junior Research Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study in Science & Technology, DST Institute in Guwahati (1998-2000)

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

• Area of Interest Plasma Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics


• Area of Expertise Plasma Sheath, Nonlinear Phenomena and Nonlinear Dynamics in Plasma, Solar Plasma


• Area of Research Plasma Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics in Plasma, Solar Plasma, Thin Film, Quantum Plasma

Dr Utpal Deka is Professor (Addl) in the Department of Physics, SMIT.He is Under deputation form October ,2021 in Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), 560064

• Teaches BTech and MSc levels students.
• Is involved in research in the area of plasma physics
• Is actively involved in development of laboratory for research and teaching, curriculum design, course material preparation, etc.

• Investigate the Flaring of the Magnetic Field Lines Near the Diverter Plates in Fusion Devices for Redistributing the Heat Load

  January 01, 2014 | Dr. Utpal Deka | V K Sayal | R Srinivasan

  Project funded by BRFST-India (Completed) | File no: NFP/04/2007-14, Project Ref. No. NFP/TH&SIM/03.

Sponsored Research Projects

• AICTE, Govt. of India funded project on Faculty Development Program on "Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Technology: New Vertical of Computing Technology"

  2022 | Grant Order No.: F.No. 2-33/AICTE/ATALWorkshop/2022-23/183

  Status: Completed | Amount: 3.00 lacs INR

• Investigate the flaring of the magnetic field lines near the divertor plates in fusion devices for redistributing the heat load

  BRFST-India, DAE, Govt. of India | PI: Dr. U. Deka | Co-Investigators: Dr. V. K. Sayal (SMIT), Dr. S. Depande, Dr. R. Srinivasan

  File No.: NFP/04/2007-14 | Project Ref. No.: NFP/TH&SIM/03

  Status: Completed | Amount: 12.19800 lacs INR

• Investigation of Propagation of Ion Acoustic Wave in Plasma Sheath and Presheath

  DST, Govt. of India (Young Scientist Award) | PI: Dr. U. Deka

  File No.: SR/FTP/PS-69/2007

  Status: Completed | Amount: 10.16600 lacs INR

• Upgradation of Infrastructural Facilities in the Department of Physics, SMIT (FIST, Level-I)

  DST, Govt. of India | Year: 2006 | Co-Investigator

  Status: Completed | Amount: 21.00 lacs INR

SMU Funded project:

• Graphene Back Surface Field Based Low Cost Silicon Nanowire Hybrid Solar Cell

  PI: Dr. U. Deka | Co-PI: Dr. B. Pd. Swain

  Reference: SMU/ENDOW/2016-17/292/002 | Funded under Dr. Ramdas Pai and Mrs. Vasanthi Pai Endowment Fund

  Status: Completed | Amount: 23.00 lacs INR

• Synthesis and Characterization of Semiconductor Oxide Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Applications

  PI: Dr. S. Das | Co-PI: Dr. U. Deka

  Reference: 6100/SMIT/R&D/Project/12/2020 | Dated: 20/07/2020 | Funded under T.M.A. Pai University Research Fund

  Status: Completed | Amount: 1.90 lacs INR

• Effects of Low Pressure Plasma Irradiation on Electrical Resistivity of Perovskite Oxide Eu1-xSrxMnO3

  May 01, 2018 | Dr. Utpal Deka | U. Deka | A. Rao

  Materials Science and Engineering, 377 (2018) 012173 | DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/377/1/012173

• Electrical, Thermal and Magnetic Studies on 7.5MeV Electron Beam Irradiated PrCoO3 Polycrystalline Samples

  September 04, 2018 | Dr. Utpal Deka | Ashok Rao | Utpal Deka | Shyam Prasad K | G.S. Okram | Ganesh Sanjeev Vikash Chandra Petwal | Vijay Pal Verma | Jishnu Dwivedi

  Physica B, 540 26-32 (2018)

• Quantum Streaming Instabilities in Multi-component Plasma with Dust Particles

  June 05, 2018 | Dr. Utpal Deka | U. Deka | K. Choudhury | P.K. Karmakar

  Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Book Series Chapter: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 645-658 | Editors: Prof. Dr. Sabyasachi SenGupta, Dr. Ahmed F. Zobaa, Prof. Dr. Karma Sonam Sherpa, Prof. Akash Kumar Bhoi | Publisher: Springer Singapore | Print ISBN: 978-981-10-4285-0 | DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4286-7_64

• Kinetic Instability of the Ion Acoustic Mode in Permeating Plasma of Electron-Positron and Ion

  Dr. Utpal Deka | U. Deka | K. Shah

  Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, Book Series Chapter: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 695-707 | Editors: Prof. Dr. Sabyasachi SenGupta, Dr. Ahmed F. Zobaa | Publisher: Springer Singapore | Print ISBN: 978-981-10-4285-0 | DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4286-7_69

• Multi-scale Dynamics in Externally Excited Glow Discharge Plasma

  April 21, 2015 | Dr. Utpal Deka | Utpal Deka | Ashok Rao | Md. Nurujjaman

  Phys. Scr., 90 125602 (2015)

• Investigation of the Effect of Electron Beam Irradiation on the Structural and Transport Properties of Half Doped Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 Manganites

  May 01, 2019 | Dr. Utpal Deka | P. Chettri | A. Rao | G.S. Okram | V.C. Petwal

  Physica B: Condensed Matter

• Plasma sheath physics: a circuital description, amelioration, and application

  2025 | P. K. Karmakar | S. Dutta | U. Deka

  Eur. Phys. J. Plus, 140:992 | SCI IF: 2.9 (Q1) | eISSN: 21905444 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06928-3

• Effect of Gd doping on structural, electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties of La0.7-xGdxBa0.3MnO3 (x =0, 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5)

  2025 | Nopu Bhutia | Yu-Han He | Yung-Kang Kuo | Ashok Rao | P. Poornesh | Dhanya Sunil | A. Saravanan | Utpal Deka

  Journal of Alloys and Compounds | SCI IF: 5.8 (Q1) | ISSN: 1873-4669 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.184224

• Cu-Induced Phase Transitions and Energy Bandgap Tuning in 2D Ruddlesden−Popper Perovskites

  2025 | Shambhavi J. Joshi | Nilesh G. Saykar | Kusuma Jagadish | Girish M. Gouda | Utpal Deka | Hareesh Krishnaiah | Sachin R. Rondiya

  Langmuir 41 (2025) 16714-16724 | SCI IF: 3.9 (Q1) | ISSN: 07437463 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c05132

• MXene material for supercapacitor applications: A comprehensive review on properties, synthesis and machine learning for supercapacitance performance prediction

  2025 | Daisy Maria Saju | R. Sapna | Utpal Deka | K. Hareesh

  Journal of Power Sources, 647 (2025) 237302 | SCI IF: 8.1 (Q1) | ISSN: 03787753 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2025.237302

• A comprehensive review of structural, and optical properties of boronated glasses doped with 3-d transition metal oxides (TMOs)

  2025 | Vinay D | Devaraja C | Utpal Deka

  Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1024 (2025) 180145 | SCI IF: 5.8 (Q1) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.180145

• Investigation of physical, structural, optical, and luminescence properties of nickel oxide doped alkali zinco-borate glasses

  2025 | Vinay D | Devaraja C | R.S. Gedam | Eraiah B | Jagadeesha Gowda G V | Ashok Reddy G V | Utpal Deka

  Scientific Reports, 15, 7148 (2025) | SCI IF: 3.8 (Q1) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91852-w

• A review of boron oxide glasses infused with individual oxides of lanthanide elements

  2025 | Meher Taj S. | Devaraja C. | Utpal Deka

  Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1010 (2025) 178279 | SCI IF: 5.8 (Q1) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.178279

• Exploration of physical, structural, thermal, and optical properties of alkali zinc boro tellurite glasses doped with Europium trioxide

  2024 | Devaraja C | Jagadeesha Gowda G V | Utpal Deka | Dahshan A | Ashok Reddy G V | Eraiah B | Gedam R.S. | Keshavamurthy K.

  Applied Physics A 130 (2024) 777 | SCI IF: 2.56 (Q2) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-024-07920-x

• A Linear Analysis of Torsional Alfven Waves in Twisted Divergent Magnetic Flux Tubes for Coronal Heating

  2024 | Bivek Pradhan | G. C. Mishra | P. K. Karmakar | Utpal Deka

  Solar Physics 299 (2024) 127 | (Q2) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-024-02372-1

• Oxygen Plasma-Induced Modification of Structural and Electrical Properties of Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3 Manganites

  2024 | Pronita Chettri | Bhakta Kunwar | Gurukrishna | Suraj Mangavati | Arun Sarma | G. S. Okram | C. Devaraja | Ashok Rao | Utpal Deka

  Phys. Status Solidi A (2024) 2400436 | SCI IF: 1.98 (Q2) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.202400436

• Effect of spin quantum force on Lower and Upper Hybrid Waves Instability under electron beam in magnetized semiconductor plasma

  2024 | Krishna Sharma | Utpal Deka

  Eur. Phys. J. B, 97 (2024) 135 | SCI IF: 1.6 (Q3) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-024-00768-3

• Modulation instability of magnetosonic waves in semiconducting quantum plasma

  2024 | Krishna Sharma | Jyoti Turi | Rustam Ali | Utpal Deka

  Physics of Fluids, 36 (2024) 074108 | SCI IF: 4.1 (Q1) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211773

• Optimization of process parameters in plasma arc cutting of aluminium plate

  2024 | Mridusmita Roy Choudhury | Hrishikesh Dutta | Utpal Deka | Basireddy Bhavani | Kuldeep K. Saxena | Anil Borah

  High Temperature Materials and Processes 43 (2024) 20220329 | SCI IF: 1.5 (Q3) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/htmp-2022-0329

• Machining performance optimization of graphene carbon fiber hybrid composite using TOPSIS-Taguchi

  2024 | M. Murali Mohan | Din Bandhu | P. Venkata Mahesh | Ashish Thakur | Utpal Deka | Ashish Saxena | Shukhratovich Abdullaev

  International Journal on Interactive Design & Manufacturing (2024) | SCI IF: 2.2 (Q2) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-024-01768-4

• Temperature-induced disruptive growth rate behavior due to streaming instability in semiconductor quantum plasma

  2024 | K. Sharma | H. Luitel | R. Ali | U. Deka

  J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 36 (2024) 205702 | SCI IF: 2.7 (Q2) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad2792

• Unlocking the Plasma Advantage in Elevating the Performance of Silicon Nanowires/PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Solar Cell

  2024 | R. Bhujel | S. Rai | S. Das | A. Tiwari | S. Chattopadhayay | B.P. Swain | U. Deka

  Thin Solid Films 790 (2024) 140202 | SCI IF: 2.1 (Q1) | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2024.140202