Research Department:
Dr. Debabrata Sarkar has been active in the nanostructure and material science field for 8 years, and has published 17 papers, presented poster in different international conferences, and is taking M.sc(Physics), B.Tech, M.Tech courses.I graduated from Jadavpur University, Kolkata with Physics honours (B.Sc, M.Sc). In 2014, I obtained a Ph.D in Material Science and Nanotechnology from the Jadavpur University after working under the supervision of Dr. K. K. Chattopadhyay.Prior to joining SRM in 2016, I did my three years postdoctoral work in Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience& Nanotechnology and Institute of Chemistry.
Discover semiconductors that can convert the energy in sunlight into the potential energy of separated charge carriers.
Tuning band position and design defect state.
Make arrays of three-dimensionally nanostructured semiconductors.
Build an integrated device that makes fuels, chemicals, or electricity from sunlight.
Interested in innovating new manufacture methods for flexible and attachable inorganic electronics.
Atomic Layer Deposition.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Debabrata Sarkar
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics & Nanotechnology
Academic Background
M.Sc Physics, Jadavpur University,Kolkata, India
P.hD, Jadavpur University,Kolkata, India
PostDoc, Hebrew University, Israel
The D. Sarkar Group is developing solar energy technologies, discovering new semiconductors and catalysts with controlling the growth and surfaces.
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- “Semiconductor-Metal Nano-Floret Hybrid Structures by Self-Processing Synthesis” OriHazut, Sharon Waichman, ThangavelSubramani, Debabrata Sarkar, Sthitaprajna Dash, Teresa Roncal-Herrero, Roland Kröger, and RoieYerushalmi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 138, 4079–4086, 2016.
- “Oxygen-Deficient Titania with Adjustable Band Positions and Defects; Molecular Layer Deposition of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Thin Films as Precursors for Enhanced Photocatalysis” Debabrata Sarkar, Sergey Ishchuk, DerejeHailuTaffa, NivKaynan, Binyamin Adler Berke, Tatyana Bendikov, and RoieYerushalmi, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 3853–3862, 2016.
- “Ag decorated topological surface state protected hierarchical Bi2Se3nanoflakes for enhanced field emission properties” Biswajit Das, Debabrata Sarkar, SupratimMaity and Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 1766.
- "Tailor-Made Oxide Architectures Attained by Molecularly Permeable Metal-Oxide Organic Hybrid Thin Films" Debabrata Sarkar, DerejeHailuTaffa, Sergey Ishchuk, OriHazut, Hagai Cohen, Gil Toker, MichaAsscher and RoieYerushalmi, Chem. Commun., 50, 9176, 2014.
- "Branch Density-Controlled Synthesis of Hierarchical TiO2Nanobelt and Tunable Three Step Electron Transfer for Enhanced Photocatalytic Property" Debabrata Sarkar and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6, 10044, 2014.
- “Three Dimensional Ag2O/TiO2Type-II (p−n) Nanoheterojunctions for Superior Photocatalytic Activity” Debabrata Sarkar, Chandan K. Ghosh, S. Mukherjee and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 5, 331, 2013. [Most read article]
- “Morphology control of rutile TiO2 hierarchical architectures and their excellent field emission properties”Debabrata Sarkar, Chandan K. Ghosh and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, CrystEngComm., 14, 2683, 2012. [Top 10 accessable article]
- “Room temperature deposition of ultra sharpZnOnanospike arrays onmetallic, non-metallic and flexible carbon fabrics: Efficient field emitters” Uday N. Maiti, SoumenMaiti, SumitaGoswami, Debabrata Sarkar and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 1976.
- “Sb-doped CuAlO2: widening of band gap and nonlinear J–E characteristics” Chandan K. Ghosh, Srinivasa R. Popuri, Debabrata Sarkar and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, J. Mater. Sci., 46, 1613, 2011.
- “Easy synthesis of amorphous graphene and related hybrids for cold cathode application” D. Banerjee, N. S. Das, Debabrata Sarkar, KalyanK.Chattopadhyay, CARBON, 2014, 72, 4.
- “Equibiaxial strain: tunable electronic structure and optical properties of bulk and monolayer MoSe2” Chandan K. Ghosh, Debabrata Sarkar, Manoj K. Mitra, Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2013, 46, 395304.
Papers Presented:
- “Controlling the electronic structure and photocatalytic activity of annealed Ti-EG films” Debabrata Sarkar, Binyamin Adler Berke, HariprasadEllendula, and RoieYerushalmi, INNI-FTA, Nanostuctured Oxides for Quantum Conversion of Solar Energy-2015, (Jerushalem, Israel)
- “Sustainable photocatalytic production of H2O2 from water and molecular oxygen by tailored metal oxide photocatalyst prepared by molecular layer deposition”Debabrata Sarkar, Binyamin Adler Berke and RoieYerushalmi, 32nd Israel Vacuum Society conference - IVS 2014 (Israel)
- “Carbon doping induces a nonlinear variation in band gap of ZnO thin film” Debabrata Sarkar, Chandan K. Ghosh and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, International Conference on Fundamental and Applications of Nanoscience& Technology (ICFANT-2011), (Kolkata, India).
- “Facile Synthesis of Large Scale Mesoporous TiO2 Microspheres by Templete-free Hydrothermal Process: Their Photocatalysis Degradation”Debabrata Sarkar and Kalyan K. Chattopadhyay, 16th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD, (IIT Kanpur, India). Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8549 854927-1
- “Facile hydrothermal Synthesis of TiO2 nanowires and its excellent photocatalytic activity” Debabrata Sarkar, Chandan K. Ghosh and Kalyan K. Chottopadhyay, International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Physics (ICTAP-2011), (IIT Kharagpur, India).
- “Photocatalytic degradation and Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) kinetic model for TiO2 (B) nanobelt” Debabrata Sarkar, Chandan K. Ghosh, S. Mukherjee and Kalyan K. Chottopadhyay, India-Australia International Workshop on Nanotechnology in Materials and Energy Application (2011), (Kolkata, India).
M.Sc: Classical Mechanics, Nanoscience and Nanomaterials
B.Tech:Nanoscience and Nanomaterials
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