CV Bio Ashok Kumar

Short Biography and CV of Prof.
Ashok Kumar
Dr. Ashok Kumar is the Director of Nanotechnology Research and
Education Center (NREC) and also a tenured Full Professor in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Dr.
Kumar is also affiliated faculty member of Clean Energy Research Center
(CERC) and USF Nanomedicine Research Center. Before joining USF, Dr.
Kumar was employed as tenure-track faculty in the Department of Electrical
Engineering at the University of South Alabama. He received his B.S. and
M.S. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), and Ph.D. from
North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
His research is focused towards the development of nanotechnology based
novel materials for multifunctional applications. He has published two
textbooks, edited seven proceeding books, three invited review articles, 11
book chapters including 170 peer reviewed articles (approx. 102 journal
articles and 80 conference proceeding articles) and has presented
approximately 255 papers in regional and national conferences including 48
invited talks. He has been an invited speaker and session organizer at many
national and international meetings. He has received an excess of 8.7 million
dollar of research funding as PI and more than 24.3 million dollars as Co-PI.
Dr. Kumar also acted as Cluster Director of the Alabama NASA EPSCoR
Advanced Materials research program of approx. $3.5M (1994-1999) to supervise the
state-wide research activities comprising of five major universities and six small
colleges with two HBCUs. Dr. Kumar has supervised 12 post-docs, 10 Ph.D.
and 43 MS students as major professor. His research has been supported from
federal agencies (NSF, NASA, DOD and DOE) and private companies, such
as, Sematech, Honeywell, General Motors, Lucent Technologies, Novellus,
IBM, and Cabot Microelectronics etc. Dr. Kumar has strong commitment to
integrate research and education with experience as an active member (Co-PI) for
various NSF Grants (GK-12, REU & RET Sites etc.). His other interests include
K-12 educational outreach, gender and science education and nanotechnology

industrial outreach.
His excellence as a researcher has been recognized by a number of honors,
including ASM Fellow, ASM-IIM Visiting Lecture Award (2007), Theodore
and Venette Askounes Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award (2006), USF
Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award (2004), USF President
Faculty Excellence Award (2003), NSF Faculty Early CAREER
Development Award (2000), National Research Council Twining Fellowship
Award (1997) and, NSF and DOE EPSCoR Young Investigator Awards
(1996-97). He also received the Professor Honorario award from the
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia (2009).
ASHOK KUMAR, Ph.D., FASM

Director, Nanotechnology Research and Education Center (NREC)
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and
Clean Energy Research Center (CERC)
4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118 (loc. NTA102)
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-5350
Tel: (813)974-3942
Fax: (813)974-3610
E-mail: kumar@usf.edu
http://www.nnrc.usf.edu
http://www.eng.usf.edu/~akumar
EDUCATION
1992
Ph.D., Major: Materials Science and Engineering, Minor: Electrical

Engineering (Solid State Devices); North Carolina State University,
Raleigh; USA
1988
M. Tech., Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

(IIT), Kanpur; INDIA
1985
B. Tech., Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

(IIT), Kanpur; INDIA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIANCE
Oct. 2009-Present
Director, Nanotechnology Research and Education Center

(NREC), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Aug. 2005- Present
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and

Nanotechnology Research and Education Center (NREC),),
University of South Florida, Tampa
Aug. 2009-Present
Affiliated Faculty Member, USF Nanomedicine Research

Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Aug. 2007-Present
Program Co-Director, Materials Science & Engineering

Program, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Aug. 2005-Present
Affiliated Faculty Member, Florida Center of Excellence

for Biomolecular Identification and Targeted Therapeutics,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Aug. 2004-Present
Affiliated Faculty Member, Clean Energy Research

Center (CERC), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Aug 2004- Aug. 2006
Courtesy Visiting Scientist,

Children, Tampa, FL
Jan. 2000-July 2005
Associate Professor (Tenured 2002), Department of

Mechanical Engineering, and Center for Microelectronics
Research, University of South Florida, Tampa
May-June 2004
Visiting Faculty, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore
December 2002
Visiting Faculty, Nagaoka University of Technology,

Nagaoka (Japan)
Jan 2000- July 2001
Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and

Mechanical Engineering, University of South Alabama
Aug.1994- July 2001
Cluster Director, Alabama NASA EPSCoR (Advanced

Materials Program)
2000 (December)
Visiting Faculty, Nagaoka University of Technology,

Nagaoka (Japan)
Aug.1993- Dec.1999
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama
Sept.1992- July1993
Research Associate Professor, Department of Electrical

and Computer Engineering, University of South Alabama
Aug.1985- July1986
Research Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology,

Kanpur; INDIA
Shriners
Hospital
for
AWARDS AND HONORS
Professor Honorario, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia (2009)
Charter Class of Academy of Inventors, University of South Florida (2009)
Fellow, American Society of Metals, ASM (2007)
ASM-IIM Visiting Lecture Award, ASM International (2007)
Certificate of Participation, The National Science Foundation Research

Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program, Tampa (2008)
Certificate of Appreciation and Recognition, The International Conference

on Nanotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges ICON008), Center for
Nanotechnology, King Abdulla Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2008)
Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, Materials Science &

Technology 2007 Conference, Detroit, MI (2007)
Certificate of Appreciation and Recognition, III International Mechanical

Engineering Congress), Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia (2006)
CAREER NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (2000-2006)
Theodore and Venette Askounes Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award,

University of South Florida (2006)
International Panel Member, Nano Diamond Network (NaDiNe) of the

Austrian Nano-initiative (2006)
Advisory Board Member, Biomedical Research Infrastructure (NIH

Funded Grant), Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL (2004-present)
Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), Materials

Research Society (2005)
Sigma XI Tampa Bay Chapter Outstanding Dissertation Award Major

Professor for P. Zantye, A Study of Integration Issues in Cu-Low k Dielectric
Materials in Damascene Structure (2005)
Certificate of Appreciation (ME REU Coordinator), College of Engineering,

USF (2004)
Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award, University of South

Florida (2004)
Advisory Board Member, Research Infrastructure for Minority Institution

(RIMI), Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL (2003-2006)
Certificate of Appreciation (ME REU Coordinator), College of Engineering,

USF (2003)
USF President Faculty Excellence Award (2003)
Cluster Director, Advanced Materials, Alabama NASA EPSCoR Program

(1994-2000)
NSF Fellowship Award to attend NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics

Workshop, Chicago (2003)
Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), The Minerals,

Metals & Materials Society (2002)
USF Graduate Council Outstanding Thesis Award Major Professor, for

Swetha Thagella, Study of Tribological Properties and Modeling of Removal
Rate of Low-K and Copper in Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process
(2002)
Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), Materials

Certificate of Appreciation (Symposium Organizer), Materials Research

Society (2001)
Research and Creative Scholarship Award, University of South Florida

(2001)


Alabama DOE EPSCoR Young Investigator Award (1996-1997)
Alabama NSF EPSCoR Young Investigator Award (1996-1997)
National Research Council Twining Fellowship Award (1997-1998)
Outstanding Research Award, Univ. of South Alabama (1995-96)
International Metallurgical Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Mu (1990)
National Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi (1989)
Graduate Research Fellowship, North Carolina State University (19891991)
National Merit Scholarship from the Government of India (1981-1985)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nanomaterials Technology and Fabrication

Emerging Nanotechnology for Energy Applications
MEMS Technology
Laser and Plasma Assisted Processing, Characterization, and Device
Technologies of Electronic, Ferroelectric, Magnetic, High-Tc and Polymeric
Thin Films
Sensor Technology for Functional Applications
Structure-property Relationship (Electrical, Mechanical, Optical, Magnetic
etc. ) in Thin Films
Analytical Characterization Techniques of Surfaces and Thin Films
SPONSORED RESEARCH AWARDS/PROJECTS

N
o.
Title
Role
Agency
Constell
-ation
Tech.
Corp.
with
FHTC
NSF
MRI
Nanowires based Technologies

for Biotoxin Detection
PI: Kumar
MRI: Acquisition of an
Ultrahigh Analytical Thermal
Field Emission Scanning
Electron Microscope for
Research and Education
GOALI/Collaborative Research:
Interface Engineered Diamond
Coatings for Dry Machining
GOALI/Collaborative ResearchFlexible Ferroelectric-Based
Antenna Arrays for Conformal
Radiometric Imaging
GOALI: Engineering an In Vitro
Assembled Corneal Stroma
PI: Kumar,
Co-PIs: Gupta,
Schlaf, Batzill,
Li
PI: Kumar,
Co-PIs:
Durham, Xiao
PI: Thomas
Weller, Co-PIs:
Kumar, and
Hoff
PI: Mathews
Garrett, CoPIs: Kumar
and Koob
Time
Amount
Period
2010- $202,916
2011
20092010
$684,000
(including
USF match)
NSF
CMMI
20092012
$165,115
NSF
ECCS
20092012
$404,551
NSF
CBET
20092012
$329,846
10
Engineering and Computer

Science Scholars Targeted for
Academic, Retention and
Success (STARS) at the
PI: Kumar
Co-PIs: Batson,
Thomas, Gupta,
Trotz
20082011
$598,000
Functionalized Nanomaterials for

Biosensor Applications
Reliability Studies and Modeling
for Process Optimization and Yield
Improvements
in
Chemical
Mechanical Planarization
Center for Nanobiotechnology
Research
PIs: Kumar and FCoEMathews

BITT
$75,000
NSF
CMMI
20082010
20072010
NSF
CREST
20072012
NSF
CMII
20072010
$4,941,545
(Kumars
portion
is
$206,000)
$350,000
PI: Kumar
Co-PIs: Weller
and Bhansali
PI: Weller
Co-PI: Kumar
NSF
NIRT
20042008
$1,426,578
NSF
ECCS
20062009
$ 299,981
PI: Das
Co-PIs:
Okoogba,
Kumar et als.
PI: Kumar
NSF
GK-12
20062010
$1,684,688
NASA
through
UCF
200709
$90,000
PI: S. Bhansali
NSF
Co-PIs: Kumar, MRI
Hoff et. Als.
20062007
$592,500
PI: Kumar
NASA
through
UCF
20062008
$50,000
PI: Huang
Co-PI: Kumar
NSF
DMII
20062009
$265,000
PI: Kumar
General
Motors
20052008
$126,000
PI: Kumar
NSF
2000-
$529,666
PI: Kumar
PI: Shree R.
Singh Alabama
State Univ.
Co-PI: Kumar
11 In-Situ Nanomanufacturing Process PI: Quang
Control
Through
Multiscale Co-PI: Kumar
12
13
14
15
17
18
19
20
21
Nanostructured Growth Modeling

Nanocrystalline
Diamond
for
MEMS
and
Biomedical
Applications
Non-linear Device Applications of
Nano-patterned Barium Strontium
Titanate Thin Films
Students, Teachers, and Resources
in the Sciences (STARS2): A
USF/NSF GK-12 Continuation
Project
Development of Triplex Layered
Thermal Barrier Coatings for
Resistance
Against
FuelContaminants
and
CMAS
Degradation
Acquisition of Deep Reactive Ion
Etching Tool for Interdisciplinary
Research at the University of South
Florida
Failure
Mechanisms,
Life
Prediction
and
Enhanced
Performance of Thermal and
Environmental Barrier Coatings
Analysis of Correlated Functional
Variables
for
Manufacturing
Process Diagnosis
Micro
and
Nano-Crystalline
Diamond Thin Film Coatings on
Cutting Tools Materials for Dry
Machining Applications
A Faculty Early Career Program in
NSF
S-STEM
$332,000
Development of Superhard Coatings

for Improved Performances
22
23
25
26
27
28
Novel Synthesis and Fabrication of

Hybrid Coatings for Manufacturing
Applications
Acquisition of a Focused Ion Beam
for USF Nanomaterials and
Nanomanufacturing
Research
Center
Non-Contact/Zero-Stress Surface
Polishing Process For Copper/Low
Dielectric Constant Semiconductors
Advanced
Materials
Characterization using State-of-theart Universal Microtribometer
Acquisition of a Transmission
Electron Microscope for Research
and Education
Investigation of Metrology Issues in
Chemical Mechanical Planarization
Processes for Microelectronics
Manufacturing
PI: Kumar
CAREER
2006
NSF
DMII
20002003
including
match
$235,362
PI: Schlaf
NSF
Co-PIs: Kumar, MRI
Bhansali et. els.
20002005
$786,013
including
match
PI: Kumar
20042006
$125,004
20042005
$14,000
20022005
738,646
including
match
$265,000
NSF
SBIR/STTR
Phase II
PI: Kumar
Center
for
Tribology
PI: Kumar,
NSF
Co-PI:
Schlaf, MRI
Harmon et. als.
PI: Kumar
NSF
GOALI
20022006
29
University of South Florida: PI: Okoogba

NSF
Students, Teachers, and Resources Co-PIs:
Das, GK-12
Kumar et. als.
in the Sciences
20022006
$1,654,609
30
Modeling and Control of Wafer PI: Chandra at NSF

Scale Improvement in Chemical Iowa State Univ. DMII
Mechanical Planarization
Co-PI: Kumar
20032006
$476,881
31
Development and Testing of PI: Das

Practical Algorithms for Online Co-PI: Kumar
Interpretation of Senor Data
through Wavelet Decomposition
NSF
DMII
20032005
$200,000
32
Diamond Coatings on WC-Co PI: Kumar

Cemented and High-speed Steel
(HSS)
for
Dry
Machining
Applications
Evaluation of Mechanical and PI: Kumar
Tribological Properties of Low-k
Dielectric Materials
General
Motors
20032005
$63,250
Internati
o-nal
Sematech
Inc.
20012002
$171,984
Tribological
and
Mechanical PI: Kumar
Characterization of CMP Processes
for Advanced Metal and Dielectric
Applications
Synthesis and Characterization of PI: Kumar
Engineered
Nanostructured
Agere
System
Inc.,
Orlando
Florida
Space
20022005
$163,848
20002001
$30,000
33
34
35
USF
USF
USF
37
38
39
40
41
Materials with Laser Assisted

Methods
Evaluation
of
Mechanical PI: Kumar
Properties of Hard Coatings for
Multifunctional Applications
A
Smart
Composite
for
Microelectronics
Thermal
Management Applications
Evaluation of Mechanical and
Tribological Properties of PVD
Hard Coatings for Multifunctional
Applications
Nanoscale Chemical, Tribological
and Mechanical Properties of
Surface
Engineered/Modified
Polymers A Joint USF and UCF
Project
Nanoscale
Mechanical
and
Tribological Characterization of
Hard Coatings
Integrated Nanostructured Thin
Film based Materials for Gas
Sensor Application
Laser Ablated
Coatings
42
43
PI: Kumar
Research
Program
Florida
HighTech
Corridor
(FHTC)
with
BryCoat
FHTC
with
20002001
$44,726
20012002
$100,000
FHTC
with
BryCoat,
Inc
FHTC
with
pSilo
Quest
20012002
$72,000
20022003
$110,537
FHTC
BryCoat,
Inc.
FHTC
with
Fractal
System
USF
(Internal
Award)
NASA
EPSCoR
20022003
$50,000
20032004
$80,000
20012002
$12,000
19941999
$1,256,512
Tennessee
Valley
Authority
19941995
$27,696
Honeywell
PI: Kumar
PI: Kumar
PI: Kumar
PI: Kumar
Hydroxyapatite PI; Kumar
Laser
Processed
Surface PI: Kumar
Modification, Thin Films, and
Coating
Laser Processed Superhard Coating PI: Kumar
for Tribological Applications
44
Laser Patterning of Organic PI: Kumar

Semiconducting Materials
DOE
EPSCoR
Graduate
Trainee
Fellowship
19941995
$18,142
45
Acquisition of Scanning Electron PI: Kumar

Microscope
and
X-ray
Diffractometer for Education and
Research
Smart Materials for Transport PI: Kumar
Control
Wave-guide Structures on Organic PI: Kumar
Thin Films by Laser Patterning
NSF
ARI
19951998
$159,430
NSF
EPSCoR
DOE
EPSCoR
19951998
19951997
$540,000
46
47
$19,380
48
49
50
51
Method
Young
Investiga
-tor
Award
Growth and Characterization of PI: Kumar

Carbides/Nitrides
Thin
Films
Prepared by Laser Processed
Methods
Research Equipment Grant for the PI: Kumar
Acquisition of FTIR Spectrometer
for Multifunctional Applications
Synthesis and Characterization of PI: Kumar
Pulsed
Laser
Ablated
Biocompatible Thin Films
National
Research
Council
Twinning
Fellowship
19971999
$13,000
NASA
EPSCoR
19971998
$40,000
NSF
EPSCoR
Young
Investiga
tor
Award
NASA
Space
Grant
19971998
$44,452
19981999
$20,000
Engineered
Materials with
Methods
Nanostructured PI: Kumar

Laser Assisted
STUDENT SUPERVISION
Post-Doctoral Fellows Supervision
1. Dr. M. Vedawyas, Laser Processing of High Performance Thin Film Materials
(1991-2001)
2. Dr. Arun Kumar Sikder, CVD Diamond and Reliability Issues in Microelectronics
Materials (Employed as Senior Research Scientist, GE Global Research,
Bangalore, India) (2000-2004)
3. Dr. Rajnish Sharma, Synthesis and Characterization of MEMS and Microelectronics
Materials (Employed as Senior Manager, ST Microelectronics, Singapore) (20002001)
4. Dr. Arun Kumar, Nanotechnology for Sensor Applications (Employed as
Research Professor/Instructor, USF Health, Tampa (2004-2005)
5. Dr. Manoj Kumar Singh, Nanocrystalline Diamond /Carbon Nanotubes for
Multifunctional Applications (2004-2005)
6. Dr. Makoto Hirai, Nanoparticles and Nanowires for Electrical and Optical
Applications (Employed as Assistant Professor, Nara National College of
Technology, Japan) (2005-2008)
7. Dr. Jeung-Yeop Shim, Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications (2007-2008)
8. Dr. Rahul Singhal, Nanomaterials for Energy Applications (2007-2008)
9. Dr. Ozlem Yavuz-Petrowski, Nanomaterials for Biosensor Applications (20072008)
10. Dr. Rakesh Joshi, Nanotechnology for Multifunctional Applications (2008-2010)
11. Dr. Subbiah Alwarappan, Nanomaterials for Sensor and Energy Applications (2009present)
12. Dr. Manoj K Ram, Polymer based Materials for Multifunctional Applications
(2009-present)
Ph.D. Dissertation Supervision

Chair of the Dissertation Committee (Major Professor):
1. P. Zantye, A Study of Integration Issues in Cu-Low k Dielectric Materials in
Damascene Structure Sigma Xi Outstanding Researcher Award (2005, Employed
by Intel, OR)
2. Zhenqing Xu, Nanocrystalline Diamond: Synthesis,
Applications (2006, Employed by General Motors, MI)
Characterization,
and
3. Souheil Zekri, Synthesis and Characterization of Interfaces between Naturally

Derived and Synthetic Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications (Assistant
Principal, Tampa 2007)
4. Raghu Mudhivarthi, Process Optimization and Consumable Developments for
Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Processes (Employed by Intel, OR 2007)
5. Michael Jurczyk, Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon and Metal Hydride Based
Materials for Hydrogen Storages (2009)
6. Jorge C. Lallave Cortis, Numerical Heat Transfer Modeling During Partially-confined
and Free Liquid Jet Impingement over Spinning Boundaries and Three Dimensional
Modeling of a Chemical mechanical Polishing Process (Co-major Advisor, 2009)
7. Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Growth and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond

Films for Microelectronics and Microelectromechanical Systems (Employed by
Intel, 2008)
8. Jessica Weber, Functional Nanomaterials with an Electrochemical-Based Approach
to Sensing and Energy Applications (2010)
9. Quang Hu, Structural, Electrical and Electrochemical Properties of Diamond
Coatings (in-progress)
10. Humberto Gomez, Surface Engineered Diamond Coatings and its Composites for
Multifunctional Applications (in-progress)
11. Farah Alvi, Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Applications (in-progress)
12. Pedro J. Villalba, Nanostructured Coatings for Biomedical Applications (inprogress)
13. Joe Bonivel, Reliability Issues of CMP Process (in-progress)
14. Mikhail Ladanov, Nanogenerator for Bio Applications (in-progress) (Co-major: G.
Mathew)
15. Supriya Ketkar, Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films for Tunable Microwave
Applications (in-progress) (Co-major: Drew Hoff)
16. Emre Demirocak, Novel Solar Materials for Energy Applications (Co-major: Lee
Stefanakos (in-progress)
Master Thesis Supervision

Chair of the Committee (Major Professor:
1. Xiao Ping Wu Evaluation of Buffer Layers for High Temperature Superconductors
(1994)
2. David Kjendal, Design and Implementation of Physical Vapor and Chemical Vapor
Assisted Thin Film Deposition Systems and the study of Laser Processed Polymeric
Materials (1995)
3. U. Ekanayake, Growth, Structure and Mechanical Properties of Laser Processed
Superhard Coatings (1996) (Employed by VLSI Technology, CA)
4. N. Shu, The Study of Electrical, Dielectrical, and Mechanical Properties of Electronic
Ceramic Thin Films (1996)
5. Y. Mingte, Silicides Thin Film Technology for VLSI Applications (1996)

6. H. Chan, Laser Processing of Nitride and Carbide Coatings for Multifunctional
Applications (1997)
7. Q. You, Synthesis and Characterization of Diamond Films Grown by Hot Filament
Chemical Vapor Deposition Technique (1997)
8. M. Alam, Synthesis and Characterization of Ferroelectric Thin Film Capacitor for
Memory Device Applications (1997) (Employed by Texas Instruments, Dallas)
9. D. Patel Preparation and Properties of Pulsed Laser Deposited Superhard Coatings
(1997) (Employed by Applied Materials, CA)
10. I. Hussain Development and Applications of Piezoelectric Biosensor (1998)
11. I. Ahmed Deposition of Textured Diamond Growth using Hot-Filament Assisted
Chemical Vapor Deposition Method (1998)
12. Michael Galeev Diamond Film Growth on Structural Substrates for Cutting Tool
Applications (1998) (Employed by Motorola, IL)
13. H. Rahman Growth, Modeling and Device Implementation of Pulsed Laser
Deposited Thin Films (1998) (Employed by Altera, CA)
14. Yibing Geng Fabrication and Device Implementation of Laser Processed
Ferroelectric Thin Film (1998)
15. R. Bahal Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Superhard Coatings (1999)
(Employed by Applied Materials, CA)
16. M. Yassin Electrical and Dielectric Properties of DRAM Capacitors (1999)
(Employed by Motorola, IL)
17. Ganesh Sivanathan Effects of Surface Treatment and Gas Ambient on Growth of
Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposited Diamond Coatings (2000)
18. Rajesh Kumar Katre Study of Electrical and Dielectric Properties of Laser Processed
Ferroelectric Thin Films Using LaNiO3 as Electrode (2000) (Employed by 3M,
MN)
19. Manoj K. Raddar, Studies of Mechanical Properties of Carbide and Nitride Coatings
System (2001)
20. Aravinda N. Sringarapuram, Study of Electrical and Dielectrical Properties of

Ferroelectric Capacitors for DRAM and NVRAM Applications (2001)
21. Ismail Irfan, Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Thin Films using
Nanoindentation Technique (2001)
22. P. Zantye, Design and Fabrication of MEMS Based System for Multi-functional
Applications (2001) (Employed by Intel, OR)
23. Swetha Thagella, Study of Tribological Properties and Modeling of Removal Rate of
Low-K and Copper in Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process (2002),
Outstanding MS Thesis Award.
24. Frank Giglio, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Chemical Mechanical
Planarization (2003)
25. Zhenqing Xu, Processing and Characterization of Polycrystalline Diamond Films for
Multifunctional Applications (2003) (Employed by GM, MI)
26. Sindhura Valdhamani, Synthesis and Characterization of Wide Band Gap Materials
Coatings (2003)
27. Pallavi Shukla, Mechanical and Tribological Characterization of Thin Film
Coatings (2004), Software Engineer, Atlanta
28. Uttam Chandra Bandugula, Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Based
Nanocomposites (2004), Software Engineer, Atlanta
29. Tov Vestgaarden, Design and Implementation of Pulsed Laser Deposition System
for Thin Film Coating (2004) (President, Biomedical Company, FL)
30. Lavanya Sriram, Study of Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process for
Microelectronics Applications (2004) (Employed by Micron, Boise, ID
31. Jessica Otto, Development and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes for Sensor
Applications (2005), pursuing Ph.D. at USF
32. Sriraj G. Manavalan, Structure and Electrical Properties of Barium Strontium
Titanate Thin Films for Tunable Microwave Applications (2005) (Employed by
Micron, Boise, ID)
33. Roja Ramani, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of PVD Processed Coatings
for Multifunctional Applications (2006) (Employed by Applied Materials, CA)
34. Juan Cruz, Thin Film Materials for Multifunctional Applications (2006)- employed
by Florida Power Company, FL (Employed by Power Company, FL)
35. Raghava Kakireddy, Study of Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process of Low-K

Materials (2007) (Employed by Qimonda AG, Richmond, VA)
36. Daniel Vilceus, Investigation of Adhesion Properties of Microelectronics Materials
using Four-point Bending and Scratch Tests (2008)- Pursuing Ph.D. at the
University of Florida, Gainesville (FL)
37. Michael Depaz, Processing and Characterization Zinc Oxide Thin Films (2007)
(Employed by Air Force Base, Warren GA)
38. Venkataramanan Gurumurthy, Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films for Tunable
Microwave and Acoustic Wave Applications (2007) (Employed by RF Micro
Devices Inc., Greensboro, NC)
39. Lorenzo W. Hankla, Mechanical Properties and Fracture Mechanisms of ParticulateReinforced Boron Ceramic Composites (2008)
40. Chhavi Manocha, Chemical Mechanical Planarization: Study of Conditioner
Abrasive and Synthesis of Nano-Zirconia for Potential Slurry Applications (2008)
41. Denis Kitenge, Development of High Performance Coatings for Sensor
Applications (2009)
42. Nidhi Joshi, Gold Nanoparticles for Biosensor Applications (expected summer
2010)
43. Minh Tan Tram Nguyen, Nanocrystalline Diamond for as Atomic Force Microscope
Tip and its Applications (expected spring 2011)
Committee Member of Thesis/Dissertation:

1. Z. Wei, Numerical Simulation of Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition Process MS,
Mechanical Engineering (1997)
2. U. Padunsgak, Numerical Simulation of Diamond Deposition by Combustional Flame
Assisted CVD Process MS, Mechanical Engineering, (1997)
3. M. Alhasan, Numerical Simulation of Si Deposition in Horizontal CVD Reactors
MS, Mechanical Engineering (1997)
4. Raymond Work Lamb, Effects of Baffling on Air-cooled Finned Cylinders Using
Finite Element Analysis MS, Mechanical Engineering, (1997)
5. Andrew Israel, A Detailed Investigation of Microwave Plasma-Assisted Chemical

Vapor Deposition Diamond Growth Parameters MS, Physics, (1997)
6. Chiang-Ta Lee, Experimental Evaluation of Optical Limiting Elements, MS,
Electrical Engineering (1998)
7. A. V. Sumant, Some Studies on Nucleation and Growth Aspects of HFCVD Diamond
Films External Reviewer for Ph.D. Dissertation, Physics, University of Pune, INDIA
(1998)
8. Chin-Shiue Yan, Twinning and Defects in Large Area Chemical Vapor Deposited
Diamond Coatings Ph.D., UAB, Physics (2000)
9. B. V. Krishna Studies on Ultrathin Oxide of Silicon Grown by Wet Thermal and N20
Plasma Oxidation Technology Physics, I. I. T. Madras, INDIA, External Examiner
of Ph.D. Dissertation (2000)
10. Igor Tarasov, Defect Diagnostics using Scanning Photoluminescence
Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (2001)
in
11. Kamal Ayoub, Effect of Ionizing Radiation and Thermal Oxidation on the Stability
of Low density Polyethylene (LDPE) Stabilized with Systems of Phenolic
Antioxidants Chairman of the Dissertation Committee , Chemistry (2001)
12. Rajesh Ganesan, Wavelet Based Multiresolution Monitoring of a Nanomachining
Process in Semiconductor Manufacturing, MS, Industrial Engineering (2002)
13. Bhavani Prasad, A Wavelet Modulated Run-by-Run Controller, MS, Industrial
Engineering (2002)
14. Anton Belyaev, Resonance Acoustic Diagnostics in Silicon Wafers, MS, Electrical
Engineering (2002)
15. Alok Buch, An Online Strategy for Wavelet Based Analysis of Multiscale
Sensor Data MS, Industrial Engineering (2003)
16. Santosh Kothamasu, A Wavelet Based Multiscale Run-By-Run Controller for
Multiple Output (MIMO) Processes, MS, Industrial Engineering (2003)
18. Kenneth Henry Heffner, Radiation Induced Degradation Pathways for Poly
(Methylmethacrylate) and Polystyrene Polymers as models for Polymer Behavior in
space Environment, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Chairman, Chemistry (2003)
19. Fushnag Cui, Corrosion Behavior of Stainless Steel and Rebar, Ph.D. Dissertation
Committee Chairman, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Summer (2003)
20. Samer El. Ajouz, Numerical Prediction of Pressure Drop through Power Plant
Cooling Water System, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Spring (2003)
21. Kiran Polturi, Mutlimaterial Micro Needle Fabrication using Porous Silicon, MS
Electrical Engineering, Spring (2003)
22. LaNetra M. Clayton, Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes via Atomic Oxygen
Exposure: To Improve the Design and Fabrication of Polymer/Nanotube Composites
Ph.D., Chemistry, Summer (2004)
23. Ashwin Upadhaya, Development of Assessment Tasks to Measure the Driving
Capabilities of People with Disabilities, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Fall (2004)
24. Koushik R. Barhale, Design and Testing of a Prototype Gripper for a Wheelchair
Mounted Robot, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Fall (2004)
25. H. Ho Son, Numerical Simulation of Thermal Comfort and Contaminant Transport
in Air Conditioned Rooms, MS, Mechanical Engineering, Fall (2004)
26. Anton Belyaev, Stress Diagnostic and Crack Detection in Full-size Silicon Wafers
using Resonance Ultrasonic Vibrations, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Summer
(2005)
27. Rajesh Ganeshan, Process Monitoring and Feedback Control Using Multi-resolution
Analysis and Machine Learning, Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Summer (2005)
28. Thomas Ketler, Reconfigurable Antenna using RF MEMS Switches, Ph.D. ,
Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Spring (2006)
29. Jeisanker Mathiyaparanam, Analysis of Acoustic Emission in Cohesionless Soil
Civil Engineering, MS, Summer (2006)
30. Praveen Kumar Chalasani, Nano-indentation of Layered Materials with
Nonhomogeneous Interface MS, Mechanical Engineering, Spring (2006)
31. Michael J. Stokes, Structural and Geotechnical Aspects of Load Test Data
Regression Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering (Fall, 2006)
32. Rahul Agarwal, Low Temperature Hermetically Sealed 3-D MEMS Device for
Wireless Optical Communication, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Summer 2007)
33. Shyam Aravamudhan, Towards the Development of an Integrated Physical and
Chemical Ocean Sensor Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Fall 2007)
34. Samuel Andrews Baylis, Tunable Patch Antenna Using Semiconductor and NanoScale Barium Strontium Titanate Varactors M.S., Electrical Engineering, March
(2007)
35. Hui Wang, Error Equivalences Theory for Manufacturing Process Control Ph.D.
Dissertation Committee Chairman, Industrial Management System Engineering,
Spring (2007)
36. Srinath Balachandran, Nanocrystalline Diamond for Microwave and High Power RF
Applications Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (expected to finish Fall 08)
37. Abdur rub Abdur Rahman CellMap: An Automated Microelectrode Array Cell
Culture Analysis System based on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Ph.D.,
Electrical Engineering, Summer (2007)
38. Tov Vestgaarden, Experimental and Analytical Modeling of the In Vivo and In Vitro
Biomechanical Behavior of the Human Lumber Spine Ph.D. Fall (2007)
39. Ramakrishna Gunda, Nanoripples Formation in Calcite and InP Single Crystals
M.S, Mechanical Engineering, Fall (2007)
40. Jayadeep Deva Reddy, Mechanical Properties of SiC Thin Films M.S., Mechanical
Engineering, Fall (2007)
41. Ajay Vidyasagar, Volume Phase Transition in Benzophenone based Poly(Nisopropylacrylamide) Polymers Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (expected to finish
Fall 09)
42. Christopher L. Frewin, A Study of Cubic Silicon Car bide and Nanocrystalline
Diamond with Neuronal and Glial Cells Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (expected to
finish Fall 08)
43. Saket Srivastava, Probabilistic Modeling of Quantum-dot Cellular Automata, Ph.D.
Dissertation Committee Chairman, Electrical Engineering (Spring 2008)
44. Cecil A. Countinho, Multi-functional Composite Materials for Catalysis and
Chemical Mechanical Planarization Committee Chair, Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering (Spring, 2009)
45. Alaa Hamed Kababji, Effects of Diluent Addition and Metal Support Interactions in
Heterogeneous Catalysis: SiC/VPO Catalysts for Maleic Anhydride Production and
Co/Silica Supported Catalyst for FTS Committee Chair, Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering (Spring 2009)
46. Lynford Davis, Investigation of Residual and Thermal Stress on Membrane-based
MEMS devices MS in Mechanical Engineering, Fall (2009)
47. Ophir Ortiz, Active Hydrogel Biomaterials for Metastatic Cancer Cell Investigations,
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (Spring 2010)
48. Bijith D Mankidy, Design of Colloidal Composite Catalysts for CO
Hydrogeneration and for CO2 Photoconduction Ph.D., Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering (Expected Spring 2011)
Undergraduate Research Project Supervision

1. Brenda Sapp
Thin Film coating (NASA EPSCoR)
2. A. Mangiaracina Tuberculosis Biosensor (NIH SBIR)
3. Brian Brantly
Nanomaterials for Gas Sensor (COE REU)
4. Thomas Gressle
Nanomaterials for Biosensors (COE REU)
5. Shammed Hamid Coatings for Sensor (COE REU & NSF REU Supplement
6. Daniel Vilceus
Chemical Mechanical Polishing (COE REU & REU Supplement)
7. Joshua Lujan
Coatings for Biosensors (COE REU & REU Supplement)
8. Megan Pendergast Chemical Mechanical Polishing (COE REU & REU Supplement)
9. Michael Berlin
Laser Deposition of Hard Coatings (COE REU & REU Supplt.)
10. Mark Baugh
CVD Diamond for Cutting Tools (COE REU & REU Supplement)
11. Sadiya Hasan
Chemical Mechanical Polishing (COE REU & REU Supplement)
12. Shenique Johnson Chemical Mechanical Polishing (COE REU & REU Supplement)
13. Tim Carson
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Coatings (COE REU & REU Supplt.)
14. David Sharp
Laser Ablated Coatings (COE REU & REU Supplement)
15. Nam Truong
Thin Film Carbide Coatings (COE REU & REU Supplt)
16. Sean OConner Diamond Coatings for Tools (COE REU & REU Supplement)
17. Nivedita Gulati Chemical Mechanical Polishing (COE REU & REU Supplement)
18. Dennis Kitenge Oxide Coatings for Turbine Application (REU Supplt)
19. Gustavo Torres Growth and Characterization of Nanostructured Diamond Films
(COE REU & REU Supplement)
20. Connie Bell
Exploration of Pretreatment Methods for Deposition of CVD
Diamond Film on Cemented Tungsten Carbide Substrates (COE
REU & REU Supplement)
21. Daniel Perez
Development of a VI File to Measure the Changes in the
Conductivity of Materials in Presence of Various Gases (COE
REU & REU Supplement)
22. Alejandra Vega Surface Treatment of Boron-Doped Nano-Crystalline Diamond for
Salmonella DNA Sensing Applications.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
EGN 3365 Materials Engineering I (Undergraduate level)
EGN 4366 Materials Engineering II (Undergraduate level)

EML 4930 Electronic Materials Manufacturing (Undergraduate/Graduate level)
EML 6930 Micro/Nano Manufacturing (Graduate level)
EML 6930 Materials Characterization (Graduate level)
EML 6930 Advanced Materials (Graduate level)
University of South Alabama
EE 331 Electronic Devices (Undergraduate level)
EE 490 VLSI Technology and Fabrication (Undergraduate/Graduate level)
EE 392 Basic Electrical Engineering I (Undergraduate level)
EE 301 Professional & Ethics in EE/CPE (Undergraduate level)
EE 263 Digital Design I (Undergraduate level)
EE 322 Random Signal and Linear Systems (Undergraduate level)
EE 490/590 Electronic Thin Film Science (Undergraduate/Graduate level)
SERVICE
University Service
Advisory Board Member, USF Nanomedicine Center (2009-present)
Member, USF Research Council (2009-present)
Member, USF Budget Priority Taskforce (2007-08)
Member, USF Faculty Senate (2003-2009)
Lead COE Member, USF Research Initiative in Functional Multiscale

Materials by Design (FMMD) (2006-2009)
Member, World Class Scholars' Planning Workgroup Committee (2006)
Member, USFs Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Committee (2006)
Advisory Board Member, Biomedical Research Infrastructure (NIH Funded

Grant), Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL (2004-2009)
Advisory Board Member, NSF HBCU-UP Program, Alabama State

University, Montgomery, AL (2005-present)
Member, Committee on Committees, USF Faculty Senate (2004-2005)
Advisory Board Member, NIH Research Infrastructure for Minority

Institution (RIMI), Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL (2003-2008)
Review Member, Office of Research Internal Award (2004-present)
Member, University Continuity Education and Special Programs (1998-1999)
Member, University of Library Service (1997-1998)
Cluster Director, State-wide Alabama NASA EPSCoR Program of Advanced

Materials Program (1994-1999)
Lead Campus Coordinator at the Univ. of South Alabama, NSF EPSCoR

Program (1996-1999)
Member, Univ. of South Alabama Research Council (1996-1998)
College of Engineering Service

Member, College of Engineering Research Council (2010-present)
Graduate Program Co-Director, MS Degree Program in Materials Science &

Engineering (2006-present)
Steering Committee Member, Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing Research

Center (2007-2009)
Member, College of Engineering Governance Committee (2005-2008)
Advisor, Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing Research Center (2005-2006)
Member, Associate Dean for Research Search Committee (2005-2006)
Member, Nano-Tech I Building Committee (2001-2005)
Executive Member, Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing Research Center

(2005-2006)
Member, Center for Microelectronics Research (CMR) Faculty Search

Committee (2001-2002)
Faculty Coordinator, College of Engineering REU Program (2001-2009)
Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Faculty Mentor (2002-present)
Faculty Coordinator, Bridge to the Doctorate, the Florida-Georgia Louis

Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Fall 2004- present)
Faculty Coordinator, Sloan Foundation for Doctoral Programs (2004-2009)
Faculty Coordinator, College of Engineering Outreach Program, Univ. of

South Alabama (1996-1999)
Campus Representative Member, Alabama EPSCoR Program (1994-1999)
Departmental Service
Member, ME Department Chair Committee (2009-2010)
Member, ME Graduate Program Committee (2009- present)
Chair, ME Faculty and Instructor Search Committee (2008-2009)
Coordinator, MS Degree Program in Materials Science & Engineering (2006present)
Coordinator, ME Graduate Seminar (2004-06)
Member, ME Department Faculty Search Committee (2002 and 2003)
Coordinator, Materials Science and Engineering Certificate Program (200205)
Member, ME Curriculum and ABET Assessment Committee (2001-2003)
Member, EE Department Graduate Committee (1997-1999)
Member, EE Faculty Search Committee (1997)
Member, EE Department of Scholarship Committee (1996-1998)
Member, EE Curriculum and ABET Assessment Committee (1996-1998)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Journal Editorial Board Member
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2006-present)
Advances in Technology of Materials and Materials Processing Journal (2007present)
Journal of Materials Online (AZojomo; www.azom.com) (2007-present)
Journal Guest Editor

Guest Editor, (R. Ravindran, and Ashok Kumar) Journal of Metals, Theme:
Electronic Materials, Vol. 53, No. 6 (2001)
Guest Editor (Rakesh K. Joshi and Ashok Kumar), Diamond and Related
Nanomaterials for MEMS/NEMS Applications Journal of Nanomaterials
(Publication Date: May 2009)
Guest Editor (Rakesh K. Joshi and Ashok Kumar), Special issue on Graphene
Journal of Nanomaterials (to be published, late 2010)
Executive Council Member

Allan Ray Putman Service Award Selection Committee, ASM International
(2009-present)
International Advisory Board Member, International Conference on Surfaces,

Coatings and Nanostructured Materials (NanoSMat) (2008-present)
International Advisory Board Member, Micro and Nanotechnologies Book Series,

Key Technology for Innovation (KTI), UK (2008-present)
Member of Evaluation Board, Center for Nanoscale (CNM) at Argonne National

Laboratory, Chicago, IL (2008-present)
Member of Materials Research Society (MRS) Membership Committee (2008present)
Governing Member, American Society of Metals (ASM) Education Committee

(2006-present)
Local Organizational Committee Member for NATO Advanced Study Institute

(Advisor for Jessica Weber) Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices, and
Systems for Chem.-bio Sensors, Photonics, and Energy Generation and Storage in
Sinaia, Romania, June (2007)
Member, ASM/TMS Mechanical Behavior of Materials Committee (2007present)
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Advanced Nano- Materials ANM -2007,

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, , January 8th-10th (2007)
International Organizing Committee Member, Thin Film 2006 11th -15th

December, Singapore (2006)
Governing Committee Member, Dielectric Science and Technology, The

Electrochemical Society (2003-2005)
Vice-President, Thin Film Interfaces Committee and Advisor to Journal of Metal,

TMS Society (2000-2002)
Advisory Board Member, Surface Engineering Div. of TMS (1999-2001)
Continuing Education Committee Member, TMS (1999-2000)
Secretary, Thin Film Interfaces Committee and Advisor to Journal of Metal, TMS
(1998-2000)
Organizing Committee Member, International Conferences Series on PhotoExcited Processes and Applications (3-ICPEPA), Strasbourg, France (1999)
Advisory Board Member, Surface Engineering, ASM International (1998-2000)
Governing Committee Member, Alabama Materials Research Council (19961998)
Governing Committee Member, 12th International Conference on Surface

Modification Technologies, ASM International (1998)
Technical Session Chair
Session Chair (Thin Films) 32nd Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis
and AVS Florida Chapter and Florida Society for Microscopy, 2010 Annual Joint
Symposium and Exhibition, March 7-10, Orlando (2010)
Session Chair (Thin Films) 31nd Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis
and AVS Florida Chapter and Florida Society for Microscopy, 2009 Annual Joint
Symposium and Exhibition, March 10-13, Orlando (2009)
Surface Engineering 2002 Synthesis, Characterization and Applications,

Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (2002)
Advances in Surface Engineering- Fundamentals and Applications, Materials

Research Society Fall Meeting , Boston (2001)
High Temperature Coatings II, TMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim (CA), (1996)
Advances in Materials for Smart System -Fundamental and Applications

(Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston), (1996)
ROMOPTO, 97 , 5th Conference on Optics, Bucharest, Romania (1997)
Surface Engineering, 97, CIMTEC Conference, Florence, Italy (1997)
Chair (Electronic Materials), Alabama Materials Research Conference (19961999)
Society Membership
Materials Research Society (MRS)
American Society of Metals (ASM)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Vacuum Society (AVS)
Electrochemical Society (ECS)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
American Ceramic Society (ACerS)
Symposium Organizer
1. Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, and Ray W. J. Chia Hard Coatings Based on
Borides, Carbides and Nitrides: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications,
TMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio (1998)
2. Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, John Moore, and John Smugeresky, Surface
Engineering: Science and Technology I TMS Annual Meeting, San Diego (1999)
3. N. M. Ravindra, Ashok Kumar, Sailesh M. Merchant, M. Anthony, and M. K.
Sanganeria Materials and Processes for Submicron Technologies TMS Annual
Meeting, New Orleans (2001)
4. Wen Jin Meng, Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, Gary L. Doll, Yang-Tse Cheng,
Stan Veprek, Advances in Surface Engineering- Fundamentals and Applications,
MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2001)
5. Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, John Moore, and John Smugeresky, Surface
Engineering: Science and Technology II TMS Annual Meeting, Seattle (2002)
6. Seung Kang, M. K. Sanganeria, Ashok Kumar, Sailesh M. Merchant, and N. M.
Ravindra Materials and Processes for Submicron Technologies -II TMS Annual
Meeting, Seattle (2002)
7. Ashok Kumar, Wen Jin Meng, Yang-Tse Cheng, J. Zabinski, Gary L. Doll, and
Stan Veprek, Surface Engineering 2002 Synthesis, Characterization and
Applications, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2002)
8. Ashok Kumar, Jeffrey A. Lee, Ingrid Vos, Yaw Obeng, and Earl C. Johns,
Chemical-Mechanical Planarization Integration, Technology and Reliability,
MRS Spring Meeting, Boston (2005)
9. C. Fred Higgs, III, Ashok Kumar, Subramanian Balakumar, and Chad S. Karach,
Science and Technology of Chemical Mechanical Planarization, MRS Spring
Meeting, San Francisco (2009)
10. Symposium Organizing Committee, 37th Annual Applied Vacuum Science and
Technology Symposium & 27th Annual Meeting of the Florida Society for
Microscopy, March 8-10, University of Central Florida, Orlando (2009)
11. Symposium Organizing Committee, 38th Annual Applied Vacuum Science and
Technology Symposium & 28th Annual Meeting of the Florida Society for
Service to the Community
Supervised High School Teachers from Tampa Bay Area under NSF RET
Program (2004-present)
Outreach Activities with Hillsborough County Public Schools Under NSF GK-12
Track I and Track II grant (A Video Presentation of STARS Track 1 Refer to:
http://stars.eng.usf.edu/) (2003 present)
Taught Materials Engineering Potions of Florida Professional Engineers (PE)

Exam Review Course, Tampa, FL (2000)
Judge, State of Alabama Science Fair, Mobile, March (1998)
Outreach Coordinator for Students and Faculty (Physics Department) of Alabama

School of Math and Science under NSF EPSCoR Program (1995-1998)
Supervised Faculty and Students of Alabama School of Mathematics and Sciences

as outreach activities under NASA EPSCoR Program (1994-2000)
PATENTS
1. Rajesh Ganesan, Tapas K. Das, Arun K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, System and
Method for the Identification of Chemical Mechanical Planarization Defects
(United State Patent : 7377170)
2. Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Sri Ram Singh, S. Zekri, DNA Microcavity
Biochip for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Diagnosis (United State Patent:
20070015175)
3. Parshuram Zantye, Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Nanoparticle-based CMP
Slurry for Polymeric Interlayer Dielectric Planarization (US patent filed, 2007)
4. Tapas K Das, Rajesh Ganeshan, Arun K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, System and
Method for Online End Point Detection for use in Chemical Mechanical
Planarization (United State Patent: 7406396)
5. Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar Singh, and Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Integration of
ZnO Nanowires with Nanocrystalline Diamond (US patent filed, 2006)
6. Ashok Kumar and Manoj Kumar Singh, Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Diamond
Fibers US patent filed (2006)
7. V. K. Gupta, Ashok Kumar, Cecil Coutinho, S.
of Inorganic Oxides with PNIPAM-Siloxane
Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP)
Property Application (WO 2008052216), May
(20090013609) January 15, 2009
Mudhivarthi, Novel Composites

based Polymeric Microgels for
Processing World Intellectual
2, 2008; US Parent Application
8. Rakesh K Joshi and Ashok Kumar, Novel Synthesis of Self-assembled DNA

Nanotubes US patent filed (2008)
9. Rakesh K Joshi and Ashok Kumar, Development of Room Temperature CO
Sensor using Pd Decorated ZnO Nanowires US patent filed (2008)
10. S. Balachandran, T. Weller, Ashok Kumar, and Andrew Hoff, Nanocrystalline
Diamond (NCD) Capacitive RF-MEMS Switch US patent filed (USF Ref. No.
10A017)
PUBLICATIONS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Rajiv Asthana, Ashok Kumar, and Narendra Dahotre, Materials Science in
Manufacturing Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier (ISBN 13-978-0-7506-7716-5 and
ISBN 10-0-7506-7716-3) (2006)
2. Sam Zhang, Lin Li, and Ashok Kumar, Materials Characterization Techniques CRC
Press, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press (ISBN: 978-1-4200-4294-8) (2008)
SCHOLARLY EDITED BOOKS

1. Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, and Ray W. J. Chia Hard Coatings Based on Borides,
Carbides and Nitrides: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, (ISBN # 087339-389-9), The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Warrendale, PA (1998)
2. Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, John Moore, and John Smugeresky, TMS, (1999),
Surface Engineering: Science and Technology I, (ISBN # 0-87339-427-5) The
Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, Warrendale, PA (1999)
3. Wen Jin Meng, Ashok Kumar, Gary L. Doll, Yang-Tse Cheng, Stan Veprek, and YipWah Chung, Surface Engineering 2001- Fundamentals and Applications, MRS
Symposium Proceedings, Volume 697, (ISBN # 1-55899-633-8)), Materials Research
Society, Warrendale, PA (2001)
4. Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung, John Moore, D. S. Misra, and K. Yatsui, Surface
Engineering: Science and Technology II, (ISBN # 0-87339-521-2) The Minerals,
Metals & Materials Society, Warrendale, PA (2002)
5. Ashok Kumar, Wen Jin Meng, Yang-Tse Cheng, J. Zabinski, Gary L. Doll, and Stan
Veprek (Editors), Surface Engineering 2002 Synthesis, Characterization and
Applications, Volume 750, (ISBN # 1-55899-687-7), Materials Research Society,
Warrendale, PA (2002)
6. Ashok Kumar, Jeffrey A. Lee, Ingrid Vos, Yaw Obeng, and Earl C. Johns, ChemicalMechanical Planarization Integration, Technology and Reliability, Materials
Research Society, Volume 687, Warrendale, PA (2005)
7. Ashok Kumar, C. Fred Higgs III, Chad S. Karach, and Subramanian Balakumar
Science and Technology of Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Volume 1157
(ISBN: 978-1-60511-130-8), Materials Research Society, Warrendale, PA (2010)
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. J. S. Kapat and Ashok Kumar Chemical Vapor Deposition of Intermetallic and
Ceramic Coatings pp. 441-484, Edited by N. B. Dahotre and T. S. Sudarshan,
Marcel Decker Inc., New York (1999)
2. Arun K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Superhard Coatings in C-B-N System: Growth
and Characterization, Vol. 2, Chap. 3, pp. 115-190, Handbook of Thin Films
Materials, Edited by Prof. H. S. Nalwa, Academic Press (2001)
3. Zhenqing Xu, and Ashok Kumar, Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of
Nanocrystalline Diamond Films, Nanocomposite Thin Film and Coatings, Editors:
Sam Zhang and Nasar Ali, Imperial College Press, pp 207-279 (2007)
4.
Souheil Zekri, Rahul Singhal, Nick Baksh, and Ashok Kumar, Electrospinning of
Micro and Nano Fibers for Biomedical Applications Biomaterials and Biomedical
Engineering, Editors: Waqar Ahmed, Nasar Ali, and Andreas Ochsner, pp 167-216,
Trans Tech Publications Ltd. (2008)
5. Zhenqing Xu, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, and Ashok Kumar, Nanocrystalline Diamond

Films Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, American Scientific
Publishers (in-press)
6. V. Renugopalkrishnan, A. M. Kannan, S. Srinivasan, V. Thavasi, S. Ramakrishna, P.
Li, A. Mershin, S. Filipek, Ashok Kumar, J. Dutta, A. Jaya, L. Munukutta, S.
Velumani, and G. F. Audette, Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion Applications
Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Applications, Edited by Hari Singh Nalwa, ISBN:
1-58883-120-5, pp 1-24 (2008)
7. J. Weber, W. G. Yelton, Ashok Kumar, "Electrodeposition of Bi(1-x) Sb(x)
Nanowires as an Advanced Material for Thermoelectric Applications",
Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices, & Systems, Springer, NATO Science
Series 423-426 (2008)
8. S. Balachandran, T. Weller, Ashok Kumar, S. Jeedigunta, H. Gomez, J. Kusterer, and
E. Kohn Nanocrystalline Diamond for RF-MEMS Applications 277-300,
Emerging Nanotechnologies for Manufacturing (Edited by Waqar Ahmed and Mark

J. Jackson) Micro and Nano Technologies Series, Elsevier (ISBN No. 978-0-81551583-8) (2009)
9. Michael Ulrich Niemann, S. Srinivasan, Kimberly McGrath, Ashok Kumar, D. Yogi
Goswami, Elias K. Stefanakos Nanocrystalline Effects on the Reversible Hydrogen
Storage Characteristics of Complex Hydrides Materials Innovations in an Emerging
Hydrogen Economy Chapter 12, Series: Ceramic Transaction Series, Editors: George
G. Wicks and Jack Simon (ISBN: 9780470408360), pp 111-117 (2009)
10. Subbiah Alwarappan and Ashok Kumar, Biomedical Applications of Carbon Based
Materials CRC Handbook of Biological and Biomedical Coatings (in-press)
11. R. K. Joshi and Ashok Kumar, Gas Sensors Composed of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
and Films Hand Book on Science and Commercialization of Nanoparticles (in-press)
INVITED REVIEW JOURNAL PAPERS

1. Parshuram B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, A. K. Sikder, Chemical Mechanical
Planarization for Microelectronics Applications Materials Science and Engineering
R, Vol. 45/3-6, pp 89-220 (2004) (Impact Factor: 17.73), This article was listed in
TOP 25 articles in all Materials Science journals published by Elsevier Science,
2005.
2. J. Weber, R. Singhal, S. Zekri, Ashok Kumar, "One Dimensional Nanostructures:
Fabrication, Characterization and Applications ", International Materials Review:
53 235-255 (2008)
3. Michael Niemann, Michael Jurczyk, Sesha Srinivasan, Ashok Kumar, A. Phani, Yogi
Goswami, and Elias K Stefanakos, Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Storage
Applications: A Review Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2008, Article ID
950967, 9 pages (2008)
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1.
A. M. Gokhale and Ashok Kumar "Analysis of Particle Coarsening in Al-Pb

Alloy" Transaction of Indian Institute of Metal, Volume 42, No.4, 401-404
(1989)
2.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Properties of YBa2Cu3O7-

Composites Superconductors" Journal Applied Physics. 66, 5935-5939 (1989)
3.
L. Ganapathi, J. Narayan and Ashok Kumar "Variation of Tco in the 110 K

Superconductor Bi1.5Pb0.5Ca2Sr2Cu3Ox" Applied Physics Letters, 55 14601462 (1989)
4.
Ashok Kumar, L. Ganapathi and J. Narayan "In-situ Processing of Textured

Superconducting Thin Films of Bi-(Pb)-Ca-Sr-Cu-Ox by excimer laser ablation"
Applied Physics Letters, 56, 2034-2036 (1990)
5.
Ashok Kumar, L. Ganapathi, S. M. Kanetkar and J. Narayan "Synthesis of

Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on Nickel Based Superalloy Using
in-situ Pulsed Laser Ablation" Applied Physics Letters, 57, 2594-2596 (1990)
6.
Ashok Kumar, L. Ganapathi, S. M. Kanetkar and J. Narayan "Single Chamber insitu Processing of Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on Stainless Steel
with Yttria-stabilized Zirconia Buffer Layer" Journal of Applied Physics, 69,
2410-241 (1991)
7.
Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on Si

(100) Substrates with CoSi2 Buffer Layer by in-situ Pulsed Laser Evaporation
Method" Applied Physics Letters, 59, 1785-1787 (1991)
8.
Ashok Kumar, J. Narayan and X. Chen "Enhancement in Critical Current Density

of YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on Hastelloy with TiN Buffer Layers" Applied
Physics Letters, 61, 976-978 (1992)
9.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Characterization of High-Tc LaxY1xBa2Cu3O7- Superconductors", Physica C, 167, 669-676 (1990)
10.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "In-situ Processing of LaBa2Cu3O7-

Thin Films by Laser Ablation Method" Physica C, 168, 599-604 (1990)
11.
Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Laser Deposition of YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on

Flexible Metallic Substrates with TiN Buffer Layers" Superconductor Science
and Technology, Vol. 6, 662-669 (1993)
12.
S. Permanick, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Optical Emission during Layered

Growth of PrBCO/YBCO High-Tc Superconducting Thin Film by Pulsed Laser
Evaporation "Japanese Journal of Applied Physics part 2, vol. 12, 2349-2351,
October (1993)
13.
R. N. Soni, S. Sathaiah, H. C. Joshi, H. D. Bist, G. S. Raghuvanshi, Ashok Kumar

and J. Narayan Micro-Raman Study of Laser Ablated Thin Films Deposited on
Inconnel with a TiN Buffer Layer J. of Raman Spectroscopy, Vol. 25, 275-280
(1994)
14.
Ashok Kumar, J. Narayan and Bijoy Patnaik "Trilayered Heterostructures in-situ

Laser Deposited High Temperature Superconductors" Physica C, 209 421-427
(1993)
15.
N. Shu, Ashok Kumar, M. R. Alam, H. L. Chan and Q. You Study of Dielectrical

Properties of Laser Processed BaTiO3 Thin Films on Si (100) with TiN Buffer
Layers Applied Surface Science, 109/110, 366-370 (1997)
16.
M. R. Alam, Ashok Kumar, N. Shu, H. L. Chan, and Q. You, Preparation of TiNi

Ferroelastic-Ferroelectric Thin Film Heterostructures Applied Surface Science,
109/110, 393-398 (1997)
17.
H. L. Chan, U. Ekanayake, Ashok Kumar, M. R. Alam, Q. You, R. B. Inturi, N.

Shu and J. A. Barnard Nanoindentation Studies of Hard Coatings Prepared by
Laser Ablation Applied Surface Science, 109/110, 58-61 (1997)
18.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan and N. B. Dahotre Structural and Hardness Studies of

CNx/TiN Composite Coatings on Si (100) Substrates by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Method Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 6 (5), 583585, (1997)
19.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan, U. Ekanayake, A. Weirzbicki, N. B. Dahotre and S. C.

Sikes Laser Ablation Synthesis and Characterization of Carbide and Nitride
Coatings Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 8 (5), 577582, (1997)
20.
M. R. Alam, Ashok Kumar, A. Mangiaracina and M. Shamsuzzoha Synthesis of

the PZT Films Deposited on Pt-coated (100) Si Substrates for Nonvolatile
Memory Applications J. of Electronic Materials, Vol. 28, No. 10, 1331-1334
(1997)
21.
Ashok Kumar, Q. You, A. Mangiaracina, J. S. Kapat, S. A. Catledge and Y. Vohra

Evaluation of Barrier Layer for HFCVD Diamond Films on Silicon Substrates
Thin Solid Films, vol. 308-309, 209-214 (1997)
22.
H. L. Chan, Ashok Kumar, L. Sanderson and J. J. Weimer Structural

Characterization of AlN Thin Films on Semiconductor Substrates by Laser
Ablation Method, Thin Solid Films, vol. 308-309, 406-409(1997)
23.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan and Y. Vohra Characterization of Pulsed Laser

Deposited Diamond-like Carbon Films Surface Coatings & Technology, 102,
113-118 (1998)
24.
Z. Wei, J. S. Kapat and Ashok Kumar Role of Kinetics in Laser Processing

Applied Surface Science, vol. 127-129, 212-217 (1998)
25.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan and J. S. Kapat Deposition and Characterization of

Titanium Carbide Thin Films Applied Surface Science, Vol. 127-129, 549-552
(1998)
26.
Ashok Kumar, I. Hussain, A. Mangiaracina, S. C. Perlaky and C. C. McCombs

Design and Implementation of a Piezoelectric Biosensors for Multifunctional
Applications, Integrated Design and Process Technology IDPT-Vol . 1, 3541 (1998)
27.
Ashok Kumar, Pulsed Laser Deposition of Superhard Nitride Coatings, J of

Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 14, No. 3, 397-411 (1999)
28.
R. Bahl, Ashok Kumar, M. Vedawyas, and D. Patel Synthesis and

Characterization of TiC and TiCN Coatings Applied Physics A Materials
Science & Processing, A 69, 643-646 (1999)
29.
Ashok Kumar, M. R. Alam, J. J. Weimer and L. Sanderson Synthesis and

Characterization of Laser Ablated TiNi Films Applied Physics A, 69, 917-920
(1999)
30.
Ashok Kumar and M. Shamsuzzoha, Effects of Pre-treated Substrates on the

Growth Morphology of Diamond Films Prepared by the Hot Filament Chemical
Vapor Deposition Method New Diamond and Frontier Carbon Technology,
Vol. 9, No. 6, 445-458 (1999)
31.
M. Vedawyas, G. Sivanathan, and Ashok Kumar, Textured Polycrystalline

Diamond Films on Cu Metal Substrates by Hot Filament Chemical Vapor
Deposition, Materials Science and Engineering, B78, 16-21, (2000)
32.
Ashok Kumar, I. Ahmed and M. Vedawyas Growth of Diamond Films on Ti6Al-4V Substrates and Determination of Residual Stresses using Raman
Spectroscopy J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 18 (5), 2486-2492 (Sep/Oct 2000)
33.
Ashok Kumar and N. M. Ravindra, Developing Sensors for Multifunctional

Applications, Journal of Metals, 14, October (2000)
34.
Ashok Kumar, Biosensors Based on Piezoelectric Crystal Detectors: Theory and

Applications Journal of Metals, 52 (10) (2000)
35.
N. M. Ravindra and Ashok Kumar, Advances in Microelectronic Processing, 42,

Journal of Metals, June (2001)
36.
R. K. Sharma, Ashok Kumar, and J. M. Anthony, Advanced High Dielectric

Constant Gate Insulators, Journal of Metals, 53-55, June (2001)
37.
A. K. Sikder, Frank Giglio, John Wood, Ashok Kumar and J.M. Anthony
Optimization of Tribological Properties of Silicon Dioxide during the Chemical
Mechanical Planarization Process, Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 30,
1522-26 (2001)
38.
A. K. Sikder, I.M. Irfan, Ashok Kumar and J.M. Anthony, Nano-indentation

Studies of Xerogel and SiLK Low-K Dielectric Materials, Journal of Electronic
Materials, Vol. 30, 1527-31 (2001)
39.
P. A. O. Muisener, L. Clayton, J. DAngelo, J.P. Harmon, A. K. Sikder, Ashok

Kumar, A.M. Cassell and Meyya Meyyappan, The Effects of Gamma Radiation
on Poly (methyl Methacrylate)/Single Wall Nanotube Composites, Journal of
Materials Research, 17 (10), 2507-2513 (2002)
40.
A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of

Interlayer Coatings for Cu Damascene Process, Journal of Electronic
Materials, Vol. 31, 1016-1021 (2002)
41.
A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, P. Shukla, P.B. Zantye and M. Sanganaria, Effect of

Multistep Annealing on the Mechanical and Surface Properties of Electroplated
Cu Thin Films, Journal of Electronic Materials, 32(10), 1028-33 (2003)
42.
Rajesh Ganesan, Tapas K. Das, Arun K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Wavelet
Based Identification of Delamination Defect in CMP (Cu-Low k) Using Nonstationary Acoustic Emission Signal, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor
Manufacturing, 16, 677-685 (2003)
43.
Swetha Thagella, A. K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Tribological Issues and

Modeling of Removal Rate of Low-k Films in Chemical Mechanical
Planarization, The Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 151, No. 3,
G205-G215 (2004)
44.
A. K. Sikder, Swetha Thagella, Ashok Kumar, and Jiro Yota, Effects of Growth
Parameters and Properties of Doped and Undoped Silicon Oxide Films on Wear
Behavior During Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process, Journal of
Material Research, Vol. 19, No. 4, 996 (2004)
45.
Zekri S, Clayton L, Ferguson E, Okogbaa G, Kumar Ashok, Das T, Centeno G,

Martin-Vega L. An Impact Study of the Implementation of a Materials Science
and Engineering Module at the Fifth Grade Level, Journal of Materials
Education, Vol. 26 (3-4): 251-256 (2004)
46.
LaNetra M. Clayton, Arun K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, Alan M. Cassell, Martin

Cinke, Meyya Meyyappan, and Julie P. Harmon, Transparent PMMA/SWNT
Composites Thin Films with Increased Dielectric Constant Prepared via Heat,
UV and Ionizing ( gamma) Radiation using Ultrasonication and Dissolution,

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 15, No. 1, 101-106, 15 Jan (2005)
47.
Ashok Kumar and Sriraj G. Manavalan Characterization of Barium Strontium

Titanate Thin Film for Microwave and DRAM Applications Surface Coatings
and Technology, Vol. 198, pp 406-413 (2005)
48.
Arun Kumar, Graham Whitaker and Ashok Kumar, Polyaniline Coated Carbon
Electrode for Voltametric Detection of Lipase, Biosensor and Bioelectronics,
Vol. 21, 513-517 (2005)
49.
T. K. Das, R. Ganesan, A. K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Online End Point

Detection in CMP Using SPRT of Wavelet Decomposed Sensor Data IEEE
Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Volume 18, No. 3, 440-447
(2005)
50.
Uttam C. Bandugula, L.M. Clayton, J.P. Harmon, and Ashok Kumar In Situ
Synthesis and Performance of Titanium Oxide/Poly(Methyl methacrylate)
Nanocomposites", Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 5(5) pp 814819, (2005)
51.
S. Mudhivarthi, P. B. Zantye, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, M. Beerbom and R.

Schlaf, Effect of Interfacial Temperature on Tribological, Electrochemical and
Surface Properties of Cu during CMP Process, Electrochemical and Solid-State
Letters, 8, 9 G241-G245 (2005)
.
52.
P. Zantye, S. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar and Y. Obeng, Metrology and

Characterization of Application Specific Chemical Mechanical Polishing Pads,
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 23, No. 5, 1392-1399,
Sept./Oct. (2005)
53.
Souheil Zekri, LaNetra M. Clayton, Ashok Kumar, Geoffrey Okogbaa, and Louis
Martin-Vega, Long Term Integration Plan for Nanotechnology and Materials
Science into Fourth and Fifth Grade Science Curriculum The Journal of
Materials Education, Volume 27 (3-6), 217-222, (2005)
54.
Zhenqing, Ashok Kumar, Arun Kumar, Amperometric Detection of Glucose

Using a Modified Nitrogen-doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrode, Journal
of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol. 14, 416 (2005)
55.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, William Dallas, Sergei Ostapenko and Arun
Sikder, Investigation of the Non-uniformities of Polyurethane Chemical
Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Pads, Journal of Vacuum Science and
Technology, B 24(1), 25-33, Jan/Feb (2006)
56.
Makoto Hirai, and Ashok Kumar, Wavelength Tuning of Surface Plasmon

Resonance by Annealing Silver-copper Nanoparticles Journal of Applied
Physics, 100, 014309 (2006)
57.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Manoj K Singh, Ashok Kumar, Souheil Zekri Structural

and Optical Properties of Tin Oxide Branched Nanostructures Journal of
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 6, 640-643 (4) (2006)
58.
S. Mudhivarthi, N. Gitis, S. Kuiry, M. Vinogradov, and Ashok Kumar, Effects of

Slurry Flow Rate and Pad Conditioning Temperature on Dishing, Erosion and
Metal Loss During Copper CMP, Journal of Electrochemical Society., Vol.
153, (5), G372, (2006)
59.
Jessica Weber, A. Kumar, Ashok Kumar, S. Bhansali, Novel Lactate and pH

Biosensor for Skin and Sweat Analysis based on Single Walled Carbon
Nanotubes, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical: 117(1), 308-313 (2006)
60.
Puneet Khanna, Aljandro Vilagra, Sangchae Kim, Edward Seto, Mark Jaroszeski,
Ashok Kumar, and Shekhar Bhansali, Use of Nanocrystalline Diamond for
Microfluidic Lab-on-a-chip, Diamond and Related Materials, 15, 2073-2077,
(2006)
61.
Ashok Kumar, Sriraj G Manavalan, Venkataramanan Gurumurthy, Sathyaharish

Jeedigunta, and Tomas Weller Dielectric and Structural Properties of Pulsed
Laser Deposited and Sputtered Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films, Material
Science and Engineering B, 139, 177-185 (2007)
62.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Manoj K. Singh, Ashok Kumar and M. Shamsuzzoha

Optical Properties of Zigzag Twinned Geometry of Zn2SnO4 Nanowires,
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 7, No.2, 486-489 (4) Feb
(2007)
63.
Zhenqing Xu, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta and Ashok Kumar, A Study of

Polyaniline Deposited Nanocrystalline Diamond Films for Glucose Detection
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 7, 2092-095 (2007)
64.
Jorge C. Lallave, Muhammad M. Rahman, and Ashok Kumar, Numerical

Analysis of Heat Transfer on a Rotating Disc Surface under Confined Liquid Jet
Impingement International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 28, pp. 720734 (2007)
65.
M. Hirai and Ashok Kumar Optical Properties and Microstructure of SilverCopper Nanoparticles Synthesized by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Journal of
Electronic Materials, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1574-1578 (2007)
66.
Ashok Kumar and Shree R. Singh, Nanomedicine the Future of Human

Medical Sciences20-21, Sciences@ASU, Issue 2, Fall (2007)
67.
M. Hirai and Ashok Kumar Effect of Nitrogen Doping on Bonding State of ZnO
Thin Films, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A Volume 25, Issue 6, pp 1534-1538 (2007)
68.
Michael Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, S. Srinivasan and E. Stefanakos Polyaniline

Based Nanocomposite Materials for Hydrogen Storage International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy, 32, pp 1010-1015 (2007)
69.
Subrahmanya R. Mudhivarti, Cecil Coutinho, Ashok Kumar and Vinay K. Gupta,

"Novel Abrasive Particles for Oxide CMP Applications", Electrochemical
Society Transactions, 3, 41, 9-19 (2007)
70.
Muhammad M. Rahman, Jorge C. Lallave, and Ashok Kumar, Heat Transfer from
a Spinning Disk during Semi-Confined Axial Impingement from a Rotating
Nozzle International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 51, pp. 4400-4414
(2008)
71.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Priscila Spagnol, John Bumgarner, and Ashok Kumar,

Electrical Contacts to Nitrogen Incorporated Nanocrystalline Diamond Films,
Diamond and Related Materials, 17, 2037-2040 (2008)
72.
Venkataramanan Gurumurthy, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Sam Baylis, Ashok

Kumar, and Thomas Weller, Structural and Electrical Properties of
Nanocrystalline Diamond based Barium Strontium Titanate Varactors
International Journal of Ferroelectrics, Volume 377, Issue 1, pp 75-78, (2008)
73.
Veera Raghava Kakireddy, Raghu Mudhivarthi, and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Temperature on Copper Damascene Chemical Mechanical Polishing Process J.
Vac. Sci. Technol. B, Vol.26, Issue 1, pp 141-150 (2008)
74.
Cecil Coutinho, Subrahmanya R. Mudhivarti, Vinay K. Gupta and Ashok Kumar,

Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic-Organic Microcomposites for Next
Generation Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Applied Surface Science, Vol.
225, pp 3090-3096 (2008)
75.
R. K. Joshi, M. Yoshimura, K. Tanaka K. Ueda, Ashok Kumar and N. Ramgir

Synthesis of Vertically Aligned Pd2Si Nanowires in Microwave Plasma
Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition System, Journal Physical Chemistry C,
Vol. 112(36), pp.1857, Sept. (2008)
76.
Ashok Kumar, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, I. Tarasov, and S. Ostapenko,

Photoluminescence Studies of Epitaxial ZnO Thin Films on Si(100) Substrates
by Pulsed Laser Deposition Adv. In Tech. of Mat. And Mat, Vol. 10 [2], pp
95-100 (2008)
77.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Zhenqing Xu, Makoto Hirai, Priscila Spagnol, and

Ashok Kumar, Effects of Plasma Treatment on the Nitrogen Incorporated
Nanocrystalline Diamond Films, Diamond and Related Materials, 17, 19941997 (2008)
78.
R. K. Joshi, M. Yoshimura, K. Tanaka K. Ueda, and Ashok Kumar, and N.

Ramgir Synthesis of Vertically Aligned Pd2Si Nanowires in Microwave Plasma
Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition System, Journal Physical Chemistry C,
Vol. 112, pp. 13901, (2008)
79.
J. Weber, S. Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, "Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO

Nanowire Arrays with an Investigation into Electrochemical Sensing
Capabilities", Journal of Nanomaterials, Volume 2008, Article ID 638523, 5
pages (2008)
80.
Andrew W Vittetoe, Michael U. Niemann, Sesha S Srinivasan, Kimberly

McGrath, Ashok Kumar, D. Yogi Goswami, Elias K Stefanakos, and Sylvia
Thomas Destabilization of LiAlH4 by Nanocrystalline MgH2 International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 34, Issue 5, pp 2333-2339 (2009)
81.
Puneet Khanna, Niraj Ramachandran, Jie Yang, Jing Wang, Ashok Kumar, Mark
Jaroszeski and Shekhar Bhansali Nanocrystalline Diamond Microspikes Increase
the Efficiency of Ultrasonic Cell Lysis in a Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip
Diamond and Related Materials, 18, pp 606-610 (2009)
82.
Michael U Jurczyk, Sesha S. Srinivasan, Ashok Kumar, Elias K. Stefanakos ,

Yogi D. Goswami, and Kimberley McGrath, Processing Analysis of the Ternary
LiNH2-MgH2-LiBH4 System for Hydrogen Storage, International Journal of
Hydrogen Energy, 34, pp 8086-8093 (2009)
83.
Michael Jurczyk, Sesha Srinivasan, Ayala Phani, Ashok Kumar, Yogi Goswami,
Lee Stefanakos, Room Temperature Reversible Hydrogen Storage in Polyaniline
Nanofibers, J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 9, Number 8, pp
4561-4565 (2009)
84.
C. L. Frewin, M. Jaroszeski, E. Weeber, K. E. Muffly, Ashok Kumar, M. Peters,

A. Oliveros, and S. E. Saddow, Atomic Force Microscopy Analysis of Central
Nervous System Cell Morphology on Silicon Carbide and Diamond Substrates
Journal of Mol. Recognit, 22, pp 380-388 (2009)
85.
X. Zhang, H. Wang, Q. Huang, Ashok Kumar, and J. Zhai, Statistical and

Experimental Analysis of Correlated Time-varying Process Variables for
Condition Diagnosis in Chemical-Mechanical Planarization. IEEE
Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 22 (3), pp. 512-521
(2009)
86.
H. Wang, X. Zhang, Ashok Kumar, Q. Huang, 2008, Nonlinear Dynamics

Modeling of Correlated Functional Process Variables for Condition Monitoring in
Chemical-Mechanical Planarization, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor
Manufacturing, Vol. 22 pp. 188-195 (2009)
87.
Humberto Gomez, Ashok Kumar and Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Structureproperty Relationship of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films and its Applications,
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing, Volume 4, Number 1-4, pp
317-325 (2009)
88.
D. Kitenge, R. K. Joshi, M. Hirai and Ashok Kumar, Nanostructured

Silver Films for Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Gas Sensors IEEE
Sensors Journal, pp1797-1801, (2009)
89.
R. K. Joshi Q. Hu, F. Alvi, N. Joshi and Ashok Kumar, Au Decorated ZnO

Nanowires for CO sensors Journal of Physical Chemistry C- Vol. 113, pp
16199, (2009)
90.
R. K. Joshi S. Krishnan, M.Yoshimura and Ashok Kumar, Pd Nanoparticles and

Thin Films for Hydrogen Sensor Nanoscale Research Letters, Vol. 4, pp.11911196, (2009)
91.
Q. Hu, M. Hirai, R. K. Joshi, and Ashok Kumar, Structural and Electrical

Characteristics of Nitrogen-doped Nanocystalline Diamond Films Prepared by
CVD Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 42, pp. 025301, (2009)
92.
R. K. Joshi J. Weber, Q. Hu, B. Johnson, J. W. Zimmer and Ashok Kumar,

Carbon
Monoxide Sensing at Room Temperature via Electron Donation to
Boron Doped Diamond Sensors & Actuators B: Chem- Vol.145 , pp. 527532 , (2010)
93.
R. K. Joshi H. Gomez, F. Alvi, and Ashok Kumar, Graphene Films and Ribbons
for Sensing of O2, and 100 ppm of CO and NO2 in Practical Conditions Journal
of Physical Chemistry C- Vol. 114, pp 6610 (2010).
94.
R. K. Joshi, L. West, Amrita Kumar N. Joshi, S. Alwarappan and Ashok

Kumar Production of semiconducting Au-DNA Nanowires by
Application of DC-Bias, Nanotechnology, Vol. 21, pp. 185604, (2010)
95.
Lisa B. Whitenack, Daniel C Simkins Jr., Philip J Mota, Makoto Hirai, and
Ashok Kumar, Youngs Modulus and Hardness of Shark Tooth
Biomaterials Archives of Oral Biology, Vol. 55, pp 203-209 (2010)
96.
R. K. Joshi, S. Krishnan and Ashok Kumar Palladium Nanoparticles as Gas

Sensing Material Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (submitted)
97.
R. K. Joshi S. Alwarappan, and Ashok Kumar, Comment on A Green Approach

to the Synthesis of Graphene Nanosheets, ACS NANO (submitted 2010)
98.
S. Alwarappan, R. K. Joshi, C. Liu, Ashok Kumar, C. Li, Enzyme Doped

Graphene Nanosheets for Enhanced Glucose Biosensing J. Phy Chem C
(submitted 2010)
99.
S. Alwarappan, R. K. Joshi, M. K Ram and Ashok Kumar, "Direct Electron

Transfer of Cytochrome c at Graphene Electrode" Applied Physics Letter (inpress, 2010)
100.
F. Alvi, R. K. Joshi Q. Huang, Ashok Kumar, Monte Carlo Simulation based

Model for Solution Growth of ZnO Nanowires J Phy Chem C (submitted 2010)
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEERED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

(Excluding Publications in Journals and Books)
1.
Ashok Kumar, P. Somanathan, M. N. Mungole and K. P. Singh "Study of

Oxidation Behavior of Modified 9Cr-1Mo Ferritic Steel at Elevated Temperature
and Pressure" Proceeding of International Conference on Metallic Corrosion,
Madras (India) 3641-3650 (1987)
2.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Superconducting and

Semiconducting Thin Films of La123 and Y123 and Their Superlattices", High
Temperature Superconductor: Fundamental Properties and Novel Materials, Vol.
169, 561-564, Proceeding of Materials Research Society (1989)
3.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Role of Silver in YBa2Cu3O7-

Composite Superconductors," High Temperature Superconductor: Fundamental
Properties and Novel Materials Processing, Vol.169, 1267-1274, Proceeding of
Materials Research Society (1989)
4.
Ashok Kumar, L. Ganapathi and J. Narayan "Textured Superconducting Thin

Films of Bismuth Cuprate by Laser Ablation Method, High Temperature
Superconductor: Fundamental Properties and Novel Materials Processing Vol.
5.
T. Zheleva, K. Jaganadham, Ashok Kumar, and J. Narayan "Epitaxial Growth of

TiN on GaAs (100) by Pulsed Laser Deposition," Laser Application in Materials
Processing: Fundamentals and Application, Vol. 285, 343-348, Proceeding of
6.
Ashok Kumar, R. B. Inturi, Y. Vohra, U. Ekanayake, N. Shu, D. Kjendal, G.

Wattuhewa and J. A. Barnrad Mechanical Properties of Laser Processed
Diamond-like Carbon Films, Advanced Laser Processing of Materials, Vol.

7.
D. Kjendal, Ashok Kumar, R. B. Inturi and J. A. Barnard Pulsed Laser

Deposition of Poly(tetraflouroethylene) Films, Advanced Laser Processing of
Materials, Vol. 397, 223-228, Proceeding of Materials Research Society (1996)
8.
R. B. Inturi, Ashok Kumar, U. Ekanayake, N. Shu and J. A. Barnard Growth and

Characterization of Hard Nitrides Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition,
Polycrystalline Thin Films II, Vol. 403, 283-290, Proceeding of Materials
9.
Ashok Kumar, U. Ekanayake, D. Kjendal, N. Shu, R. B. Inturi and J. A. Barnard

Structural and Mechanical Properties of Pulsed Laser Processed Superhard
Coatings TMS Proceeding, High Temperature Coating II, 349-360 (1996)
10.
Ashok Kumar, U. Ekanayake, R. B. Inturi and J. A. Barnard Synthesis of Carbon

Composite Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition Method Layered
Materials for Structural Applications, Vol. 434, 189-194, Proceeding of Materials
11.
Ashok Kumar, U. Ekanayake, R. B. Inturi and J. A. Barnard Growth, Structure

and Mechanical Properties of Pulsed Laser Deposited TiN/TiB2 Micolaminates
Thin Films- Stresses and Mechanical Properties VI, Vol. 436, 65-70, Proceeding
of Materials Research Society (1996)
12.
I. Hussain, Ashok Kumar, S. C. Perlaky, C. C. McCombs, F. Zhong, J. J. Weimer

and L. Sanderson Fabrication of Piezoelectric Sensors for Biomedical
Applications, Materials for Smart System, Vol. 459, 501-506, Proceeding of
13.
H. L. Chan, Ashok Kumar, L. Sanderson and J. J. Weimer Atomic Force

Microscopy study of Hard Coatings Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Method, Thin Film- Structure and Morphology, Vol. 441, 487-493, Proceeding
of Materials Research Society (1997 )
14.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan and R. Alexandrescu The Synthesis, Characterization

and Mechanical Properties of Carbides and Nitrides Films Prepared by Pulsed
Laser Deposition Method SPIE Proceeding, ROMOPTO, Bucharest, Romania,
Vol. 3405, 199-204 (1997)
15.
Ashok Kumar, Q. You, I. Ahmed and A. Mangiaracina Enhancement of

Nucleation Density of HFCVD Diamond Films on Silicon Substrates with Laser
Processed Buffer Layers SPIE Proceeding, ROMOPTO, Bucharest, Romania,
Vol. 3405, 207-211 (1997)
16.
Ashok Kumar, M. R. Alam and A. Mangiaracina Preparation of Ferroelectric

Thin Films by KrF Excimer Laser Ablation for Memory Applications SPIE
Proceeding, ROMOPTO, Bucharest, Romania, Vol. 3405, 323-327 (1997)
17.
A. Crunteanu, R. Alexandrescu, R. Cireasa, I. Morjan, and Ashok Kumar

Deposition of Carbon Nitride Thin Films by IR Laser-induced Reactions in
Carbon-nitrogen Gas-phase Compounds SPIE Proceeding, ROMOPTO,
Bucharest, Romania, Vol. 3405, 357-362 (1997)
18.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan, and M. Shamsuzzoha Growth and Characterization of

Crystalline Metal Nitrides Coatings Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Method TMS Proceeding, Hard Coatings Based on Borides, Carbides, and
Nitrides: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, 219-229 (1998)
19.
M. A. George, J. J. Weimer, and Ashok Kumar, Characterization of Titanium

Films Produced by Physical Vapor Deposition Techniques TMS Proceeding
Hard Coatings Based on Borides, Carbides, and Nitrides: Synthesis,
Characterization and Applications 203-209 (1998)
20.
M. Shamsuzzoha and Ashok Kumar A TEM Study of Epitaxial (100) TiC Film
Grown on Si (100) Substrates by Pulsed Laser Deposition Method, TMS
Proceeding Hard Coatings Based on Borides, Carbides, and Nitrides: Synthesis,
Characterization and Applications 249- 257 (1998)
21.
R. Alexaandrescu, A. Crunteanu, R. Cireasca, I. Morjan, and Ashok Kumar,

Carbon Nitride Thin Film Synthesized from the Gas-phase by Laser-induced
Reactions: A Parametric Study, TMS Proceeding Hard Coatings Based on
Borides, Carbides, and Nitrides: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications,
73-88 (1998)
22.
Ashok Kumar, R. Alexandrescu, M. A. George, Deposition and Characterization

of Carbon Nitride Films by Laser Processed Methods, Advances in Laser
Ablation of Materials, Volume 526, 367-372, Proceeding of Materials Research
Society (1998)
23.
Ashok Kumar and M. R. Alam, Synthesis and Characterization of Ferroelectric

Thin Films by KrF Excimer Laser Ablation for Memory Applications, Advances
in Laser Ablation of Materials, Volume 526, 211-217, Proceeding of Materials
Research Society, Boston (1998)
24.
Ashok Kumar and Q. You, The Effects of Template Layer of AlN on HFCVD
Diamond Nucleation International Symposium Proceeding World Ceramic
Congress and Forum on New Materials, pp 45-52, CIMTEC Proceeding (1998)
25.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan, and Rodica Alexandrescu Pulsed Laser Deposition of

Carbides and Nitrides Coatings International Symposium Proceeding World
Ceramic Congress and Forum on New Materials, pp 25-32 CIMTEC Proceeding

(1998)
26.
R. Alexandrescu, R. Cireasa, C. S. Cojocaru, A. Crunteanu, I. Morjan, F. Vasiliu,

and Ashok Kumar, Carbon Nitride Thin Films and Nanopowders Produced by
CO2 Laser Pyrolysis ASM Proceeding, Surface Modification Technologies XII,
Edited by T. S. Sudarshan, K. A. Khor, and M. Jeandin, 60-69 (1998)
27.
Ashok Kumar and R. Alexandrescu, Laser Assisted Deposition of Carbon Nitride

Coatings" Properties and Processing of Vapor-Deposited Coatings Proceeding
of Materials Research Society, Vol. 555, 387-393 (1999)
28.
R. Alexandrescu, R. Cireasa, A. Crunteanu, C. S. Cojocaru, I. Morjan, Ashok

Kumar, and F. Vasiliu, Synthesis of Crystalline Structure of CNx Thin Films
Deposited on Sapphire and Quartz Substrates Properties and Processing of
Vapor-Deposited Coatings Proceeding of Materials Research Society, Vol. 555,
413-418 (1999)
29.
Ashok Kumar and M. Shamsuzzoha, Synthesis and Characterization of

Polycrystalline TiN/TiB2 Microlaminates Coatings, TMS Proceeding, Surface
Engineering: Science and Technology I, Editors: Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah Chung,
John J. Moore and John E. Smugeresky, 165-173 (1999)
30.
M. Shamsuzzoha and Ashok Kumar, Structural Study and Mechanisms of

Nucleation and Growth of Diamond Crystal Grown on Scratched Si(100)
Substrate by Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition Method, TMS Proceeding,
Surface Engineering: Science and Technology I, Editors: Ashok Kumar, Yip-Wah
Chung, John J. Moore and John E. Smugeresky, 367-376 (1999)
31.
Ashok Kumar, H. Rahman, and M. Shamsuzzoha, Fabrication of PZT Based

Capacitor with SrRuO3 Electrode for Memory Device Applications, Ferroelectric
Thin Films VII, Proceeding of Materials Research Society, Vol. 541, 153-160
(1999)
32.
Ashok Kumar, M. R. Alam, and M. Shamsuzzoha, Growth, Microstructural, and

Ferroelectric Properties of PZT Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Method, Ferroelectric Thin Films VII, Proceeding of Materials Research Society,
Vol. 541, 319-326 (1999)
33.
M. Vedawyas, R. Katre, Md. Yasin and Ashok Kumar, Influence of LaNiO3 as

an Electrode on the Properties of Ferroelectric Oxides, Materials Science of Novel
Oxide-based Electronics, Proceeding of Materials Research Society, Volume 623,
131-136 (2000)
34.
A. K. Sikder, I. M. Irfan, Ashok Kumar, A. Belyaev, S. Ostapenko, M. Calves, J.

P. Harmon and J. M. Anthony , Evaluation of Mechanical and Tribological
Behavior, and Surface Characteristics of CMP Pads , Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc.,
670, M1.8.1-7 (2001)
35.
Ashok Kumar, A. K. Sikder, J. Mark Anthony, and D. S. Misra Textured

Diamond Films on Si and Cu Substrates by HFCVD Technique, Elevated
Temperature Coatings: Science and Technology IV, TMS Proceeding, Edited by
N.B. Dahotre, J.M. Hampikian and J.E. Morral, TMS, p 343-356, (2001)
36.
Manoj Radder, A.K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Investigation of Structural and
Mechanical Properties of Laser Deposited Microlaminate Hard Coatings, Mat.
Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., 697, 297-303 (2001)
37.
A. K. Sikder, S. Thagella, U.C. Bandugilla and Ashok Kumar Effect of

Tribological Properties of Undoped and Fluorine-doped Silicon Di-oxide Films
on Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., 697,
411-416 (2002)
38.
A. K. Sikder, I. M. Irfan, Ashok Kumar, R. Durvin, M. McDonough and M.D.

Smith Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Single and Multi Layered
Nitride Thin Films Prepared by Cathodic Arc Deposition, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym.
Proc, 697, 133-139 (2002)
39.
J.P. Harmon, P.A.O. Muisener, LaNetra Clayton, John DAngelo1, Arun K.

Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Meyya Meyyappan and A.M. Cassell, Ionizing
Radiation Effects on Interfaces in Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites, Mat.
Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., 697, 425-435 (2002)
40.
P. Shukla, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, R. Durvin, M. McDonough and M. D.

Smith, Evaluation of Tribological and Mechanical Properties of Nitride Thin
Films Prepared by Cathodic Arc Deposition, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., 750,
425-435 (2002)
41.
Ashok Kumar and A. K. Sikder, Effects of Bias-enhanced Nucleation and

Growth of Diamond Films on Copper and Transition-metal Alloy Substrates,
TMS Proceedings, Surface Eng.: Science & Technology II, 227-238 (2002)
42.
P.B. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, R. Sharma and Ashok Kumar, Fabrication and

Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Ultra-Thin Silicon Microcantilevers, TMS Proceedings, Surface Eng.: Science & Technology II, 261-272,
(2002)
43.
P. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, S. Thagella, N. Gulati and Ashok Kumar, Metrology

Issues in Cu-Low-k Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym.
Proc., Vol. 750, 39-45 (2002)
44.
A. K. Sikder, I. M. Irfan, Ashok Kumar, R. Durvin, M. McDonough and M.D.

Smith, Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Single and Multi Layered
Nitride Thin Films Prepared by Cathodic Arc Deposition, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym.
Proc, Vol. 697, 133-139 (2002)
45.
A.K. Sikder, S. Thagella, U.C. Bandugilla and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Tribological Properties of Undoped and Fluorine-doped Silicon di-oxide Films on
Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., Vol.
697, 411-416 (2002)
46.
P. Zantye, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Metrology Issues in Cu-low-k

Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., Vol. 750, 33-37
(2003)
47.
LaNetra Clayton, P.A.O. Muisener, J.P. Harmon, Arun K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar,
A.M. Cassell, M. Cinke, and Meyya Meyyappan, Processing of Transparent
Polymer Nanotube Composites via Heat, UV Radiation and Ionizing (gamma)
Radiation using Ultrasonication and Solvent Dissolution, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym.
Proc. 772, 62-67 (2003)
48.
W. G. Easter, G.D. Willis, A.K. Sikder, P. Zantye, and Ashok Kumar, CMP
Tribological Study of Carrier Ring Plastic Materials, Proceedings of 8th
CMPMIC Conf. Proceeding, Los Angeles (CA), pp. 414 417 (2003)
49.
P. Shukla, A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, R. Durvin, M. McDonough and M. D.

Smith Evaluation of Tribological and Mechanical Properties of Nitride Thin
Films Prepared by Cathodic Arc Deposition, , Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc., Vol.
750, 39-46 (2003)
50.
P. B. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, N. Gulati and Ashok Kumar, Study of Slurry

Selectivity and Endpoint Detection in Cu CMP Process, Proceedings of 8th
CMPMIC Conf. Los Angeles (CA), pp. 378-385, (2003)
51.
A. K. Sikder, P. Zantye, S. Thagella and Ashok Kumar, Delamination Behavior

of Cu-low-k Stack Under Different Slurries Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc. 767, F7.3
(2003)
52.
Parshuram Zantye, A. K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar Polishing Behavior of

Interlayer Films in Cu Damascene Process with Different Barrier and Cu
Selective Slurries, Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc. 767, F6.9 (2003)
53.
A. K. Sikder, P. Zantye, S. Thagella and Ashok Kumar, B. Michael Vinogradov,

and Norm V. Gitis, Delamination Studies in Cu-ultra Low-k Stack, Proceedings
of 8th CMPMIC Conf., pp120-127, (2003)
54.
P Zantye, S. Mudhivarthi, A Sikder, Ashok Kumar, S Ostapenko, and Julie

Harmon, Investigation of Mechanical Integrity and its Effect on Polishing for
Novel Polyurethane Polishing Pad, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 816, K4.7.1,
(2004)
55.
P. B. Zantye, S. Mudhivarthi, A Sikder, Ashok Kumar, and Y Obeng, Metrology

of Psiloquests Application Specific Pads (ASP) for CMP Applications, Mat. Res.
Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 816, K5.6.1, (2004)
56.
P B Zantye, A Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Investigation of the Interfacial Adhesion

and its Correlation with Chemical Mechanical Polishing for Various Low-K and
Cu-low K Multi-layered Thin Films, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., F 6.15, (2004)
57.
P Shukla, P B Zantye, A Sikder, Ashok Kumar and M Sanganeria, Effect of

Annealing on the Structural, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of
Electroplated Cu Thin Films, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., F 3.16, (2004)
58.
Parshuram B. Zantye, S. Mudhivarthi, A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, and Yaw

Obeng, Metrology of Psiloquest Application Specific Pads (ASP) for CMP
Applications, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp., Pro. Vol. 816, K5.6.1-K5.6.6 (2004)
59.
P. Shukla, A. K. Sikder, P. B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, and M. Sangnaria, Effects

of Annealing on the Structural, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of
Electroplated Cu Thin Films, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Pro., Vol. 812, F3.16.1F3.16.7 (2004)
60.
Norm.V. Gitis, Jun Xiao and Ashok Kumar, Advanced Specification and Tests of
CMP Retaining Rings, Proceeding of 9th CMP-MIC Conference, Freemont, CA,
35-39, February (2004)
61.
S. Zekri, L. Clayton, E. Ferguson, G. Okogbaa, Ashok Kumar, T. Das, G.

Centeno, L. Martin-Vega, An Impact Study of the Implementation of a Materials
Science and Engineering Module at the Fifth Grade Level, Material Research
Society Symposium, Proceeding Vol. 827E, 20-25 MRS Spring Meeting ( 2004)
62.
Miguel A. Labrador, John Wolan, Grisselle Centeno, Ashok Kumar, Gary

Mullins, Rudiger Schlaf, A Research Initiative to Close the Gap Undergraduate
and Graduate School in Engineering, 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education
Conference, S1B-1 S1B4, Savannah, GA, October 20-23 (2004)
63.
Z. Xu, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, and A. Sikder, Synthesis and

Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond and its Biomedical Application
Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 843, T2.8.1-T2.8.6 (2005)
64.
Z. Xu, Ashok Kumar, Leonid Lev, M. Lukitsch, and Arun Sikder, Adhesion
Improvement of CVD Diamond Coatings on WC-Co Substrates for Machining
Applications, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 843, T3.33.1-T3.33.6 (2005)
65.
Arun Kumar, Michael U. Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, and Elias Stefanakos, Effect of
Physical State of Carbon Nanocomposite on Hydrogen Adsorption and
Desorption Mater. Res. Symp. Proc. Vol. 884E, GG5.2.1-GG5.2.5 (2005)
66.
Sesha S. Srinivasan, Mathew T. Smith, Deepak Deshpandey, Elias K. Stefanakos,

Yogi Goswami, Michael Jurczyk, Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Synthesis and
Characterization of Nanoscale Transition Metal complex for Hydrogen Storage,
Mater. Res. Symp. Proc. Vol. 884E, GG4.2.1-GG4.2.6 (2005)
67.
S. Mudhivarthi, P. B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, and J.Y. Shim Effect of

Temperature during Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) of Copper
Defectivity, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp., Proc. Vol. 867, W 1.5 (2005)
68.
S Mudhivarthi and Ashok Kumar, Effect of Slurry Temperature on Cu Chemical

Mechanical Polishing with Different Oxidizing Agents, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp.
Proc. Vol. 867, W 6.6.1, (2005)
69.
P. B. Zantye , S. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar, and D. Evans, In-situ Metrology for

End Point Detection during Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Shallow Trench
Isolation Structure, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 867, W 8.4.1, (2005)
70.
P. B. Zantye, Y. Obeng, S. Mudhivarthi, and Ashok Kumar, Optimization of

Psiloquest's Application Specific CMP Pads for Commercialization, Mater. Res.
Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 867, W 3.3.1, (2005)
71.
P B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, R. Gopalkrishnan and S. Balakumar, Material

Reliability and Integration Issues of Polyimide and Benzocyclobutene Interlayer
Dielectric Materials, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 863, B8.26.1, (2005)
72.
Ke Li, S. Mudhivarthi, Sunil Saigal, and Ashok Kumar, Mechanical

Characterization of Multilayer Thin Film Stacks Containing Porous Silica Using
nanoindentation and the Finite Element Method Mater. Res. Symp. Proc. Vol.
875, O2.3.1-O2.3.6 (2005)
73.
P. B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, R. Gopalkrishnan, and J. Yota, CMP of Polymeric

Interlayer Dielectric Materials for IC Interconnects, ECS Proceedings, pp 32-38,
(2005)
74.
S. Mudhivarthi, S. Kuiry, M Vinogradov, N Gitis and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Slurry Flow Rate on Dishing, Erosion and Metal Loss During Copper CMP
Process, VMIC Proceeding, pp 23-27 (2005)
75.
S. Mudhivarthi, S. Kuiry, M Vinogradov, N Gitis and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Temperature on Pad Conditioning Process during Chemical Mechanical
Planarization, Pac-RIM-CMP Proceeding, pp 38-42 (2005)
76.
S. Zekri, Ashok Kumar, and G. Okogbaa, Development of Nanotechnology and

Materials Science training Modules for Elementary Science Teachers Proceeding
of the Materials Research Society Fall 2005 Meeting, Volume 909E, November
29-30, (2005)
77.
R. Ganeshan, T. Das, C. Edwards, G. Okoogba, G. Centeno, Ashok Kumar, L.

Honeycutt, and L. A. Martin-Vega, The STARS GK-12 Program at the
University of South Florida Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference,
June 12-15, pp 23-26 (2005)
78.
Jaynta (Jay) Banerjee, and Ashok Kumar, Work in Progress the Transition from
Macro to Nano: A sabbatical experience: 9th International conference on
Engineering Education, San Juan, July 23-28, T1A-1 to T1A2 (2006)
79.
Z. Xu, L. Lev, M. Lukitsch, Ashok Kumar, Deposition of Adherent Diamond

Coatings on WC-Co Substrates MRS Proceeding Surface Engineering for
Manufacturing Applications Volume 890, Y01-04 (2006)
80.
Jay Kapat, Umit Kursun, George Wayne Finger, William McDonald III, Jose
Solomon, Ashok Kumar, Deepak Srivastava, and Meyya Meyyappan, Nanoscale
Thermal Management with Gas-Cooling Proceedings of ASME ICNMM2007,
5th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels,
June 18-20, Puebia, Mexico, page 1-22 (2007)
81.

Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Microparticles for Chemical Mechanical Polishing,
AIChE 2007 Annual Meeting Proceedings, Salt Lake City, UT, on CD-ROM
(2007)
82.
Makoto Hirai, and Ashok Kumar, Infrared Lattice Vibrations of Nitrogen-doped

ZnO Thin Films Materials Research Society Proceeding,: Zinc Oxide and
Related Materials, 1035-L07-07 ( 2007)
83.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Priscila Spagnol, John Bumgarner, and Ashok Kumar,

Role of Nucleation on the Growth of Nanocrystalline Diamond (NCD) Films: A
particular Study in the Fabrication of Micro-Cantilevers Diamond Electronics
Fundamentals to Applications II, MRS Proceedings Volume 1039, Paper #:1039P15-41 (2007)
84.
Cecil Coutinho, Subrahmanya Mudhivarti, Vinay K. Gupta and Ashok Kumar,

"Novel Slurries of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Abrasive Microparticles for Oxide
CMP ", Proceedings of the 13th International Chemical Mechanical Planarization
for ULSI Multilevel Interconnection Conference (CMP-MIC) Proceedings,

Fremont, CA (2008)
85.

Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Oxide Layers using Novel Ceria-Polymer
Microcomposites, AIChE 2008 Annual Meeting Proceedings, CD-ROM (2008)
86.
S. Balachandran, D. M. Hoff, Ashok Kumar, T. M. Weller, Nanocrystalline

Diamond RF MEMS Capacitive Switch, IEEE International Microwave
Symposium, pp1657-1660 (2009)
ABSTRACT/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(Including International, National, State, and Local Meetings)
1.
Ashok Kumar, L. Ganapathi and J. Narayan "Laser Deposited Textured

Superconducting Thin Films of Bi-(Pb)-Ca-Sr-Cu-Ox", MRS Fall Meeting,
Boston (1989)
2.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Role of Silver in YBa2Cu3O7-

Composite Superconductors" Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston
(1989)
3.
L. Ganapathi, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan Superconducting and

Semiconducting Thin Films of La123 and Y123 and Their Superlattices"
4.
Ashok Kumar, L. Ganapathi, S. M. Kanetkar and J. Narayan "Superalloy

Substrates for High-Tc YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films in-situ Pulsed Laser
Deposition" Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (1990)
5.
L. Ganapathi, S. M. Kanetkar, Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Electrical and

Structural Characterization of Laser Processed YBa2Cu3O7- Superconductor
Thin Film on Stainless Steel" Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston
(1990)
6.
Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan " Laser Deposition of YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on
Si (100) with CoSi2 Buffer Layers' Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Boston (1991)
7.
Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan "Laser Processed YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on

Metallic Substrates with TiN Buffer Layers" Materials Research Society Fall
Meeting, Boston (1992)
8.
Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan " Laser Processed YBa2Cu3O7- Thin Films on
Metallic Substrates with Buffer Layers" Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
Symposium, Boston (1992)
9.
Ashok Kumar Evaluation of Buffer Layers for in-situ Deposition of

YBa2Cu3O7- high-Tc Thin Films on Metals and Silicon (100) Seventh Annual
Alabama Materials Research Conference, Huntsville (1993)
10.
Ashok Kumar Pulsed Laser Deposited YBa2Cu3O7- High-Tc Thin Films and
Devices Eighth Annual Alabama Materials Research Conference, Tuscaloosa
(1994)
11.
D. Kjendal, Ashok Kumar, R. Spall and M. Thakur, Modeling of the Laser

Ablation Mechanism in Semiconducting Polymers Modeling and Simulation of
Thin-Film Processing, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco (1995)
12.
U. Ekanayake, J. Sylvester, D. Kjendal, G. Wattuhewa and Ashok Kumar

Structural and Mechanical Properties of Pulsed Laser Processed Thin Films and
Coatings Ninth Annual Alabama Materials Research Conference, Birmingham
(1995)
13.
Shane A Catledge, Y. Vohra, U. Ekanayake and Ashok Kumar Diamond

Deposition on Cemented Tungsten Carbide: Laser Ablation and Microwave
Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition Ninth Annual Alabama Materials Research
Conference, Birmingham (1995)
14.
N. Shu, U. Ekanayake, D. Kjendal, G. Wattuhewa and Ashok. Kumar Growth of

BaTiO3 Thin Film on Si Substrates by Pulsed Laser Deposition Method The
International Symposium on Manufacturing Practices and Technologies and Joint
Fall Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, New Orleans, Nov. 5-8, (1995)
15.
R. Spall and Ashok Kumar Spectral Collocation Methods for One-Dimensional

Phase Change Problems with Applications in Laser-Solid Interactions National
Heat Transfer Conference and Exhibition, Portland, OR, August 6-9 (1995)
16.
Chris Cornelius, Gravin Wattuhewa and Ashok Kumar, Pulsed Laser Processed
Thin Film Coatings of Titanium Nitride on Silicon Substrates Student Research
Consortium, Washington Christian University, Washington D. C., June 6-9 (1996)
17.
I. Hussain, Ashok. Kumar, A. Mangiaracina, S. Perlaky Fabrication of

Piezoelectric Biosensors 18th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference,
Biloxi, MS (1997)
18.
Ashok Kumar, H. L. Chan, J. A. Barnard and N. B. Dahotre Studies of

Mechanical Properties of Thin Films Prepared by Laser Ablation Method TMS
Annual Meeting, Orlando (1997)
19.
Ashok Kumar, J. J. Weimer, L. Sanderson and A. Weirzbicki Surface

Characterization of Hard Coatings TMS Annual Meeting, Orlando (1997)
20.
J. S. Kapat, Z. Wei and Ashok Kumar, A Computational Model for Simulation of

Laser Ablation in a Pulsed Laser Deposition Process International Conference on
Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego (1997)
21.
J. S. Kapat, G. S. Landsberg and Ashok Kumar, Simulation of Flow and

Transport in Hot Filament Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond
Films International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San
Diego (1997)
22.
Ashok Kumar Electron Microscopy Study of Bulk and Thin Film High
Temperature Superconductors 15th Annual Meeting of the Alabama Imaging and
Microscopy Society, Orange Beach, AL (1998)
23.
H. L. Chan, Q. You and Ashok Kumar Laser Processing of Superhard Coatings

The University of South Alabama 3rd Annual Research Forum, Mobile (1998)
24.
N. Shu, M. R. Alam, Q. You and Ashok Kumar Study of Dielectric Properties of

BaTiO3 Thin Films The University of South Alabama 3rd Annual Research
Forum, Mobile (1998)
25.
H. L. Chan, P. Davis, A. Mangiaracina, Ashok Kumar, G. Wattuhewa, J. A.

Barnard and J. J. Weimer Investigations of Structural and Mechanical Properties
of Carbide and Nitride Coatings Prepared by Laser Ablation Method Tenth
Annual Alabama Materials Research Conference, Auburn (1998)
26.
M. R. Alam, Ashok Kumar, A. Mangiaracina and I. Ahmed Effect of Electrodes

on the Ferroelectric Properties of PZT Thin Films Tenth Annual Alabama
Materials Research Conference, Auburn (1998)
27.
I. Hussain, Ashok Kumar, A. Mangiaracina, S. Perlaky, F. Zhong and C.

McCombs Fabrication of Piezoelectric Biosensors and Their Applications
Tenth Annual Alabama Materials Research Conference, Auburn (1998)
28.
M. R. Alam, Ashok Kumar, W. F. Gale, J. A. Barnard, A. Mangiaracina and H. L.

Chan Synthesis and Characterization of Laser Ablated Shape Memory TiNi
Films Tenth Annual Alabama Materials Research Conference, Auburn (1998)
29.
L. A. W. Sanderson, J. J. Weimer, H. L. Chan and Ashok Kumar Surface

Characterization of Thin Film Hard Coating Tenth Annual Alabama Materials
Research Conference, Auburn (1998)
30.
M. Gallev, Ashok Kumar, I. Ahmed, Synthesis and Characterizations of

Diamond Films Grown by Filament Assisted CVD Methods 17th Annual
Meeting of the Alabama Imaging and Microscopy Society, Orange Beach, AL
(1998)
31.
Ashok Kumar and R. Bahl, Growth, Structure, and Mechanical Properties of

Pulsed Laser Deposited Microlaminates Coatings, Polycrystalline Thin Films
Processing-Structure-Property Relationship Materials Research Society Fall
Meeting (1998)
32.
R. Bahl, Ashok Kumar and M. Shamsuzzoha, Synthesis of Pulsed Laser

Deposited Gallium Nitride Films on Sapphire Substrates Film Growth and
Processing Using Hyperthermal Beams, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Boston (1998)
33.
Ashok Kumar, M. Galeev and M. Shamsuzzoha, Effects of Pretreated Substrates

on the Growth Morphology of Diamond Films Prepared by Hot Filament
chemical vapor deposition method Properties and Processing of VaporDeposited Coatings Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (1998)
34.
M. Vedawyas, D. Patel, G. Wattuhewa, and Ashok Kumar, "Soft ZnWO4 on WN

Self-lubricating Nanocomposites Coatings" Materials Research Society Fall
35.
M. T. Galeev, M. Vedawyas, G. Sivanathan, and Ashok Kumar, "Enhancement in

the Growth of Textured HFCVD Diamond Coatings on Modified Ti-6Al-4V
Substrates by Excimer Laser Processing" Materials Research Society Fall
36.
R. Bahl, D. Patel, M. Vedawyas, Ashok Kumar, and M. Shamsuzzoha,

"Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of DLC/TiC Microlaminate Coatings"
37.
Ashok Kumar, Growth of Textured Diamond Films on Si (100) Substrates by

Nano-particle Seeding, Symposium B, Structure and Mechanical Properties of
Nanophase Materials Theory and Computer Simulations vs. Experiment,
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston Nov 27-Dec 1 (2000)
38.
Ashok Kumar, M. Anthony, I. Irfan Nano-indentation Studies of Low-k

Dielectric Materials, Symposium Q, Fundamentals of Nanoindentation and
Nanotribology II, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston Nov 27-Dec 1
(2000)
39.
M. Vedaways, Ashok Kumar and M. Shamsuzzoha, Investigation of Different

Diffusion Barrier Layer Deposition by Pulsed Excimer Laser Ablation for Cu
Metallization Technology Symposium D, Materials Technology, and Reliability
for Advanced Interconnects and Low-k Dielectrics, Materials Research Society
Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 23-27 (2000)
40.
Ashok Kumar, Piezoelectric Based Biosensor for Immunology Applications

Symposium DD, Interfacial Aspects of Soft Biomaterials, Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 23-27 (2000)
41.
Ashok Kumar, M. Vedawyas, and M. Shamsuzzoha, Mechanical Properties of

Hard Coatings Synthesized by Laser Ablation Method Symposium J, Laser-Solid
Interaction for Materials Processing, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting,
San Francisco, April 23-27 (2000)
42.
Ashok Kumar, M. Anthony, I. M. Irfan, Nano-indentation Studies of Low-k

Dielectric Materials Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (2000)
43.
Ashok Kumar, Growth of Highly Textured Diamond Films on Si (100)

Substrates by Nano-particle Seeding Technique Materials Research Society Fall
44.
Ashok Kumar, Novel Synthesis and Fabrication of Hybrid Coatings for

Manufacturing Applications NSF Design of Industrial Innovation Conference,
Tampa (2001)
45.
Rajnish K. Sharma and Ashok Kumar, Design and Fabrication of Integrated

Sensors DARPA Integrated Sensing and Processing (ISP) Meeting, March 26th,
2001, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
46.
A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar Mechanical Properties of Low-k Dielectric

Materials, Materials Research Society Spring Meetings, Boston (2001)
47.
Ashok Kumar, A. K. Sikder et al., Tribological and Mechanical Characterization

of Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process, AFOSR/ONR/NSF Tribology
Review Conf., Duck Key, Florida, May, (2001)
48.
A. K. Sikder, I. M. Irfan, Ashok Kumar, S. Ostapenko and J. Mark Anthony,

Evaluation and Comparison of Tribological and Mechanical Properties of low-k
Dielectrics, Materials, Technology, and Reliability for Advanced Interconnects
and Low-k Dielectrics, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco (2001)
49.
Ashok Kumar and A. K. Sikder Effects of Bias-enhanced Nucleation and Growth

of Diamond Films on Copper and Transition-metal Alloy Substrates, TMS,
Surface Eng.: Science & Technology II, New Orleans (2002)
50.
R. Ganeshan, T. K. Das, A. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Wavelet Based

Monitoring of Nanoscale Machining in Chemical Mechanical Planarization
(CMP) Process, INFORMS Conference, San Jose, November (2002)
51.
Ashok Kumar, Investigation of Metrology Issues in Chemical Mechanical

Planarization Processes for Microelectronics Applications NSF Design of
Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation (DMII) Conference, San Juan, January
(2002)
52.
Parshuram Zantye, Arun Sikder, Manjula Rao Katapally, Shekhar Bhansali and
Ashok Kumar Bending Studies of Gold Coated Polysilicon Microcantilevers
Using Nanoindentation Technique Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Boston (2002)
53.
Parshuram Zantye, M. M. Rahman, Rajnish K. Sharma, Arun Sikder and Ashok

Kumar, Heat Conduction Analysis of the Effects of Substrate Isolation on a
Micromachined Hotplate, 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering
Congress and Exposition, Washington D.C., (2002)
54.
P.B. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, R. Sharma and Ashok Kumar Fabrication and

Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Ultra-Thin Silicon Microcantilevers, TMS, Surface Eng.: Science & Technology II, New Orleans (2002)
55.
A. K. Sikder, P. Zantye, S. Thagella and Ashok Kumar Delamination Behavior of

Cu-low-k Stack under Different Slurries, Materials Research Society Spring
Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2003)
56.
A. K. Sikder, Parshuram Zantye and Ashok Kumar Polishing Behavior of

Interlayer Films in Cu Damascene Process with Different Barrier and Cu
Selective Slurries, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco,
CA (2003)
57.
Parshuram Zantye, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar Evaluation of Mechanical

and Tribological Properties of Ultra low-k Dielectric Materials for their
Integration in Cu Damascene Structures, Materials Research Society Spring
Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2003)
58.
Pallavi Shukla, Parshuram Zantye, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar

Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Electroplated Cu Thin Films,
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2003)
59.
R. Ganeshan, T. K. Das, A. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, A Wavelet Based

Multiresolution Monitoring of a Nanomachining Process in Semiconductor
Manufacturing , Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA
(2003)
60.
A. K. Sikder, Parshuram Zantye and Ashok Kumar Experimental Detection of

the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) Process End Point for Different
Interconnect Materials, Electrochemical Society Meeting, Paris (2003)
61.
A. K. Sikder, Z. Xu, M. Holly, and Ashok Kumar Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin

Films for Tools and Other Applications, Electrochemical Society Meeting, Paris
(2003)
62.
P. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, A. Belyaev, I. Tarasov, and S. Ostapenko

Evaluation of the Properties of Polyurethane Pads and their Correlation to the
Performance in the CMP Process Electrochemical Society Meeting, Paris (2003)
63.
A. K. Sikder, Z. Xu, M. Holly, and Ashok Kumar Synthesis of Nanocrystalline

Diamond Films on Different Pretreated Si Substrate by Microwave Plasma
Chemical Vapor Deposition Materials Research Society -Singapore Meeting,
(2003)
64.
A. K. Sikder, Parshuram Zantye, Ashok Kumar, Tribo-mechanical

Characterization of Ultra Low-k Materials for Integration in Cu-damascene
Process, Materials Research Society -Singapore Meeting, (2003)
65.
A. K. Sikder, Pallavi Shukla, Parshuram Zantye, Ashok Kumar, and M.K.

Sanganaria, Evolution of Mechanical Properties of Electroplated Cu Thin Films
during Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process Materials Research Society Singapore Meeting, (2003)
66.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar Analysis of the Defects
during the Implementation of Cu- Ultra low-k Damascene Structures AVS
(Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Sym., Orlando, (Poster
got Special Mention Award in Materials Science Section) (2003)
67.
Swetha Thagella, Arun K Sikder, Parshuram Zantye, and Ashok Kumar Study of
Tribological Properties and Modeling of Removal Rate of Low-k Films in
Chemical Mechanical Planarization AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society
for Microscopy Joint Sym., Orlando, (Poster got 2nd prize in Materials Science
Section.), (2003)
68.
Pallavi Shukla, Parshuram Zantye, Arun K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar

Mechanical and Surface Characterization of Cu Interconnect Thin Films AVS
(Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Sym., Orlando, (Poster
got Special Mention Award in Characterization Section) (2003)
69.
Z. Xu, M. Holly, A. Sikder, Ashok Kumar Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin Films

Deposited by Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition AVS (Florida
Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Sym., Orlando, 2003 (Poster got
Special Mention award in Materials Science Section) (2003)
70.
Sindhura Valdhamani, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar Synthesis and

Characterization of Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Thin Films AVS (Florida
Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Sym., Orlando, (2003)
71.
Uttam Chandra Bandugula, A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, Lanetra Clayton and J. P.

Harmon Mechanical and Optical Characterization of TiO2/ PMMA NanoPolymer Composite AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy
Joint Sym., Orlando, (2003)
72.
R. Ganeshan, T. K. Das, A. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, End Point Detection of

Chemical Mechanical Planarization using Time Frequency Analysis INFORMS
Conference, Atlanta, October (2003)
73.
A. K. Sikder, Parshuram Zantye and Ashok Kumar, Polishing Behavior of Metal

and Interlayer Dielectric (ILD) Materials with Different Slurries Electro
Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando (2003)
74.
Z. Xu, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin Films for
Tools and Other Applications Electrochemical Society Meeting , Oct. 12-17,
Orlando (2003)
75.
P. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, A. Belyaev, I. Tarasov, and S. Ostapenko,

Evaluation of the Properties of Polyurethane Pads and Their Correlation to the
Performance in the CMP Process Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando
(2003)
76.
Shenique Johnson, Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun Sikder, Ashok Kumar and Sergei
Ostapenko, Comparative Studies of Commercially Available Polyurethane
Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Pads AVS (Florida Chapter) &
Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Symp., Orlando, (2004)
77.
Sadiya Hassan, Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar,

Quality Evaluation of the Slurries used in Chemical Mechanical Polishing
(CMP) AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Symp.,
Orlando, (2004)
78.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun K Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Investigation of

Different Annealing Conditions with Interfacial Adhesion Multilayered Thin
Films for Cu Interconnect Applications AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida
Society for Microscopy Joint Symp., Orlando, (2004)
79.
Raghu Mudhivarti, Arun Sikder, Ashok Kumar, and Julie Harmon, Dynamic
Mechanical Analysis of Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) Pads AVS
(Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Symp., Orlando, (2004)
80.
Brian Brantley, Souheil Zekri, Arun Kumar and Ashok Kumar, Solid State Gas
Sensor For Ammonia Detection Based on Polyaniline Multi-walled Carbon
Nanotubes and TiO2 AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy
Joint Symp., Orlando, (2004)
81.
Thomas Gressle, Souheil Zekri, Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Sol-Gel and
Carbon Nanotubes Based Microelectrode fro Simultaneous Detection of Glucose
and Insulin AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint
Symp., Orlando, (2004)
82.
Sadiya Hassan and Ashok Kumar, Introduction to Chemical Mechanical

Polishing-Slurry Selectivity ASME, Regional Student Chapter (RSC), April 1-4,
(2004)
83.
A. K. Sikder, Swetha Thagella, Parshuram Zantye, Ashok Kumar and Jiro Yota,
Tribological Issues and Modeling of Removal Behavior of the Doped and
Undoped SiO2 Interlayer Dielectric Planarization Materials Research Society
Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-16, (2004)
84.
T. K. Das, Ashok Kumar, A. N. Rao, R. Ganeshan, and Arun Sikder, Sensor

Based Control of a Nanomachining Process NSF Design, Manufacturing, and
Service Grantees Conference, Dallas, January (2004)
85.
Ashok Kumar, A. K. Sikder, Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Hard

Coatings NSF Design, Manufacturing, and Service Grantees Conference,
Dallas, January (2004)
86.
Souheil Zekri, Arun Kumar, A. K. Sikder and Ashok Kumar, Manoj K Ram and
Matt Aldissi, Controlled Microstructure upon Annealing of n type Sputtered SnO2
Thin Films Based Gas Sensor for Enhanced Sensitivity Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-16, (2004)
87.
S. G. Manavalan, A.K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar and T. Weller Structural and

Electrical Properties of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 Thin Films for Tunable Microwave
Applications Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April
12-16, (2004)
88.
P. Shukla, P. Zantye, A. K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar and Mahesh Sanganaria, Effect

of Annealing on the Structural, Mechanical and Tribological Properties of
Electroplated Cu Thin Films Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, April 12-16, (2004)
89.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Investigation of the

Interfacial Adhesion and its Correlation with Chemical Mechanical Polishing for
Various Low-k and Cu-low k Multi-layered Thin Films Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-16, (2004)
90.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar and Yaw Obeng, Nondestructive Evaluation Method For Psiloquests Application Specific Pads (ASP)
For CMP Applications Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, April 12-16, (2004)
91.
William G. Easter, Parshuram Zantye, Arun K Sikder and Ashok Kumar

Evaluation of the Tribological Properties and Wear Rate of Different
Semiconductor Grade Plastic Materials for Contact Retaining Ring Application,
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-16, (2004)
92.
S. Zekri, L. Clayton, E. Feguson, G. Okogbaa, Ashok Kumar, T. Das, G. Centeno,

L. Martin-Vega, "An Impact Study of the Implementation of a Materials Science
and Engineering Module at the Fifth Grade Level," NSF GK-12 Fellows Meeting
(2004)
93.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Arun Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Study of Interfacial

Properties of Multilayered Thin Films for Cu Interconnects Applications, 2nd
International Conference on Thin Film 2004 and Nanotech 2004, July 13-17,
Singapore (2004)
94.
Z. Xu, A. K. Sikder, Mark Holly, and Ashok Kumar, Nanocrystalline Diamond

Thin films Deposited by Microwave Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor
Deposition 2nd International Conference on Thin Film 2004 and Nanotech 2004,
July 13-17, Singapore (2004)
95.
S.G. Manavalan, A.K. Sikder, Ashok Kumar, Characterization of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3

Thin Films for Tunable Microwave Applications 2nd International Conference on
Thin Film 2004 and Nanotech 2004, July 13-17, 2004, Singapore (2004)
96.
P Zantye, S Mudhivarthi, A Sikder, Ashok Kumar, S Ostapenko and J Harmon,

Investigation of Mechanical Integrity and its Effect on Polishing for Novel
Polyurethane Polishing Pad Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, CA, April 12th 16th, (2004)
97.
P Zantye, S Mudhivarthi, A Sikder, Ashok Kumar and Y. Obeng, Metrology of

Psiloquests Specific Pads (ASP) for CMP Applications Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 12th 16th, (2004)
98.

Centeno, L. Martin-Vega., A WIP: Preliminary Performance Assessment of an
After-School Science Program in an Urban School Environment, Frontier in

Education, October 20-23, (2004)
99.

Centeno,
L. Martin-Vega Implementation of Material Science and
Nanotechnology Modules at the Third through Fifth Grade Level, Frontier in
Education, October 20-23, (2004)
100.

Centeno, L. Martin-Vega, Implementation of an Engineering and Technology
Based Summer Science Camp, Frontier in Education, October 20-23, (2004)
101.
Arun Kumar, Brian Brantley, Souheil Zekri and Ashok Kumar, Conducting
Polymeric Nanocomposite for Ammonia Gas Sensor Applications Materials
Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, November 29-December 3, (2004)
102.
Arun Kumar, Michael U. Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, Sesha S. Srinivasan and Lee
Stefanakos, Polymeric Carbon Nanocomposites for Hydrogen Storage, Materials
Research Society Fall Meeting, November 29-December 3, (2004)
103.
Brian Brantley, Arun Kumar, Souheil Zekri, and Ashok Kumar, Solid State Gas
Sensor for Ammonia Detection Based on Polyaniline Multiwall Carbon
Nanotubes and TiO2 Composite AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for
Microscopy Joint Sym., Orlando, FL (2004)
104.
Thomas Gressle, Arun Kumar, Souheil Zekri, Ashok Kumar. Sol-gel and Carbon
Nanotube Based Microelectrode for Simultaneous Detection of Glucose and
Insulin, AVS (Florida Chapter) & Florida Society for Microscopy Joint Sym.,
Orlando, FL (2004)
105.
Souheil Zekri, Arun Kumar, Shree R Singh, and Ashok Kumar, Nanoscale
Silicon Microcavity DNA Biosensor. 1st International Conference on
Nanotechnology, Singapore (2004)
106.
Z. Xu, A .K. Sikder, Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Synthesis and
Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond Film and its Biomedical
Applications Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, November 29December 3, (2004)
107.
Z. Xu, A. K. Sikder, and Ashok Kumar, Fabrication and Application of Vertically

Aligned Carbon Nanofibers by Microwave Plasma-enhanced Chemical Vapor
Deposition, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, November 29December 3, (2004)
108.
Z. Xu, M. Luckitsch, L. Lev, and Ashok Kumar, Adhesion Improvement of CVD

Diamond Coatings on WC-Co Substrates for Machining Applications Materials
Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, November 29-December 3, (2004)
109.
Sriraj G. Manavalan, Ashok Kumar and Thomas Weller, Metal Oxide Electrode
in Ferroelectric Capacitors for Microwave Applications Materials Research
Society Fall Meeting, Boston, November 29-December 3, (2004)
110.
Sriraj G. Manavalan, Ashok Kumar and Thomas Weller, Structural and Electrical
Characterization of Sputtered BaSrTiO3 Thin Films for Tunable Microwave
Devices Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, November 29December 3, (2004)
111.
Arun Kumar, M. Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, S. Srinivasan, E. Stefanakos. "Polymeric

Carbon Nanocomposites for Hydrogen Storage." Poster Presentation in
Symposium N Materials for Hydrogen Storage, N.3.20. at Fall Materials
Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 28 Dec. 1, (2004)
112.
S. Mudhivarthi, A Sikder, Ashok Kumar and J Harmon, Dynamic Mechanical

Analysis of Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) pads, Florida Chapter of the
AVS Science and Technology Society (FLAVS) symposium, Orlando, FL,
Orlando, FL, March 8th 9th, (2004)
113.
Ashok Kumar, Investigation of Tribological Issues in Chemical Mechanical

Planarization NSF Design of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Grantee
Conference, Birmingham, AL (2005)
114.
Arun Kumar, Souheil Zekri Ashok Kumar and Shree R. Singh, Nanoscale DNA
Biosensor for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Diagnosis Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
115.
Souheil Zekri, Doug Pringle, Thomas Koob and Ashok Kumar, Mechanical
Characterization of ZnO Nanowires/Gelatin Nanocomposites for Orthopedic
Implants Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
116.
Arun Kumar, Jessica Otto, Ashok Kumar and Shekhar Bhansali, Novel
Nanoscale Biosensor for Lactate Analysis in Sweat Materials Research Society
Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
117.
Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, Sesha S. Srinivasan, Matthew T. Smith

and Elias K. Stefanakos, Nanocomposite with Carbon Nanotubes Aligned in
High Magnetic Field for Hydrogen Storage Applications Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
118.
Arun Kumar, Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar and Elias K. Stefanakos,
Effect of Physical State of Carbon Nanocomposite on Hydrogen Adsorption and
Desorption Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA

(2005)
119.
Sesha S. Srinivasan, Matthew T. Smith, Deepak Deshpande, Elias K. Stefanakos,

Yogi Goswami, Michael Jurczyk, Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Synthesis
and Characterization of Nanoscale Transition Metal Complex for Hydrogen
Storage Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
120.
Zhenqing Xu, Arun Kumar and Ashok Kumar, Nitrogen-Doped Nanocrystalline

Diamond Films Modified with Conductive Polymer for DNA Hybridization
Analysis, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2005)
121.
S. Balachandran, T. M. Weller, Ashok Kumar, Ultrananocrystalline Diamond for

Microwave Applications, 7th IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology
Conference, Florida, December (2005)
122.
Venkataramanan Gurumurthy, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, John W.

Bumgarner, Comparative Study of Effects of Annealing on Barium Strontium
Titanate Thin Films with Different Deposition Methods, Materials Research
Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2005)
123.
Venkataramanan Gurumurthy, Subrahmanya Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar Effects

of Chemical Mechanical Polishing on Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films for
Tunable Microwave Applications Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Boston, MA (2005)
124.
Souheil Zekri, Ashok Kumar, Geoffery Okogbaa and Louis Martin-Vega;

Development of Nanotechnology and Material Science Training Modules for
Elementary Science Teachers Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston,
MA (2005)
125.
Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, Elias Stefanakos, Arun Kumar and Sesha
Srinivasan, Study of Effect of Temperature and Pressure on the Hydrogen
Sorption Capabilities of a Polyaniline-CNT Nanocomposite Material Materials
Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2005)
126.
Souheil Zekri, Arun Kumar and Ashok Kumar, Simultaneous Detection of

Insulin, Glucose and pH Using Nanosensor Array Materials Research Society
Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2005)
127.
Zhenqing Xu, Ashok Kumar, Leonid Lev and Michael Luckitsch, Synthesis of
CVD Diamond Coatings on Tungsten Carbide Substrates with Interlayer and
Surface Pretreatments Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA
(2005)
128.
Zhenqing Xu and Ashok Kumar, Nanocrystalline Diamond as an Interface for

Biomedical Applications Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA
(2005)
129.
Souheil Zekri, Ashok Kumar, Geoffrey Okogbaa, and Louis Martin-Vega

Development of Nanotechnology and Materials Science Training Modules for
Elementary Science Teachers, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston,
MA (2005)
130.
Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Arun Kumar, E. Stefanakos, Ashok Kumar, S.

Srinivasan. Study of Effect of Temperature and Pressure on the Hydrogen
Sorption Capabilities of a Polyaniline-CNT Nanocomposite Material
Symposium A The Hydrogen Cycle Generation, Storage and Fuel Cells, Fall
Materials Research Society in Boston, MA, November 27 December 1, (2005)
131.
Michael Jurczyk, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, S. Srinivasan, M. Smith, E.

Stefanakos. "Effect of Physical State of Carbon Nanocomposite on Hydrogen
Adsorption and Desorption." Materials and Technology for Hydrogen Storage and
Generation, Spring MRS Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 28 April 1, (2005)
132.
Souheil Zekri, D. Hernandez, D. Pringle, T. Koob, Ashok Kumar Development

of Collagen/Carbon Nanotube Composite for Orthopedic Implants, Fall
Materials Research Society, Boston (2005)
133.
Sesha Srinivasan, M. Smith, D. Deshpande, E. Stefanakos, Y. Goswami, M.

Jurczyk, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar "Synthesis and Characterization of
Nanoscale Transition Metal Complex for Hydrogen Storage." Materials and
Technology for Hydrogen Storage and Generation, Materials Research Society
Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 28 April 1, (2005)
134.
Arun Kumar, M. Jurczyk, Ashok Kumar, S. Srinivasan, E. Stefanakos.

"Nanocomposite with Carbon Nanotubes Aligned in High Magnetic Field for
Hydrogen Storage Applications" Symposium GG Materials and Technology for
Hydrogen Storage and Generation, Materials Research Spring Society Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, March 28 April 1, (2005)
135.
Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Nanoscale Materials for Biomedical and Sensor
Applications 2005 Annual Joint (Florida Society for Microscopy, Florida
Chapter of the AVS and Applied Surface Analysis) March 13-17, Orlando (2005)
136.
Michael Jurczyk, Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Elias Stefanakos, Semi-solid

Nanocomposites Materials for Hydrogen Storage 2005 Annual Joint (Florida
Society for Microscopy, Florida Chapter of the AVS and Applied Surface
Analysis) March 13-17, Orlando (2005)
137.
Parshuram B Zantye, Ashok Kumar, J. Yota, Challenges in Reliability and

Integration of Polymeric Interlayer Dielectric (ILD) Material with Copper for
Integrated Circuit (IC) Interconnects 2005 Annual Joint (Florida Society for
Microscopy, Florida Chapter of the AVS and Applied Surface Analysis ) March
13-17, Orlando (2005)
138.
S. R. Mudhivarthi, Parshuram B Zantye, Arun Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Effect

of Temperature on Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Copper in Slurries with
Different Oxidizers 2005 Annual Joint (Florida Society for Microscopy, Florida
Chapter of the AVS and Applied Surface Analysis ) March 13-17, Orlando (2005)
139.
S. Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, and Y. L. Chiou, Characterization of High-k HfO2

Thin Films for Gate-oxide Applications 2005 Annual Joint (Florida Society for
Microscopy, Florida Chapter of the AVS and Applied Surface Analysis ) March
13-17, Orlando (2005)
140.
V. Gurumurthy, S. Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, John W. Bumgarner Comparative

Study of Effects of Annealing on Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films with
Different Deposition Methods, Materials Research Society Fall 2005 Meeting,
Nov 29th Dec 1st, Boston (2005)
141.
Kamran Varahramyan, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Manoj K. Singh and Ashok

Kumar Catalytic Growth and Characterization of High Density ZnO Nanowires,
Interdisciplinary Nanoscience REU Meeting, Aug 2005, USF, Tampa (2005)
142.
Zhenqing Xu, Arun Kumar, Manoj Singh, Ashok Kumar, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta
DNA Sensor Based on the Modified Nitrogen-Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond
Film, 8th Applied Diamond Conference, May 15th May 19th 2005, Argonne
(2005)
143.
Sriraj G. Manavalan, Ashok Kumar, Saravana Natarajan, S. Jeedigunta and

Thomas Weller Structural and Electrical Characterization of Sputtered
Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3Thin Films for Tunable Microwave Devices,
Materials
Research Society Fall 2004 meeting, Nov 29th- Dec 3rd, Boston (2005)
144.
S. Gaddipati., Mansouri. M, S. Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, Chiou. Y. L, Modeling

of Current Conduction in HfO2 Stack Structures, 208th Electrochemical Society
Meeting, October 16th -October 21st, Los Angeles, (2005)
145.
V. Gurumurthy, S. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar, Effects of Chemical Mechanical

Polishing on Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films for Tunable Microwave
Applications Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Nov 29th Dec 1st,
Boston (2005)
146.
V. Gurumurthy, S. Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar, John W. Bumgarner, Comparative

Study of Effects of Annealing on Barium Strontium Titanate Thin Films with
Different Deposition Methods, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Nov

29th Dec 1st, Boston (2005)
147.
S. Mudhivarthi, S. Kuiry, M. Vinogradov, N. Gitis, and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Slurry Flow Rate on Dishing, Erosion and Metal Loss during Copper CMP
Process, Presented at 22nd international VMIC Conference, Fremont, CA, Oct 3rd
6th, (2005)
148.
S. Mudhivarthi, Parshuram Zantye, Ashok Kumar, and J.Y. Shim, Effect of

Temperature on the Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) Slurry Abrasive
Particle Agglomeration and Defectivity, Materials Research Society Spring
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Mar 28th Apr 1st, (2005)
149.
S. Mudhivarthi and Ashok Kumar, A Study of the Effect of Slurry Temperature

on Cu Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) with H2O2 and KIO3 as Oxidizing
Agents, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Mar
28th Apr 1st, (2005)
150.
K. Li, S. Mudhivarthi, S. Saigal and Ashok Kumar, Finite Element Modeling of

Nanoindentation for porous ILD, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting,
San Francisco, CA, Mar 28th Apr 1st, (2005)
151.
P. B. Zantye, S. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar and David Evans, A Study of

Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process for Shallow Trench Isolation
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Mar 28th Apr
1st, (2005)
152.
S. Mudhivarthi, N Gitis, S Kuiry, M Vinogradov, and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Temperature on Pad Conditioning Process During Chemical Mechanical
Planarization, 2nd Pac-Rim International Conference on Planarization CMP and
Its Application Technology, (PacRim-CMP), COEX, Seoul, Korea, November
17th 19th, (2005)
153.
Jessica Otto, A. Kumar, Ashok Kumar and S. Bhansali Carbon Nanotube

Biosensors for Sweat Analyte Analysis, 1st Annual IGERT Symposium, USF,
Tampa, FL, April (2005)
154.
Jessica Otto, A. Kumar, Ashok Kumar, S. Bhansali Novel Nanoscale Biosensor

for Lactate Sweat Analysis, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, CA, April (2005)
155.
N. Gitis, Suresh Kuiry, R. Mudhivarthi, M. Vinogradov, and Ashok Kumar,

Effects of Slurry Flow Rate and Pad Conditioning Temperature on Dishing,
Erosion, and Metal Loss during Copper CMP, Northern California AVS User
Group Annual Meeting, Oct. 4-5, San Jose (2005)
156.
S Mudhivarthi, P Zantye, Arun Kumar and Ashok Kumar, Effect of Temperature

on CMP of Copper in Slurries with Different Oxidizers, P-54, Florida Chapter of
the AVS Science and Technology Society (FLAVS) Symposium, Orlando, FL,
March 14th-16th, (2005)
157.
P. B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, S. Natarajan and T. Weller, Use of Chemical

Mechanical Polishing in the Fabrication of Radio Frequency (RF) Micro Coaxial
Transmission Lines (MCTL), 207th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society,
Quebec City, Canada, May 15-20, (2005)
158.
R. Heindl, H. Srikanth, S. Balachandran, T. Weller, Ashok Kumar, P. Gadkari and

K. R. Coffey, Microwave Impedance and Tunability of BSTO/BaM Ferrite Films,
50th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) Conference, San Jose, CA, Oct.
30-Nov. 3 (2005)
159.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta and Ashok Kumar One Dimensional NanostructuresSynthesis, Characterization and Applications, Tools and Techniques in
Nanoscience, Pan American Conference, June 19th- 30th, San Jose, Costa Rica
(2006)
160.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Zhenqing Xu and Ashok Kumar Influence of the

Plasma Treatment on the Structural Modification and the Electrical Conductivity
of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films, ICNDST AND ADC Joint Conference 2006,
May 15th May 18th, Research Triangle Park, (2006)
161.
Zhenqing Xu, Leonid Lev, Michael Lukitsch, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Ashok

Kumar Analysis of Mechanical Properties and Residual Stress of
Nanocrystalline Diamond Film Deposited on WC-Co Substrate, , ICNDST AND
ADC Joint Conference, 2006, May 15th May 18th, Research Triangle Park,
(2006)
162.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Manoj K. Singh, Ashok Kumar UV-Blue Lasing

Observation from a Patterned Growth of ZnO Nanotubes, 2nd Annual IGERT
symposium, April 5th 2006, USF, Tampa, (2006)
163.
Z. Xu, S. Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar Nanocrystalline Diamond for Biomedical

Applications, 2nd Annual IGERT symposium, April 5th 2006, USF, Tampa
(2006)
164.
Ashok Kumar, Z. Xu, and S. Jeedigunta Synthesis, Characterization, and

Applications of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films, ICONSAT 2006, March 16th
March 18th, New Delhi (2006)
165.
Jessica Weber, W. Graham Yelton and Ashok Kumar Direct Electrodeposition of

High Density Bi1-xSbx Nanowire Arrays on Si Substrates, 11th Annual SIP
Student Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, Aug (2006)
166.
Jessica Weber and Ashok Kumar Amperometric Biosensor based on ZnO

Nanowires, 2nd Annual IGERT Symposium, USF, Tampa, FL, April (2006)
167.
H. Wang, Q. Huang, and Ashok Kumar Analysis of Correlated Functional

Process Variables for Nanomanufacturing Process Control IIE Annual
Conference & Exposition, May 20-24, Orlando, FL, (2006)
168.
Jessica Weber and Ashok Kumar, Electrochemical Biosensors based on ZnO

Nanowires, Gordon Research Conference: Bioanalytical Sensors, Ventura, CA,
Feb (2006)
169.
Ashok Kumar, Metrology Issues in Chemical Mechanical Planarization

Processes NSF Design of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Grantee
Conference, St. Louis, July (2006)
170.
S. R. Mudhivarthi, V. Raghava Kakireddy, Jay Banerjee and Ashok Kumar,

Some Tribological Aspects of Thin Film Copper during CMP 2006
ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, San Antonio, TX, Oct.
23-26 (2006)
171.
S. Zekri, G. Okogbaa, G. Centeno, T. K. Das, Ashok Kumar, and L. Martin-Vega,

Implementation of a Material Science and Nanotechnology Module at the Fifth
Grade Level, GK-12 Symposium of the Florida Academy of Sciences 70th
Annual Conference, Melbourne, FL, March 11, (2006)
172.
S Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar, P. Zantye, H McCrab and E. Taylor, Effect of

Electrolytes during Electro-Polishing Process on Tribological, Structural and
Surface Chemical Characteristics of Copper, 11th International CMP-MIC
Conference, Fremont, CA, Feb 20th 23rd, (2006)
173.
S. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar, N Gitis and M Vinogradov, Mechanical,

Tribological and Tissue Drag Testing of Surgical Sutures, IGERT symposium,
University of South Florida, May 5th (2006)
174.
S. Mudhivarthi, S. Kuiry, M. Vinogradov, N. Gitis, and Ashok Kumar, Effect of

Temperature on Pad Conditioning Process during Chemical Mechanical
Planarization, 11th International CMP-MIC Conference, Fremont, CA, Feb 20th
23rd, (2006)
175.
S Mudhivarthi, C Coutinho, Ashok Kumar and V Gupta, Novel Core-Shell Type

Abrasive Particles for Oxide CMP Applications,
210th ECS meeting
proceedings, Chemical Mechanical Planarization Symposium, Cancun, Mexico,
Oct 29th Nov 3rd, (2006)
176.
S Mudhivarthi, V R Kakireddy, Ashok Kumar and Y. Obeng, Effect of Slurry

Characteristics on the Surface Tribology during Copper CMP Process, 210th ECS
meeting proceedings, Chemical Mechanical Planarization Symposium, Cancun,
Mexico, Oct 29th Nov 3rd, (2006)
177.
S. Mudhivarthi, V R Kakireddy, J Banerjee and Ashok Kumar, Some

Tribological Aspects of Thin Film during CMP, ASME/STLE International Joint
Tribology Conference, San Antonio, Texas USA, Oct 23-25, (2006)
178.
V. Gurumurthy, S. Jeedigunta , Samuel Baylis, Priscila Spagnol, Ashok Kumar,

Comparison of Microwave Capacitors Fabricated on MPECVD Diamond and
Bulk Silicon Diamond Fibers Diamond Electronics Fundamentals to
Applications (Symposium J), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Nov. 2730, 2007, Boston (2006)
179.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Priscila Spagnol, Zhenqing Xu, John Bumgarner, and

Ashok Kumar, Effect of Post Deposition Treatment of the Metal Contacts on the
Electrical Properties of Nitrogen Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Films
Diamond Fibers Diamond Electronics Fundamentals to Applications
(Symposium J), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Nov. 27-30, 2007,
Boston (2006)
180.
Zhenqing Xu, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Manoj Singh, and Ashok Kumar,

Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond Fibers Diamond
Electronics Fundamentals to Applications (Symposium J), Materials Research
Society Fall Meeting, Nov. 27-30, 2007, Boston (2006)
181.
Ashok Kumar, V. Gurumurthy, S. Jeedigunta, Sam Baylis, Tom Weller,

Performance of Barium Strontium Titanate Based Tunable Microwave Capacitors
Fabricated on Diamond-on-Silicon The 31st International Cocoa Beach
Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites, Hilton Resort
Daytona Beach, Florida January 21-26, (2007)
182.
Makoto Hirai, and Ashok Kumar, Wavelength Tuning of Surface Resonance by

Annealing Silver-Copper Nanoparticles Towards Functional Nanomaterials:
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications, 136th Annual Meeting &
Exhibition, TMS, Feb 25-March 1, Orlando (2007)
183.
Michael Jurczyk, Sesha Srinivasan, Ashok Kumar, and Elias Stefanakos,

Investigation of a LiBH4/LiNH2 System for Hydrogen Storage 8th Global
Innovations Symposium: Metal Powders for Energy Production and Storage
Applications, 136th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, TMS, Feb 25-March 1,
Orlando (2007)
184.
Makoto Hirai, and Ashok Kumar, The Effects of Nitrogen Doping on Structural
and Electrical Properties of ZnO Thin Films Electronic, Magnetic, and Photonic
Materials Division: ZnO Thin Films and Liquid Crystals, 136th Annual Meeting &
185.
Daniel Vilceus, and Ashok Kumar, Quantitative Comparison of Thin Film

Adhesion between Scratch Testing and Four Point Bend Testing Methods
Florida Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society and the Florida
Society of Microscopy, 2007 Annual Joint Symposium, March 11-16, Orlando
(2007)
186.
Jessica E. Weber, W. Graham Yelton, and Ashok Kumar, Electrochemical

Characterization of Bismuth Antimony for Nanowire Fabrication Florida
Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society and the Florida Society of
Microscopy, 2007 Annual Joint Symposium, March 11-16, Orlando (2007)
187.
Veera Raghava Kakireddy, Raghu Mudhivarthi, and Ashok Kumar, Investigation

of Defects during Copper Chemical Mechanical Planarization, Florida Chapter
of the AVS Science and Technology Society and the Florida Society of
Microscopy, 2007 Annual Joint Symposium, March 11-16, Orlando (2007)
188.
Zhenqing Xu, Ashok Kumar, Zhi-Hui Xu, Xiaodong Li, Synthesis and
Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond Wires, Florida Chapter of the AVS
Science and Technology Society and the Florida Society of Microscopy, 2007
Annual Joint Symposium, March 11-16, Orlando (2007)
189.
Samuel
Barium
Florida
Society
(2007)
190.
C. Frewin, J. Sathyaharish, Ashok Kumar, and S. E. Saddow, Silicon Carbide and

Diamond Heteroepitaxy for Electrical and MEMS Device Applications
Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering, Proceeding of
College of Engineering Scholarship at USF, Tampa, April 5 (2007)
191.
Jessica Weber, W. Graham Yelton, and Ashok Kumar, Electrochemical

Fabrication of Nanowire Arrays in Porous Alumina Templates Celebration of
Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering, Proceeding of College of
Engineering Scholarship at USF, Tampa, April 5 (2007)
192.
L. Abbati, Schettini, P. Spagnol, J. Bumgarner, T. Weller, Ashok Kumar, S. E.

Saddow, and J. Wang, High-Q MEMS Resonators for Remote Sensing
Applications Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering,
Proceeding of College of Engineering Scholarship at USF, Tampa, April 5 (2007)
Baylis, V. Gurumurthy, Ashok Kumar, and T. Weller, Nano-fabricated

Strontium Titanate Varactors for Tunable Microwave Applications
Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society and the Florida
of Microscopy, 2007 Annual Joint Symposium, March 11-16, Orlando
193.
Veera Raghava Kakireddy, Raghu Mudhivarthi, Lorene Hankla, and Ashok

Kumar, Interconnect Reliability and Copper Chemical Mechanical
Planarization Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering,
194.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Zhenqing Xu, Qiang Hu, Jing Wang, and Ashok Kumar,
Investigation of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films and Wires for Multifunctional
Applications Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering,
195.
Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Sesha Srinivasan, Ashok Kumar, Elias Stefanakos, Yogi
Goswami, and Matt Smith, Investigation of the Effects of Nano Catalysts on a
LiBH4/LiNH@ System for Hydrogen Storage, Celebration of Scholarship Day
at the College of Engineering, Proceeding of College of Engineering Scholarship
at USF, Tampa, April 5 (2007)
196.
Makoto Hirai, and Ashok Kumar, Optical Properties and Microstructure of

Silver-Copper Nanoparticles Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of
Engineering, Proceeding of College of Engineering Scholarship at USF, Tampa,
April 5 (2007)
197.
Daniel Vilceus, and Ashok Kumar, Quantitative Comparison of Thin Film

Adhesion with the Use of Scratch and Four Point Bend Testing Methods
Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering, Proceeding of
College of Engineering Scholarship at USF, Tampa, April 5 (2007)
198.
Puneet Khanna, Alejandro Villagra, Shekhar Bhansali, Edward Seto, Mark

Jaroszeski, and Ashok Kumar, Use of Nanocrystalline Diamond for Microfluidic
Lab-on-a-Chip Celebration of Scholarship Day at the College of Engineering,
199.
Veera Raghava Reddy Kakireddy, Subrahmanya Raghu Mudhivarthi, and Ashok

Kumar, Investigation of Physical and Chemical Changes in CMP Pads due to
Slurry Temperature Advances and Challenges in Chemical Mechanical
Planarization, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA,
April 9-13 (2007)
200.
Subrahmanya Raghu Mudhivarthi, Cecil Coutinho, Ashok Kumar, and Vinay

Gupta, Development of Low Defect Slurries using Hybrid Abrasive Particles of
different Surface Morphologies Advances and Challenges in Chemical
Mechanical Planarization, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, CA, April 9-13 (2007)
201.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Priscilla Spagnol, Ashok Kumar, and John Bumgarner,

Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin Films for Marine Applications 3rd Annual USF
Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Symposium, Research Park, USF, 79-81,

April 11 (2007)
202.
Jessica E. Weber, W. Graham Yelton, and Ashok Kumar, Electrochemical

Characterization of Bismuth Antimony for Nanowire Fabrication 3rd Annual
USF Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Symposium, Research Park, USF, 6364, April 11 (2007)
203.
Zhenqing Xu, Ashok Kumar, Qiang Hu, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Zhi-Hui Xu

Xiaodong Li Synthesis and Characterization of High Strength Nanocrystalline
Diamond Wires International Conference on New Diamond and Nano Carbons
(NDNC 2007) at Osaka, Japan, May 28-31, (2007)
204.
Q. Hu, S. Jeedigunta, Z. Xu, M. Hirai, and Ashok Kumar Electrical Properties of

Nanocrystalline Diamond Films and Wires, The 68th Autumn Meeting, 2007);
The Japan Society Applied Physics II, 612 (2007)
205.
R. Nandur, M. Hirai, Ashok Kumar, and Y. H. Sohn Thermal Barrier Coatings

for Gas Turbine Engine Applications, The 68th Autumn Meeting, 2007); The
Japan Society Applied Physics II, 669 (2007)
206.
S. Chowdhury, M. Hirai, V. R. Bhethanabotla, and Ashok Kumar Silver-copper

Nanoparticles for Metal-enhanced Fluorescence, The 68th Autumn Meeting,
2007); The Japan Society Applied Physics II, 1064 (2007)
207.
M. Hirai and Ashok Kumar Effect of Nitrogen Doping on Bonding State of ZnO
Thin Films, The 68th Autumn Meeting, 2007; The Japan Society Applied Physics
II, 665 (2007)
208.
Cecil Coutinho, Subrahmanya Mudhivarti, Vinay K. Gupta and Ashok Kumar,

"Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Microparticles for Oxide and Copper Chemical
Mechanical Polishing", American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)
National Conference, Salt Lake City (UT), November (2007)
209.
Sanchari Chowdhury, Makoto Hirai, V. R. Bhethanabotla, Ashok Kumar, and

Rajan Sen Silver-copper Nanoparticle Platform for Metal-Enhanced
Fluorescence Nanotechnology and Nnaobiotechnology for Sensors III, American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) National Conference, Salt Lake City
(UT), November (2007)
210.
Srinath Balachandran, Joachim Kusterer, Dane Thompson, Thomas Weller,

Ashok Kumar, and Erhard Kohn, Thermal, Mechanical and microwave
Characteristics of Nanocrystalline Diamond Bridges Diamond ElectronicsFundamentals to Applications II, Materials Research Society Fall Symposium,
November 26-30, Boston, MA (2007)
211.
Qiang Hu, Makoto Hirai, Zhenqing Xu, Harish Jeedigunta, and Ashok Kumar,
Electrical Characteristics of Nitrogen-doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Fibers
and Wires Diamond Electronics-Fundamentals to Applications II, Materials
Research Society Fall Symposium, November 26-30, Boston, MA (2007)
212.
Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Priscilla Spagnol, John Bumgarner, and Ashok Kumar,

Role of Nucleation on the Growth of Nanocrystalline Diamond (NCD) Films: A
Particular Study in the Fabrication of Microcantilevers Diamond ElectronicsFundamentals to Applications II, Materials Research Society Fall Symposium,
November 26-30, Boston, MA (2007)
213.
Zhenqing Xu, Ashok Kumar, Qiang Hu, Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, Zhu-Hui Xu,
and Xiaodong Li, Structural and Mechanical Properties of Nanocrystalline
Diamond Diamond Electronics-Fundamentals to Applications II, Materials
Research Society Fall Symposium, November 26-30, Boston, MA (2007)
214.
Sanchari Chowdhury, Makoto Hirai, Venkat Bhethanabotla, and Ashok Kumar,

Enhancement of Dye Fluorescence by Silver-copper Nanoparticles Excitons and
Plasmon Resonances in Nanostructures, Materials Research Society Fall
Symposium, November 26-30, Boston, MA (2007)
215.
Qiang Huang and Ashok Kumar, In-Situ Nanomanufacturing Process Control

Through Multiscale Growth Modeling NSF CMII Engineering Research and
Innovation Conference, January 7-10, Knoxville (2008)
216.
Qiang Huang and Ashok Kumar, Analysis of Correlated Functional Variables for
Process Conditions Diagnosis in Chemical Mechanical Planarization NSF CMII
Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, January 7-10, Knoxville
(2008)
217.
Ashok Kumar, Chhavi Manocha, and Raghu Mudhivarti, Reliability Studies and
Modeling for Process Optimization and Yield Improvements in Chemical Mechanical
Planarization NSF CMII Engineering Research and Innovation Conference
January 7-10, Knoxville (2008)

218.
D. Walker, J. Weber, V. Nanduri, D. Prieto, T. Das, and Ashok Kumar, "Building

the foundations of nanotechnology: from the classroom to the laboratory", NSF
GK-12 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Feb. (2008)
219.
Cecil Coutinho, Subrahmanya Mudhivarti, Vinay K. Gupta and Ashok Kumar, "Novel
Slurries of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Abrasive Microparticles for Oxide CMP ", CMP
MIC, Fremont (CA), March (2008)
220.
Cecil Coutinho, Subrahmanya Mudhivarti, Vinay K. Gupta and Ashok Kumar, "Hybrid
and Composite Inorganic-Organic Microparticles for Chemical Mechanical Polishing",
American Vacuum Society, Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, Orlando
(FL), March 10-11, 2008 (Invited)
221.
Humberto Gomez, Harish Jeedigunta, and Ashok Kumar, Characterization of Seeding

Methods for the Growth of Nano-crystalline Diamond Films American Vacuum Society,
Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, Orlando (FL), March 10-11, (2008)
222.
Daniel Vilceus, and Ashok Kumar, Adhesion Energy Characterization of Low-k

Dielectrics Thin Films Using Scratch Testing American Vacuum Society, Annual
Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, Orlando (FL), March 10-11, (2008)
223.
Jessica E Weber, Ozlem Yavuz-Petrowski and Ashok Kumar, Electrochemical

Characterization of a Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrode American Vacuum Society,
Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, Orlando (FL), March 10-11, (2008)
224.
Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Sesha Srinivasan, Ashok Kumar, Elias Stefanakos, and Yogi
Goswami, Investigation of Complex Hydrides (LiBH4/LiNH2) for Hydrogen Storage
Applications American Vacuum Society, Annual Symposium on Applied Surface
Analysis, Orlando (FL), March 10-11, (2008)
225.
Denis Kitenge, Makoto Hirai, and Ashok Kumar, Synthesis of YSZ-Ag Nanocomposites
for Gas Sensor Applications American Vacuum Society, Annual Symposium on
Applied Surface Analysis, Orlando (FL), March 10-11, (2008)
226.
Jessica. Weber, S. Jeedigunta, and Ashok Kumar, "Development of a

Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrode for Lactic Acid Detection", Symposium P:
Carbon Nanotubes and Related Low-Dimensional Materials, Materials Research
Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, March 24-28 (2008)
227.
Jessica Weber, M. Oliver, Ashok Kumar, T. Das, and G. Okogbaa,

"Implementation of an Innovative Nanotechnology Module at the Fifth Grade
Level", Symposium OO: The Role of Lifelong Education in Nanoscience and
Engineering, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, March
24-28 (2008)
228.
Qiang Huang, Xi Zhang, Hui Wang, and Ashok Kumar, Experiment and
Modeling of Chemical Mechanical Planarization for Interconnect Technology
Materials Research Society International Research Conference, Chongqing, China,
June 9-12 (2008)
229.
Ashok Kumar, Michael Ulrich Jurczyk, Sesha Srinivasan, Elias Stefanakos, and
Yogi Goswami Synthesis and Modification of Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen
Storage Applications Materials Research Society International Research
Conference, Chongqing, China, June 9-12 (2008)
230.
Ashok Kumar, Nanocrystalline Diamond Films for Biomedical Applications

Materials Research Society International Research Conference, Chongqing, China,
June 9-12 (2008)
231.
Ashok Kumar and Qiang Huang, Reliability and Integration Issus in Chemical
Mechanical Planarization for Interconnect Applications Materials Research
Society International Research Conference, Chongqing, China, June 9-12 (2008)
232.
Cecil A. Coutinho, Subrahmanya R. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar and Vinay K.

Gupta, "Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Oxide Layers using Novel CeriaPolymer Microcomposites", American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)
National Conference, Philadelphia (PA), November (2008)
233.
J. Weber, S. Pillai, S. R. Singh, and Ashok Kumar, "Development of a

Nanobiosensor for Salmonella Detection", Next Generation Bioceramics,
Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, Jan. (2009)
234.
J. Weber, J. Zimmer, B. Johnson, Ashok Kumar, "Electrochemical Performance of

Boron-doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrodes", Bioactive Nanomaterials and
Nanostructured Materials for Biomedical Applications, Advanced Ceramics and
Composites, Daytona Beach, FL, Jan. (2009)
235.
Jessica E Weber, Shreekumar Pillai, Shree R Singh, and Ashok Kumar, DNA
Electrochemistry using Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays 37th Annual Applied
Vacuum Science and Technology Symposium & 27th Annual meeting of the
Florida Society for Microscopy, March 8-10, University of Central Florida,
Orlando (2009) Young Leader Award
236.
Rakesh K Joshi, Amrita Kumar, and Ashok Kumar, Self-assembled DNA

Nanotubes 37th Annual Applied Vacuum Science and Technology Symposium &
27th Annual meeting of the Florida Society for Microscopy, March 8-10,
University of Central Florida, Orlando (2009)
237.
Farah Alvi, Rakesh K Joshi, and Ashok Kumar, Controlling the Aspect ratio of
ZnO Nanowires through Modulating Erosion Rate of ZnO Nanorods 37th Annual
Applied Vacuum Science and Technology Symposium & 27th Annual meeting of
the Florida Society for Microscopy, March 8-10, University of Central Florida,
Orlando (2009) Best Poster Award
238.
Denis Kitenge, Makoto Hirai, Rakesh K Joshi, and Ashok Kumar, YSZ-Ag/AU
Nanocomposite Films for Gas Sensor Applications 37th Annual Applied Vacuum
Science and Technology Symposium & 27th Annual meeting of the Florida
Society for Microscopy, March 8-10, University of Central Florida, Orlando
(2009)
239.
Humberto Gomez, Srintah Balachandran, Sathyharish Jeedigunta, Ashok Kumar,

and Tom Weller, Structural-Property Relationship in CVD Processed
Nanocrystalline Diamond Films 37th Annual Applied Vacuum Science and
Technology Symposium & 27th Annual meeting of the Florida Society for
240.
Qiang Hu, Rakesh K Joshi, and Ashok Kumar, Electrons Diffusion Study of
Nitrogen Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Films 37th Annual Applied Vacuum
Science and Technology Symposium & 27th Annual meeting of the Florida
Society for Microscopy, March 8-10, University of Central Florida, Orlando
(2009)
241.
Jessica E Weber, Shreekumar Pillai, Shree R. Singh, and Ashok Kumar, Novel
DNA Sensor based Carbon Nanotube Lab-on-a-Chip 37th Annual Applied
Vacuum Science and Technology Symposium & 27th Annual meeting of the
Florida Society for Microscopy, March 8-10, University of Central Florida,
Orlando (2009)
242.
F. Alvi, R. Joshi, Q. Huang, and Ashok Kumar, "Kinetic Scheme of Synergetic

Effect in Vapor-liquid-solid Growth of Metal Oxide Nanowires" Computational
Nanoscience- How to Exploit Synergy between Predictive Simulations and
experiment. Material Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California,
13-17 April (2009)
243.
F. Alvi, R. Joshi, and Ashok Kumar "Tunability of Aspect Ratio in ZnO

Nanowires through Different Amine based Structural Agents" Functional MetalOxide Nanostructures, Material Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, California, 13-17 April (2009)
244.
F. Alvi, R. K. Joshi and Ashok Kumar," Controlling the Aspect Ratio of ZnO
Nanowires through Modulating Erosion Rate of ZnO Nanorods" Nanotech
Spring Meeting Houston, Texas, 3-7 May (2009)
245.
F. Alvi, R.K. Joshi, Q. Huang, and Ashok Kumar, "Monte Carlo Simulation based
Model for Solution Growth of ZnO Nanowires". Nanotech Spring Meeting
Houston, Texas, 3-7 May, (2009) Study of diamond film adhesion for WC-Co
cutting tool materials, ASME 2009, Orlando Fl, November (2009).
246.
Humberto Gomez, Delcie Durham, and Ashok Kumar, Diamond films for
Cutting Tool Materials: Adhesion Improvement and Dry Machining
Performance., DIAMOND 2009, Athens Greece, September (2009).
247.
Humberto Gomez, Rakesh Joshi, and Ashok Kumar Graphene as Fast Response
Gas Sensors, NANOFLORIDA 2009, Orlando FL, August (2009).
248.
Humberto Gomez, Christopher L Ferwin, Ashok Kumar, Stephen E. Saddow,

Corrado Bongiorno, Markus Italia and Chris Locke, Study of the Adhesion and
Biocompatibility issues of Nanocrystalline Diamond (NCD) Films on 3C-SiC
Substrates Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 30-Dec.
4 (2010)
249.
Humberto Gomez, Feng Qin, Ashok Kumar, Kevin Chou, and Bob Johnson,
Adhesion Influence of Diamond Coatings on WC-Co Turning Inserts for High
Performance Machining Applications Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Boston, MA, Nov. 30-Dec. 4 (2010)
250.
Jessica Weber, Humberto Gomez, Ashok Kumar, Shreekumar Pillai, and Shree R.
Singh, Electrochemical Impedance based DNA Sensor utilizing Functionalized
Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrode Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
Boston, MA, Nov. 30-Dec. 4 (2010)
251.
Roger Narayan and Ashok Kumar, Laser Processing of functional

Microstructured and Nanostructured Biomaterials Materials Research Society
Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 30-Dec. 4 (2010)
252.
Rudran Retnadurai, Michael Neiman, Sesha S. Srinivasan, Ayala Phani, Yogi

Goswami, Elias Stefanakos, and Ashok Kumar, Study of the Growth of PANI
nanofibers by various Methods and its effects on Hydrogen Storage Materials
Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 30-Dec. 4 (2010)
253.
Nidhi Joshi, Rakesh K Joshi, Seyhan Boyoglu, Shree R. Singh, and Ashok Kumar,
Applicability of Gold Nanoparticles for Preventions of Respiratory Syncytial
Virus Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 30-Dec. 4
(2010)
254.
Mikhail Ladanov, Garrett Mathews, and Ashok Kumar, Prototype of an Energy

Harvesting Nanogenerators Implant based on ZnO Nanowires Nano-Bio
Collaborative 2010, Tampa, FL, March 11-12, (2010)
255.
Subbiah Alwarappan, Rakesh Joshi, Humberto Gomez, Chen-Zhong Li, and

Ashok Kumar, Graphene based Miniaturized Electrodes for the Detection of
Neuro-transmitters Nano-Bio Collaborative 2010, Tampa, FL, March 11-12,
(2010)
INVITED TALKS
1.
Ashok Kumar, Pulsed Laser Deposition of Superconducting Thin Films, Research

Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, August (1990)
2.
Ashok Kumar, Pulsed Laser Deposited Thin Films for Industrial Applications,
Research Seminar, IBM East Fishkill Facility, Electronic Packaging Department,
New York, November (1990)
3.
Ashok Kumar and J. Narayan, Thin Film Technology of High Temperature

Superconductors, Institute Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
December (1990)
4.
Ashok Kumar, Synthesis and Characterization of Bulk and Thin Film

Superconductors, Research Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne,
Chicago, January (1991)
5.
Ashok Kumar, Superconducting Thin Film Devices on Si (100) Substrates with

Buffer Layers, Engineering Graduate Seminar, Yale University, CT (1992)
6.
Ashok Kumar, Processing and Characterization of Superconducting Films,

Materials Engineering, Graduate Seminar, Auburn University, May (1993)
7.
Ashok Kumar, Laser Processing of Materials, Industrial Advisory Board

Meeting, University of South Alabama, Mobile April (1995)
8.
Ashok Kumar, Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Thin Film

Materials, Graduate Seminar, Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook,
March (1996)
9.
Ashok Kumar, Laser Processing of Advanced Materials, Materials Engineering

Graduate Seminar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
March(1997)
10.
Ashok Kumar, Pulsed Laser Deposition of Transition Metal of Carbides and

Nitrides Coatings, Ninth Cimtec- World Ceramic Congress & Forum on New
Materials, Florence, Italy 14th-19th June (1998)
11.
Ashok Kumar, Emerging Thin Film Technology, USF Research Seminar, Tampa
May (1999)
12.
Ashok Kumar, Research and Opportunities in Advanced Materials, Institute

Seminar, Nagaoka Institute of Technology, Nagaoka Japan, December (2000)
13.
Ashok Kumar, Diamond Synthesis and Application, General Motors, Detroit ,

June (2001)
14.
Ashok Kumar, Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Interconnect Materials,

Cabot Microelectronics , Chicago, June (2001)
15.
Ashok Kumar, Reliability of Low-k Materials, Institute of Microelectronics

Singapore, December (2002)
16.
Ashok Kumar, Investigation of Materials Issues in Interconnect Materials,

Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, December (2002)
17.
Ashok Kumar, Nano-world! What We Expect, Nagaoka Institute of

Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, December (2002)
18.
Ashok Kumar, Multifunctional Sensor Technology, NSF REU Seminar, USF

Tampa, June (2003)
19.
Ashok Kumar, Atomic Force Microscope, Improving Science Education Through

Technology Training Workshop, Alabama State University, Montgomery, March
20-21, (2003)
20.
Ashok Kumar, CMP of Microelectronics Materials, Seagate Technology,

Pittsburgh, September (2003)
21.
Ashok Kumar, Impact of Nanotechnology , NSF REU Seminar, Tampa June

(2004)
22.
Ashok Kumar, Characterization of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 Thin Films for Tunable

Microwave Applications 2nd International Conference on Thin Film 2004 and
Nanotech 2004, July 13-17, Singapore (2004)
23.
Ashok Kumar, International Funding Opportunities, Institute for Microelectronics,

Singapore, July (2004)
24.
Parshuram B. Zantye, Ashok Kumar, and Jiro Yota, Chemical Mechanical

Polishing *CMP) of Doped and Undoped Ceramic and Polymeric Dielectric
Materials for Microelectronic Applications 207th Meeting of the Electrochemical
Society, Toronto, Canada, May 15-20 (2005)
25.
Ashok Kumar, Nanotechnology and its Impact, NSF REU Seminar, USF
Tampa, June (2005)
26.
Ashok Kumar, and S. Mudhivarthi, Study of Interfacial Properties of

Multilayered Thin Films for Cu Interconnects Applications, 11th International
Ceramic Congress and 4th Forum on New Materials, June 4-9, Acireale, Sicily
(Italy) (2006)
27.
Ashok Kumar, Nanotechnology: What It Means for the Electronics, Energy, and
Industries, 28 June, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (2006)
28.
Ashok Kumar, Plenary Lecture, Micro and Nano-Scale Applications of

Nanocrystalline Diamond Films 3rd Japan-Mexico International Symposium on
Hybridized Material with Super-Functions Dec 3- 6, Monterrey, Mexico (2006)
29.
Ashok Kumar, Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Nanocrystalline

Diamond Thin Films Advanced Nano Materials- ANM 2007, IIT Mumbai
(India), Jan 8-10 (2007)
30.
Ashok Kumar, Manufacturing Issues in Chemical Mechanical Planarization for

Microelectronics Applications 31st International Cocoa Beach Conference &
Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, Jan 21-26, Daytona Beach,
FL (2007)
31.
Ashok Kumar, Nano/Micro Materials and Manufacturing Processes for

Advanced Integrated Systems February 20, Northeastern University, Boston,
MA (2007)
32.
Ashok Kumar, Z. Xu, and H. Jeedigunta, Nanocrystalline Diamond Films and its
Application to Micro-and Nanoscale Multifunctional Devices, 2007
Nanomaterials: Fabrication, Properties and Applications, 136th Annual Meeting &
33.
Ashok Kumar, Nanomanufacturing Processes for Advanced Integrated

Systems Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA,
May 4 (2007)
34.
Jessica E. Weber, Ashok Kumar, W. Graham Yelton, Electrodeposition of

Bismuth Antimony Nanowires as an Advanced Material for Thermoelectric
Applications, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Sinaia, Romania, June (2007)
35.
Ashok Kumar, Engineered Nanostructured Materials for Enabling Technology

USF REU Seminar, USF Tampa, June 15 (2007)
36.
Ashok Kumar, Multifunctional Nanocarbon Thin Films and Applications to

Micro and Nano Devices International Conference Materials and Austceram
2007, 4th-6th July, Sydney Australia (2007)
37.
Ashok Kumar, Micro and Nano Scale Applications of Nanocrystalline Diamond

Films Materials Science & Technology 2007 Conference and Exhibition,
September 16-20, Detroit, MI (2007)
38.
Ashok Kumar, Jing Wang, T. Weller, and S. Bhansali, Nanocrystalline Diamond

Films for MEMS Applications, 10th International Conference on Advanced
Materials. Bangalore, India, Oct. 8-13 (2007)
39.
Ashok Kumar, Science and Technology of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films 4th

International Conference of MRS-Africa, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Dec 10-14,
(2007)
40.
Ashok Kumar, Micro and Nano Applications of Nanocrystalline Diamond Thin

Films 2nd Integration & Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystem
International Conference and Exhibition, June 3-5, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong (2008)
41.
Ashok Kumar, Nanodiamond for MEMS/NEMS Applications International

Conference on Nanotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges (ICON 008), June
17-19, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2008)
42.
Ashok Kumar, High Performance Nanomaterials for Multifunctional

Applications Nagaoka Institute of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, July 22 (2008)
43.

Advanced Integrated Systems Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, July 30
(2008)
44.
Ashok Kumar, Advances of Nanocrystalline Diamond Films and its

Applications 3rd International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and
Nanostructured Materials (NanoSMat2008), Oct. 21-24, Barcelona, Spain (2008)
45.

Advanced Integrated Systems Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, June
(2009)
46.
Ashok Kumar, Role and Contribution from India to Nanotechnology Asia

Pacific Lecture Series, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia; October
15 (2009)
47.
Ashok Kumar, Nanocrystalline Diamond for MEMS Applications International

Conference Vacuum and Plasma Surface Engineering VaPSE with The
International Workshop on Science and Applications of Nanoscale Diamond
Materials, October 22-26, Liberec Czech Republic (2009)
48.
Ashok Kumar and Tom Weller, Barium Strontium Titanate Based Tunable
Microwave Capacitors on Diamond-On-Silicon Substrates International
Conference on Electroceramics, 13-17th December, New Delhi, India (2009)

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Short Biography and CV of Prof.

K-12 educational outreach, gender and science education and nanotechnology

ASHOK KUMAR, Ph.D., FASM

Ph.D., Major: Materials Science and Engineering, Minor: Electrical

M. Tech., Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

B. Tech., Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Director, Nanotechnology Research and Education Center

Aug. 2005- Present

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and

Affiliated Faculty Member, USF Nanomedicine Research

Program Co-Director, Materials Science & Engineering

Affiliated Faculty Member, Florida Center of Excellence

Affiliated Faculty Member, Clean Energy Research

Aug 2004- Aug. 2006

Courtesy Visiting Scientist,

Jan. 2000-July 2005

Associate Professor (Tenured 2002), Department of

Visiting Faculty, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore

Visiting Faculty, Nagaoka University of Technology,

Jan 2000- July 2001

Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and

Aug.1994- July 2001

Cluster Director, Alabama NASA EPSCoR (Advanced

Visiting Faculty, Nagaoka University of Technology,

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and

Research Associate Professor, Department of Electrical

Research Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology,

AWARDS AND HONORS

Professor Honorario, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia (2009)

Charter Class of Academy of Inventors, University of South Florida (2009)

Fellow, American Society of Metals, ASM (2007)

ASM-IIM Visiting Lecture Award, ASM International (2007)

Certificate of Participation, The National Science Foundation Research

Certificate of Appreciation and Recognition, The International Conference

Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation, Materials Science &

Certificate of Appreciation and Recognition, III International Mechanical

CAREER NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (2000-2006)

Theodore and Venette Askounes Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award,

International Panel Member, Nano Diamond Network (NaDiNe) of the

Advisory Board Member, Biomedical Research Infrastructure (NIH

Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), Materials

Sigma XI Tampa Bay Chapter Outstanding Dissertation Award Major

Certificate of Appreciation (ME REU Coordinator), College of Engineering,

Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award, University of South

Advisory Board Member, Research Infrastructure for Minority Institution

Certificate of Appreciation (ME REU Coordinator), College of Engineering,

USF President Faculty Excellence Award (2003)

Cluster Director, Advanced Materials, Alabama NASA EPSCoR Program

NSF Fellowship Award to attend NSF Summer Institute on Nanomechanics

Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), The Minerals,

USF Graduate Council Outstanding Thesis Award Major Professor, for

Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), Materials

Certificate of Appreciation (Symposium Organizer), Materials Research

Research and Creative Scholarship Award, University of South Florida

Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), The Minerals,

Certificate of Appreciation (Lead Symposium Organizer), The Minerals,

Alabama DOE EPSCoR Young Investigator Award (1996-1997)

Alabama NSF EPSCoR Young Investigator Award (1996-1997)

National Research Council Twining Fellowship Award (1997-1998)