Sudeep Bhattacharjee
Professor, Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Tel : +91 512 2597602 (office), +91 512 2596113 (laboratory)Fax: +91 512 2590914, Email : sudeepb@iitk.ac.in
Current Research:
I work in experimental plasma physics, focused ion beams, ion matter interactions, and physics of nanoscale systems (multidisciplinary, fundamental, and applied).
Recent Research Topics:
Waves and instabilities in dipole plasmas; Dipole plasma confinement - diffusion, particle and energy balance; Cryo-plasmas - collisional cooling in a cryo-plasma, diffraction of cryo-plasma (ion) beams; Nonlinear demagnification in plasma-based charged particle optics, momentum transfer and creation of sub micron structures; Atomically heterogeneous systems - ion matter interactions and applications to modifying electrical, optical and surface properties; Atmospheric pressure microplasmas - fluctuations and strong field effects; Field emission and ac voltage driven nano-gaps; More details in laboratory page.
Ph.D and Postdoctoral positions:
We have a vibrant research group consisting of several Ph.D and master students working on the aforementioned forefront research topics, and are always on the lookout for bright and energetic students and postdocs to join our research group for undertaking either doctoral or postdoctoral work. If you would like to join our laboratory please contact Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee at: sudeepb@iitk.ac.in
Book
Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Compact plasma and focused ion beams , CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), December 2013.
Perspective Article
A Perspective Article on plasmas that I recently wrote for the International Low Temperature Plasma Community (ILTPC) Newsletter, currently hosted by the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE).
Plasmas, An Evolving Multidisciplinary Field – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Research Patents
S. Bhattacharjee and J. V. Mathew, "Multielement focused ion beams (MEFIB) from intense, collimated microwave plasmas: concepts to genesis of a novel device", US patent number 9576767 issued on 21 Feb 2017.
S. Bhattacharjee and S. Paul, "Measurement of submicron focused charged particle beams using a current flux grating : spider probe", US patent number 9733366, issued on 15 August 2017.
Sanghamitro Chatterjee, Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Sanjeev K. Maurya, Vyas Srinivasan, Krishnacharya Khare and Sameer Khandekar, "A method for transforming the wettability of a surface", Indian patent number 360984, issued on 12 March 2021.
Kavita Rathore, Prabhat Munshi and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "An improved emission tomographic measurement system device and a method thereof", Indian patent number 386742, issued on 18 January 2022.
Anuj Ram Baitha and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "A Compact Table Top Dipole Plasma System for Plasma Processing", Indian patent number 538119, issued on 15 May 2024.
Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Sushanta Barman, and Sanjeev Kumar Maurya, "Plasma based focused ion beam system for reducing ion beam size using plasma sheath nonlinearity", Application number 202211076620 (Filed with Indian Patent Office on December 29, 2022).
Professional Activities
Member, Selection Committee, Plasma Innovation Prize of AAPPS-DPP, 2023
Member, Board of Directors, Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies, Division of Plasma Physics AAPPS-DPP (2022 - )
Chairman, Basic Plasma Physics Program Committee, 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, November 12 - 17, 2023, Nagoya, Japan
Chairman, Basic Plasma Physics Program Committee, 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, October 9 -14, 2022
Member, International Honorary Advisory Committee, Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies, Division of Plasma Physics AAPPS-DPP (2021 - present)
Member, Selection Committee, Plasma Innovation Prize of AAPPS-DPP, 2022
Member, Selection Committee, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics of AAPPS-DPP 2020
Member Selection Committee, Plasma Innovation Prize of AAPPS-DPP, 2020
Member Selection Committee, Plasma Innovation Prize of AAPPS-DPP, 2019
Member Editorial Board, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics SPRINGER (2020 - present)
Member Editorial Board, Plasma Research Express (Institute of Physics (IOP)) PREX (2018 - Present)
Associate Editor, frontiers in PHYSICS, (Plasma Physics) (2014 - 2022)
Member, International Organizing Committee (IOC), 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics October 26 - 31, 2020
Member, Scientific Program Committee (SPC), 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics October 26 - 31, 2020
Member, International Scientific Committee (ISC), International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG), 2013 - 2017
Member, Program Committee, 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics , September 18 - 23, 2017, ChengDu, China
Member, National Advisory Committee, 33rd National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, Delhi University, December 4 - 7, 2018
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, (Plasma 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022)
Recent Journal Publications
Deepika Behmani, Michael Keidar, and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Frequency-locked measurement of floating potential fluctuations in cold micro-plasma jets : interactive surface feedback effects on reactive species generation, Physics of Plasmas 31, 033505 (2024).
Swati Swagatika Mishra and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Collisional cooling in confined gases at cryogenic temperatures: time dependent near-wall accumulation and gas dynamics, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 220, 125008 (2024).
Dipak Bhowmik, Joy Mukherjee, Prasanta Karmakar, Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Oxidation dynamics of Cu thin film on Si surface by mass analyzed O+ ion implantation and study their electrical and optical properties, Thin Solid Films 787, 140144 (2023).
Deepika Behmani and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Plasma parameters and electric field fluctuations in a cold micro-plasma jet interacting with a substrate, Physics of Plasmas, 30, 113503 (2023)
Kaanapuli Ramkumar, Swati Swagatika Mishra, and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Uncertainties in the transport properties of helium gas at cryogenic temperatures determined using molecular dynamics simulation, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 577, 113979 (2023).
Sargam Hunjan and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Measurement of electron energetics in the equatorial and polar planes of a compact dipole plasma driven at steady state, Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 32, 105018 (2023)
Sushanta Barman and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Near-field diffraction of protons by a nanostructured metallic grating under external electric field: asymmetry and sidebands in Talbot self-imaging, New Journal of Physics, 25, 083044 (2023) .
Ayesha Nanda and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Current density profiles in a compact dipole plasma, Physics of Plasmas 30, 052107 (2023).
Kalyani Barman, Sunil Luhar, Ramkrishna Rane, Divesh N. Srivastava, Sudhir K. Nema, Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Improving electrochemical sensitivity of screen-printed carbon electrodes by atmospheric pressure plasma jet treatment and electrochemical detection of dopamine, Plasma Processes and Polymers, 20, 2200161 (2023).
Jayashree Majumdar and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Comparative study on atomically heterogeneous surface with conical arrays of field emitters generated using plasma based low-energy ion beams", Journal of Applied Physics, 132, 083304 (2022).
Swati Swagatika Mishra and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Temperature guided behavioral transitions in confined helium: gas-wall interaction effects on dynamics and transport in the cryogenic limit," Chemical Thermodynamics and Thermal Analysis, 7, 100073, (2022).
Sushanta Barman and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Time-domain simulation of charged particle diffraction by an electrostatically biased grating: transmission tunability and shaping of the quantum point contact for protons", Journal of Applied Physics, 132, 034401, (2022).
Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Anuj Ram Baitha, Ayesha Nanda, Sargam Hunjan, Sayak Bhattacharjee, "Physics of plasmas confined by a dipole magnet: insights from compact experiments driven at steady state", Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 6, Article number: 16, (2022).
Ayesha Nanda and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Temperature anisotropy governed electrical conductivity tensor in a steady state dipole plasma: spatially resolved experiments and modeling", Physics of Plasmas, 29, 062105, (2022).
Dipak Bhowmik and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Optical, structural, and electrical properties of modified Indium-tin-oxide (ITO) films on glass surface by low energy ion implantation", Applied Physics A, 128, 605, (2022).
Sushanta Barman, Sanjeev K. Maurya, and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Experimental realization of nonlinear demagnification in plasma-based charged particle optics", Plasma Research Express, 4, 025003 (2022).
Krishn Pal Singh and Sudeep Bhattacharjee, "Stability of Al and Ag metallic thin film mirrors in a space environment under the implantation of low energy helium ions", Optics Continuum, 1, 660, (2022).
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