Dr. Manoj Kumar Meshram

Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Electronics Engineering IIT(BHU)
Phone No(s): +91-9450533003, +91-8318478856
Email: mkmeshram.ece@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, Microstrip Antenna, MIMO/Diversity Antennas for Mobile Phones, Reflectarray Antennas, Reconfigurable Antennas, UWB Antennas, Implanted Antennas, Metamaterial,

Manoj Kumar Meshram was born in Balaghat (MP), India, in 1971. He holds the B.E.,  M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering. He joined the Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi (erstwhile IT-BHU, Varanasi) in July 2002, where he is working as a Professor.
He received INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Fellowship 2008-09 from Govt. of India to visit South Korea under the Bilateral Exchange program in which he joined Hanyang University (Electronics and Computer Division), South Korea. Further, in the year 2010, he was awarded the BOYSCAST (Better Opportunity to Young Scientist in Chosen Area of Science and Technology) fellowship for one year for conducting advanced research at McMaster University (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with Prof. Natalia K. Nikolova. Recently (in 2017), he has awarded INSA-DFG Fellowship 2017 from German Research Foundation to carry out research activities in Germany under Bilateral Exchange Program.

His research interests include microwave and millimeter wave technolgy, metamaterial, reconfigurable antennas, reflectarrays, implantable antennas, frequency scanning antenna for radar system, microstrip antenna, UWB antennas, MIMO antennas, tapered slot antenna, ferrites, MMIC, and microwave imaging. He has published about 100 papers in referred international Journals and conferences and 02 text books. He is in the reviewer’s list of several refered journals in India and abroad. He is expert member of the project review committee of the Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India. He has successfully executed the project entitled “Design and Development of Wide Band Vivaldi Antenna Array for Airborne Applications” for the transfer of technology under the CARS scheme of DARE, and it has been processed for batch production by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bengaluru.

He has a founder and Secretary of the society named Academic Society of Science Engineering and Technology, India. He is also a founder and Managing Editor of the Journal “International Journal of Advancement of Microwave Technology(https://www.ijamt.com).

Dr. Meshram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, member of Indian Science Congress Association, India, Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), India, and a Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India. He is a recipient of Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award-2015 (appreciated under Technology-Edge category) during the Festival of Innovation on 8th March, 2015 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. He received the Best Paper Award during the 87th session of the Indian Science Congress Association in January 2000 at Pune University, Pune, India.

Academic:

  • Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi  (29 September 2020 - Today)
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi  (4 August 2015 - 29 September 2020)
  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi  (29 June 2007 - 4 August 2015)
  • Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi  (29 July 2002 - 28 June 2007)

Administrative:

  • Head, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi  (9 August 2022 - To date)
  • Chairman, Non-Teaching Grievance Committee (15 October 2022 - To date)
  • Member, Space Audit & Allocation Committee, IIT(BHU), Varanasi (3 October 2022 - To date)
  • Convener, DUGC, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi  (1 Sept 2020 - 31 August 2022)
  • Member, Senate IIT(BHU) (01.04.2019  todate)
  • Director Nominee for R&D Project (2021 todate)
  • Member, DPGC
  • Member DUGC
  • Managing Editor, International Journal of Advances in Microwave Techniques
  • Member, Central Purchase Committee, BHU, Varanasi (January 2017 – Till date)
  • Chairman, IETE Varanasi Sub-Centre (2022-2024)
  • Honrary Secretary, IETE Varanasi Sub-Centre (2017-2019)
  • Member, Departmental Faculty Affair Committee (2016-Till date)
  • Member, Departmental Purchase Committee (2016-Till date)
  • Member, Institute Workshop Committee (2012-14) and (2016-Till date)
  • Professor-in-Charge, Training & Placement, Dept. of Electronics (2002-2004)

Broad Areas of Current Research:

 1.   Microwave and Millimeter Wave Antennas

  • Microstrip antennas and arrays
  • MIMO/Diversity Antennas for Mobile Phones
  • Planar Ultra Wideband Antennas
  • Planar Monopole Antenna for mobile phones
  • Leaky Wave Antennas
  • Reconfigurable Antennas
  • Reflectarray Antennas
  • Antennas for Wireless Body Area Network
  • Implanted Bio-degradable Antennas
  • Antennas for RFID Tag
  • High Gain Vivaldi Antennas
  • Microstrip Filters
  • Filtering Antennas

2.   Artificial Electromagnetic Material

  • Left Handed Metamaterials, Zero Index Materaials, Artificial Materials, etc.
  • Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures
  • Frequency Selective Surfaces
  • Metamaterial Absorbers

3.     Microwave Imaging

  • Ground Penetrating Radars

A. Journals

  1. Arun Kumar Saurabh and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “Integration of sub-6GHz and mm-wave antenna for higher-order 5G-MIMO system”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2022. [IF: 3.691] 
  2. Arun Kumar Saurabh, Rahul Dubey, and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “Wideband eight-element MIMO antenna with band-dispensation characteristics”, AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2022.[IF: 3.183]
  3. Akanksha Singh, Rahul Dubey, Rajkumar Jatav, and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “Electronically reconfigurable microstrip antenna with steerable beams”, AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol. 149, pp. 154-179, 2022. [IF: 3.183]
  4. V Choudhary, MK Meshram, J Hesselbarth,  "Four elements reconfigurable MIMO antenna for dual band applications", International Journal of Advances in Microwave Technology, vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 274-282, 2022.
  5. Arun Kumar Saurabh and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “Wideband 20-elements 3D-MIMO antenna for localization system”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 409-413, 2022. [IF: 3.691] 
  6. Arun Kumar Saurabh and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “Compact sub-6 GHz 5G- multiple-input-multiple-output antenna system with enhanced isolation”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering,  e22246, 2020. [IF: 1.987]
  7.  Mayank Agarwal and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “An approach for circuit modeling of a multiband resonators based planar metamaterial absorber”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters,   30 July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.32549[IF: 0.948]
  8. Arun Kumar Saurabh, Praveen Singh Rathore, and Manoj Kumar Meshram; “Compact wideband four-element MIMO antenna with high isolation”, Electronics Letters, vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 117-119, 2020. [IF: 1.202]
  9. Hari Shankar Singh, Sachin Kalraiya, Manoj Kumar Meshram, and Raed M Shubair, “Metamaterial inspired CPW-fed compact antenna for ultrawideband applications”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering, April 2019. (https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.21768), [IF: 1.987]
  10. Sukesh Kumar Gupta, Shishir Kumar Patel, Munendra Singh Tomar, Shio Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar Mesharam, Sairam Krishnamurthy, “Long-term exposure of 2450 MHz electromagnetic radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats”, Neurochemistry internationalvol. 128, vol. 9, pp. 1-13, 2019.
  11. Hari Shankar Singh, Sachin Kalraiya, Manoj Kumar Meshram, and Raed M Shubair, “Metamaterial inspired CPW-fed compact antenna for ultrawideband applications”, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering, April 2019. (https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.21768).
  12. Prakash, M. Agarwal and M. K. Meshram, “An Active Polarization-Insensitive Ultrathin Metamaterial Absorber with Frequency Controllability”, Advances in Signal Processing and Communication, vol. 526, pp 157-163, 2019.
  13. B Sahu, S Singh, M K Meshram, and S P Singh, “A new compact ultra-wideband filtering antenna with improved performance”, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applicationsvol. 33, no. 1, pp. 107-124, 2019.
  14. B Sahu, S Singh, M K Meshram, and S P Singh, “Integrated design of filtering antenna with high selectivity and improved performance for L-band applications”, AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications vol. 97, no. 12 , pp. 185-194, 2018. [IF:3.183]
  15. M. Agarwal and M. K. Meshram, “Metamaterial-based dual-band microwave absorber with polarization insensitive and wide-angle performance”, AIP Advances, vol. 8, no. 9, 095016, 2018.doi:10.1063/1.5020702 
  16. B. Sahu, S. Singh, M. K. Meshram, and S.P. Singh, “Super-Compact Ultra-Wideband Microstrip Band-Pass Filter with Improved Performance using Defected Ground Structure-Based Low-Pass Filter,” Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 635-650, Feb. 2018.
  17. B. Sahu, S. Singh, M. K. Meshram, and S.P. Singh, “Study of compact microstrip lowpass filter with improved performance using defected ground structure,” International Journal of RF and Microwave ComputerAided Engineering, vol. 28, no. 4, May 2018, e21209. (DOI: 10.1002/mmce.21209). 
  18. S.K. Gupta, M. K. Mesharam, and S Krishnamurthy, "Electromagnetic Radiation 2450 MHz Exposure Causes Cognition Deficit with Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Activation of Intrinsic Pathway of Apoptosis in Rats, Journal of Biosciences, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 263-276 , 2018. 
  19. M. Agarwal, A. Kumar Behera, M. K. Meshram, “MIMO-Configured WLAN Access Point Antenna With High Port Isolation,” Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applicationsvol. 31, no. 10, pp. 1007-1019, 2017. 
  20. H.S. Singh and M. K. Meshram, “Effect of User Proximity on Internal Quad Band Mobile Phone MIMO/Diversity Antenna Performances,” Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 95, no. 2, 1417-1431, 2017. 
  21. Pouria Kamalvand, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A Single Sided Meandered Dual Antenna Structure for UHF RFID Tags,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, vol. 9, No. 7,  pp. 1419-1426, 2017
  22. B Sahu, P Tripathi, S Singh, M Kumar Meshram, SP Singh, “Investigation on Compact Modified Wideband Interdigital Bandpass Filter with Wide Stopband using Spurlines and Defected Ground Structures,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 2634-2639, 2016. 
  23. M. Agarwal, A. K. Behera, and M. K. Meshram, “Wide-angle quad-band polarization-insensitive metamaterial absorber,” Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 340-342, 2016. 
  24. Mayank Agarwal, Ashis Kumar Behera, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Dual Resonating C-Band with Enhanced Bandwidth and Broad X-Band Metamaterial Absorber,” Applied Physics A: Material Science & Processing, vol. 122 (166), 2016. 
  25. A.K. Behera, M. Agarwal, and M. K. Meshram, “A hepta-band frequency reconfigurable antenna for mobile handsets with impedance matching technique,” International Journal of Advances in Microwave Techniques (IJAMT), vol.1, no.1, pp. 19-23, May 2016. 
  26. Gaurav K. Pandey, Hari S. Singh, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Investigations of triple band artificial magnetic conductor back plane with UWB antenna,” Microwave Optical Technology Letters, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 1900-1906, August 2016. 
  27. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Platform tolerant UWB antenna over multi-band AMC structure,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 58, issue 5, pp. 1052-1059, May 2016. 
  28. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Meander-line based inhomogeneous anisotropic artificial material for gain enhancement of UWB Vivaldi antenna,” Applied Physics A: Material Science & Processing, Vol. 122, issue 2, pp. 134 (1-9), Feb. 2016. 
  29. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, "Design and Analysis of Ψ-Shaped UWB Antenna with Dual Band Notched Characteristics," Wireless Personal CommunicationVol. 89, issue 1, pp 79-92, July 2016. 
  30. Pouria Kamalvand, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “RFID Tag Antenna for Ultra and Super High Frequency Band Applications,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 7, 640-650, 2016. 
  31. Hari Shankar Singh, Shalini, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, "Printed Monopole Diversity Antenna for USB Dongle Applications," Wireless Personal Communication, January 2016, Volume 86, Issue 2, pp 771-787. 
  32. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design and Analysis of Multi-Band Notched Pitcher-Shaped UWB Antenna,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol25, no. 9, pp. 795-806, Nov. 2015. 
  33. Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design and Performance Investigation of a Low Profile MIMO/Diversity Antenna for WLAN/ WiMAX/ HIPERLAN Applications with High Isolation,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided EngineeringVol. 25, No. 6, pp. 510-521, 2015. 
  34. Pouria Kamalvand, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Manoj Kumar Meshram, and Alireza Mallahzadeh, “A Single Sided Dual-Antenna Structure for UHF RFID Tag Applications,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol25, no. 7, pp. 619-628, Sep. 2015.
  35.  Gaurav Kumar Pandey and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A Printed High Gain UWB Antenna Design Using Tapered Corrugation and Grating Elements,” International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol25, no. 7, pp. 610-618, Sep. 2015.
  36. Pradutt Kumar Bharti, Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Thin Profile Wideband Printed Monopole Antenna for Slim Mobile Handsets Applications,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 57, pp. 149-158 2015.
  37. Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Compact Printed Diversity Antenna for LTE700/ GSM1700/ 1800/ UMTS/ Wi-Fi/ Bluetooth/ LTE2300/ 2500 Applications for Slim Mobile Handsets,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 56, pp. 83-91, 2015.
  38. Pradutt Kumar Bharti, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Multiband Shorted Monopole Antenna for Handset Applications,” Microwave Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 1459-1466, 2015.
  39. Gaurav K. Pandey, Himanshu, and Manoj. K. Meshram, “Compact Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for UWB Applications,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 51, Iss. 4, pp. 308-310, 2015.
  40. G. K. Pandey, H. S. Singh, P. K. Bharti, A. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “ High Gain Vivaldi Antenna for Radar and Microwave Imaging Applications,” International Journal of Signal Processing SystemsVol. 3, No. 1, pp. 35-39, 2015
  41. Hari S. Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “A Compact Dual-Band Diversity Antenna for WLAN Applications with High Isolation,” Microwave Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 906-912, 2015.
  42. Hari S. Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “A Low Profile Tri-Band Diversity Antenna For WLAN/Wi-MAX/HIPERLAN Applications With High Isolation,” Microwave Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 452-457, 2015.
  43. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design of Polarization Insensitive Triple Band Artificial Magnetic Conductor,” International Journal of Advances in Science and Technology, pp. 230-234, 2014.
  44. Pradutt K. Bharti, H. S. Singh, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “Coupled fed shorted uniplanar monopole antenna for slim mobile handsets,” International Journal of Microwaves and Optical Technology, Vol. 9, No.5, 346-352, Sep 2014.
  45. Pradutt Kumar Bharti, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A Compact Multiband Planar Monopole Antenna for Slim Mobile Handset Applications,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 61, pp. 31-42, 2014.
  46.  G. K. Pandey, H. S. Singh, P. K. Bharti, and M. K. Meshram, “Metamaterial Based UWB antenna,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 50, pp. 1266-1268, 2014.
  47. Rajesh Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Mayank Agarwal, Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Compact Planar Monopole Antenna with Dual Band Notched Characteristics Using T-Shaped Stub and Rectangular Mushroom Type Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure for UWB and Bluetooth Applications,” Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 78, pp. 215-230, Sep 2014.
  48. Hari Shankar Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A Quad-Band Compact Diversity Antenna for GPS L1/Wi-Fi/LTE2500/WiMAX/HIPERLAN1 Applications,” IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 13, pp. 249-252, 2014
  49. Mayank Agarwal, Rajesh Singh, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Linearly Polarized Planar Inverted F-Antenna for GPS and WiMAX Applications, IET Microw. Antennas Propag., Vol. 7, Iss. 12, pp. 991–998, 2013
  50. Hari Shankar Singh, Bhaskarareddy Meruva, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Low Mutual Coupling between MIMO Antennas by using two Folded Shorting Strips,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 53, 205-221, 2013. 
  51. Gaurav K. Pandey, Hari S. Singh, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Design of WLAN Band Notched UWB Monopole Antenna with Stepped Geometry Using Modified EBG Structure,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 50, 201-217, 2013. 
  52. Pradutt K. Bharti, H. S. Singh, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “Slot Loaded Tri Band Microstrip Antenna for Wireless Applications” International Journal of Microwaves and Optical Technology, Vol. 8, No.3, 120-128, 2013. 
  53. Pradutt K. Bharti, H. S. Singh, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “Slot Loaded Microstrip Antenna for GPS, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX Applications,” International Journal of Microwaves Applications, Volume 2, No.2, 2013.
  54. Manoj K. Meshram, Reza K. Animeh, Ankur T. Pimpale, and Natalia K. Nikolova, “A Novel Quad-Band Diversity Antenna for LTE and Wi-Fi Applications with High Isolation,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propag., Vol.60, No.9, pp.4360-4371, 2012.
  55. Yifan Zhang, Natalia K. Nikolova, and Manoj K. Meshram “Design Optimization of Planar Structures Using Self-adjoint Sensitivity Analysis,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propag., Vol.52, No.7, pp.3060-3066, 2012.
  56. Amit Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar Meshram and B.R. Vishvakarma, “L-Strip Proximity Fed Shorted Rectangular Microstrip Antenna for Mobile Communication,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol.52, No.7, pp.1567-1571, 2010.
  57. Kalpana Chaudhary, B. R. Vishvakarma and M. K. Meshram, “Satellite Solar Power Station: System Architecture, Concept and Technologies,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.4, No. 6, pp. 1063-1069, 2009.
  58. Kalpana Chaudhary, B. R. Vishvakarma and M. K. Meshram, “Comparative Analysis of Conversion Efficiency of 2.45 GHz Rectenna Configuration for Microwave Power Transmission,” International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol.4, No. 5, pp. 665-670, 2009.
  59. Amit Kumar Singh and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Slot Loaded Shorted Patch for Dual-band Operation,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letter, Vol. 50, No.4, pp. 1010-1017, 2008.
  60. M. K. Meshram, “Analysis of L-Strip Proximity Fed Rectangular Microstrip Antenna for Mobile Base Station,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. No. 8, pp.1817-1824, Aug 2007.
  61. Amit Kumar Singh and M. K. Meshram, “Shorting Pin Loaded Dual-band Compact Rectangular Microstrip Antenna,” International Journal of Electronics, U.K. , Vol. 94, Issue 3-4, pp. 237-250, March 2007.
  62. Rajesh K Vishwakarma, J.A. Ansari and M.K. Meshram, “Equilateral Triangular Microstrip Antenna for Circular Polarization Dual-Band Operation,” Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, Vol. 35, pp. 293-296, August 2006.
  63. B. R. Vishvakarma, M. K. Meshram, and W. A. Thanoon, “An E-Plane Ferrite Loaded Simple Wave Guide Radiator,” IEEE Trans. Ant. & Prop.  vol.51, No. 6, pp.1315-1320, June 2003.
  64. M. K. Meshram, and B. R. Vishvakarma, “Gap-Coupled Microstrip Array Antenna for Wide Band Operation,” Int. J. Electronics (U.K.), Vol. 88, No. 11, pp. 1161-1175, 2001.
  65. M. K. Meshram, and B. R. Vishvakarma, “Scanning Characteristics of Ferrite Fed Microstrip Array Antenna,” Int. J. Electronics (U.K.), Vol. 88, No. 5, pp. 549-559, 2001.
  66. M. K. Meshram, and B. R. Vishvakarma, “Analysis of A Gap-Coupled  Microstrip Array Antenna,” IETE Technical Review, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 147-152, March-April 2001.

B.  Conferences

 

  1. Hari Shankar Singh and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design of Compact Dual-Element Antenna Array for LTE700 and WWAN Applications,” Applied Computational Electromagnetics Symposium  (ACES-2017), March 26-30, 2017, Firenze, Italy.
  2. Mayank Agarwal and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Four-element highly isolated MIMO antenna system for 5 GHz WLAN applications,” 104 th Indian Science Congress (ISC), Tirupati, AP, Jan. 3-7, 2017.
  3. Mayank Agarwal and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A subwavelength microwave absorber with five resonating modes,” Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2016), New Delhi, Dec. 5-9, 2016.
  4. Mayank Agarwal, Ashis K. Behera, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Annular ring based metamaterial absorber for S- and C-band applications,” 16 th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS 2016), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Nov. 14-16, 2016.
  5. Mayank Agarwal and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Isolation improvement of 5 GHz WLAN antenna array using metamaterial absorber,” URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AP-RASC 2016), Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 21-25, 2016.
  6. Mayank Agarwal, Ashis Kumar Behera, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Closed ring resonator based absorber for C- and X- band applications,” 5th IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC 2015), Guwahati, Assam, India, Dec. 18-21, 2015.
  7. Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Internal Coupled-Fed Four-Element Multi-Wideband Diversity Antenna for LTE Mobile Handsets,” Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC-2015), December 18-21, 2015, IIT Guwahati, India.
  8. Mayank Agarwal and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “X-band metamaterial absorber with dual band/broadband absorption characteristics,” IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC 2015), Hyderabad, India, Dec. 10-12, 2015.
  9. Mayank Agarwal and Manoj K. Meshram, “Bandwidth enhanced compact PIFA for dual band operation,” IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO 2015), Mauritius, Sep. 21-24, 2015.
  10. Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Pradutt K Bharti, Rajesh Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Internal Compact Quad-Band Diversity Antenna for Next Generation Mobile Handsets Applications” Antenna Test and Measurement Society (ATMS), Feb. 3-4, 2015, Banglore, India.
  11. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt K Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Application of  Polarization Insensitive Triple Band Artificial Magnetic Conductor with a UWB antenna” Antenna Test and Measurement Society (ATMS), Feb. 3-4, 2015, Banglore, India. (Best Paper Award).
  12. H. S. Singh, G. K. Pandey, P. K. Bharti, and M. K. Meshram, “Design of Low Profile Ultra Wideband PIFA for MIMO Applications,” IEEE Region 10 Symposium (IEEE TENSYMP 2014), pp.448-453, 14-16 April-2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia.
  13. G. K. Pandey, H. S. Singh, P. K. Bharti, and M. K. Meshram, “Metamaterial based Compact Antenna design for UWB Applications,” IEEE Region 10 Symposium (IEEE TENSYMP 2014), pp.78-81, 14-16 April-2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia.
  14. Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, Mayank Agarwal, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A Quad Band Four Element MIMO Antenna System with Pattern and Polarization Diversity,” Indian Antenna Week (IAW-2014), May 26-30, 2014, Chandigarh, India.
  15. H. S. Singh, P. K. Bharti, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “Compact Penta-Band Coupled-Fed Printed Monopole MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Smart Mobile Phone,” International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP-2013), pp. 1-5, 13-15 December 2013, Dhanbad, India.
  16. Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design of Polarization Insensitive Triple Band Artificial Magnetic Conductor” International Conferences on Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ICAEEE-2014), November 08-09, 2014, Pattaya, Thailand.
  17. Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design of Polarization Insensitive Triple Band Artificial Magnetic Conductor” International Conferences on Electronics and Electrical Engineering (ICAEEE-2014), November 08-09, 2014, Pattaya, Thailand. (Best Paper Award).
  18. Shravan Kumar Vaishya, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Broadband Circular polarized Four Arm Sinuous Antenna,” Souvenir of the 10th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2013), Jodhpur,pp. 175-177, Dec 9-12, India.
  19. Satish Jhariya, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Miniaturized Vivaldi Antenna with Gaussian Slot for UWB Applications,” Souvenir of the 10th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2013), Jodhpur, pp. 219-221, Dec 9-12, India.
  20. Mohit Kumar Saxena, Gaurav Kumar Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Dual Antenna Structure for Passive RFID Tags,” Souvenir of the 10th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2013), Jodhpur, pp. 179-182, Dec 9-12, India.
  21. Sachin Kalraiya, H. S. Singh, and M. K. Meshram, “Microstripline-Fed Dual Band Printed Monopole Antenna for WLAN/WiMAX/HIPERLAN Applications,” IEEE Region 10 Symposium (IEEE TENSYMP 2014), pp.238-281, 14-16 April-2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia. (Accepted)
  22. Awadhesh Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Sachin Kalraiya, Hari Shankar Singh, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Design of Modified Rhomboidal Dualband Antenna for Bluetooth and UWB Applications,” IEEE Students’ Technology Symposium, Khadagpur, pp. 368-371, 28 Feb.-2 March, 2014 India.
  23. H. S. Singh, P. K. Bharti, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “Compact Penta-Band Coupled-Fed Printed Monopole MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Smart Mobile Phone,” International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP - 2013), pp. 1-5, 13-15 December 2013, Dhanbad, India. (online)
  24. P. K. Bharti, H. S. Singh, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “Compact Six-Band Coupled-fed Planar Inverted-F Antenna for Slim Mobile Phone,” International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP - 2013), pp. 1-4, 13-15 December 2013, Dhanbad, India.
  25. G. K. Pandey, H. S. Singh, P. K. Bharti, and M. K. Meshram, “UWB Monopole Antenna with Enhanced Gain and Stable Radiation Pattern using Gate like Structures,” International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP - 2013), pp. 1-4, 13-15 December 2013, Dhanbad, India.
  26. Awadhesh Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Hari Shankar Singh, Sachin Kalraiya, and Manoj K. Meshram, “CPW-Fed Double Ring Shaped UWB Antenna with 3.5/5.5 GHz Dual Band Notched Characteristics,” Souvenir of the 9th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2013), Dec 11-14, 2013, Jodhpur, INDIA.
  27. Shalini, Hari S. Singh, G. K Pandey, Pradutt K. Bharti, Himanshu, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Octa-Band Monopole MIMO Antenna for Small Mobile Terminals,” Souvenir of the 9th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2013), Jodhpur, Dec 11-14, INDIA.
  28. Sachin Kalraiya, Hari Shankar Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Awadhesh Singh, and Manoj K. Meshram, “CPW-Fed Double Ring Shaped UWB Antenna with 3.5/5.5 GHz Dual Band Notched Characteristics,” Souvenir of the 9th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2013), Jodhpur, Dec 11-14, INDIA.
  29. Hari S. Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Spiral-shaped High Isolated Monopole MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Small Mobile Terminals” CACCS-2013, April 6-8, Dehradun, India.
  30. Hari S. Singh, Gaurav K. Pandey, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “A Compact Dual Band MIMO/Diversity Antenna for WLAN Applications” Engineering and Systems (SCES), 2013 Students Conference , April 12-14, Allahabad, India.
  31. Mayank Agarwal, Rajesh Singh, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Dual-band linearly polarized planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) for GPS/WiMAX applications,” 2 nd Students’ Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2013), IEEE student branch, MNNIT, Allahabad, India, April 12-14, 2013.
  32. Mayank Agarwal, Rajesh Singh, and Manoj K. Meshram, “A novel small-size quad band internal PIFA for GPS L1/Bluetooth/LTE2500/WiMAX/HIPERLAN1 applications,” in proc. of World Conference on Advances in Communication and Control Systems (CAC2S 2013), DIT University, Dehradun, Publisher: Atlantis Press, pp. 617-621, April 6-8, 2013.
  33. Hari Shankar Singh, Pradutt Kumar Bharti, Gaurav Kumar Pandey and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “A Compact Tri-Band MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Mobile Handsets,” IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT-2013), Jan 17-19, 2013, Bangalore, INDIA.
  34. Gaurav K. Pandey, Hari S. Singh, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Design of Stepped Monopole UWB Antenna with WLAN Band Notched Using Modified Mushroom Type EBG Structure,” IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT-2013), Jan 17-19, 2013, Bangalore, INDIA.
  35. Hari S. Singh, Pradutt K. Bharti, Gaurav K. Pandey, and Manoj K. Meshram, “A Novel Diversity Antenna For WLAN Applications” National Conference on Recent Trends on Microwave Techniques and Applications (Microwave - 2012), July 30- Aug 1, 2012, Jaipur, India.
  36. Gaurav K Pandey, H S Singh, Pradutt K Bharti, and Manoj K Meshram, “Design of Corrugated Vivaldi Antenna for UWB Applications” National Conference on Recent Trends on Microwave Techniques and Applications (Microwave - 2012), July 30- Aug 1, 2012, Jaipur, India.
  37. Hari Shankar Singh, P. K. Bharti, G. K. Pandey, and M. K. Meshram, “A Novel MIMO/Diversity Antenna for GSM1800 and WiMAX Applications,” Souvenir of the 8th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2012), December 11-15, 2012, Jodhpur, INDIA.
  38. Pradutt K. Bharti, Hari S. Singh, G. K. Pandey, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Fork-Shaped Slot Loaded Microstrip Antenna for ISM and WiMAX applications,” Souvenir of the 8th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2012), December 11-15, 2012, Jodhpur, INDIA.
  39. Gaurav K. Pandey, Hari S. Singh, Pradutt K. Bharti, and Manoj K. Meshram, “Design of Dual Band Notched UWB Elliptical Monopole Antenna Using Mushroom Type EBG Structure,” Souvenir of the 8th International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2012), December 11-15, 2012, Jodhpur, INDIA.
  40. Rajesh Singh, Mayank Agarwal, and Manoj K Meshram, “A Novel Planar UWB Antenna with WLAN Band Notched Characteristics,” Souvenir of the 8th  International Conference on Microwaves Antenna Propagation & Remote Sensing (ICMARS-2012), December 11-15, 2012, Jodhpur, INDIA.
  41. Rahul Agrawal, Girish Awadhwal, M.K. Meshram, and S.P. Singh, “A Novel Reconfigurable Multiband Patch Antenna”, IEEE Students’ Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Sciences, March 1-2, 2012, MANIT Bhopal, pp. 277-280.
  42. Girish Awadhwal, Pawan Mahicha, P. K. Bharti, and M. K. Meshram, “Antenna for Ultrawideband Applicxations with WLAN Band Notched Characteristics”, IEEE Students’ Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Sciences, March 1-2, 2012, MANIT Bhopal, pp. 285-289.
  43. Yifan Zhang, Ankur Pimpale, Manoj K. Meshram, and Natalia K. Nikolova, "Printed Antenna Design using Sensitivity Analysis based on Method of Moment Solutions", IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS-2012), 15-19 Jan, 2012, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
  44. Yifan Zhang, Manoj K. Meshram, and Natalia K. Nikolova, “S-parameter Sensitivity Analysis of Planar Antennas using Self-adjoint Approach with the Method of Moments” The 27th Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics ACES 2011, March 27-31, 2011, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
  45. Amit Kumar Singh, Abhay Kotnala and Manoj Kumar Meshram, “L-Strip Proximity Fed Shorted Microstrip Antenna for Dual Band Operation”, ISMOT 2009, Dec. 16-19, New Delhi, India, pp.365-369.
  46. A. K. Singh and M. K. Meshram, “Slot-Loaded Shorted Rectangular Microstrip Antenna for Mobile Communication”, Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), December 11-14, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, pp 1-4.
  47. Manoj Kumar Meshram and A.K. Singh, “Parametric study of L-strip Proximity Fed Rectangular Microstrip Antenna”, International Conference on Microwaves and Optoelectronics (ICMO), Dec 17-20, 2007, Aurangabad (MS).
  48. A. K. Singh and M. K. Meshram, “Shorted Rectangular Microstrip Antenna for Dual-Band Operation”, Poster Session, Wednesday, July 12, 2006, URSI, New Maxico, 9-14 July 2006, Page 2661-2664.
  49. Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Design of Rectangular Microstrip Antenna Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLPNN)”, Proc. International Symposium on Microwaves, 1-3 Sept. 2004, Bangalore.
  50. Manoj Kumar Meshram and Karun Rawat, “Design and Study of Parallel Edge Microstrip Coupler for Millimeter Wave” National Seminar on Material and Devices, M.J.P.R.U. Bareilly, March 9-10, 2002.
  51. Manoj Kumar Meshram and Babau R. Vishvakarma; “Analysis of 4-Element Triangular Microstrip Array Antenna For Circular Polarisation” National Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, APSYM-2000, 6-8 Dec. 2001, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin (India), pp. 32-35.
  52. Meshram, M.K. and Vishvakarma, B. R., "A Wide-Band Gap-Coupled Microstrip Array Antenna", Proc. IWTS-2000 (Malaysia).
  53. Manoj Kumar Meshram and Babau R. Vishvakarma; “Analysis of  Ferrite Fed Microstrip Array Antenna”,  Proceeding of the National Seminar-SASESC-2000, March 4-5, 2000, Agra (INDIA), p.p. 512-516.
  54. Manoj Kumar Meshram, “Frequency Scanning Microstrip Array Antenna”, 87th Indian  Science Congress Association, 3-7 Jan’2000, Pune University, Pune. (Best Paper Award).

C. Books Published

  1. B. R. Vishvakarma, R. U. Khan, and M. K. Meshram, Microwave Circuits Theory and Applications, AXIOE Books, India, 2012-13.  ISBN: 978-93-82355-17-5.
  2. B. R. Vishvakarma, R. U. Khan, and M. K. Meshram, Introduction to Microwave Measurements, AXIOE Books, India, Aug 2012.  ISBN: 978-93-81124-44-4.

 

https://www.amazon.in/Microwave-Circuit-Applications-Meshram-Vishvakarma/dp/9382355170

 

https://www.amazon.in/Introduction-Microwave-Measurements-Meshram-Vishvakarma/dp/9381124442

A.  Fellowships/Awards/Honors/ Recognitions:

  • INSA-DGF Fellowship 2017 to visit Germany for three months (1 June 2017 to 31 Aug 2017).
  • Transfer of Technology to Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE), DRDO, Bengaluru.
  • Gandhiyan Young Technological Innovation Award 2015, Festival of Innovations, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, 7-13 March, 2015.
  • BOYSCAST Fellowship 2009-2010 for conducting advanced research on breast cancer detection with Prof. Natiala Nikolova at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for 12 months.
  • INSA (Indian National Science Academy, India) fellowship to visit South Korea for two months under Bilateral Exchange Programme for the session 2008-2009 (Worked at Hanyang University with Prof. Jaehoon Choi, period: 13th June-8th Aug 2008).
  • INSA (Indian National Science Academy, India) fellowship to visit UK for three months under Bilateral Exchange Programme during 2007-2008 (Not availed).
  • Best paper award during 87th session of Indian Science Congress, 3-7 Jan’2000, Pune University, Pune, India. 
  • Senior Member, IEEE, USA
  • Fellow, IETE, India
  • Life Member, ISTE (Indian Society of Technical Education, India

 B.  Reviewer of International/National Journals: 

  • IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters
  • IET Microwave Antenna Propagation
  • PIER
  • International Journal of Electronics
  • International Journal of Microwave and Optical Technology
  • Elsevier Journal of Electronics and Communications.
  • ACES Journal
  • Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
  • International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering
  • Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications, Brazil. 
  • Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics, India.
  • ICTACT Journal on Communication Technology

 C. Member of Technical Committee of International Conferences:

A.    Collaborative  Research Group:

  • Dr. K. Sairam, Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, IIT(BHU)
  • Dr. S.P. Singh, Department of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU)
  • Dr. Kishor P Sarawadekar, Department of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU)
  • Dr. Atul Kumar, Department of Electronics Engineering, IIT(BHU)
  • Dr. Anchal Srivastava,  Department of Physics, BHU

B.     Ph.D. Research Scholars:

Name Ph.D./JRF Research Area
Mr. Ravi Mali (2022) SERB JRF Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antennas
Ms. Rupam Bharati ( July 2021) Ph.D. (UGC JRF) Reflectarray Antennas
Mr. Praveen Singh Rathore ( July 2019) Ph.D. (QIP) Reconfigurable Antennas
Mr. Ajitesh (January 2019) Ph.D. (Institute TA) Reflectarray Antennas
Mr. Rajkumar Jatav (January 2019) Ph.D. (Institute TA) Plasmonic Antennas
Ms. Akanksha Singh (July 2018) Ph.D. (JRF) Reconfigurable Antenna Array
Ms. Sweta Agarwal (July 2018) Ph.D. (QIP) Reconfigurable Antennas
Mr. Arun Kumar Saurabh (July 2017) Ph.D.(Institute TA) Higher-Order MIMO Antennas
Mr. Rahul Dubey (July 2017) Ph.D. (Institute TA) Implantable Antennas
Mr. Saurabh Kumar Shrivastava (July 2017) Ph.D. (Institute TA) Metamaterial Absorbers
Mr. Ashis Behera (on leave) (July 2014) Ph.D. (UGC JRF) Reconfigurable Antennas
Dr. Boya Satyanarayana (July 2019) NPDF Reconfigurable MIMO Antennas

 

A. Simulation 

  • ANSYS HFSS
  • CST microwave studio
  • ADS
  • NI/AWR
  • Workstations (Dual Intel Xeon 2650 v4, 12 Cores, 256 GB DDR4 ECC RAM, 12 GB GPU (NVidia Tesla K40C)

B. Fabrication

  • Eleven Lab PCB/Antenna Prototyping Machine
  • T-Tech Milling Machine
  • Chemical Etching
  • Soldering Station

C. Characterization

  • Anechoic Chamber ( 700 MHz to 25 GHz)
  • Vector Network Analyzers:                                                                                                                                                                           VNA Master MS 3028 C (Anritsu) (5kHz - 20 GHz),                                                                                                                             PNA Network Analyzer E8364B (Agilent) (10 MHz-50 GHz)
  • Field Fox VNA (Keysight) (5kHz-44 GHz)
  • Radiation characteristic measurement (6-Axes Antenna positioner)