Soma Dutta Dr

Soma Dutta is a Sr. Principal Scientist in the Materials Science Division of the CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), Bangalore. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur in the year 2004 after completion of her M.Sc. degree in Physics. During her doctoral and post-doctoral research, she had worked in the field of Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials. She had joined CSIR-NAL in 2006 and started working in the area of thermoelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting and portable cooler. Subsequently, she initiated the area of Piezoceramic thin and thick films for various aerospace applications including sensors transducers and smart coatings. Presently, she is working on piezoelectric accelerometers, ultrasonic transducers for aircraft programmes and wafer level thin film depositions for MEMS.

Research Interests

Thin films/coatings, Smart Structures and MEMS, Semimetals and low bandgap ferroelectrics, Nondestructive Evaluation, Renewable energy.