Pradip Kumar Roy

C/O Soumyabrata Ghosh

Scientist, SAMEER,
Hill Side, IIT Campus, Powai,
Mumbai-400076, Maharastra
Tel: 91-9833353850 (m)
Email: pradip.nitrkl@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE
To make the best use of my abilities and available resources to produce output of the best quality.
Wish to be a member of team which will benefit the complete material science world.

EDUCATION
Qualification:
• Ph. D. Material Science Expected
National Institute of Technology (N.I.T), Rourkela, India Submission on July’08

• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.): Ceramic Engineering First Class

National Institute of Technology (N.I.T), Rourkela, India
(72.1%)
[Formerly called Regional Engineering College (R.E.C)] April,
2003

• Higher Secondary School Examination, (1998) First Class

West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, India
(72.1%)

• Secondary School Examination, (1996) First Class

West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, India
(75.1%)

Research Interest:
• Magnetic Ceramic, Ferroelectric Relaxor Ceramic, Bio-Ceramic, Refractory, Electro-Ceramic.

Related Course Work during Engineering:

• Thermodynamics of Materials, Ceramic Raw Materials and their Processing, Physical Ceramics,
Phase Equilibrium and Phase diagrams in Ceramics, Techniques of Materials Characterization,
Refractory, Glass, Cement and Concrete, White Wares and Heavy Clay Wares, Ceramic
Coatings, Structural Ceramics, Electrical and Electronic Ceramics, Application of Phase
Diagrams, Steel Plant Refractory, Ceramic Composites, Nano-Ceramics.

Professional Skills:
• Experimental Skills: Impedance Analyzer, XRD, Rietveld Analysis, DTA & TG, Dilatometer,
UTM (Instron), Quanta-chrome-BET Surface Area Analyzer, Micro-Hardness, Optical-
Microscope, SEM, Ball Milling, Ceramic sample preparation and polishing in Automatic
Polishing Machine, Electric Furnace, HMOR, FTIR, Rheometer, DSC, Spray Dryer, Viscometer,
Spectrometer, Dielectric Measurement.
 • Computer Skills:
 Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT, DOS, MATLAB
 Programming Languages: C, C++, FORTRAN
 Scripting Languages: HTML
TECHNICAL EXPOSURE
Training:
• B.Tech. (2nd year Undergraduate Summer Training) at “Hindustan National Glass Limited
(H.N.G)”- Rishra, India, in Manufacturing Department.
• B.Tech. (3rd year Undergraduate Summer Training) at “Steel Authority of India
Limited”-Rourkela Steel Plant in Refractory Engineering Services Department.

Training at Crompton Greaves:

• Training on ISMS awareness.
• Training on ISO 9001:2000 awareness.
• Training on ISO 27001 lead auditors.
• Training on Notus Notes.

Work Experience:
• Presently I am working as a Deputy Manager-Technology in R&D at Crompton Greaves Ltd.
Mumbai from 5th march 2007 onwards.
• I was working as a Junior Research Fellow (J.R.F) from Aug. 2003 to July 2005 and Senior
Research Fellow (S.R.F) from Aug. 2005 to July 2006 at Department of Ceramic Engineering in
National Institute of Technology-Rourkela, Orissa, India.

Academic Projects:
Under Graduate Project
• “Synthesis of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 from (Ba/Sr)-Oxalate and TiO2”
(SrTiO3 powder has been prepared from Sr-oxalate and TiO2 precursors, instead of using titanyl-
oxalate. Sr-oxalate was precipitated from nitrate solution onto the surface of suspended TiO2
powders.)

Post Graduate Projects

• “Processing and characterization of Ni-Cu-Zn ferrite powder for multilayer ferrite chip inductor
application”
(The objective of the project is to prepare Ni-Cu-Zn-Ferrite powder with high
permeability at high frequencies for Multilayer Ferrite Chip Inductor (MLFCI) application. A
low temperature co-firable powder is required for MLFCI. Object is to co-fire the powder with
internal silver metal electrode at temperature <9500C. For that very fine grain reactive powder,
modified with additives, is to be prepared.)
• “Synthesis and characterization of Zn doped Ca-Hydroxyapatite”
(Zn-substituted Ca hydroxyapatites were synthesized by precipitation method under the specific
conditions and their structural and electrical properties were investigated.)
• “Development of Lead Free Relaxor Ferroelectrics for Ni-Based Multilayer Capacitor.”
(The objective of the project is the preparation and dielectric characterization of Lead-free
ceramics with perovskite compositions derived from BaTiO3 in the system BaTiO3-BaNbO3-
BiZrO3. Fine grain non-reducible ceramic powders will be synthesized and tape casted for
MLCC fabrication. The powder will be capable of co-sintering with Ni-internal electrode.)
 Present activities at Crompton Greaves
• “Development of 250V/mm rating Varistor block for lightning arrestor using nano ZnO powder”
(ZnO Varistors are grain boundary materials whose properties are dependent on the
microstructure. Developments in this field have shown that the breakdown voltage has been
increased up to 250 V/mm for porcelain type arresters and 400-600 V/mm for GIS arresters. This
project aims at developing a Varistor block with 250 V/mm breakdown Voltage and identification
of method of producing such a block and design of arrester with the new product.
The technology developed will be new and it will lead to development of higher gradient blocks)
• “Development of low cost insulated glass for coating of Varistor application.”
(The Objective of the project is to develop low cost insulated glass for coating of Varistor blocks.
This glass composition has low melting as well as high thermal expansion co-efficient along with
low glass transition temperature.)
• “Development of Carbon Ceramic Resistors with repeatible resistivity comparable with the
benchmark product.”
(The Objective of the project is to develop concept process for manufacturing Carbon Ceramic
Resistor disc so as to achieve the resistivity value of 187±18 Ohm-cm.)

Publications:
1) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Formation of SrTiO3 from Sr-oxalate and TiO2”, Materials Research Bulletin
40 (2005) 599-604.
2) J.Bera, P.K.Roy, “Effect of Grain Size on Electromagnetic Properties of (Ni0.7Zn0.3)Fe2O4
Ferrite”, Physica B 363 (2005) 128-132.
3) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Effect of Mg substitution on electromagnetic properties of
(Ni0.25Cu0.20Zn0.55)Fe2O4 Ferrite prepared by auto combustion method”, Journal of Magnetism and
Magnetic Materials 298-issue1 (2006) 38-42.
4) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Enhancement of the magnetic properties of Ni-Cu-Zn ferrites with the
substitution of small fraction lanthanum for iron”, Materials Research Bulletin 42 (2007) 77–83.
5) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Characterization of nanocrystalline Ni-Cu-Zn ferrite powders synthesized by
sol-gel auto-combustion method”, Journal of Materials Processing Technology 197 (2008) 279–
283.
6) P.K.Roy, Bibhuti.B.Nayak, J.Bera, “Study on electro-magnetic properties of La substituted Ni-
Cu-Zn ferrite synthesized by auto-combustion method”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic
Materials 320 (2008) 1128–1132.
7) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Influence of samarium doping on electrical and magnetic properties of Ni-Cu-
Zn ferrite”, Journal of Materials Processing Technology (Communicated).

Patents:
1) “A Glass composition for coating a Zinc Oxide Varistor and a method of making the same.”
(Indian Patent Application: 588/MUM/2008 on 24th March 2008)
Inventor: Mr. Roy, Mr. Datta, Mr. Singal, Mr. Nikam
2) “A modified tray for sintering of ZnO based Varistor.”
Inventor: Mr. Roy, Mr. Singal
3) “Method of producing nano ZnO powder.”
Inventor: Mr. Roy

Seminars & Presentations:

 1) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Synthesis of fine-grain electronic grade Ba, Sr, Ca-titanate through semi-
oxalate route.” CHEMCON 2003 during 19-22 Dec 2003 at Bhubaneshwar, INDIA.
2) P.K.Roy, J.Bera, “Preparation and characterization of Mg-Cu-Zn ferrite nano-crystalline powder
by auto-combustion of nitrate-citrate gels.” A National Level Student’s Technical Symposium
(Confluence 2K4) during 10-11th Jan 2004 at NIT Rourkela, Rourkela, INDIA.
3) P.K. Roy, V. Kalia, J. Bera, “Synthesis and Sintering of Nano-crystalline Ca-hydroxyapatite.”,
International Symposium on Advanced Materials and Processing (ISAMAP-2k4) during 6-8 Dec
2004 at IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, INDIA.
4) P.K. Roy, V. Kalia, J. Bera, “Comparison of Electrical Properties between Ca and Sr
Hydroxyapatites Materials.” International Symposium on Advanced Materials and Processing
(ISAMAP-2k4) during 6-8 Dec 2004 at IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, INDIA.
5) P.K.Roy and J.Bera “Influence of micro-structure on electromagnetic properties of Ni-Zn
ferrite.” A National Level Student’s Technical Symposium (Confluence 2004) during 5-7th Nov.
2004 at NIT Rourkela, Rourkela, INDIA.
6) P.K.Roy and J.Bera, “A novel low temperature synthesis of SrTiO3 from Sr- oxalate and TiO2.”
International Symposium of Research Students on Materials Science and Engineering (ISRS-
2004) during 20-22 Dec 2004 at IIT Madras, Chennai, INDIA.
7) J. Bera, P.K.Roy, “Effect of Humidity on Crack Growth Behavior of Ni-Zn Ferrite.” An
International Workshop on "Fracture of Materials: Moving Forwards" during 23 – 25th January
2006 at The University of Sydney, Sydney, AUSTRALIA.
8) P.K.Roy and J.Bera, “Synthesis and electromagnetic properties of La substituted Ni-Cu-Zn
ferrite prepared by auto combustion method.” Indo–Singapore Symposium on Advanced
Functional Materials (AFMS-06) during 24-26th February 2006 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, INDIA.
9) P.K.Roy and J.Bera, “Structure and proton conductivity of Zn substituted nanocrystalline
Hydroxyapatite.” Indo–Singapore Symposium on Advanced Functional Materials (AFMS-06)
during 24-26th February 2006 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, INDIA.
10) J. Bera, P.K.Roy, “Micro-structural Characterization of La Substituted Ni-Cu-Zn Ferrites
Prepared by Auto-Combustion Method” National Seminar on Advances in Electro-ceramics
(NASE-2006) during 5-6th may 2006 at DRDO, Pune, INDIA.
11) P.K.Roy and J.Bera, “Enhancement of the Properties of Mg substituted nano-crystallite Ni-Cu-
Zn Ferrite prepared by auto combustion method” National Seminar on Advances in Electro-
ceramics (NASE-2006) during 5-6th may 2006 at DRDO, Pune, INDIA.
12) P.K.Roy and J.Bera, “Effect of Zn addition on electro-magnetic properties of nano-crystalline
Ni-Cu-Zn ferrite powders by sol-gel auto-combustion method.” International Symposium for
Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science & Engineering (ISRS-2006) during 18-20
Dec 2006 at IIT Madras, Chennai, INDIA.
13) J.Bera, P.K.Roy, “Preparation and electromagnetic properties of low-temperature sintered
ferroelectric-ferrite composite ceramics.” National Conference on Sensors and Actuators:
Emerging Technological Challenges (NCSA-06) during 21-22 December 2006 at Central Glass
and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India.

Professional Membership:
• Studentship member of Indian Ceramic Society [M. No. ES 181]
• Life time member of Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) [M No. LMB 882]

ACHIEVEMENTS
• Recommended for Commonwealth split-site doctoral scholarship-2006 from INDIA.
• Reviewer of Journal of Materials Processing Technology.
• Got DST (Department of Science & technology) fellowship from Aug’03-July’06.
 • Graduated in the top 5% of my undergraduate class.
• Won 1st prize in a National Level Student’s Technical Symposium (Confluence 2K4) during 10-
11th Jan 2004 at NIT Rourkela, Rourkela, INDIA.
• Student in charge in library at NIT Rourkela, Rourkela, INDIA.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Father’s Name : Mr. Bechu Ram Roy
Date of Birth : 19th July 1980
Marital Status : Bachelor
Sex : Male
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya
Hobbies : Playing Football, Cricket, Reading and Collecting Books.
Permanent Address : S/O Mr. Bechu Ram Roy,
Village & P.O- Sunur, District- Burdwan, W.B-713125, INDIA.
Phone No.91-342-2323453

REFERENCES
1. Dr. S. Bhattacharyya 2. Dr. J. Bera
HOD, Professor, Asst. Professor,
Department of Ceramic Engineering, Department of Ceramic Engineering,
N.I.T.Rourkela, Rourkela-769008. N.I.T.Rourkela, Rourkela-769008.
Phone No. 91-9437343058 Phone No. 91-9437246159
Email: santanub@nitrkl.ac.in Email: jbera@nitrkl.ac.in

3. Dr. S. K. Pratihar
Asst. Professor,
Department of Ceramic Engineering,
N.I.T.Rourkela, Rourkela-769008.
Phone No. 91-9437391103
Email: skpratihar@nitrkl.ac.in

I hereby declare that all the above information provided is true to best of my knowledge.

Date: 22/04/2008 __________________________

Place: Mumbai (Pradip Kumar Roy)