Broadband antenna design
Full-wave HFSS simulation of planar log-periodic sawtooth antennas with seven-parameter optimization across 0.1–1.2 THz — S11 bandwidth, directivity, gain, and radiation patterns.
MS(Research) · Electrical Engineering · IIT Delhi
Rajana Rama Satya Sai Durga Prasad
Semiconductor devices, terahertz antennas & quantum technologies
Graduate researcher at IIT Delhi working on planar log-periodic sawtooth antennas for terahertz applications — spanning electromagnetic simulation, graphene-based THz detection, automated layout generation, cleanroom fabrication, and cryogenic instrumentation.
8.6CGPA — MS(Research)
15+Academic & research projects
5Courses taught as TA at IIT Delhi
2026MS completion — available for R&D roles
News
Recent activity
- Jun 2026 Quantum Devices Conference (QDC–QCSA) — Josephson junctions, EM simulation & quantum technology upcoming
- Dec 2025 Poster presented at SAMDeV 2025, IIT Kharagpur — THz antenna design and simulation
- May 2025 MS thesis underway — planar log-periodic sawtooth antennas for terahertz applications
- UCLA QDW Released open-source tool mapping transmon geometry to single-shot readout fidelity bounds
- 2024 – 26 Teaching Assistant for five IIT Delhi courses — ELL101/ELP101, ELL201/ELL1401, and Electromagnetics (ELL212)
Current research
Planar Log-Periodic Sawtooth Antennas for THz Applications
MS(Research) thesis (May 2025 – ongoing) supervised by Prof. Santanu Manna, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi.
Graphene-enabled modeling
Graphene sheet impedance from a Python Drude model applied as a surface-impedance boundary; 1.5–10 THz set simulated to establish EBL scaling limits.
Fabrication & measurement
Automated Python GDSII layout flow (replacing AutoCAD); gold antennas on Si/SiO2 with graphene feed-point integration for THz detection.
Research interests
Where I focus
Terahertz devices
Antennas, graphene detectors, and spectroscopy for 6G communication and sensing.
Semiconductor fabrication
Cleanroom processing — lithography, etching, sputtering, oxidation — and device characterization.
Silicon photonics
Ge-on-Si and III-V/SI modulators, ring filters, and CMOS-compatible photonic platforms.
Superconducting qubits
Transmon design, readout resonators, and dispersive-readout analysis with pyEPR/QuTiP.
Quantum computing
Qiskit ecosystem tooling, quantum simulation, and cryogenic measurement automation.
RF & analog IC
HFSS/ADS EM design, Cadence Virtuoso analog blocks, and VLSI verification.
Featured projects
Selected work
Transmon readout-fidelity bounds
Qiskit Metal transmon–cavity sweeps; dispersive shift χ via LOM/pyEPR; open-source tool mapping geometry to single-shot readout fidelity.
Ge-on-Si electro-absorption modulator
56 Gb/s Ge EAM re-architected on Ge-on-Si in Lumerical CHARGE with Franz–Keldysh co-simulation pipeline for MODE field-to-index mapping.
32-bit Vedic multiplier — RTL to GDSII
Full RTL-to-GDSII implementation in Yosys/OpenSTA/OpenROAD on Nangate45 — synthesis, STA, floorplanning, PDN, place-and-route with SDC constraints.
Open to opportunities · Class of 2026
Let's build what comes after Moore's law
I am seeking full-time R&D and engineering roles in semiconductor devices, THz technology, silicon photonics, and quantum computing — with PhD positions also on the table for Fall 2026. If your team works in these areas, I would love to talk.