School of Minerals, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

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Sivaiah Bathula

Dr. Sivaiah Bathula

Associate Professor
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  • sivaiahb@iitbbs.ac.in
  • School of Minerals, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
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Thermoelectric Materials and Devices; Powder Materials and Processing; Advanced Materials Characterization

Sponsored Projects Completed & Research Experience

 

Sl. No Title of the Project Sponsored Agency
01 Development of thermoelectric materials for harnessing solar energy and waste heat. (Completed) CSIR, New Delhi, India
02 Development and characterization of bulk aluminium-alumina (Al-Al2O3) nano-composites study of their nano-sintering with respect to densification & grain growth. (Completed) DST, Govt. of India

 

(1). Post-graduate (M.Tech./Ph.D.) Level:

Materials Characterization (ML6L001)

Powder Materials and Processing (ML6L014)

Materials Characterizaton Laboratory (ML6P001)

(2). Under-graduate Level:

Mineral Processing (ML3L001)

Physical Metallurgy Laboratory (ML2P003)

(a) Ph.D. Completed: 03  (Dr. Nagendra Singh Chauhan; Dr. Avinash Vishwakarma; Dr. Kisor Johari)

Ph.D. (On-going): 02
(b) M.Tech Projects Completed: 09

M.Tech Project (ongoing) : 01

(c) B.Tech Projects completed: 11

B.Tech Projects (ongoing): 01

Alumni from my group

Ph.D

1. Dr. Nagendra Singh Chauhan (co-supervisor: Dr. Ajay Dhar) [Degree: Ph.D; 2019] [Receievd the best PhD thesis Award for year 2020 at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR, CSIR) and currently doing Post Doc at NIMS, Japan]

2. Dr. Avinash Vishwakarma (co-supervisor: Dr. Bhasker Gahtori) [Degree: Ph.D | Year of graduation: 2020]

3. Dr. Kisor Johri (co-supervisor) [Degree: Ph.D; 2022 | Currently doing Post Doc at NIMS Japan]

 

M.Tech

1. Mr. Niraj Kumar Singh  [Degree: M.Tech | Year of graduation: 2015]

2. Mr. Srimantha Kumar Tripathy [Degree: M.Tech | Year of graduation: 2014]

3. Mr. Rajeeb Kumar Mallik (co-supervisor: Dr. Srikant Gollapudi) [Degree: M.Tech | Year: 2021]

4. Mr. K. Raghava (co-supervisor: Dr. Dr. Amritendu Roy) [Degree: M.Tech | Year: 2022]

5. Mr. Unanda Nanda [Degree: M.Tech | Year: 2022]

6. Mr. Abhisekh Pradhan [Degree: M.Tech I Year: 2023]

7. Mr. Kameshwar Reddy  [Degree: M.Tech I Year: 2023]

8. Mr. Anirudh R [Degree: M.Tech I Year: 2024]

9. Mr. Mahesh Shinde [Degree: M.Tech I Year: 2024]

 

B.Tech 

1. Mr. Alla Lohit [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2021]

2. Mr. Vasu Pinniti [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2021]

3. Mr. Jintu Goyary [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2021]

4. Mr. Kolluri Vijay Kumar  [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2022]

5. Ms. Gattu Nomita   [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2022]

6. Ms. Velugula Mamata  [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2022]

7. Mr. Sameer Choudhary  [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2023]

8. Mr. Amgothu Lokesh  [Degree: B.Tech | Year: 2023]
9. Ms. Tanmayee P R  [Dual Degree | Year: 2023]
10. Mr. Sourav Maji  [Dual Degree| Year: 2023]
11. Mr. Mohit [Dual Degree| Year: 2024]
  1. Abhigyan Ojha, R Anirudh, Sivaiah Bathula; Augmentation in the thermoelectric performance by integrating the natural minerals with synthetic tetrahedrite compounds; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing; Volume 180, September 2024, 108562
  2. Debasis Saran, Anil Daliprasad Pathak, David Klaumünzer, Sivaiah Bathula, Kisor Kumar Sahu; Novel perspectives on the mechanism of phosphate conversion coating on magnesium alloys; Results in Surfaces and Interfaces; Volume 16, 1 August 2024, 100243
  3. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat and Sivaiah Bathula; Low lattice thermal conductivity of novel NiVSn with 19 valence electron count contrasted to 18 of NiVAl and NiAlSb Half-Heusler compounds; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 187, April 2024, 111854
  4. Abhigyan Ojha, Ramakrushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Thermoelectric and mechanical performance of NiTiAl Heusler compound; Vacuum, Volume 219, Part B, 112772, January 2024
  5. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kriti Tyagi, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori; Exploration of synthesis route and effect of Ni-doping on thermoelectric performance of CoSb3; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Available online 5, 111835, December 2023
  6. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Advancement in half-Heusler thermoelectric materials and strategies to enhance the thermoelectric performance; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing; Volume 171, 1, 107996, March 2024
  7. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Sivaiah Bathula; Recent trends of ternary, quaternary half-Heusler thermoelectric materials and contact resistance effect power output efficiency; Materials Letters, Volume 347, page 134647, 2023
  8. Abhigyan Ojha, Rama Krushna Sabat, Appala Naidu Gandi, Sivaiah Bathula; Effect of Aliovalent Doping on the Thermoelectric Performance of Double Half-Heusler Alloys; Journal of Electronic Materials, volume 52, pages 5473–5484 (2023).
  9. Debasis Saran, Atul Kumar, Sivaiah Bathula, David Klaumünzer, Kisor K Sahu; Review on the phosphate-based conversion coatings of magnesium and its alloys; International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials 29(7); 1435″1452 (2022)
  10. Kajari Chatterjee, Sutanuka Mohanty, Chandra Prakash, Atul Kumar, Debasis Saran, Sivaiah Bathula, Soumyabrata Basak, Kisor Kumar Sahu; Hydrogen storage in metal powder, Metal Powder Report, Vol.77, No. 3, https://doi.org/10.12968/S0026-0657(22)70015-X; (2022)
  11. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Ajay Kumar Verma, Kishor Kumar Johari, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, S.R. Dhakate, Ajay Dhar and Bhasker Gahtori; CoSb3 based thermoelectric elements pre-requisite for device fabrication; Solid State Sciences (Just accepted; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2022.106900)
  12. Kishor Kumar Johari, Durgesh Kumar Sharma, Ajay Kumar Verma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Nagendra S Chauhan, Sudhir Kumar, Manvendra Narayan Singh, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori; In Situ Evolution of Secondary Metallic Phases in Off-Stoichiometric ZrNiSn for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces; https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c03065; (2022)
  13. M. Rakshita, Anjaly Babu, K. Jayanthi, Sivaiah Bathula, K. Uday Kumar, D. Haranath; Studies on contact angle measurements in superoleophobic aluminum hydroxide nanoflakes; Materials Letters, Volume 315, Page 131938, (2022)
  14. Kishor Kumar Johari, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori; The role of magnetic interaction on the thermoelectric performance of ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys; physica status solidi (a), (2022)
  15. Debasis Saran, Atul Kumar, Sivaiah Bathula, David Klaumünzer, Kisor K Sahu; A review on phosphate based conversion coatings of magnesium and its alloys; International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials; (2022)
  16. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Parul R. Raghuvanshi, Sanjay R. Dhakate, Sivaiah Bathula, Amrita Bhattacharya, Bhasker Gahtori; Synergistic Optimization of Electronic and Thermal Transport Properties for Achieving High ZT in Ni and Te Co-substituted CoSb3; ACS Applied Energy Materials 4, 12, page 14210″14219, (2021)
  17. Ajay Kumar Verma, Kishor Kumar Johari, Kriti Tyagi, Durgesh Kumar Sharma, Pawan Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, Sivaiah Bathula, SR Dhakate, Bhasker Gahtori; Role of sintering temperature on electronic and mechanical properties of thermoelectric material: A theoretical and experimental study of TiCoSb half-Heusler alloy; Materials Chemistry and Physics; Volume 281,Page 125854, (2022).
  18. Ranita Basu , Mandava Srikanth , Bayikadi Khasimsaheb , Sivaiah Bathula , V. Sai Muthu Kumar , Ajay Singh and Neeleshwar Sonnathi; A synergistic approach to achieving the high thermoelectric performance of La-doped SnTe using resonance state and partial band convergence, Mater. Adv., 2, Page 4352 – 4361 (2021).
  19. Sonam Perween, A Rathi, Parul Rani Raghuvanshi, Amrita Bhattacharya, PV PrakashMadduri, PK Rout, B Sivaiah, Ajay Dhar, RP Pant, B Gahtori, GA Basheed; Formation and magnetic properties of spark plasma sintered Mn3−δGa (δ = 0, 1) Heusler alloys: Experiment and theory; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids; Volume 154, Page 110050, (2021)
  20. Kishor Kumar Johari, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Nagendra S. Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, S. R. Dhakate, and Bhasker Gahtori; High Thermoelectric Performance in n‑Type Degenerate ZrNiSn-Based Half-Heusler Alloys Driven by Enhanced Weighted Mobility and Lattice Anharmonicity; ACS Applied Energy Materials, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c03152; (2021).
  21. Avinash Vishwakarma, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Ruchi Bharadwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sanjay R Dhakate, Bhasker Gahtori and Sivaiah Bathula; Melt-Spun SiGe Nano-alloys: Microstructural Engineering Towards High Thermoelectric Efficiency; Journal of Electronic Materials; DoI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-08560-6; (2021)
  22. P Das, S Bathula, S Gollapudi; Evaluating the effect of grain size distribution on thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials; Nano Express, Volume 1, Number 2, page 020036 (2020).
  23. Avinash Vishwakarma; Nagendra S.Chauhan; Ruchi Bhardwaj; Kishor Kumar Johari; Sanjay R.Dhakate; Bhasker Gahtori; Sivaiah Bathula; Compositional modulation is driven by aliovalent doping in n-type TiCoSb based half-Heuslers for tuning thermoelectric transport; Intermetallics, Volume 125, Page 106914, (2020)
  24. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, SR Dhakate, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties of Fe0.25Co0.75Sb3 Skutterudite employing the isoelectronic Bi-doping; Intermetallics, Volume 123, Page 106796, (2020)
  25. Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Parul R. Raghuvanshi, Kriti Tyagi, Kishor Kumar Johari, Lavi Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Amrita Bhattacharya, Subhendra D. Bhanu Mahanti, Vidya Nand Singh, Yury V. Kolen’ko, Ajay Dhar; Defect Engineering for Enhancement in Thermoelectric Performance of (Zr, Hf)NiSn based n-type Half-Heusler Alloys; The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124, 16, 8584″8593, (2020)
  26. Naval Kishor Upadhyay, Nagendra S. Chauhan, L.A. Kumaraswamidhas, Kishor K. Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Rajesh Reddy, Yury V. Kolen’ko, Sanjay R. Dhakate, Ajay Dhar; Facile bulk synthesis of high performance β-Zn4Sb3 for thermoelectric applications; Materials Letters; Volume 265, Page 127428, (2020)
  27. Kishor Kumar Johari, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, Sanjay R Dhakate; Band structure modification and mass fluctuation effects of isoelectronic Ge-doping on thermoelectric properties of ZrNiSn; ACS Appl. Energy Mater.,3, 2, 1349″1357, (2020)
  28. Muni Raj Maurya, Vijaykumar Toutam, Sivaiah Bathula, Prabir Pal and Bipin Kumar Gupta, Wide spectral photoresponse of template assisted out of plane grown ZnO/NiO composite nanowire photodetector; Nanotechnology, Volume 31, Number 2, (2019)
  29. Nagendra S. Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, Yury V. Kolen-ko, Radhey Shyam, N. K. Upadhyay and Ajay Dhar, Spinodal decomposition in (Ti, Zr)CoSb Half-Heusler: A nanostructuring route toward high efficiency thermoelectric materials; Journal of Applied Physics 126, 125110 (2019)
  30. Nagendra Singh Chauhan; Sivaiah Bathula; Bhasker Gahtori; Subhendra D. Bhanu Mahanti; Amrita Bhattacharya; Avinash Vishwakarma; Ruchi Bhardwaj; Ajay Dhar; Compositional tailoring for realizing high thermoelectric performance in Hafnium free n-type ZrNiSn half-heusler alloys; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, 51, 47830-47836. (2019)
  31. S Kaur, AS Rao, M Jayasimhadri, B Sivaiah, D Haranath; Synthesis optimization, photoluminescence and thermoluminescence studies of Eu3+ doped calcium aluminozincate phosphor; Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 802, Pages 129-138, (2019).
  32. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Amrita Bhattacharya, Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Avinash Vishwakarma, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Enhancement in thermoelectric performance of single step synthesized Mg doped Cu2Se: An experimental and theoretical study; Intermetallics, 112, 106541, (2019).
  33. MR Maurya, V Toutam, P Singh, S Bathula; Optimization of electroless plating of gold during MACE for through etching of silicon wafer; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 100, pp 140-144, (2019).
  34. NS Chauhan, S Bathula, B Gahtori, YV Kolen-ko, A Dhar; Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Hf-Free p-Type (Ti, Zr) CoSb Half-Heusler Alloys; Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 48, Issue 10, pp 6700″6709, (2019)
  35. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Amrita Bhattacharya, Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Tin doped Cu3SbSe4: A stable thermoelectric analogue for the mid-temperature applications; Materials Research Bulletin 113, 38-44, (2019).
  36. A Rathi, PD Babu, PK Rout, VPS Awana, Vikash K Tripathi, R Nagarajan, B Sivaiah, RP Pant, GA Basheed; Anomalous nano-magnetic effects in non-collinear spinel chromite NiCr2O4; Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 474, 585-590, (2019).
  37. Srashti Gupta, Dinesh Chandra Agarwal, Bathula Sivaiah, Sankarakumar Amrithpandian, Kandasami Asokan, Ajay Dhar, Binaya Kumar Panigrahi, Devesh Kumar Avasthi, Vinay Gupta; Enhancement in thermoelectric properties due to Ag nanoparticles incorporated in Bi2Te3 matrix; Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 10 (1), 634-643, (2019).
  38. Sonam Perween, A Rathi, PD Babu, Govind Gupta, B Sivaiah, RP Pant, B Gahtori, GA Basheed; Enhanced hard magnetic properties in partially-doped Mn3− xGdxGa (x⩽ 0.03); Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 473, 278-283, (2019).
  39. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Ajay Dhar; Enhanced thermoelectric performance in p-type ZrCoSb based half-Heusler alloys employing nanostructuring and compositional modulation; Journal of Materiomics 5 (1), 94-102; (2019)
  40. C Goswami, IK Bhat, Sivaiah Bathula, T Singh, A Patnaik; Physico-mechanical and Surface Wear Assessment of Magnesium Oxide Filled Ceramic Composites for Hip Implant Application; Silicon 11 (1), 39-49, (2019).
  41. Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Kishor Kumar Johari, Sivaiah Bathula, Nagendra S Chauhan, Avinash Vishwakarma, SR Dhakate, Sushil Auluck, Ajay Dhar; Collective Effect of Fe and Se To Improve the Thermoelectric Performance of Unfilled p-Type CoSb3 Skutterudites; ACS Applied Energy Materials 2 (2), 1067-1076, (2019).
  42. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Muthiah Saravanan, Ajay Dhar, Compositional tuning of ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys: Thermoelectric characteristics and performance analysis; Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 123, 105-112, (2018)
  43. Avinash Vishwakarma, Sivaiah Bathula, Nagendra S Chauhan, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Avanish K Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Facile synthesis of nanostructured n-type SiGe alloys with enhanced thermoelectric performance using rapid solidification employing melt spinning followed by spark plasma sintering; Current Applied Physics 18 (12), 1540-1545, (2018)
  44. Naval Kishor Upadhyay, LA Kumaraswamidhas, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Saravanan Muthiah, Radhey Shyam, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Ajay Dhar; Enhancement in thermoelectric performance of bulk CrSi2 dispersed with nanostructured SiGe nanoinclusions; Journal of Alloys and Compounds 765, 412-417, (2018).
  45. MK Sahu, M Jayasimhadri, K Jha, B Sivaiah, AS Rao, D Haranath; Synthesis and enhancement of photoluminescent properties in spherical shaped Sm3+/Eu3+ co-doped NaCaPO4 phosphor particles for w-LEDs; Journal of Luminescence 202, 475-483, (2018).
  46. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Kishor Kumar Johari, Bhasker Gahtori, Ajay Dhar, Facile fabrication of p-and n-type half-Heusler alloys with enhanced thermoelectric performance and low specific contact resistance employing spark plasma sintering; Materials Letters 228, 250-253, (2019).
  47. AK Chaubey, Rajat Gupta, Rohit Kumar, Bharat Verma, Shailesh Kanpara, Sivaiah Bathula, SS Khirwadkar, Ajay Dhar; Fabrication and characterization of W-Cu functionally graded material by spark plasma sintering process; Fusion Engineering and Design 135, 24-30, (2018).
  48. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Avanish K Srivastava, M Saravanan, Ajay Dhar; A nanocomposite approach for enhancement of thermoelectric performance in Hafnium-free Half-Heuslers; Materialia 1, 168-174, (2018)
  49. P Singh, SK Srivastava, B Sivaiah, P Prathap, CMS Rauthan; Enhanced photovoltaic performance of PEDOT: PSS/Si solar cells using hierarchical light trapping scheme; Solar Energy 170, 221-233, (2018).
  50. NS Chauhan, B Gahtori, B Sivaiah, SD Mahanti, A Dhar, A Bhattacharya; Modulating the lattice dynamics of n-type Heusler compounds via tuning Ni concentration; Applied Physics Letters 113 (1), 013902; (2018).
  51. P Singh, SK Srivastava, B Sivaiah, S Laxmi, P Prathap, CMS Rauthan; Light intensity dependent characteristics of micro-textured Si/PEDOT: PSS heterojunction solar cell; Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 29 (6), 5087-5097, (2018).
  52. Naval Kishor Upadhyay, LA Kumaraswamidhas, Bhasker Gahtori, Saravanan Muthaiah, Sivaiah Bathula, Radhey Shyam, Ajay Dhar; Facile synthesis of earth-abundant and non-toxic p-type Si96B4/SiCp nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric performance; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 75, 234-238, (2018).
  53. R Kumar, AK Chaubey, Sivaiah Bathula, KG Prashanth, A Dhar; Al2O3-TiC Composite Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering Process: Evaluation of Mechanical and Tribological Properties; Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 27 (3), 997-1004, (2018)
  54. Nagendra S Chauhan, Sivaiah Bathula, Avinash Vishwakarma, Ruchi Bhardwaj, Bhasker Gahtori, Anil Kumar, Ajay Dhar; Vanadium-doping-induced resonant energy levels for the enhancement of thermoelectric performance in Hf-free ZrNiSn half-Heusler alloys; ACS Applied Energy Materials 1 (2), 757-764, (2018).
  55. S Prasad, A Rao, B Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, A Dhar, CC Chang, YK Kuo; Low-temperature thermoelectric properties of Pb doped Cu2SnSe3; Physica B: Condensed Matter 520, 7-12, (2017).
  56. VV Jaiswal, S Bishnoi, G Swati, P Singh, N Lohia, S Bathula, D Haranath; Luminescence properties of yttrium gadolinium orthovanadate nanophosphors and efficient energy transfer from VO43− to Sm3+ via Gd3+ ions; Arabian Journal of Chemistry, (Corrected Proof), 2017
  57. KS Prasad, A Rao, K Tyagi, NS Chauhan, B Gahtori, S Bathula, A Dhar; Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Pb doped Cu2SnSe3 synthesized employing spark plasma sintering; Physica B: Condensed Matter 512, 39-44, (2017).
  58. B Khasimsaheb, Niraj Kumar Singh, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, D Haranath, S Neeleshwar; The effect of carbon nanotubes (CNT) on thermoelectric properties of lead telluride (PbTe) nanocubes; Current Applied Physics 17 (2), 306-313, (2017).
  59. S Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, B Gahtori, A Kumar, AK Srivastava, A DharEnhancement in thermoelectric performance of SiGe nanoalloys dispersed with SiC nanoparticles; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (36), 25180-25185, (2017).
  60. SK Pradhan, J Kalidoss, R Barik, B Sivaiah, A Dhar, S Bajpai; Development of high density tungsten based scandate by Spark Plasma Sintering for the application in microwave tube devices, International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 61, 215-224, (2016)
  61. S Prasad, A Rao, B Gahtori, S Bathula, A Dhar, JS Du, YK KuoThe low and high temperature thermoelectric properties of Sb doped Cu2SnSe3, Materials Research Bulletin 83, 160-166, (2016).
  62. NK Singh, S Bathula, B Gahtori, K Tyagi, D Haranath, A Dhar; The effect of doping on thermoelectric performance of p-type SnSe: Promising thermoelectric material; Journal of Alloys and Compounds 668, 152-158, (2016).
  63. Savvi Mishra, G Swati, B Rajesh, Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, B Sivaiah, N Vijayan, MK Dalai, A Dhar, S Auluck, M Jayasimhadri, D Haranath, Luminescence and advanced mass spectroscopic characterization of sodium zinc orthophosphate phosphor for low-cost light-emitting diodes, Luminescence 31 (2), 348-355, (2016).
  64. Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Niraj Kumar Singh, Swati Bishnoi, S Auluck, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Electrical transport and mechanical properties of thermoelectric tin selenide; RSC Advances 6 (14), 11562-11569, (2016)
  65. R Kumar, AK Chaubey, Sivaiah Bathula, BB Jha, A DharSynthesis and characterization of Al2O3″TiC nano-composite by spark plasma sintering; International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials 54, 304-308, (2016)
  66. S Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, A Dhar; Mechanical properties and microstructure of spark plasma sintered nanostructured p-type SiGe thermoelectric alloys; Materials & Design 87, 414-420, (2015).
  67. Prashant Singh, Sanjay K Srivastava, M Yameen, B Sivaiah, Vijay Prajapati, P Prathap, Subha Laxmi, BP Singh, CMS Rauthan, PK Singh; Fabrication of vertical silicon nanowire arrays on three-dimensional micro-pyramid-based silicon substrate Journal of materials science 50 (20), 6631-6641, (2015)
  68. V Toutam, P Jain, R Sharma, S Bathula, A Dhar; Radius ratio rule for surface hydrophilization of polydimethyl siloxane and silica nanoparticle composite; Applied Surface Science 349, 196-199, (2015).
  69. Bayikadi Khasimsaheb, Sonnathi Neeleshwar, Mandava Srikanth, Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, Avanish Kumar Srivsatava, Ajay Dhar, Amirthapandian Sankarakumar, Binaya Kumar Panigrahi, Sriparna Bhattacharya, Ramakrishna Podila, Apparao M Rao; Thermoelectric properties of spark plasma sintered lead telluride nanocubes; Journal of Materials Research 30 (17), 2638-2648, (2015)
  70. Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Niraj Kumar Singh, Sakshi Sharma, D Haranath, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Enhanced thermoelectric performance of spark plasma sintered copper-deficient nanostructured copper selenide Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 81, 100-105, (2015)
  71. G Swati, S Chawla, S Mishra, B Rajesh, N Vijayan, B Sivaiah, A Dhar, D Haranath; Investigation on luminescence enhancement and decay characteristics of long afterglow nanophosphors for dark-vision display applications; Applied Surface Science 333, 178-185, (2015)
  72. Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, Kriti Tyagi, M Jayasimhadri, AK Srivastava, Sukhvir Singh, RC Budhani, Ajay Dhar; Giant enhancement in thermoelectric performance of copper selenide by incorporation of different nanoscale dimensional defect features; Nano Energy 13, 36-46, (2015)
  73. Kriti Tyagi, Bhasker Gahtori, Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Sakshi Sharma, Niraj Kumar Singh, D Haranath, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Crystal structure and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered Cu2Se: An efficient photovoltaic and thermoelectric material; Solid State Communications 207, 21-25, (2015).
  74. Amit K Vishwakarma, Kaushal Jha, M Jayasimhadri, A Srinivasa Rao, Kiwan Jang, B Sivaiah, D Haranath; Red light emitting BaNb2O6: Eu3+ phosphor for solid state lighting applications; Journal of Alloys and Compounds 622, 97-101, (2015)
  75. Amit K Vishwakarma, Kaushal Jha, M Jayasimhadri, B Sivaiah, Bhasker Gahtori, D Haranath; Emerging cool white light emission from Dy 3+ doped single phase alkaline earth niobate phosphors for indoor lighting applications; Dalton Transactions 44 (39), 17166-17174; (2015)
  76. Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Bhasker Gahtori, Niraj Kumar Singh, Kriti Tyagi, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; The role of nanoscale defect features in enhancing the thermoelectric performance of p-type nanostructured SiGe alloys; Nanoscale 7 (29), 12474-12483, (2015)
  77. Anil Kumar, Avanish Pratap Singh, Saroj Kumari, AK Srivastava, Sivaiah Bathula, SK Dhawan, PK Dutta, Ajay Dhar; EM shielding effectiveness of Pd-CNT-Cu nanocomposite buckypaper; Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3 (26), 13986-13993, (2015).
  78. K Tyagi, B Gahtori, S Bathula, V Toutam, S Sharma, NK Singh, A Dhar; Thermoelectric and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered Cu3SbSe3 and Cu3SbSe4: Promising thermoelectric materials; Applied Physics Letters 105 (26), 261902, (2014)
  79. K Tyagi, B Gahtori, S Bathula, S Auluck, A Dhar; Band structure and transport studies of copper selenide: An efficient thermoelectric material; Applied Physics Letters 105 (17), 173905, (2014).
  80. Sivaiah Bathula, Bhasker Gahtori, M Jayasimhadri, SK Tripathy, Kriti Tyagi, AK Srivastava, Ajay Dhar; Microstructure and mechanical properties of thermoelectric nanostructured n-type silicon-germanium alloys synthesized employing spark plasma sintering; Applied Physics Letters 105 (6), 061902, (2014).
  81. M Saravanan, B Sivaiah, AK Srivastava, A Dhar; Ultrafine grain structure features in spray-formed AZ31 magnesium alloy; Materials & Design 60, 21-25, (2014)
  82. P Prathap, AS Dahiya, M Srivastava, SK Srivastava, B Sivaiah, D Haranath, Ritu Srivastava, CMS Rauthan, PK Singh; Anti-reflection In2O3 nanocones for silicon solar cells; Solar Energy 106, 102-108, (2014).
  83. Dinesh K Misra, Rajib K Rakshit, Manju Singh, PK Shukla, KM Chaturvedi, B Sivaiah, B Gahtori, Ajay Dhar, SW Sohn, WT Kim, Do Hyang Kim; High yield strength bulk Ti based bimodal ultrafine eutectic composites with enhanced plasticity; Materials & design 58, 551-556, (2014)
  84. Saravanan Muthiah, B Sivaiah, B Gahtori, K Tyagi, AK Srivastava, BD Pathak, Ajay Dhar, RC Budhani; Double-Doping Approach to Enhancing the Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit of n-Type Mg2Si Synthesized by Use of Spark Plasma Sintering; Journal of Electronic Materials 43 (6), 2035-2039, (2014)
  85. H Kaur, L Sharma, S Singh, B Sivaiah, GB Reddy, TD Senguttuvan; Enhancement in Figure of Merit (ZT) by Annealing of BiTe Nanostructures Synthesized by Microwave-Assisted Flash Combustion; Journal of Electronic Materials 43 (6), 1782-1789, (2014).
  86. D Yadav, D Dwivedi, S Mishra, B Sivaiah, A Dhar, V Shanker, D Haranath; Investigation of local field enhancement and hot electron injection in carbon nano-tube doped phosphor nano-composite for ultra-bright electroluminescence; Science of Advanced Materials 6 (2), 413-418, (2014).
  87. Dongwei Xu, D Haranath, Haiying He, Savvi Mishra, Isha Bharti, Deepika Yadav, B Sivaiah, Bhasker Gahtori, N Vijayan, A Dhar, Jiajie Zhu, V Shanker, Ravindra Pandey; Studies on phase stability, mechanical, optical and electronic properties of a new Gd2 CaZnO5 phosphor system for LEDs; CrystEngComm 16 (9), 1652-1658, (2014)
  88. K Tyagi, B Gahtori, S Bathula, AK Srivastava, AK Shukla, S Auluck, A Dhar; Thermoelectric properties of Cu 3 SbSe 3 with intrinsically ultralow lattice thermal conductivity; Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2 (38), 15829-15835, (2014)
  89. Sivaiah Bathula, M Jayasimhadri, Nidhi Singh, AK Srivastava, Jiji Pulikkotil, Ajay Dhar, RC Budhani; Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in spark plasma sintered nanostructured n-type SiGe alloys; Applied Physics Letters 101 (21), 213902, (2012).
  90. S Bathula, M Saravanan, A Dhar; Nanoindentation and wear characteristics of Al 5083/SiCp nanocomposites synthesized by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering; Journal of Materials Science & Technology 28 (11), 969-975, (2012).
  91. S Bathula, RC Anandani, A Dhar, AK Srivastava; Microstructural features and mechanical properties of Al 5083/SiCp metal matrix nanocomposites produced by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering; Materials Science and Engineering: A 545, 97-102, (2012)
  92. B Sivaiah, M Saravanan, D Ajay, Nanoindentation and wear characteristics of Al5083/SiCp nanocomposites synthesized by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering, J. Mater. Process. Technol. 28, 969-975, (2012)
  93. B Sivaiah, SP Gupta; Diffusion induced grain boundary migration in the Cu”Zn system; Materials Characterization 59 (9), 1141-1151, (2008)
  1. P Singh, SK Srivastava, V Prajapati, Bathula Sivaiah, CMS Rauthan, PK Singh Low reflecting hierarchically textured silicon by silver assisted chemical etching for potential solar cell application (2018), International Conference on Advances in Energy Research 2015 (ICAER-2015), IIT Bombay, India, Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier, Netherlands, Volume 5, Issue 11, Part 2, Pages 23258-23267
  2. Prashant Singh, Rohan Nakra, Bathula Sivaiah, Sanjay K. Sardana, P. Prathap, C. M. S. Rauthan et al. Effect of ethylene glycol doping on performance of PEDOT: PSS/µT-n-Si heterojunction solar cell , 2018, International Conference on Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications: (NECSA 2018), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, knowledge corridor, raisan, Gandhinagar, India, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, Vol.1961, Pages 020003
  3. Bathula Sivaiah, M. Jayasimhadri, Ajay Dhar, M Saravanan, D. K. Misra, Nidhi Singh, A. K. Srivastava, R. C. Budhani Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit in nanostructured n-type Si80Ge20 alloy employing high energy ball milling and subsequent spark plasma sintering, 2013, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Vol. 1490 © 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS, USA),Vol. 1490; DOI: 10.1557/opl.2012.1731
  4. Bathula Sivaiah, R.C. Anandani A.K Srivastava and Ajay Dhar, Synthesis and characterization of Al-alloy/SiCp nanocomposites employing high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering, 15-18 December, 2011;Twentieth International Symposium on processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XX), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, Vol. 410, pp 224-227

Patents filed/granted

Patents (Granted): 02 (US9865791 B2 – USA; CN105765748B – China)
Patents (Application published): 01 (India)

Book Chapters

 

Sl.No Editors Title of the Chapter Title of the Book Country Publisher
1 Muruganant M., Chirazi A., Raj B. Synthesis of Aluminium–Graphene Nanocomposite Sintered Using Spark Plasma Sintering Frontiers in Materials Processing, Applications, Research and Technology Singapore Springer, Singapore, pp 155 – 164, 2018

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4819-7_14
2 Prof. Ramakrishnan, IIT Bombay Synthesis of Aluminium based Nanocomposites employing Cryomilling technique Powder Metallurgy for Automotive, Aluminium alloys, Hard and Super Hard materials India Scientific International Pvt. Ltd; India; First Edition 2014

(ISBN No:978-93-81714-48-5)

 

 

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D Thermoelectric Materials 2016 Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi
  M.Tech Materials and Metallurgical Engineering 2007 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, U.P
  B.Tech Metallurgical Engineering 2003 National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, Telangana State

Institute Designation Period Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar Associate Professor 12-10-2023 – Til Date Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar Assistant Professor 05-07-2019 – 11-10-2023 CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi Scientist & Senior Scientist 27-02-2007 to 04-07-2019 International Advanced Research Centre for powder metallurgy and New materials (ARCI), Hyderabad Junior ARCI Fellow 2003 – 2004

  • Secured 44th rank in Engineering Common Entrance test (ECET-99) Conducted by State Board of Technical Education, A.P, India.
  • Secured First position in SSC (School Secondary Exam) at R.C. M. High School, Attalur and received merit scholarship.
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