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Hire Dr. Soni -.

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Researcher on thin film coatings through Physical Vapour Depostion techniques.

Profile Summary

I am having eight years of hand on experience on various Physical Vapour Vacuum Deposition units like magnetron sputtering, thermal and electron beam evaporation. I am also involved in regular maintenance and troubleshooting of these systems. Using these techniques, I had developed several kinds of coatings and tailored their microstructure by optimizing the deposition parameters in order to achieve desirable properties. I have also developed expertise on mechanical, optical, structural and functional behaviour of materials. Besides this I am also well versed with the operation and understanding of sophisticated instruments like High and room temperature nanoindentation, UV-Visible Spectrometer, X-Ray Diffractometer, Scratch Tester and Surface Profilometer. I am also having the analytical knowledge of SEM, TEM and XPS. I defended my PhD in the month of March, 2021 on “Development of Hard, optically transparent, Hydrophobic Nanocomposite Al-Si-N Coatings by Magnetron Sputtering”. These coatings are suitable for components that require mechanical strength and hydrophobicity along with optical transparency. Al-Si-N thin films could be utilized as protective optical coatings which are used in transparent heat mirrors, architectural windows, and solar heating devices etc. They are also employed in optoelectronic applications like flat panel displays and UV- LED’s. I have worked on the development of nanocomoposite hard coatings, multilayers, metallic, metal alloy and ceramic-based coatings for numerous applications like solar thermal, aerospace, radio frequency windows, thermoelectric etc.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Materials Science & Engineering
• ☆ Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Feasibility Study, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Senior Project Associate

National Metallurgical Laboratory CSIR

February 2021 - February 2022

Senior Research Fellow

National Metallurgical Laboratory CSIR

April 2017 - April 2020

Project Assistant

National Metallurgical Laboratory CSIR

March 2014 - March 2017

Junior Research Fellow

CSIR-IMMT

July 2013 - November 2013

Project Assistant

National Metallurgical Laboratory CSIR

June 2012 - June 2013

Education

PhD Physics

Indian School of Mines (ISM)

May 2016 - April 2021

MSc - Physics

Jamshedpur Co-operative College

July 2009 - November 2011

B.Sc Physics

Jamshedpur Women's College

June 2006 - June 2009

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Soni and Mohammed Junaid Shekh and S.K. Sharma and S.K. Mishra(2020). Strain rate sensitivity behaviour of the thin films of Al, Al Si and nanocomposite Al-Si-N: A comparative study . Materials Characterization. 169. p. 110589. Elsevier {BV}

Soni and S.K. Sharma and S.K. Mishra(2020). The effect of Si content on structural, mechanical and optical behaviour of magnetron sputtered Al–Si–N nanocomposite thin films . Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 831. p. 154686. Elsevier {BV}

Soni and S.K. Mishra and S.K. Sharma(2019). Influence of nitrogen partial pressure on optical properties of magnetron sputtered Al-Si-N thin films . Thin Solid Films. 682. p. 1--9. Elsevier {BV}

Soni and Swati Kumari and S. K. Sharma and S. K. Mishra(2018). Effect of Deposition Pressure, Nitrogen Content and Substrate Temperature on Optical and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposite Al-Si-N Hard Coatings for Solar Thermal Applications . Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. 27. (12). p. 6729--6736. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

S.K. Mishra and Swati Kumari and Soni(2017). Development of hard and optically transparent Al-Si-N nanocomposite coatings . Surface and Interface Analysis. 49. (4). p. 345--348. Wiley

S. K. Mishra and Rakesh Kumar and Soni and M. Sreemany and L. C. Pathak(2015). Ultrathin to Nano Thickness TiN Coatings: Processing, Structural, Mechanical Behavior . Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. 24. (12). p. 5013--5021. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}