Vinod Kumar Khanna, Ph. D (Physics), is an independent researcher from Chandigarh, India. He is a retired Chief Scientist from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, India, and a retired Professor from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India. He is a former Emeritus Scientist at CSIR and a Professor Emeritus at AcSIR, India. His broad research areas include the design, fabrication, and characterization of power semiconductor devices and micro- and nanosensors. He has published 194 research papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has authored 25 books and contributed six chapters to edited books. He has five granted patents to his credit, including two US patents. He is featured in the Stanford-Elsevier prestigious list of the world's top 2% scientists (2022, Elsevier Data Repository, V4, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.4). He is named as a Highly ranked Scholar -Lifetime: #2 in Nanoelectronics by ScholarGPS.