Sushanta Barman

Academic Background

• 2025 - present: Fellow of Academic and Research Excellence (FARE), IIT Kanpur, India

• 2018 - 2025: PhD, IIT Kanpur, India

• 2016 - 2018: Master of Science (Physics),  IIT Kanpur, India

• 2013 - 2016: Bachelor of Science (Physics), Dinhata College, University of North Bengal, India

PhD Supervisor: I am working under the supervision of Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee (Homepage).

Areas of Research
My research focuses on plasma-based ion beams, exploring advanced methods like nonlinear demagnification and micro-glass capillary guiding to enhance beam performance for nanofabrication. Additionally, I investigate quantum phenomena in cryogenic ion beams, utilizing diffraction and interferometry to develop high-precision quantum sensors and probe ion-matter interactions at nanoscale and quantum levels. [more details]

Research Patent

Sudeep Bhattacharjee, Sanjeev Kumar Maurya, and Sushanta Barman, "Plasma-based focused ion beam system for reducing ion beam size using plasma sheath nonlinearity", Indian patent number 548562, issued on 23 August 2024.

Awards and Recognitions

• Received the Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) from IIT Kanpur in 2025.

• Received SERB-International Travel Grant Award - 2023. Attending the ICPIG XXXV International Conference on the Phenomena of Ionized Gases (ICPIG), Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, July 9 - 14, 2023.

• Received the BEST POSTER AWARD in the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2022) (International Conference), held from 9th October to 14th October 2022. The title of the poster was "Controlled guiding and focusing of high current plasma ion beams by micro-glass capillaries: Quantum beams for physics and applications." 

• Received the BEST POSTER AWARD in the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2020) (International Conference), held from 26th October to 31st October 2020. The title of the poster was "Observation of Nonlinear Demagnification in Plasma-based Ion beam Optics."

Professional Associations

• Member of the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies, Division of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP) from 2020 to present.

• Member of the Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) from 2019 to present.

Professional Activities

• Reviewer of Physica Scripta, published by IOPscience.

• Reviewer of Measurement Science and Technology, published by IOPscience.