National Centre for Flexible Electronics (FlexE Centre) and
Samtel Centre for Display Technologies (SCDT) at IIT Kanpur

A Short Course for Participants from Industry on "Flexible Electronics"
18th September, 2021 at IIT Kanpur

Lecture Schedule for the Short Course

Time*	Lectures	Speaker
09:00 to 09:05	Welcome & Introduction to the National Centre for Flexible Electronics	Centre Coordinator
09:05 to 09:10	A brief on how industries can engage with centre	Centre COO
09:15 to 10:15	Overview: Introduction to Flexible Electronics	Baquer Mazhari
10:15 to 11:30	Case Study I: Opportunities in Wearables - Flexible printed heater; Product: Heater Jacket	Y.N. Mohapatra Juliane Tripathi Ashish Gupta Biswanath Panda
11:45 to 12:15	Case Study II: Packaging and Innovative Solutions - anti-counterfeiting: Product; Verification System	Deepak Gupta
12:15 to 12:45	Case Study III: Creative Solutions in Health Care IV fluid bottle level detection; Product: Smart Labels	Baquer Mazhari
12:45 to 13:00	Concluding Session	All speakers and participants

* Time given in hours correspond to Indian Standard Time

Instructor information given briefly below

(Appearing in alphabetical order)

Dr. Ashish Gupta obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Allahabad in 2004. After working in Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, he moved to SCDT, IIT Kanpur in 2007. He worked for SCDT as a Research engineer from 2010 to 2015. Since 2015 he is working as Sr. Research engineer/Team Leader in Flexible electronic centre at IIT Kanpur. His research interest is functional inks for printed and flexible electronic.

Dr. Baquer Mazhari is a professor in the department of electrical engineering at IIT Kanpur. He joined the department in the year 1993 shortly after receiving PhD degree from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received his masters from university of Maryland at college park and B.Tech in electronics from IIT Kharagpur in 1987.  His research and teaching interests span different aspects of microelectronics including semiconductor devices and analog/digital circuits. Since last two decade, his research has centered on organic and flexible electronics and helped in establishment of Samtel Centre for Display Technologies in the year 2000 and the National Centre for Flexible Electronics at IIT Kanpur in the year 2014.  His research group has proposed several new organic Semiconductor devices and characterization tools and developed a new flexible thermometer and an anticounterfeiting technology.  For his contributions to the field of teaching, he has received distinguished teacher award, Gopal Das Bhandari Memorial award and excellence in teaching award by IIT Kanpur.

Mr. Biswanath Panda is currently Team Leader of System Integration Group at the FlexE Centre; IIT Kanpur. He has over 16 years of experience in the field of Embedded System and Robotics and Wearable Electronic. He has contributed by system integration support for a large number of prototypes that have been built and are currently being built at the Centre.

Dr. Deepak Gupta obtained his B. Tech. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1987. The graduate studies were completed in Materials Science and Engineering, with a M.S. in 1989 from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (USA) and Ph. D. in 1993 from the University of California, Berkeley, California (USA). Following the graduate studies, he conducted a year-long post-doctoral work at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (USA) and then another three years, beginning 1994, were spent in semiconductor device manufacturing and design at the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola Inc., Phoenix, Arizona (USA). Deepak joined IIT Kanpur at the end of 1997 as an Assistant Professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering, where he works to this date. In between he took leave to work with Samtel Color Limited to indigenously develop passive matrix full color OLED displays. Research interests of Deepak are in large area flexible electronics. Specifically, he researches organic light emitting diodes, thin film transistors and ferroelectric memories on flexible substrates.

Dr. Juliane Tripathi has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from TU Dresden, Germany. After a post doc at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, working on thin film electronics, she joint Holst Centre in the Netherlands as researcher in the field of Large Area Printing. Here she specialized on substrate-ink interaction and plasma treatment as well as R2R processing for printed electronics and yield control. At FlexE she is the Team Leader of the Printing Group.

Dr. Yashowanta N. Mohapatra is a Professor in Physics and Materials science Programme Department. He joined the department in the year 1990 shortly after receiving PhD degree from IISc., Bangalore. He received his MSc. (Integrated) in Physics from BITS Pilani 1982. His research interest include semiconductors, electronic and photonic materials, OLED/PLED and Printable Electronics.