Ketavath Kumar Naik
Ketavath Kumar Naik
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for Nanoscience
Room No
103
Off. Phone
011-26704699
Residence
+91 9701402229
Email
kknaik[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, kumarvtr[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

•    Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
•    M.Tech. in Digital Electronics and Communication Systems.
•    B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering.  

Areas of Interest/Specialization

RF, Microwaves, IoT, 5G, 6G, THz, Quantum Materials & Communications, and Biomedical Applications. 

Experience

•    Professor, Special Centre for Nanoscience, JNU, New Delhi.

Awards & Honours

•    Recognised in the “World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists” by Elsevier - Stanford University, USA – 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025.
•    Best Paper Award, IEEE InCoWoCo-2024, Symbiosis International Deemed University, Pune.
•    Golden Reviewer, IETE Journal of Research, Taylor & Francis, 2024.
•    DST Young Scientist, 2014.
•    Best Paper Award, InCMARS-2008, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. 
•    Qualified - Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, 2001.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik, Asymmetric CPW-fed patch antenna with slits at terahertz applications for 6G wireless communications, Wireless Networks, Springer, 30, 2343–2351, 2024.

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik; Dattatreya G; S Sandhya Rani, In-Vitro test of miniaturized CPW-Fed implantable conformal patch antenna at ISM and for biomedical applications, IEEE Access, 7, 43547-43554, 2019.

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik, Asymmetric CPW-fed SRR patch antenna for WLAN/WiMAX applications, AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, 93, 103–108, 2018.

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik, P. Amala Vijaya Sri, Design of concentric circular ring patch with DGS for dual-band at satellite communication and radar applications, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 98, 2993–3001, 2018.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik, CN Phaneendra, T Addepalli, AJA Al-Gburi, Quad-port wheel-shaped MIMO patch antenna system deployed at UWB application for 6G terahertz communications, Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications, Elsevier, 101430, 1-11, 2025. 

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik, BV Sai S, RF-MEMS switch for reconfigurable with half-moon slots on elliptical-shaped patch antenna for 5G applications, IEEE open journal of antennas and propagation, 5, 1-13, 2024.

  • Govathoti, P.R., Ketavath Kumar Naik, Dual-band inset-fed diamond-shaped patch MIMO antenna for wireless communication applications, Physica Scripta, IOP, 99, 1-10, 2024.

  • Ketavath Kumar Naik, Dual-band crescent-shaped slot patch antenna for wireless communications and IoT applications, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 65 (8), 2392-2398, 2023.

Patents (if any)

  • Patch antenna system for implantable biomedical applications, Ketavath Kumar Naik, Patent Number: 536814, Application Number: 201841036291, IPO, India, Granted on 03/05/2024 

  • In-Vitro tested conformal antenna device for biomedical applications, G Dattatreya, G Prudhvi Raj, Ketavath Kumar Naik, Patent Number: 414485, Application Number: 201841045960, IPO, India, Granted on 14/12/2022 

  • Design of terahertz frequency with CSRR quantum antenna for quantum communications at 6G applications, Ketavath Kumar Naik, MJ Priya, TKD Kumar, I.V. Saketh, CLSG Kumar, CN Phaneendra, Application Number: 202441017667, IPO, India, Published on 29/03/2024