Dr. Niteshkumar Agarwal

• Ph.D. – IIST/ URSC, Indian Space Research Organization, Thiruvananthapuram
• M.Tech. – Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM), Dhanbad, India
• B.E – Amaravati University, India

• Funding Agency: University of Mumbai
• Funding: INR 0.25 Lakh
• Year: 2016-17

In-plant Research Project

• Funding Agency: Siemens India Private Limited
• Funding: INR 5.00 Lakhs

• N. Agarwal, B. Zhang, C. Saha, C. Kumar, B. K. Kaushik, S. Kumar, “Development of Dopamine Sensor using Silver Nanoparticles and PEG – Functionalized Tapered Optical Fiber Structure,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 1542- 1547, June 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2019.2939560) IF: 4.538 (Q1)
• N. Agarwal, B. Zhang, C. Saha, C. Kumar, X. Pu, S. Kumar, “Ultra-Sensitive Cholesterol Sensor using Gold/ Zinc Oxide-nanoparticles/ Cholesterol Oxidase– Functionalized Core Mismatch MPM Probe”, IEEE/OSA- Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 2523- 2529, April 15, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2020.2974818) IF: 4.142 (Q1)
• N. Agarwal, C. Saha, C. Kumar, R. Singh, B. Zhang, S. Kumar, “Development of Uric Acid Sensor Using Copper Oxide/Silver – Nanoparticles Immobilized SMSMS Fiber-Based MZI Probe”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), vol. 69, issue 11, pp. 9097-9104, Nov 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2020.2998876) IF: 4.016 (Q1)
• N. Agarwal, C. Saha, C. Kumar, S. Cheng, B. Zhang, S. Kumar, “Detection of L-Cysteine using Silver Nanoparticles and Graphene Oxide immobilized Tapered SMS Fiber Structure,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 20, issue 19, pp. 1372-1379, Oct 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.2997690) IF: 3.301 (Q2)
• N. Agrawal, L. Singh, C. Saha, S. Kumar, “Recent Advancements in Plasmonic Optical Biosensors: A Review”, ISSS Journal of Micro and Smart Systems (Springer), Nov 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s41683-021-00079-0)
• G. Zhu, N. Agarwal, B. Zhang, C. Saha, C. Kumar, S. Kumar, “A Novel Periodically Tapered Highly Sensitive Gold Nanoparticles/ Graphene Oxide Immobilized Ascorbic Acid Sensor”, Optics and Laser Technology (Elsevier), vol. 127 (106156), July 2020
  (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2020.106156) IF: 3.867 (Q1)
• D. Chack, N. Agarwal*, S. Raghuwanshi, “Performance of tapered and MMI assisted splitter on the basis of geographical parameters”, Optik (Elsevier), vol. 125 (11), pp. 2568-2571, 2015
  (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2013.11.019) IF: 2.443 (Q2)
• H. Surana, N. Agarwal, A. Udaykumar, R. Darekar, “Black Box-Based Night Vision Camouflage Robot for Defense Applications”, Computing, Communication and Signal Processing (Springer), vol. 810, pp. 631-637, Sept 2018. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1513-8_64)
• L. Singh, N. Agarwal, C. Saha, B. K. Kaushik, “A Plus Shaped Cavity in Optical Fiber-Based Refractive Index Sensor”, IEEE Transaction on NanoBioscience, Oct 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TNB.2021.3121779) IF: 2.935 (Q3)
• L. Singh, N. Agrawal, C. Saha, B. Singh, T. Singh, “Highly Sensitive Plus Shaped Cavity in Silicon Fiber for Ri Detection of Water Samples”, Silicon (Springer), Jan 2022, (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-021-01519-0) IF: 2.670 (Q3)
• L. Singh, N. Agrawal*, C. Saha, “Numerical Investigation of All-Optical SR Flip-Flop Using Plasmonic Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) Waveguides”, Optical and Quantum Electronics (Springer), Feb 2022, (Accepted for publication) [IF: 2.084 (Q2)]

Book Series and Chapters

• Book Title: Optical Fiber-based Plasmonic Biosensors: Trends, Techniques and Applications
  Authors: N. Agrawal, S. Kumar, and C. Saha
  Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, UK/USA (Accepted)
• Chapter Title: Application of Fiber Optics in Bio-Sensing
  Book Title: Fiber Optics – Technology and Applications
  Authors L. Singh, N. Agarwal, H. Bartwal, B. Arya and T. Singh
  Publisher: IntechOpen, London
  ISBN: 978-1-83969-626-8

Conferences

• L Singh, N. Agarwal, C. Saha, “Investigation of Glucose Sensor by using Plasmonic MIM Waveguide Based MZI”, International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC) 2021, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, December 17-19, 2021 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IMaRC49196.2021.9714533)
• N. Agarwal, L Singh*, C. Saha, “A Novel Plus Shaped Cavity based Urea Sensor for Health Monitoring System”, Frontiers in Optics and Photonics (FOP21), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, September 24-27, 2021
• H. Surana*, N. Agarwal, A. Udaykumar, R. Darekar, “Black-box Based Night Vision Camouflage Robot for Defense Applications” Springer International Conference, 3rd ICCASP-2018, pp. 26-27, Lonere (MH), India 2018 (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-1513-8_64)
• D. Chack, S. Raghuwanshi, V. Kumar, N. Agarwal*, “Analyzing the Optimum Parameter of a 1×2 MMI Splitter” IEEE- International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies, pp. 149-151, Gwalior, April 6-8, 2014 (https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNT.2013.41)
• 5. D. Chack, S. Raghuwanshi, V. Kumar, N. Agrawal, “Field Propagation Study of Y- Branch Assisted by MMI Coupler”, 3rd World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-2012), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 14-16 November 2012, AWER Procedia Information Technology & Computer Science, pp. 1795-1800, Sept 2013
  (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.735.2445&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

• Awarded with Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)/Department of Space (DoS) Teacher Research Fellowship (TRF) towards PhD thesis at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram (2018-2021)
• Recipient of Chinese Government Scholarship for International Students to pursue collaborative research work as a Visiting Researcher at Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Communication, Liaocheng University (LCU), China (2019)
• Received SHIELD Award-2017 in All India Project Competition organized by Business Exhibition and Conferences Limited at Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC), Mumbai, India