E-mail: ss524@njit.edu

Advisor: Dr. Trevor Tyson

• PhD Candidate: Materials Science and Engineering - NJIT
• MS: Physics, IIT - Kanpur, India

• Senior Project Assosciate (03/11/2004 - 07/15/2005) at Center Of Laser Technology, IIT-Kanpur, India.
• Assistant Scientist (02/28/2003 - 11/25/2005) Atomic Physics, Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung mbH.

• Indian Physics Assosciation

• Received top 20 contributory papers award out of 320 national and international contributions at National Laser Symposium 04 held at BARC Mumbai, India.

Optical Materials, Lasers, Material Synthesis And Characterization

Synthesis of thermites using mechanical and milling and its characterization.

• Masses along the rp-Process Path and Large Scale Surveys on Cu, Ni and Ga with ISOLTRAP, F. Herfurth; G. Audi; D. Beck; K. Blaum; G. Bollen; P. Delahaye; C. Guenaut; A. Kellerbauer; H.-J. Kluge; D. Lunney; D. Rodriguez; S. Saxena; S. Schwarz; L. Schweikhard; G. Sikler,C. Yazidjian; Nuclear Physics A 746, p. 487c - 492c (2004)
• Sol-gel preparation and optical characterization of Tb_xY_3-xAl₅O₁₂, Sumit Saxena, materials letters (in press)(2005).
• Design and fabrication of diode pumped Nd: YAG single crystal fiber Laser by Sumit Saxena, Archana Asokkumar K., Bansilal, proceedings of National Laser symposium - 4 (2005).
• Preparation and Characterization of nanoscaled Terbium Aluminum Garnet by sol-gel techniques by Sumit Saxena, Archana Asokkumar K., Bansilal, proceedings of National Laser symposium - 4 (2005).
• Preparation and characterization of single crystal fibers of MgO:LiNbO₃ by Laser heated pedestal growth technique by Archana Ashokkumar, Sumit Saxena, Bansilal, proceedings of National Laser symposium - 4 (2005).