Palash Roy Choudhury

Palash Roy Choudhury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Mahindra University.

The focus of his research is the generation of necessary scientific understanding and engineering solutions for the development of processing routes for structural and functional engineering materials. He is a generalist with varied interests in understanding the physics of materials and applied materials science and engineering.

• Ph.D. (IISc Bangalore), 2008

• M.S. (IISc Bangalore), 2004

• B.Tech. (University of Calcutta), 2002

• A. Patil, S. Naskar, Y. Mahton, C. Goenka, P. Saha, A. Bhattacharyya, et al., “The comparative tribological characteristics of squeeze cast and wrought Al-Mg-Si alloys”, Tribologia – Finnish Journal of Tribology, 42(1–2), pp. 11–23, 2025.
• V. Sajeev, S. Rane, D. Ghosh, N. Acharyya, P.R. Choudhury, A. Mukherjee, et al., “Sensing of nanoporous 2D materials like rGO using THz hole arrays”, Metamaterials XIV, 12990, pp. 87–93, 2024.
• K.C. Solasa, N.V. Venkataraman, P.R. Choudhury, J.K. Schueller, et al., “On the use of alternative measurement methods in the estimation of wear rates in rotary-pin-on-disk tribometry”, Tribology Letters, 72(2), 45, 2024.
• K.C. Solasa, N.V. Venkataraman, P.R. Choudhury, A. Bhattacharyya, “Friction Coefficient of the PVD-AlCrN Coated Cemented Carbide and Hardened Steel Tribo-Pair Under Dry Sliding”, International Tribology Symposium of IFToMM, pp. 124–133, 2024.
• S. Rane, A. Jana, P.R. Choudhury, D.R. Chowdhury, “Dynamic transmission of terahertz waves through BiFeO₃ film under out of plane applied bias”, 48th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2023.
• V. Sajeev, S. Rane, D. Ghosh, N. Acharyya, P. Roy Choudhury, A. Mukherjee, et al., “Terahertz sensing of reduced graphene oxide nanosheets using sub-wavelength dipole cavities”, Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12374, 2023.
• A. Bhattacharyya, T.L. Schmitz, S.W.T. Payne, P.R. Choudhury, J.K. Schueller, “Introducing engineering undergraduates to CNC machine tool error compensation”, Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 5, 100089, 2022.
• K.M. Devi, A. Jana, S. Rane, P.R. Choudhury, D.R. Chowdhury, “Temperature tunable electromagnetically induced transparency in terahertz metasurface fabricated on ferroelectric platform”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55(49), 495103, 2022.

• S.W.T. Payne, P.R. Choudhury, J.K. Schueller, A. Bhattacharyya, “Experimental verification of mechanistic force models for endmilling: the impact of the size effect on cutting coefficients”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 121(11), 2022.

• P.R. Choudhury, D.R.C. Arun Jana, Shreeya Rane, “External bias dependent dynamic terahertz propagation through BiFeO₃ film”, Nanotechnology, 33, 325202, 2022.
• A. Bhattacharyya, S.W.T. Payne, P. Roy Choudhury, J.K. Schueller, “An alternative method of teaching the mechanics of bulk metal forming to undergraduates: Newtonian and Lagrangian approaches”, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 50(2), pp. 447–492, 2022.
• J.K.S.A.B. Palash Roy Choudhury, Korimilli Eswar Prasad, “Modelling the tribological response in dry sliding of boron modified as-cast Ti6Al4V on hardened steel”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, pp. 1–13, 2021.
• V.S. Kathavate, P.B. Kumar, I. Singh, P.R. Chaudhary, E.K. Prasad, “Nanoindentation response of PZT and NKN-NT piezoceramics”, Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics, 6(4), pp. 291–299, 2018.
• H.K. Kundu, S. Ray, K. Dolui, V. Bagwe, P.R. Choudhury, S.B. Krupanidhi, et al., “Quantum Phase Transition in Few-Layer … Probed through Quantized Conductance Fluctuations”, Physical Review Letters, 119(22), 226802, 2017.
• S. Chirakkara, P.R. Choudhury, K.K. Nanda, S.B. Krupanidhi, “Understanding Pt–ZnO: In Schottky nanocontacts by conductive atomic force microscopy”, Materials Research Express, 3(4), 045023, 2016.

• P.R. Choudhury, J. Parui, S. Chiniwar, S.B. Krupanidhi, “Preferential polarization and its reversal in polycrystalline BiFeO₃/La₀.₇Sr₀.₃CoO₃ heterostructures”, Solid State Communications, 208, pp. 15–20, 2015.
• P. Chakraborty, P.R. Choudhury, S.B. Krupanidhi, “Structural and dielectric behavior of pulsed laser ablated Sr₀.₇Ca₀.₃TiO₃ thin film and asymmetric multilayer of SrTiO₃ and CaTiO₃”, Journal of Crystal Growth, 337(1), pp. 7–12, 2011.
• P.R. Choudhury, S.B. Krupanidhi, “Dielectric response of BaZrO₃/BaTiO₃ and SrTiO₃/BaZrO₃ superlattices”, Journal of Applied Physics, 104(11), 2008.

• P. Roy Choudhury, S.B. Krupanidhi, “Constrained ferroelectricity in BaTiO₃/BaZrO₃ superlattices”, Applied Physics Letters, 92(10), 2008.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3309-4798

• Associate professor at Mahindra University (Dec-2015 – Present).

• Senior Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2014-15).

• Assistant Professor, Galgotias University, Noida, UP (2012-14).

• Postdoctoral Researcher, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway (2010-12).

• Postdoctoral Researcher, UFR/ST Microelectronics, Tours, FRANCE (2008-09).

The focus of his research is the generation of necessary scientific understanding and engineering solutions for the development of processing routes for structural and functional engineering materials. He is a generalist with varied interests in understanding the physics of materials and applied materials science and engineering.

Current research topics of interest:

• Tribology of multicomponent nitride based hard coatings.
• Growth and characterization of nanomaterials and solid lubricants.
• Understanding mechanical behavior of biomaterials.