Dr. Bibhu Prasad
Swain
physics
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Bibhu Prasad Swain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Manipur, where he has served since October 1, 2018. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.
Dr. Swain has an extensive research portfolio, with over 135 publications in reputed international journals, 33 Scopus-indexed conference proceedings, 35 book chapters, and 9 edited volumes. He has successfully completed six sponsored research projects and supervised 17 Ph.D. scholars (including one thesis submitted) and 19 postgraduate students.
He has been awarded several prestigious international fellowships, including:
- JSPS Fellowship at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- NRF Fellowship at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Brain Korea 21 Fellowship at Seoul National University, South Korea
At NIT Manipur, he has held key administrative roles, including Dean (Academic) (2018–2019), Head of the Department of Physics (2021–2022), and President of the Institute Innovation Cell (IIC) (2019–2020).
Dr. Swain is an active reviewer for over 85 international journals and serves in various editorial capacities:
- Editorial Board Member, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Asia
- Guest Editor, Discovery Materials
- Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Batteries and Electrochemistry
- Series Editor, Advances in Physics Research (Atlantis Press, Springer Nature)
He has been consistently ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide (2021–2025) by Stanford University and Elsevier BV. His research has received over 3,500 citations, with an h-index of 31 and i10-index of 93.
His research interests cover a wide range of advanced materials and device technologies, including:
- 2D materials (MXene, graphene, h-BN, g-CN)
- Hard mechanical coatings (DLC, TiN, TiCN, SiCN, TiSiN, AlN)
- 1D nanomaterials (Si NWs, SiC NWs, SiN NWs, ZnO NWs, GaP NWs, GaN NWs)
- Amorphous & nanocrystalline semiconductors (a-Si:H, n-Si:H, a-SiC:H, a-SiN, a-CN)
- Thin-film deposition techniques (APCVD, HWCVD, PVD, PECVD)
- Energy applications such as supercapacitors and photovoltaic devices
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