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Invited Talks...

  • MEMS integrated Gas Sensor Development, Chief Guest & Invited Speaker for a DST Sponsored National Seminar on “Advanced Energy Materials and Devices” at the Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore on Dayananda Sagar Centenary celebrations, 9th July 2022, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

  • MEMS integrated Gas Sensor Development for Various Applications, Invited Speaker for one day workshop MEMS/NEMS Smart Sensors July 2019, 2022, C-MET, Hyderabad, India.

  • Indigenous Gas Sensors (Sensor Product Talk), Think Nano 2017, 14-15 September 2017, CeNSE, IISc Bangalore, India. http://www.cense.iisc.ac.in/ThinkNano/programSchedule.html

  • Air quality monitoring sensors, in “Brainstorming session on sensors and its effective utilization in environmental monitoring and management”, 20 August 2018, CSIR-NEERI Nagpur, India

  • Sensor Development, “Realtime Nationwide Low-Cost Sensor Network for Air Quality Monitoring", Ganga Auditorium, Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government Ministry, New Delhi, Date: August 29, 2018. https://indiaaq.blog/2018/08/22/dst-moefcc-workshop-on-realtime-air-quality-monitoring/

  • Air quality monitoring sensors: Towards a miniaturized, low-cost, and scalable technology, 3rd AIR-O-THON - Bangalore Edition, Capitol Hotel, Raj Bhavan Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore, Date: August 31st, 2018. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzx3M-lBXJc&t=237s

  • Micro to Nano Gas Sensors: Indigenously Developed Technology for Various Applications, International Conference on “Nanomaterials Driven Advances in Chemical and Biosensors” (27th – 29th November 2019), Department of Bioelectronics & Biosensors, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India.

  • Gas Sensors System: Micro to Nano (Indigenously Developed Technology for Various Applications, “Survival Strategies for the post COVID-19 ERA: Perspective From Science, Technology and Social Science” 20th-26th May 2020, Physics Department at Ewing Christian College, Allahabad University, Allahabad, India. Link to video:  https://www.facebook.com/ecc.physics.79/videos/109182897474416/

  • Indigenously Developed Technology for Air Quality Monitoring, Leak detection, and Breath Analysis, ISSS 2020 Public Lecture Webinar, 29th July 2020. Link: https://isssonline.in/public-lecture/

  • Indigenously developed Low-Cost Gas Sensors for Air Pollution monitoring, (Closed-door talk by invitation only), Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Government Ministry, New Delhi along with Bloomberg Philanthropies (https://www.bloomberg.org/), 18th December 2020.

@ Think Nano 2017, CeNSE, IISc Bangalore

Conference Paper Presentation

  • Preparation and Characterization of ZnO nano-particulate thin film, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Oral) in the 3rd National Symposium for Materials Research Scholars (MR-10) at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (May 7-8, 2010).

  • Studies on metal-oxide-semiconductor ZnO as a hydrogen gas sensor, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Poster) in the International Symposium on Semiconductor Materials and Devices (ISSMD 2011) at M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India (January 28-30, 2011).

  • Studies on alcohol sensing properties of ZnO thin film based sensor, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Poster) in the National Conference on Sensors and Actuators: Science to technology (NCSA-2011) at Center Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India (March 11-12, 2011).

  • High acetone sensitivity in In-doped ZnO nanoparticulate thin films, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Poster) in the International conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology at University of Delhi, India (December 18-21, 2011).

  • Studies of structural and optical properties of In-doped ZnO nanocrystalline thin films, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Oral) in the International Conference on Frontiers of Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and their Applications at Punjab University, Chandigarh, India (February 16-18, 2012).

  • Microstructural and optical Properties of spray deposited nanocrystalline Sn-doped ZnO thin films, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Poster) in the National symposium on Materials and Processing-2012 (MAP-2012) at Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India (October 10-12, 2012).

  • Microstructural and optical properties of spray deposited nanocrystalline Sn- doped ZnO thin films, C. S. Prajapati, P. P. Sahay, Presented (Oral) in the International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy (ISRS-2012) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (December 13-15, 2012).

  •  Nanosensor array development for fast and accurate detection of gases, C. S. Prajapati, Navakanta Bhat, Presented (Oral) in the International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS-2015), 7 to 10 March 2015 at Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology [C-MAT], Pune, India.

  • High sensitivity for Nitrogen Dioxide by Thickness Selective WO3 Thin Film Sensor in Temperature Impulse Mode (ICMAT15-A-0089), C. S. Prajapati, Navakanta Bhat, Presented (Oral) in the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies of the Materials Research Society of Singapore & 4th Photonics Global Conference (ICMAT & IUMRS-ICA 2015), 28 June to 03 July 2015, Material Research Society, Singapore.

  • Comparative study of CO sensing characteristics of sputtered and chemically deposited nanocrystalline ZnO thin films, C.S. Prajapati, D. Visser, Z. Ye, S.B. Basuvalingam, S. Anand, and Navakanta Bhat, Presented (Oral) in the International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD 2015), December 7 - 10, at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Workshops/Schools attended:

  • Workshop on advanced characterization techniques, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 6th May 2010.

  • International School and Conference on Functional Materials, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India, 28th March – 3rd April 2011.

  • Two Day Hands-on Workshop in Mathematica, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 23rd – 24th March 2014.

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