1st Edition
IoT Sensors An Exploration of Sensors for Internet of Things
Biography
Vinod Kumar Khanna (born 25th November, 1952, Lucknow, India) is a former emeritus scientist, CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) and emeritus professor, AcSIR (Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research), India. He is a retired Chief Scientist and Head, MEMS & Microsensors Group, CSIR-CEERI (CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute), Pilani (Rajasthan) and Professor, AcSIR, India. During his tenure of work at CSIR-CEERI, Pilani spanning over 37 years 7 months, he worked on a large number of CSIR and sponsored projects on power semiconductor devices, notably high-current and high-voltage rectifier, high-voltage transistor, fast-switching inverter grade thyristor, power DMOSFET and IGBT. Another key research area included the device and process design, and fabrication of micro- and nanoelectronics and MEMS technology-based sensors and dosimeters. His contributions focused primarily on the development of technology and characterization of moisture and microheater-embedded gas sensor, ion-sensitive field-effect transistor pH sensor, MEMS acoustic sensor and capacitive MEMS ultrasonic transducer; PIN diode neutron dosimeter, and PMOSFET gamma ray dosimeter. He is widely travelled and has worked at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 1999 and Kurt-Schwabe-Institut für Mess- und Sensortechnik e.V., Meinsberg, Germany, 2008. He also visited the Institute of Chemical Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia, 2009 as a member of Indian delegation and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy, 2011, under India-Trento Programme of Advanced Research (ITPAR). He participated and presented research papers in IEEE-IAS Annual meeting at Denver, Colorado, USA, 1986. Awarded National scholarship by the Ministry of Education and Youth Services, Govt. of India in 1970, he received his M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1975 from University of Lucknow, India and Ph.D (Physics) degree from Kurukshetra University, India in 1988. He has authored 18 books. Author/co-author of 194 research papers in prestigious refereed journals and national/international conference proceedings, he has 5 patents to his credit, including 2 US patents. He is a life member of several leading professional societies, and fellow of the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India. After superannuating as Head, MEMS and Microsensors Group, CSIR-CEERI in November 2014, and completing his tenure as Emeritus Scientist, CSIR, in November 2017, he presently resides at Chandigarh, India. He is a passionate author, avidly reading and writing.
