Alumni

Current Position
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECED), National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kerala

Education
• B-Tech, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation, (2005), University of Calicut, Kerala, India.
• M.Sc(Engg), (2009), Dept. of Instrumentation & Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Experience
• Project Assistant, Centre for Sponsored Schemes and Projects, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (Aug 2008 -June 2009).
• Project Associate, Society for Innovation and Development, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (Jul 2009 – Oct 2009).
• Scientist B, Naval Science and Technology Lab, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bangalore, (Oct 2009 – July 2010).

Theses Title (Year)
Cold Atmospheric Plasma system – Simulation, Fabrication, Diagnosis and Thinfilm deposition (2017).

Research Area
Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Publications
• Atmospheric pressure plasma chemical vapor deposition reactor for 100 mm wafers, optimized for minimum contamination at low gas flow rates, Venu Anand, Aswathi R. Nair, S. A. Shivashankar, and G. Mohan Rao, Applied Physics Letters 107, 094103 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4929781.

• On the purity of Atmospheric glow discharge plasma, Venu Anand and G.Mohan Rao IEEETrans.Plasma,37,1811(2009). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5175412. 

• Surface modification of PDMS using atmospheric glow discharge polymerization of tetrafluoroethane for immobilization of biomolecules, V Anand, S Ghosh, M Ghosh, GM Rao, R Railkar, RR Dighe, Applied Surface Science, 257, 20, 8378-8384, (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.04.040.

• On the quality of hydrogenated amorphous silicon deposited by sputtering, Habibuddin Shaik, Venu Anand, Mohan Rao G, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 26, 367–373, (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2014.05.021.

• Effect of iodine concentration on the photovoltaic properties of dye sensitized solar cells for various I2/LiI ratios, Ambily Mathew, Venu Anand, G Mohan Rao, N Munichandraiah,ElectrochimicaActa,87,92–96,(2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2012.08.104.

• Electrochemical co-deposition of bimetallic Pt–Ru nanoclusters dispersed on poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and electrocatalytic behavior for methanol oxidation, S Patra, S Dash, V Anand, CS Nimisha, GM Rao, N Munichandraiah, Materials Science and Engineering: B, 176, 10, 785-791, (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2011.03.012.