A K Nirala

About

Presently I am working at Department of Physics, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad with 32 years of teaching and research experience during which I have brought six externally funded research projects of over rupees ten crore, published more than 135 research papers and guided 09 Ph.D. Scholars and 05 Ph.D. Scholars are currently doing Ph.D. under my sole supervision. I had several administrative responsibilities at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad such as (a) HOD/Physics Department for two terms of total 6 years, (b) Chief Vigilance Officer for more than 4 years, (c) Professor-In-Charge of Central Research Facility, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad for more than 3 years, (d) Coordinator –cum- incharge of Faculty Development Centre , IIT(ISM) Dhanbad under aegis PMMMNMTT, MHRD New Delhi for more than 5 years, and (e) Research experience of working in 03 developed foreign countries i.e. Japan, Germany and UK through AIST, BOYSCAST and Commonwealth Fellowships

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad Professor (HAG)
  2022 - 2031
• Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad Professor
  2010 - 2022
• Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad Associate Professor
  2006 - 2010
• Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad Assistant Professor
  2003 - 2009

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (79)

• Biospeckle activity assessment of green leaves subjected to different photosynthetic photon flux densities
  Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s13562-026-01049-z
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• Dynamic laser-speckle imaging for 10% honey adulteration detection via Fourier and box co-occurrence texture analysis
  Laser Physics 2025 DOI: 10.1088/1555-6611/ae0df4
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• Enhancement of crystallinity and the optical properties in gamma irradiated and thermally annealed cobalt doped MgTiO3 thin films
  Thin Solid Films 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2024.140483
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• Quality evaluation of eggs during shelf-life ambient storage by laser speckle technique
  Optik 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2024.171820
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• Assessment of black rot development on apple surface using laser biospeckle technique
  Physica Scripta 2023 DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/acb5d0
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• Digital holographic nanoscopy for erythrocyte, nanoparticle and quantum dot characterization
  Optics and Lasers in Engineering 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2023.107720
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• Digital Holographic Interferometry for Temperature Measurement of Flame without Phase Unwrapping
  IETE Journal of Research 2023 DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2021.1933624
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• A high-magnification Digital Holographic Nanoscopy (DHN) system and the application thereof
  2023
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• A novel computational method for dynamic laser speckle and its application to analyze water activity during photosynthesis in papaya leaf
  Optik 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2023.170518
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• Digital holographic nanoscopic system for 3-D super-resolution imaging of reflective surface, defects and cracks
  2023
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