Sensors and Signal Processing Group
The current focus of our research is on developement of fractional order element/fractance, and its analysis and applications; design of fractional-order circuits; fractance based sensors; design of IoT enabled measuring instruments.
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The following Instruments have been bought from DST FIST project Interested person who want to use the instruments may contact Bioprocess Instrumentation lab in Electrical Engineering Department. Instrument: Spin coating Mahine, Make Laurell Trinocular Research Microscope for Observation under Transmitted & Reflected Light Bright Field, Dark Field. Make Niccon Potentiostat, make Autolab
Dr. Karabi Biswas is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, I. I. T. Kharagpur. She is currently working on development, modelling, analysis and application of Fractional Order System. She also works on Bio-sensors and Microfluidic Devices.
E-mail: karabi[AT]ee[DOT]iitkgp[DOT]ac[DOT]in
Suman Biswas joined as a joint M Tech PhD student in 2020. He is a PMRF fellow. He is currently working on detecting impurity in food and beverages.
E-mail: 18sumanbiswas[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Journal Publications
Conference Proceedings
Suman Biswas, Ajoy Nondal, Mouplai Chakraborty, and Karabi Biswas, "Determination of Fat, SNF and Protein Content in Cow Milk from the Voltage Output of `MilkTester'", accepted in IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) 2021, May 17-20, Glasgow.
Suman Biswas, Mouplai Chakraborty, and Karabi Biswas, "Detection of Formaldehyde by A RGO/PMMA Coated Sensor", In Proceeding IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) 2020, May 25-28, Croatia.
Joydeep Mahato joined as a PhD student in 2020. He is currently working on developing instrument for water quality monitoring,
E-mail: jmahatodeep[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Arpit Sourav Mahapatra joined as doctoral student in 2016. He is currently working on Design of fractional order circuits and systems.
E-mail: arpitsourav12[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Arpit Sourav Mahapatra, and Karabi Biswas, "A Fractional Order Notch Filter to Compensate the Attenuation-Loss Due to Change in Order of the Circuit",IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, vol. 68(2), pp.655 - 666, 2021.
Arpit Sourav Mahapatra, and Karabi Biswas, "Effect of Electrolytic Capacitors on the Performance of Multicomponent Fractors", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS) 2020, May 17-20, Spain 2020.
Asmita Bose joined as doctoral student in 2014. She is currently working on water quality monitoring and sensing system.
E-mail: asmitabose[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Asmita Bose, and Karabi Biswas, "Perfomance Study Of Urease-PMMA Based Aqueous Urea Sensor", IEEE Sensors Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2751502.
Asmita Bose, and Karabi Biswas, "Digital Urea Meter for Impedeometric Urea Sensor", Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2019 IEEE International, May 20-23, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Asmita Bose,, and Karabi Biswas, "Electrical equivalent circuit for a Urease-PMMA Aqueous Urea Sensor", Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2018 IEEE International, 14-17th May 2018, Houston, USA.
Asmita Bose,, and Karabi Biswas, "Digital Urea Meter for Impedeometric Urea Sensor", Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2019 IEEE International, May 20-23, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Vikram Singh, Shiraz Sohail, Asmita Bose,, Suman Agarwal, Swetank Ambar, and Karabi Biswas, "Wireless Control of Electro-wetting Device", 8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), pp. 409-414, 17-19 Dec, Kandy, Srilanka, 2013.
Joydip Roy joined as a MS (by reserch) student in 2019. He is currently working on developing IoT enabled conuctivity meter.
E-mail: joydipdns[AT]gmail[DOT]com
A. Adhikary, Joydip roy, A. G. Kumar, S. Banerjee and Karabi Biswas, "An impedimetric Cu-polymer sensor-based conductivity meter for precision agriculture and aquaculture applications,", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, no. 24, pp. 12087-12095, 2019.
Avishek Adhikary, Joydip Roy and Karabi Biswas, "Performance study of a two-electrode type aqueous conductivity sensor for smart farming", In Proceeding IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) 2019, May 25-28, Auckland, Newzealand, 2019.
Dina Anna John joined as doctoral student in 2014 and worked on developing solid state fractional capacitor. Graduated on 20th January, 2021. PhD thesis tiltle is: "MWCNT-Polymer based Solid-state Fractional Capacitor:Fabrication and Performance Study".
E-mail: dinaanna[AT]ee[DOT]iitkgp[DOT]ernet[DOT]in
Patent filed
Dina Anna John, S. Banerjee and Karabi Biswas, "A CNT-Epoxy Nanoparticle Based Fractional Capacitor and a Method for Fabricating the Same", Application No: 201631042210 (Filed, 2016)
Dina Anna John, Susanta Banerjee and Karabi Biswas, "Nanocomposite Material Characterization of a Solid-State Fractional Capacitor", IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, vol.67, pp. 1136-1142, 2020.
Dina Anna John, Saket Sehgal and Karabi Biswas, "Hardware implementation and performance study of analog FO-PID controllers on DC motor ", Fractal and Fractional, vol. 4(34), pp. 1-11, 2020.
Dina Anna John, M. V. Aware, A. S. Junghare, Karabi Biswas, "Performance Analysis of Solid-State Fractional Capacitor-Based Analog FO-PID Controller, Circuits", Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 39, pp.1815-183, 2020.
Dina Anna John, Susanta Banerjee, Gary W. Bohannan, and Karabi Biswas, "Solid-state fractional capacitor using MWCNT-epoxy nanocomposite", Applied Physics Letter: 110, 163504(2017)
Dina Anna John, and Karabi Biswas, "Electrical equivalent circuit modelling of solid state fractional capacitor", AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications 78, 258-264, 2017.
Dina Anna John,, and Karabi Biswas, "Analysis of disturbance rejection by PI controller using solid state fractional capacitor", 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Florence, Italy, 27- 30th May, 2018.
Moupali Chakraborty, Dina Anna John and Karabi Biswas, "A Statistical Study of Detergent and Shampoo Adulterated Milk Detection System", 13th International IEEE India Conference INDICON, 16th - 18th December, IISc, Bengaluru, India, 2016.
Moupali Chakraborty joined as doctoral student in 2015. She has worked on milk adulteation detection. Graduated on 29th September 2020. PhD thesis: "Milk Tester: Design, Development and Performance Study"
E-mail: chakrabortymoupali[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Moupali Chakraborty, Dina Anna John and Karabi Biswas, "Method to determine LOD of adulterants (common salt, neutralizer, ammonium sulphate and detergent) in milk.", Application No: 201 731 029 231, August 17, 2017 (Filed)
Moupali Chakraborty, and Karabi Biswas, "Hardware Platform to Detect Fat Percent in Milk Using a Lipase Immobilized PMMA-Coated Sensor", IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, January, 2019.
Moupali Chakraborty, Anindita Kalita and Karabi Biswas, "PMMA-Coated Capacitive Type Soil Moisture Sensor: Design, Fabrication, and Testing", IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, June, 2018.
Moupali Chakraborty, and Karabi Biswas, "Limit of Detection for Five Common Adulterants in Milk: A Study With Different Fat Percent", IEEE Sensors Journal, 18 (6), 2395-2403.
Monalisha Debnath, Moupali Chakraborty and Karabi Biswas,, "Development of a disposable blood creatinine sensor", In proceeding IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) 2020, May 25-28, Croatia.
Moupali Chakraborty, and Karabi Biswas, "Electrical Model for Lipase Immobilized PMMA Coated Sensor to Detect Fat Content in Milk", Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2019 IEEE International, May 20-23, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Anindita Kalita, Moupali Chakraborty, and Karabi Biswas, "A comparative study of polymer coated capacitive sensors for soil moisture sensing", Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2017 IEEE International.
Shiraz Sohail joined as doctoral student in 2010. He has worked on electrowetting based microfluidic devices and sucessfully defende his PhD thesis on 27th October, 2016. At present he is an Assistant Professor in NIT Trichy, India.
E-mail: shirazsohail[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Shiraz sohail, E. A. Mistri, A Khan, S. Banerjee and Karabi Biswas, "Low voltage electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) actuation using nanocomposit thin film", IN Pat. 466/KOL/2014
Shiraz sohail, E. A. Mistri, A Khan, S. Banerjee and Karabi Biswas, "Fabrication and performance study of BST/Teflon nanocomposite thinfilm for low voltage electrowetting devices", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 238 (2016) 122-132.
Shiraz Sohail, and Karabi Biswas, "Dynamic Sensing of Liquid Droplet in Electrowetting Devices", Sensors Letters, vol. 13, pp.721-734, 2015.
Shiraz Sohail, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas, "Effect of Interface Layer Capacitance on Polydimethylsiloxane in Electrowetting-on-Dielectric Actuation", Journal of Experimental Physics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/426435, 2015.
Shiraz Sohail, Debanjan Das, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas, "Study of PDMS as Dielectric Layer in Electrowetting Devices", Physics of Semiconductor Devices, pp.487-490, 2014.
S. Sohail, Debanjan Das, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas, "Study of PDMS as dielectric layer in electrowetting devices", IWPSD 2013, Noida (New Delhi), India. December 10-13 (2013)
S. Sohail,and Karabi Biswas, "A novel approach for droplet position sensing in electrowetting devices", IEEE Sensors Conference, Baltimore, USA, Nov 4-6, 2013.
Vikram Singh, Shiraz Sohail, Asmita Bose, Suman Agarwal, Swetank Ambar, and Karabi Biswas, "Wireless Control of Electro-wetting Device", 8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), pp. 409-414, 17-19 Dec, Kandy, Srilanka, 2013.
S. Sohail, D. Das, S. Das, and K. Biswas, "Electrowetting-on-dielectric induced droplet actuation in M x N array of electrode",COMSOL Conference, Banglore , India,, 2011.
Debanjan Das, Shiraz Sohail, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas, "Dynamic positional study of EWOD induced droplet transportation on PDMS based micro-channel" NCSA 11, CGCRI, Kolkata, India March 11-12 (2011)
Debanjan Das, Shiraz Sohail, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas, "Voltage and capacitance analysis of EWOD system using COMSOL" COMSOL 2011, Banglore, India. November 4-5 (2011)
Debanjan Das joined as doctoral student in 2011. His research interests include biomicroelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS); biosensor and microfluidic devices for electrophysiological characterization and manipulation of biospecies; digital microfluidics, and lab-on-chip system for biomedical applications; and design and fabrication of MEMS devices. He has sucessfully defended his PhD thesis on 7th November, 2016. At present he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, IIIT Naya Raipur, Chhatishgarh, India.
E-mail: debanjanhit[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Das, D., Kamil, F.A. ; Agrawal, S., Biswas, K. and S. Das, “Evaluation of single cell electrical parameters from bioimpedance of a cell suspension” , RSC Advances, vol. 4, pp. 18178-18185, 2014. Download.
Das, D., K. Biswas and S. Das, "A microfluidic device for continuous manipulation of biological cells using dielectrophoresis", Medical Engineering & Physics, vo. 36, pp. 726–731, 2014.Download.
Das, D., Kamil, F.A. , Agrawal, S., Biswas, K. and S. Das, "Fragmental Frequency Analysis Method to Estimate Electrical Cell Parameters from Bioimpedance Study”, IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, DOI 10.1109/TIM.2014.2303553. Download
Debanjan Das, Karabi Biswas, and Soumen Das. "Dielectrophoresis based microfluidic chip for continuous label-free separation of cells", 9th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), pp. 728-732, Auckland, 8-10 Dec. 2015.
Debanjan Das, Shiraz Sohail, Soumen Das, and Karabi Biswas, "Dynamic positional study of EWOD induced Droplet transport on PDMS based micro-channel", National Conference on Sensors and Actuators: Science to Technology (NCSA 11), CGCRI, Kolkata, March 11-12, 2011.
S. Sohail, D. Das, S. Das, and K. Biswas, "Electrowetting-on-dielectric induced droplet actuation in M x N array of electrode", COMSOL Conference, November 4-5, 2011, Banglore, India.
Debanjan Das, Soumen Das, and Karabi Biswas, "Effect of Electrode Geometry on Voltage Reduction in EWOD Based Devices", International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology, I.I.T Kharagpur, December 15-17, 2010.
Debanjan Das, Shiraz Sohail, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas, "Dynamic positional study of EWOD induced droplet transportation on PDMS based micro-channel" NCSA 11, CGCRI, Kolkata, India March 11-12, 2011
Debanjan Das, Shiraz Sohail, Soumen Das and Karabi Biswas "Voltage and capacitance analysis of EWOD system using COMSOL" COMSOL 2011, November 4-5, 2011, Banglore, India.
Madhab Chandra Tripathy joined as doctoral student in 2009, graduated on 2nd January, 2015. He worked on Design and performance analysis of fractional order filters. He is an Assistant Professor in College of Engineering and Tchnology, Biju patnaik University of Technology, Orissa, Bhubaneswar.
E-mail:madhab.tripathy[AT]gmail[DOT]com
M. C. Tripathy, D. Mondal, K. Biswas, and S. Sen, "Experimental Studies on Realization of Fractional Inductors and Fractional-order Bandpass Filters", DOI: 10.1002/cta.2004, 2014. Download.
M. C. Tripathy, D. Mondal, K. Biswas, and S. Sen, "Design and performance study of phase-locked loops (PLLs) using fractional order loop filters", DOI:10.1002/cta.1972. Download.
M. C. Tripathy, Karabi Biswas, S Sen, "A Design Example of a Fractional-Order Kerwin–Huelsman–Newcomb Biquad Filter with Two Fractional Capacitors of Different Order", Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 32, pp 1523-1536., August 2013. Download.
M. C. Tripathy, K. Biswas, S. Sen, "Realisation of fractional order filter using PMMA Coated Constant Phase element", Proceedings of national conference on Instrumentation, & Control, NATCONIC-2011, January 6-7, 2011 Heritage Institute of Technology, India.
Munmun Khanra was a doctoral student joined in 2009, graduated on 11th July, 2014. She works on approximation and circuit realization of fractional order systems and design of fractional order control. At present she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India.
E-mail: munmunkhanra[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Munmun Khanra, Jayanta Pal and Karabi Biswas; Use of squared magnitude function in approximation and hardware implementation of fractional order systems, Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol.350, No. 7, pp.1753-1767, 2013.
Munmun Khanra, Jayanta Pal and Karabi Biswas; Reduced order approximation of MIMO fractional order systems, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol.3, No. 3, pp.451-458, 2013.
Munmun Khanra, Jayanta Pal and Karabi Biswas; Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order transfer function with multiple fractional powered terms, Asian Journal of Control, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2013.
Munmun Khanra, Karabi Biswas and Jayanta Pal; Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order differentiator, IEEE international conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications, Catania, Italy, June 23-25, 2014.
Munmun Khanra, Jayanta Pal and Karabi Biswas; Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order differentiator, IEEE international conference on PACC, Coimbatore, India, July. 20-22, 2011.
Munmun Khanra, Jayanta Pal and Karabi Biswas; Rational approximation of fractional operator - A comparative study, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems, Allahabad, India, Nov.-Dec. 2010.
Munmun Khanra, Bhaswati Goswami and Karabi Biswas; A comprehensive study on fractional order differentiator and integrator, Proceedings of XXXII National Systems Conference (NSC08), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, December 17-19, 2008.
Siuli Das was a doctoral student joined in 2007 in the Department of Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, graduated on 3rd April, 2013. She works on the fractance based sensor for detecting adulterated milk. At present she is a Professor in Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, India.
E-mail: siulidas2[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Siuli Das, Mulinti Sivaramakrishna, Karabi Biswas, and Bhaswati Goswami, "A Low Cost Instrumentation System to analyze different types of milk adlteration", ISA Transactions, vol. 56 , pp.268-275, 2015. Download.
Siuli Das, Mulinti Sivaramakrishna, Karabi Biswas, and Bhaswati Goswami, "Performance study of a Constant Phase Angle Based Impedance Sensor to Detect Milk Adulteration", Sensors and Actuators A, vol. 167 , pp.273-278, 2011. Download.
Mulinti Sivarama Krishna, Siuli Das, Karabi Biswas, and Bhaswati Goswami, "Fabrication of a Fractional Order Element with desired specifications", A study on process identification and characterization, IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices vol. 58, pp. 4067-4073, 2011. Download.
Siuli Das, Bhaswati Goswami, and Karabi Biswas,, "Modelling and characterization of PMMA-film coated impedance probe dipped in adulterated milk", International conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2014, Pune, India, 4th May 2014.
Siuli Das, M. Sivaramakrishna, Bhaswati Goswami, Karabi Biswas, "Design of a Low-Cost 'Constant Phase Angle' Based Sensing System to Detect Natural Milk and 'Synthetic-Milk' Reconstructed from 'Liquid-Whey', SENSORCOMM 2011 : The Fifth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, French Riviera, Nice, France, pp: 307-311, 21st-27th August, 2011.
Siuli Das, Mulinti Sivarama Krishna, Bhaswati Goswami and Karabi Biswas, "Study of electrical equivalent model of the coated probe dipped in milk and milk adulterated with urea", 2nd International IEEE Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology, 18-19 February, 2011, Kolkata, India.
Siuli Das, Mulinti Sivarama Krishna, Karabi Biswas, and Bhaswati Goswami, "Study of electrical equivalent model of the PMMA coated probe dipped in milk and milk adulterated with tap water", IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Robotics, 27-29 December, 2010, NIT Rourkela, India.
Siuli Das, Mulinti Sivarama Sivaramakrishna, Bhaswai Goswami and Karabi Biswas, "Performance of a Constant Phase Element (CPE) sensor to detect adulteration in cow-milk with whey", IEEE Sensor Conference, 2009, New Zealand.
Mulinti Sivarama Krishna, Siuli Das, Karabi Biswas and Bhaswati Goswami, "Design, fabrication and characterization of a fractance", Symposium on Fractional Signals and Systems, 4-6 November, 2009, Portugal.
Debasmita Mondal was an MS (by reserach) student joined in 2010. She worked on Fabrication and Performance Studies of Fractance. She is currently a Research scholar in Biosensors and Bioinstrumentation Lab, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai - 400076, India.
E-mail: judebasmita[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Debasmita Mondal , and Karabi Biswas, "Packaging of Single Component Fractional Order Element", IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, vol. 13, pp 73-80, March 2013. Download
Debasmita Mondal, and Karabi Biswas, "Performance study of fractional order integrator using single-component fractional order element", IET Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol.5, Iss. 4, pp. 334-342, 2011. Download.
M. C. Tripathy, D. Mondal, K. Biswas, and S. Sen, "Experimental Studies on Realization of Fractional Inductors and Fractional-order Bandpass Filters", DOI:10.1002/cta.2004, 2014. Download.
Debasmita Mondal, Karabi Biswas, "Electrical Equivalent Modeling of Single Component Fractional Order Element with Porous Surface", SENSORCOMM 2011 : The Fifth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, French Riviera, Nice, France, pp: 312-316, 21st-27th August, 2011.
Tushar Bachhar, Debasmita Mondal and Karabi Biswas, "Detection of alcohol blended in gasoline using capacitive type sensor”, National Conference on Sensors and Actuators: Science to Technology (NCSA 11), CGCRI, Kolkata, March 11-12, 2011.
* Suman Biswas: 2019-20: Topic: XX
* Samyadip Sarkar: 2019-20: Topic: XX
* Iswarya Narayanan: 2019-20: Topic: XX
* Kutarekar Nischal Ajay (Dual Degree): 2019-20: Topic: XX
* Manas Guttal: 2018-19: Topic: Performance Analysis of Fractional PID Controller
* Niladri Narayan Banerjee: 2018-19: Topic: Designing of Customized PID Controller on Distributed Control System
* Amlan Shil (Dual Degree): 2019-20: Topic: Realization of Ladder Based Fractor with Phsae Band Specifications
* Mragank Sekhar (Dual Degree): 2019-20: Topic: XX
* Ritik Jain (Dual Degree): 2019-20: Topic: Development Of A Portable Potentiostat
* Ashish Malkani: 2017-18: Topic: Smart Soil Moisture Meter With Integrated Temperature And Humidity Measurement System
* Saket Sehgal: 2017-18: Topic: Design and Hardware Realization of an Analog Fractional Order PID Controller
* Anindia Kalita: 2016-17: Topic: Development of IoT enabled Soil Moisture Meter
* Khirod Kumar Majhi: 2016-17: Topic: Design of IoT enabled Water quality Meter
* Sonu George: 2016-17: Development of IoT enabled Conductivity Meter
* Sachin Dwibedi: 2013-14
* Tushar Kanti Mondal: 2013-14
* Atul Kumar Gautam: 2016-17: Design of fractional order filter
* Rohit Kumar: 2014-15
* Saswata Sathpati: 2013-14
* Achuta Srinivas Duddu: 2016-17: Wireless data transmission from a smart pond
* Pawan Kumar: 2016-17: Study of electronic Nose and electronic Tongue
* Utkarsh Kumar: 2013-14
* Nilesh Khartad: 2013-14
* Jyotirmoy Gupta: 2013-14