Sai Pramod Pemmasani, Phd Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru Area, India

Scientist in the Surface Engineering Division at NAL• Development and deposition of various oxide and oxynitride coatings by Unbalanced Magnetron Sputtering for Solar Thermal, Decorative and Electronic applications• Deposition of Spinel based Coatings for SOFC Interconnect plates by Air Plasma Spray• Deposition of Environmental barrier coatings (EBC) on Ceramics• High temperature testing of EBC coated samples

Pune Area, India

• Validation of New coating machine and process for arc deposition of Hard carbon(t-aC) coatings • Customer Trials for various coating recipes based on t-aC in cutting, forming and component applications• Creation of special recipes and batches of t-aC coatings: Rainbow coloured coating, Microtools, Forming tools• Validation of new and existing PVD coatings for various applications in cutting, forming & precision components• Investigation of new coatings, Pre and Post treatment Process Trials, Sample preparation, Failure Analysis & Support for Production (Nitriding & Coatings)

Bangalore

Development and high temperature properties of bond coats for thermal barrier coatings• Synthesis of alloys for bond coats by vacuum arc melting• Electron probe micro-analysis (EPMA), EBSD and Nanoindentation mapping of NiAl and PtNiAl diffusion couples• Setting up of high temperature Thermogravimetry (TGA) facility• High temperature oxidation studies and mechanical property evaluation of bond coats

Hyderabad Area, India

• Process development for superhard nanocomposite and multi-functional, multi-layer thin-film nitride coatings • Nanoindentation, Adhesion failure, Toughness and Nano-impact Evaluation of deposited coatings• Modulus mapping of cathodic arc deposited multi-layer nitride coatings• Structure property correlations of above coatings - XRD, SEM-EDS, FIB, EBSD and TEM studies

• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)• Focused Ion Beam Milling and EBSD of PVD coatings, Steels, Thermal Spray and Electroplated coatings• Metallography- Mechanical polishing, Electropolishing and Hardness testing

I worked on Field Emission from Titanium coated CNTs .I coated the CNTs by a chemical method and by sputtering.I then characterized them by XRD,Raman and SEM followed by Field emission studies.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of Organizing team for a National Conference- NEMPIQI 2012, Member of MRSI, Indian Institute.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Materials Engineering

Master'S Degree, Physics

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Quiz Team, Editor of the In House Quarterly MagazineThesis on "Synthesis, Characterization.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics (Major),Chemistry And Maths

Activities and Societies: Quiz Team, Newsletter, Annual sports Team eventsGraduated with Bachelors of Science majoring in Physics, Winning.