Educational Background:
M.Sc (Physics)
Indian Institute of Technology /Kanpur –1975 CGPA- 10/10
Ph.D (Physics) –Cornell University, USA-1980
Professional Background:
Post-doctoral Max Planck Institute, Germany 1980-82
Faculty , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1982-2004
Director , National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi 1997-2000
Senior Professor, S.N.Bose National Centre, Kolkata, 2004
Director , S.N.Bose National Centre, Kolkata, 2006 till date
Important awards and fellowship of academies:
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
Shanti Swarup Bhatnager Award
Fellow Indian National Science Academy
FICCI Award in applied sciences
Asiatic Society Meghnad Saha Memorial Gold Medal
J.C. Bose Fellowship
Main area of work
Synthesis
and physics of materials in particular nanomaterials in particular
correlated oxides like manganites and wide band gap materials like ZnO.
Low temperature solid state physics and measurements like electrical
and thermal transport, magnetic properties, tunneling spectroscopy.
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- Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy.
- Noise spectroscopy (1/f noise, Random Telegraphic Noise and thermal fluctuation spectroscopy)
- Instrumentation development.
Significant recent publications:
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Swastik
Kar, A. K. Raychaudhuri and Arindam Ghosh “Observation of non-Gaussian
conductance fluctuations at low temperatures in P doped Silicon at the
metal-insulator transition” Physical .Review .Letts.91, 216603 (2003)
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Mandar
Paranjape, A.K.Raychaudhuri, N.Mathur and M.Blamaire “Effect of strain
and microstructure on the electrical conduction in epitaxial films of
La0.7Ca0.3MnO3” Phys Rev. B 67 , 214415 (2003)
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K.
Shantha Shankar, Sohini Kar, A.K. Raychaudhuri and G.N. Subbanna
“Synthesis of ordered array of nanowires of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 (x=0.33)
in alumina templates with enhanced ferromagnetic transition
temperature. Appl. Phys. Letts , .84 993 (2004)
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K.
S. Nagapriya, A. K. Raychaudhuri, Dipankar Chatterji “Direct
observation of large temperature fluctuations during DNA thermal
denaturation” Physical Review Letts. 96, 038102 (2006)
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Soma Das, P. A. Sreeram and A. K. Raychaudhuri “ A method to
quantitatively evaluate Hamaker constant using the jump-into-contact
effect in Atomic Force microscopy” Nanotechnology 18, 035501 (2007).
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