Profile of Dr. Pal

Education Profile:

Post Doc Researcher at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden February, 2009 to January, 2011.

      I did my post doc research at I3 spin ARPES beamline in MaxLab, Lund University in the group of Prof. Olof Karis in Uppsala University, Sweden. Here I had the opportunity to pursue independent research work as well as to support external users at I3 beamline. My responsibility also include to maintain end station, equipped with a Scienta R4000 analyser, Mott detector (Scienta), Preparation Chamber with Ar sputtering, Annealing, LEED associated with load lock which is connected with a III-V MBE system.

Post Doc Researcher at Augsburg University, Germany, August, 2008 to January, 2009.

      Here I had the opportunity to pursue my independent research work as well as to support the experiments like thin film growth under UHV, Photoemission Experiments, and High Pressure Infrared Spectroscopy for other Ph.D and Master students within the group. My responsibilities also included the laboratory development, instrumentation and maintain different labs.

Prabir Pal’s education

·         Post Doc Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden, Feb. 2009 to Jan. 2011.

·         Post Doc Researcher, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany August, 2008 to Feb. 2009

·         Ph.D in Physics, Institute of Physics, HBNI, Bhubaneshwar, India, July, 2003 to Aug, 2008.

·         Post M.Sc (M.Phill), Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, August, 2002 to July, 2003.

·         M.Sc Physics, Kalyani University, Kalyani, West Bengal, India, June, 1999 to July, 2001.

National Level Qualifying Examinations

• • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Feb, 2001.

  • Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST), Feb, 2002.

  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Feb, 2002.

  • CSIR-UGC Fellow (NET), JUNE, 2002.

Areas of interest:     

• Oxide heterostructures.

• Multiferroic materials

• Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

• Glass-Ceramics

• Group III-Nitride semiconductors & Photodetectors

Technical skills

Experimental techniques used:

• Materials Synthesis (Ceramic and Glass)

• Ultra Thin film deposition (UHV)

• X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy

• Ultraviolet Photoemission Spectroscopy

• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

• X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

• Low Energy Electron Diffraction

• Optical Spectroscopy

• Photoconductivity / Photodetector

Computer skills:

·         Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems.

·         Languages known: FORTRAN 77

·         Graphic packages: ORIGIN, Gnuplot, XMGRACE

·         Simulation and data analysis: PEAKFIT, XPS peak

·         Documentation: LATEX, Microsoft Office packages

·         Mathematical packages: mathematica

Work experience:

• Experience with ultra high vacuum systems.

• Experience in running a multiprobe Angle Resolved Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARUPS) Laboratory for more than six years.

• Extensively carried out different electron spectroscopy techniques for more than Ten years.

• Experience working with the BACH, BEAR beamlines at Elettra synchrotron light laboratory, Trieste, Italy, WERA beamline at ANKA synchrotron light source, Karlsruhe, Germany, HIKE beamline at BESSY, Germany and different beamlines in Max II and Max III in Max Lab, Lund, Sweden.

• Experience working with Group III-Nitride semiconductor growth using MBE technique.

Publications:

Journals: 

 1. Valence band electronic structure of Pr1-xSrxMnO3 from photoemission studies. P. Pal, M. K. Dalai, B. R. Sekhar, S. N. Jha, S. V. N. Bhaskara Rao, N. C. Das, C. Martin, and F. Studer; J. Phys. Condens. Matter 17, (2005) 2993-2999. (Impact factor 2.223) 

2. Electronic structure of Pr0.67Ca0.33MnO3 near the Fermi level studied by ultraviolet photoelectron and x-ray absorption spectroscopy. M. K. Dalai, P. Pal, B. R. Sekhar, N. L. Saini, R. K. Singhal, K. B. Garg, B. Doyle, S. Nanarone, C. Martin, and F. Studer; Phys. Rev. B 74, 165119 (2006). (Impact factor 3.664) 

3. Near Fermi Level Electronic Structure of Pr1-xSrxMnO3: Photoemission study. P. Pal, M. K. Dalai, R. Kundu, M. Chakraborty, B. R. Sekhar and C. Martin; Phys. Rev. B 76, 195120 (2007). (Impact factor 3.664) 

4. Half Metallicity in Pr0.75Sr0.25MnO3: A first Principle study. M. Chakraborty, P. Pal and B. R. Sekhar; Solid State Communications 145, (2008) 197-200. (Impact factor 1.698) 

5. Pseudogap behavior of phase-separated Sm1-xCaxMnO3: A comparative photoemission study with double exchange. P. Pal, M. K. Dalai, R. Kundu, B. R. Sekhar and C. Martin; Phys. Rev. B. 77, 184405 (2008). (Impact factor 3.664) 

6. Electronic structure of Pr1-xCaxMnO3 from photoemission and inverse photoemission spectroscopies. M. K. Dalai, P. Pal, R. Kundu, B. R. Sekhar, S. Banik, A. K. Shukla, S. R. Barman and C. Martin; Physica B: Condensed Matter 405, 186 (2010). (Impact factor 1.276) 

7. Atomic scale chemical fluctuation in LaSrVMoO6: A proposed halfmetallic antiferromagnet. S. Jana, V. Singh, S. D. Kaushik, C. Meneghini, P. Pal, R. Knut, O Karis, I. Dasgupta, V. Siruguri, S. Ray; Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 82, 180407(R)  (2010). (Impact factor 3.664) 

8. Mechanism of Quenching of superconductivity in the YBa2Cu3O7-d system on substitution of Zn for Cu. K. B. Garg, S. K. Gaur, R. K. Singhal, P. Pal, B. R. Sekhar, P. Nordblad and S. Carlson, Int. J.  Mod.  Phys.  B  24, 2135 (2010). (Impact factor 0.455) 

9. Pseudogap behavior in Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3: A photoemission study. P. Pal, M. K. Dalai and I. Ulfat, Surface Science 605, 875-877 (2011). (Impact factor 1.870) 

10. A simple method to produce almost perfect graphene on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite. M. J. Webb, P. Palmgren, P. Pal, O. Karis and H. Grennberg, Carbon 49, (2011) 3242-3249. (Impact factor 6.160) 

11. Resonant photoemission spectroscopy studies of the Magnetic Phase transitions in Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3. P. Pal, M. K. Dalai, B. R. Sekhar, I. Ulfat, M. Merz, P. Nagel and S. Schuppler; Physica B: Condensed Matter 406, (2011) 3519-3523. (Impact factor 1.276) 

12. XPS study of Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (x=0.2, 0.33, 0.4 and 0.84). M. K. Dalai, R. Kundu, P. Pal, M. Bhanja, B. R. Sekhar and C. Martin. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 509, (2011) 7674-7676. (Impact factor 2.726) 

13. Electron spectroscopic studies of homogeneous (Ga,Mn)As layers, I. Ulfat, J. Adell, P. Pal , J. Sadowski, L. Ilver and J. Kanski, Advanced Materials Research 463-464, (2012) 380-384. (Impact factor 0.483)

14. Electronic structure of the electron-doped CMR Ca0.86Pr0.14MnO3. M. K. Dalai, P. Pal, B. R. Sekhar, M. Merz, P. Nagel, S. Schuppler, and C. Martin,  Phys. Rev. B 85, 155128 (2012). (Impact factor 3.664) 

15. Mn-induced modifications of Ga 3d photoemission from (Ga,Mn)As: evidence for long range effects. J. Kanski, I. Ulfat, L. Ilver, M. Leandersson, J. Sadowski, K. Karlsson, and P. Pal; J. Phys. Condens. Matter 24, (2012) 435802. (Impact factor 2.223) 

16. Post-growth annealing of (Ga,Mn)As under Sb capping, I. Ulfat, J. Adell, P. Pal , J. Sadowski, L. Ilver and J. Kanski. Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vols. 229-231, pp 243-246 (2012). 

17. Effect of growth temperature on defects in epitaxial GaN film grown by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. S. S. Kushvaha, P. Pal, A. K. Shukla, Amish G. Joshi, Govind, M. Kumar, S. Singh, Bipin K. Gupta, and D. Haranath. AIP ADVANCES 4, 027114 (2014). (Impact factor 1.590) 

18. Photoconductivity and photo-detection response of multiferroic bismuth iron oxide. A. Anshul, H. Borkar, P. Singh, P. Pal , S. S. Kushvaha and A. Kumar. Applied Physics Letters 104, 132910 (2014). (Impact factor 3.515) 

19. Structural and Electronic properties of Epitaxial GaN layer grown on Sapphire (0001) using Laser molecular beam epitaxy S. S. Kushvaha, M. S. Kumar, M. Haheshwari, A. K. Shukla, P. Pal, and K. K. Maurya. Materials Research Express 1, 035903 (2014). 

20. Growth and characterization of Plasma Assisted MBE Grown GaN films at Different Plasma Powers, K. Anand, M. P. Mamgain, A. K. Shukla, S. S. Kushvaha, P. Pal, and S. P. Khanna, Adv. Sci. Lett. 20, 1401 (2014). (Impact factor 1.253)

21. Chemical potential shift and gap-state formation in SrTiO3-d revealed by photoemission spectroscopy, P. Pal, P. Kumar, Aswin V, A. Dogra and A. G. Joshi, Journal of Applied Physics 116, 053704 (2014). (Impact factor 2.185)

22. Metal-to-insulator transition in LaAl1-xCrxO3/SrTiO3 oxide heterostructures guided by electronic reconstruction, P. Kumar, P. Pal, A. K. Shukla, J. J. Pulikkotil, and A. Dogra, Phys. Rev. B 91, 115127 (2015).(Impact factor 3.664)