Our Group Leader

Dr. S P Mondal obtained his master degree in Physics in 2003 from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He received his PhD in 2010 from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.  After completion his doctoral research work, he joined as a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, USA. He worked in the area of nitric oxide (NO) sensors  for the detection of asthma, in collaboration with the US space agency NASA. At Ohio State University, he successfully demonstrated the selective detection of low level NO (below 5 PPB) in human breath using a sensor arrays. A startup company in California  has licensed this technology and developed a hand-held device, which will have a major impact on future of asthma diagnosis and treatment. He returned  to India in 2011 and joined as a research associate at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Presently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Agartala. 

Dr. Mondal published 60 international journals and co-inventor of 3 US patents. He attended more than 20 international conferences in India and abroad. He is a co-author of  three book chapter and one book based on his research works. 

His current research interest includes the fabrication of highly sensitive and selective handheld sensors for biomedical applications. The dreadful diseases like asthma, lung cancer, diabetes etc. are generally detected at very later stages of development of the disease and are being detected only with the help of costly pathological tests. But by using noninvasive sensors not only these diseases can be detected at very early stages of growth but also without carrying out any pathological tests. These handheld sensors can be used by the patient himself/herself and are not very costly. His future research interest aim is to develop these kinds of sensor devices with very less investments. 

The recent trends in energy sector are the development of low cost solar cells for our clean energy demand. His another area of research interest is to fabricate high efficiency photovoltaic device using semiconductor nanotechnology. His research group is also involved to grow functionalized semiconductor nanostructures for Photodetectors, Nonvolatile Memory device applications.

He was awarded university silver medal for being 2nd position in Master of Science, Vidyasagar University, WB. He received CSIR-UGC junior research fellowship from HRDG, Govt. of India, Visiting Scholar Fellowship from The Ohio State University, USA, Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, IIT Kharagpur. He received Fast Track Young Scientist Fellowship in 2012 from the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.