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SPIE Chapter Report

2011-12

Govindpuri, Kalkaji

New Delhi-110019

http://andcollege.du.ac.in

Acharya Narendra Dev College

August 2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Description Page Number

President‟s Word 3

Present Members 5

Chapter Council 6

Chapter Activities 8

Publications 22

Financial Information 24

Planned Activities for the Future 24

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President’s Word

It gives me an immense satisfaction as I finalize this second annual report of our University of

Delhi at Acharya Narendra Dev College SPIE Student Chapter. Our group of 25 has now become

a big family of 52 members which is spread across several disciplines. Surely this

multidisciplinary increment in the number of student members is an encouraging sign as far as

the popularity of the chapter is concerned.

I would like to thank SPIE for providing me a life time opportunity to attend SPIE Optics +

Photonics 2011, during August 20 – 25, 2011 in San Diego, CA, USA under the Officer Travel

Grant and present a paper on “Laser Based Studies in Geometrical Optics at School Level”. This

visit had a great motivational impact on my peers. The exposure during the student leadership

workshop, discussions held with other chapter members from various countries and optics

fraternity was a great learning experience. It was shared and implemented in the various

activities for this year. The student members have been very enthusiastically involved with the

chapter. This year also our team designed promotion poster for circulation amongst our peers in

the college as well as to other undergraduate, postgraduate as well as research scholars of

University of Delhi. We regularly updated the SPIE corner, the bulletin board, with the

achievements, activities and updates in the area of optics and photonics.

A workshop on THIN FILMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS was held on Feb 24 – 25th

2012.

Students were taught the intricacies of thin films in which they showed keen interest. 39 students

took part in this workshop and made it a great success. After the workshop got over, many

students were inspired and joined our SPIE Chapter.

Another proud moment for us is that Miss. Phalguni Mathur, B.Sc. (H) Physics, has attended the

conference SPIE Optics + Photonics 2012, during August 12 - 16, 2012 in San Diego, CA,

USA on Officer Travel Grant provided by SPIE. She has presented a paper on “Development of

Low cost Optical Fiber Kit to promote Fiber Optics at School Level”, a result of hard work of

our chapter members under the mentorship of the faculty advisor, as well as participated in the

Optics Outreach Olympics.

I will fail in my responsibility if I forget to acknowledge our faculty advisor Dr. Amit Garg

without whom it is difficult to envisage the growth of ANDC SPIE CHAPTER at this rate. He

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has been a great source of inspiration and his constant drive always keeps us in high spirits and

morale. He believes in giving the students opportunities so that they get maximum exposure to

do hands-on research at the Undergraduate level.

I have no doubt that our chapter has a bright future and will become one of the brightest stars in

the SPIE galaxy.

Pratik Chakravarty

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List of Members 2011-12

S.No Name Position

1. Dr. Amit Garg Faculty

2. Mr. Vishal Dhingra Faculty

3. Reena Sharma Faculty

4. Kanika Sandhu B.Sc(H) Electronics Part II

5. Purnima Wadhawan B.Sc(H) Electronics Part II

6. Raman Tiwadi B.Sc(H) Electronics Part II

7. Pratik Chakravarty B.Sc(H) Electronics Part II

8. Rajendra BSc(H) Electronics I

9. Pramod BSc(H) Electronics I

10. Pratibha Arya BSc(H) Electronics I

11. Raj BSc(H) Electronics I

12. Shah Alam BSc(H) Electronics I

13. Jatin BSc(H) Electronics I

14. Akash Verma BSc(H) Electronics I

15. Manish BSc(H) Electronics I

16. Vaibhav BSc(H) Electronics I

17. Rahul singhal BSc(H) Electronics I

18. Divyam vashisht BSc(H) Electronics I

19. Tarun Arora BSc(H) Electronics I

20. Praveen BSc(H) Electronics I

21. Phalguni Mathur BSc(H) Physics II

22. Khusal nagpal PGDCA

23. Devender Dhawan BSc(H) Electronics II

24. Ankit Mittal Project Fellow

25. Abhishek Kumar Gupta BSc(H) Physics I

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Chapter Council

President –Pratik Chakravarty Vice president- Praveen Kumar

General Secretary –Tarun Arora Treasurer- Vaibhav Dhawan

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amit Garg

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CHAPTER ACTIVITIES

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WORKSHOP ON THIN FILMS AND THEIR

APPLICATIONS

On 24th

and 25th

February, 2012

University of Delhi at ANDC SPIE student chapter organized a two day workshop on ‘Thin

Films and their Applications’ on 24th

and 25th

February, 2012. The workshop was attended by

39 students (Physics and Electronics Dept.). Invited talks delivered by eminent speakers like

PADAMSHRI Prof. K.L. Chopra (Ex-Director, IIT - Kharagpur), Prof. Vinay Gupta

(Department of Physics and Astrophysics University of Delhi), Prof. P.K. Bhatnagar(Department

of Electronic Science University of Delhi) and Dr. Monika Tomar (Department of Physics,

Miranda House University of Delhi). The hands-on sessions were held at Department of Physics

and Astrophysics, University of Delhi. During hands-on sessions students were exposed to

different tools and techniques in various laboratories like Fabrication lab, Plasma lab, Ceramic

lab, Pulsed Laser Deposition lab, RF Sputtering lab, Surface Plasmon Resonance lab etc.

SPECIAL LECTURE DURING THE WORKSHOP

PADAMSHRI AWARDEE, PROF. K.L. CHOPRA

[FNA, FASc, FNASc, D.SC. (HC), Former Director, IIT

Kharagpur,

President, Society for Scientific Values]

“SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THIN FILMS”

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SCHEDULE

DAY 1: February 24, 2012, Friday

DAY 2: February 25, 2012, Saturday

Venue: Conference Room, ANDC

Time Session Details Invitees / Resource Person

09:00-10:00 am Registration

10:00-10:15 am

SPIE Student Chapter Report

Dr. Savithri Singh

Principal, Acharya Narendra Dev College

University of Delhi

10:15-11:30 am Invited Talk: Overview of thin films Prof. K.L. Chopra

Ex-Director, IIT - Kharagpur

11:30-11:45 am Tea Break

11:45 am-01:00 pm Invited Talk: Application domain of thin films

Prof. Vinay Gupta

Department of Physics and Astrophysics

University of Delhi, North Campus

01:00-02:00 pm Lunch break

02:00-03:15 pm Invited Talk: Various techniques used for

growing different types of thin films

Dr. Monika Tomar

Department of Physics, Miranda House

University of Delhi

03:15-3:30 pm Tea Break

03:30-4:45 pm Invited Talk: Various methods used for

characterization of thin films

Prof. P.K. Bhatnagar

Department of Electronic Science

University of Delhi, South Campus

Venue : Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, North Campus

Time Session Details Invitees / Resource Person

10:00-11:15 am Hands-on session -I on Fabrication and

Characterization Of Thin Films

Prof. Vinay Gupta

Department of Physics and Astrophysics

University of Delhi, Delhi

11:15-11:30 am Tea Break

11:30 am-12:45 pm Hands-on session -II on Fabrication and

Characterization Of Thin Films

Prof. Vinay Gupta

Department of Physics and Astrophysics

University of Delhi, Delhi

12:45-01:30 pm Lunch Break

01:30-02:45 pm Hands-on session -III on Fabrication and

Characterization Of Thin Films

Prof. Vinay Gupta

Department of Physics and Astrophysics

University of Delhi, Delhi

02:45-03:00 pm Tea Break

03:00-04:15 pm Hands-on session -IV on Fabrication and

Characterization Of Thin Films

Prof. Vinay Gupta

Department of Physics and Astrophysics

University of Delhi, Delhi

04:15-04:30 pm Valedictory Function

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

S.No. Student Name Course

1 Amit Dubey B.Sc. Life science-1st year

2 Ajay Kumar Acharya B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

3 Ankit Bhati B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

4 Deepak Kumar B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

5 Eti Singh B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

6 Karishma Vashishtha B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

7 Kamal B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

8 Pulkit Saxena B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

9 Prabhav Pushkar B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

10 Pramod Kumar B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

11 Raj Kumar Sharma B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

12 Rakhi Bisht B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

13 Rishi Pandey B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

14 Sahil Shrivastava B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

15 Hemant Adhikari B.Sc.(H) Electronics-1st year

16 Gaurav Kumar B.Sc.(H)Electronics-1st year

17 Akash Verma B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

18 Dhruv Dosad B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

19 Divyam Vashisht B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

20 Jatin Butta B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

21 Manish Singh B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

22 Parveen Kumar Jha B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

23 Pradeep Kumar B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

24 Rajender B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

25 Raj Keshri B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

26 Shah Alam B.Sc.(H)electronics-2nd year

27 Tarun Arora B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

28 Vaibhav Dhawan B.Sc.(H)Electronics-2nd year

29 Devender Dhawan B.Sc.(H)Electronics-3rd year

30 Kanika Sandhu B.Sc.(H)Electronics-3rd year

31 Purnima Wadhawan B.Sc.(H)Electronics-3rd year

32 Pratik Chakravarty B.Sc.(H)Electronics-3rd year

33 Raman Tiwadi B.Sc.(H)Electronics-3rd year

34 Rahul Singhal B.Sc.(H)Electronics-3rd year

35 Rohit Singh B.Sc.(H)Physics-2nd year

36 Nikhil Gera B.Sc.(H)Physics-3rd year

37 Phalguni Mathur B.Sc.(H)Physics-3rd year

38 Sujit Kumar B.Sc.(H)Physics-3rd year

39 Shivam Gupta B.Sc.(H)Physics-3rd year

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WORKSHOP

DAY 1

1

2

3

1. Padamshri, Prof. K.L. Chopra, being gifted

with a token of appreciation for his talk on

the overview of „Science and Technology of

Thin Films‟, by the President of SPIE

Student Chapter, Pratik Chakravarty at

Acharya Narendra Dev College, New Delhi.

2. Prof. P.K. Bhatnagar (Department of

Electronic Science, University of Delhi South

Campus) giving the lecture on ‟Various

methods used for characterization of thin

films‟.

3. The chapter members with Prof. Vinay

Gupta who gave a lecture on the „Application

Domain of thin Films‟ and Dr. Monika

Tomar who gave a lecture on „Various

techniques used for growing different types

of thin films‟.

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DAY 2

Students learning about the gas sensors Students in the ceramic lab

Students and teachers in the Fabrication Lab Students in the Bio-Sensors lab

A student exploring the Plasma Lab Students learning about the U.V. Detector

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PROMOTION POSTER

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PARTICIPATION IN SPIE OPTICS+PHOTONICS 2011

Faculty member Mr. Vishal Dhingra and Pratik Chakravarty with Dirk in San Diego

Our chapter president Pratik Chakravarty got a very special and glorious opportunity to represent

the chapter and present a paper on „Laser based study of geometrical optics at school level‟ at SPIE

Optics + Photonics 2011, San Diego, California, USA. It was incidentally our first participation in a

conference outside India, a rare feat for an undergraduate student. Pratik‟s presence at the

conference proved to be a great help for the evolution of the chapter. His experience in USA proved

to be a source of inspiration for several fellow chapter members who now worked with much more

zeal and dedication towards the various projects and activities carried out under the chapter.

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PARTICIPATION IN SPIE OPTICS+PHOTONICS 2012

SPIE Optics + Photonics 2012 was the

place and second time our chapter got to

interact with several other chapters from

all over the world. This year Phalguni

Mathur received the golden chance to

represent the chapter and present the

paper on the „Development of Low Cost

Optical Fiber Kit to promote Fiber

Optics at School Level‟. This year we

also participated in Optics Outreach

Olympics to present our Fiber Optic kit.

It is our hope that Phalguni‟s

participation and experience in the

conference helps in the taking the

chapter to a new level.

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ANDC CHAPTER AWARDED OPTICS EDUCATION

OUTREACH GRANT 2012

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DEVELOPMENT OF FIBER OPTICS KIT

During the year 2011-12, our chapter chose to develop a low cost optical fiber kit to promote

fiber optics at school level. The members of the chapter were enthusiastically involved with the

project. We started with first going through the syllabus of XII grade under CBSE Board and

hence educating ourselves with the aspects of fiber optics taught at that level in schools. Once we

got the idea, we started on making the kit by testing various circuits that were to be included in

the kit. We developed a kit that could perform the following experiments:

I. Determine NA of a fiber

II. Determine bending losses in a fiber

III. Determine alignment losses in a fiber (Lateral (Vertical and Horizontal) and longitudinal)

IV. Demonstrating various types of fibers and connectors

V. Need for Optical communication

VI. Need of Optical fiber in communication

VII. Demonstrating analog communication using optical fiber

VIII. Demonstrating digital communication using optical fiber

IX. Demonstrating voice communication

X. Demonstrating Wavelength Division Multiplexing and its importance

After the development of the kit, we planned a demonstration at school. Our team started off by

first preparing questionnaires for the pre demonstration session and then on similar lines one for

the post demonstration session. Our team then conducted the demonstration as per the plans and

received an overwhelming response from the students as well as the school authorities.

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIBER OPTICS KIT

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2

3

4

5

6

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1. Components of fiber optic kit like micro bend fiber, types of optical fibers, NA mount, films,

acrylic rod etc.

2. Determination of numerical aperture using the kit

3. Demonstration of bending losses using the kit

4. Demonstration of fiber to fiber losses using the kit

5. Development of the voice link using the kit

6. Demonstration of Wavelength Division Multiplexing using the kit

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DEMONSTRATION OF THE DEVELOPED FIBER OPTIC

KIT IN SCHOOLS

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PARTICIPATION IN OPTICS OUTREACH OLYMPICS

The Low cost optical fiber kit developed by the student members of SPIE at Acharya Narendra

Dev College UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF OUR Faculty Advisor was presented at the

Optics Outreach Olympics 2012. Enveloped in the fantastic party atmosphere of colorful lights

and music, the kit got a lot of appreciation from almost everybody present in the hall. The voice

link was the main attraction. Most of the visitors were literally playing with the voice link. There

was hardly any second when our stall was short of visitors. It was a very good experience for the

presenter, Phalguni Mathur to present the kit and receive an awarding feedback from all the

visitors.

We hope to carry forward the trend and celebrate optics at the international forum of such great

magnitude.

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PUBLICATIONS

1. Investigating material removal mechanisms during laser ablation of InSb , Amit Garg,

Avinashi Kapoor, K.N. Tripathi, S.K. Bansal, International Conference on Applications of

Optics and Photonics - AOP‟2011, May 3 - 7, 2011, Braga‟ campus of the University of

Minho , Portugal, SPIE Volume No.801, page 80010A-1-12, 2011.

Science Education:

1. Polarization Studies in a Computer based Laboratory, Amit Garg, Reena Sharma, Vishal

Dhingra, Latin-American Journal of Physics Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2011, Page

114-118, 2011

2. Development of low cost optical fiber kit to promote Fiber-Optics at the school level,

Phalguni Mathur, Parveen Kumar Jha, Deepak Kumar, Ajay Acharya, Sahil Srivastava,

Pulkit Saxena, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra, Optical Engineering + Applications(SPIE

Optics + Photonics), 12–16 August 2012, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego,

California, USA

3. Innovating spectrometry studies at undergraduate level using a linear CCD array, Amit

Garg, Reena Sharma, Vishal Dhingra, Optical Engineering + Applications ( SPIE

Optics + Photonics), 21–25 August 2011, San Diego Convention Center, San Diego,

California, USA, SPIE Volume No.8129, , page 81290H-1-10, 2011

4. Laser based study of geometrical optics at school level, Amit Garg, Vishal Dhingra,

Reena Sharma, Avdesh Kumar Singh, Deepak Joshi, Kanika Sandhu, Pratik Chakravarty,

Purnima Wadhawan, Vaibhav Sharma, Zameer Khan, Optical Engineering +

Applications ( SPIE Optics + Photonics), 21–25 August 2011, San Diego Convention

Center, San Diego, California, USA, SPIE Volume No.8129, page 81290M-1 -10, 2011

5. CCD based diffraction studies in the undergraduate optics laboratory, Amit Garg, Reena

Sharma, Vishal Dhingra, Purnima Wadhawan, Kanika Sandhu, Convergence of Optics

and Electronics COE 2011, March 26 – 27, 2011, Science City, Kolkata, Page no. 146-

152

6. Measurement of Planck‟s constant using Radiation Law, Amit Garg, Ankit Mittal, Reena

Sharma, Vishal Dhingra, Purnima Wadhawan, Kanika Sandhu, Convergence of Optics

and Electronics COE 2011, March 26 – 27, 2011, Science City, Kolkata, Page no. 85-93

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7. Polarization studies using Jones‟ calculus in under-graduate optics laboratory , Amit

Garg, Reena Sharma, Vishal Dhingra, International Conference on Applications of

Optics and Photonics - AOP‟2011, May 3 - 7, 2011, Braga‟ campus of the University of

Minho , Portugal, SPIE Volume No.8001, page 80013R-1-9, 2011

8. Innovations in teaching communication electronics through computer interfacing, Amit

Garg, Dharmendra Kumar Mahato, Komal, Reena Sharma, Vishal Dhingra, National

Conference on Excellence in Higher Education,April 1-3, 2011, Indian Institute of

Technology, Delhi(IIT-D)

Faculty Adviser as Principal Investigator of Innovative Project from Colleges sanctioned

by University of Delhi in which many SPIE members are working

1. Glucose Detection-a Biosensing Approach of One year duration for RS. 10,00,000/-

2. Mobile Phone as a real time sensor based undergraduate laboratory of One year

duration for RS. 10,00,000/-

Faculty Adviser as Mentor, IEDC, Department of Science and Technology in which many

SPIE members are working

1. Mentor, Innovative Student Project 2011 , “Development of Phototherapy Blanket

for treatment of Jaundice in Infants ” of one year duration for Rs.1,00,000/- ,

Inovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre(IEDC), National Science &

Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science

& Technology (DST)

List of Completed research projects under the Faculty Adviser

1. Principal Investigator of UGC Major Research Project “Investigating Science Hands-on

to Promote Innovation and Research at the Under-graduate Level” of three year

duration for Rs. 10,54,300/- completed in March-2012

2. Mentor, Innovative Student Project 2010 , “Low Cost Glucometer” of one year

duration for Rs.1,00,000/- , Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development

Centre(IEDC), National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board

(NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology (DST) Completed in March-2012

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Financial Statement

S.No Activity Withdrawn Deposited Balance

1. Opening Balance (-)Rs. 2305

2. Grant received Rs. 44061/-

3. Two day workshop on Thin

Films and Their Applications

Rs. 29,526/-

4. Material for development of

Fiber Optics Kit for school

demonstrations(committed)

Rs. 15,000/-

Closing Balance (-)Rs. 2770

Council Meetings

We held Council meetings almost every month to discuss and plan various chapter activities for

optics promotion. Many full chapter meetings were held to make the students aware of the

activities of the chapter and to involve them in participation and organization of the activities.

During these meetings we charted out the various goals of the chapter.

Proposed Activities with Financial Estimates for the year 2012-13

S.No Activity Estimates Remarks

1. Promotional Material for distribution

to other colleges and departments of

University of Delhi

Rs.3000/- Printing of A3 size

posters highlighting

SPIE, Student

member benefits,

proposed activities of

the Student Chapter,

postage and transport

2. Two Days Workshop on Photonics Rs.30000/- Remuneration to

speakers,

Refreshments, Travel,

Contingencies

3. Visit to industry/research labs

engaged with photonics

Rs.15000/- Travel Expenses+

Food

4. Promoting Photonics in Schools/

colleges through workshops

Rs.5000/- Travel+refreshment

5. Development of low cost kit on

Optics

Rs.30000/- Material Cost

Total Rs. 83000/-

(app USD 1500)