Technical Staff

Education
• Ph. D. chemistry, 2004, IISc, Bangalore.
• M. Sc. (Chemistry), 1998, University of Pune, India.
• B. Sc. (Chemistry), 1996, Calicut University, India.

Experience
• Chief Operating Officer, NNFC, IISc, Bangalore, October 2017 – Present.
• Technology Manager, NNFC, IISc, Bangalore July 2010 – September 2017.
• Technical Team Lead, Cookson India Research Centre, August 2004 – September 2009.

Publications
• B R Deepu; Sangeeth Kallat; A. Suresh; P. Savitha, Metal-assisted chemical vertical etching of Si: Effect of catalyst morphology and oxidant concentration, Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Year: 2014, Pages: 1 – 3, DOI: 10.1109/ICEmElec.2014.7151184

• Madhuri Suresh; Siva Penmetsa; P. Savitha, Influence of growth paramaters on the crystallinity and stress of SiGe films grown by LPCVD, Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Year: 2014, Pages: 1 – 3, DOI: 10.1109/ICEmElec.2014.7151158

• Madhuri , Radha Bhaskar, P. Savitha, K. N. Bhat, Anisotropy and Surface Roughness of Silicon Etched by TMAH in Presence of Potassium Persulfate: A Comparison with Ammonium Persulfate, (Chapter) V.K Jain and A. Verma (eds), Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Environmental Science and Engineering pp 475-477, Springer International Publishing, Switerland 2014

• T. U. M. S. Murthy; M. N. Vijayaraghavan; P. Savitha; Gopal Hegde; Srinivasan Raghavan; P. S. Anil Kumar; Rudra Pratap; Navakanta Bhat , National Nanofabrication Centre at IISc Bangalore: A Chronicle of Design, Construction and Management of Cleanroom in Indian Context 2012 19th Biennial University/Government/Industry, Micro/Nano Symposium (UGIM), University of Berkeley, USA, Pages: 1 – 1, DOI: 10.1109/UGIM.2012.6247096

• P. Savitha, D.N.Sathyanarayana, Copolymers of aniline with o- and mtoluidine: synthesis and characterization, Polym. Inter 2004; 53: 106.

• P. Savitha, Swapna Rao and D.N Sathyanarayana, Highly soluble conductive poly(aniline-co-aminoacetophenone)s, Polym. Inter 2005; 54: 1243.

• P Savitha, D.N.Sathyanarayana, Synthesis and characterization of electrically conducting poly (o-/m- toluidine-co-o-/m-aminoacetophenone) copolymers, J. Polym. Sci: Part A; Polym. Chem 2004; 42: 4300.

• P Savitha, D N Sathyanarayana, Effect of polymerization conditions on the properties of poly(o-toluidine-co-o-chloroaniline) copolymers, Ind. J. of Chem.: Part A, 2004; 43: 487.

• P Savitha, D N Sathyanarayana, Donor–acceptor based poly (toluidine-cochloroaniline): synthesis and characterization, J. Polym. Sci: Part A; Polym. Chem., 2005; 43: 1579.

• P Savitha, D N Sathyanarayana, Synthesis and characterization of soluble conducting poly (o-/m-toluidine-co-o-nitroaniline) copolymers, Synth. Met., 2004; 145: 113.

• P Savitha, D N Sathyanarayana, Synthesis and characterization of terpolymers of aniline, toluidine, aminobenzenesulphonic acid and aniline, toluidine, o-amino benzoic acid, J. Polym. Sci: Part A; Polym. Chem., 2005; 43: 3040.

Patents
• 03/15/12-20120061611-Heat transfer fluid Inventors: Savitha Purakkat, Mukesh Jassal (Alpha Fry Limited)

Conference and Seminars
• P. Savitha; Sunabda Babu, Gopal Hegde; Prabhakara Rao, Educational Programmes at NNfC: balancing the needs of external user and requirements of internal student, 2016 21st Biennial University/Government/Industry, Micro/Nano Symposium (UGIM), University of Utah, USA.

• Madhuri S., Raghupathy N., Fakirappa M., and Savitha P, Effect of Deposition Parameters on the Silicon Nitride Films Grown by Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD), IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Deepu B R, Siva Penmetsa, Savitha P, Effect of Reactant Concentrations on the Surface Morphology during Silver Assisted Chemical Etching of Silicon, IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Raghupathy N., Fakirappa M., Divya J., Savitha P, Influence of Growth Parameters on Properties of Silicon Oxides: A Comparison of Rapid Thermal and Furnace Processes, IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Raghupathy N., Fakirappa M., Madhuri S., Divya J., Savitha P, Stress Engineering: Influence of Underlying Layer On The Stress of Si3N4 Thin Films Grown by LPCVD, IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Ujwala.N.Bhatt , Siva Penmetsa , Savitha.P, Si Surface Texturization Using TMAH and KOH and the Impact on Solar Cell Efficiency, IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Zareena H., Madhuri S., Savitha P, Effect of Dry Etch parameters on the Resonating Frequency and surface morphology of Fixed Cantilever Beams, IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Deepu B R, Uma Harikrishnan, Savitha P, Navakanta Bhat, Aluminum Nanopore Decorated Platinum Working Electrode Array for Multiplexed Electrochemical Biosensor Application, IWPSD 2015, Dec 7-9, 2015.

• Ujwala N Bhat, Savitha P, Effect of KOH Etch Solution Volume and Circulation Method on Surface Texturization of Si(100), Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Year: 2014

• Siva Penmetsa, Alison Viegas, Savitha P, Silicon Nanowire Growth by LPCVD Using MultipleE Gold Catalyst Deposition Methods and An Application as Hydrogen Sensor, ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials and Systems, July 08-11, Bangalore, India 2014.

• Siva Penmetsa, Savitha P, K.N. Bhat, effects of forming gas anneal on the crystallinity and mobility of Germanium grown on silicon dioxide, ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials and Systems, July 08-11, Bangalore, India 2014.

Responsibilities
• In charge of National Nanofabrication Facility operations