Credentials
Education
- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India, Ph.D. 2021 Physics
- University of Calcutta, India, MSc 2016 Physics
Professional Appointments
- 2025.04 - Present; Postdoc Research Associate, Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- 2022.06 - 2025.03; Postdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
- 2019.11 - 2020.12; Visiting Student, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Honors & Awards
- Dean of Faculty Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2021
- VATAT fellowships for international visiting students, Planning and Budgeting Committee (VATAT), Israel, 2019
- CSIR - Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, 2017
Areas of Expertise
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Surface Science
Molecular beam epitaxy
Ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and related surface science techniques
Publications
Topotactic Reaction of Mn with InSe To Form MnIn2Se4
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C,
2025
Alloying of Mn with Bi‐Rich Surfaces of Bi2Te3 by Topotactic Reaction
Small,
2025
Intercalation of Mn in a few layers of NbSe2 by molecular beam epitaxy
Surface Science,
2025
Solid state reaction epitaxy, a new approach for synthesizing van der Waals heterolayers: The case of Mn and Cr on Bi2Se3
Advanced Functional Materials,
2024
Bandgap study of quantum dot-sized SiGe alloy nanocrystals prepared in a nonthermal capacitively-coupled plasma by ambient scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Physica B: Condensed Matter,
2024
2D materials by design: Intercalation of Cr or Mn between two VSe2 van der Waals layers
Nano Letters,
2023
Formation of in-plane semiconductor–metal contacts in 2D platinum telluride by converting PtTe2 to Pt2Te2
Nano Letters,
2022
Electronic interactions and stability issues at the copper-graphene interface in air and in alkaline solution under electrochemical control
Electrochimica Acta,
2022
Observing electrochemical reactions on suspended graphene: an operando Kelvin probe force microscopy approach
Advanced materials interfaces,
2021
Role of individual bands in the unusual temperature-dependent band gap of methylammonium lead iodide
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C,
2020
Bowing of transport gap in hybrid halide perovskite alloys (CH3NH3Sn1− xPbxI3): which band is responsible?
Applied Physics Letters,
2020
Rashba band splitting in CH3NH3PbI3: An insight from spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Nano Letters,
2019
Dirac states of 2D topological insulators: effect of heterovalent dopant-content
Microscopy and Microanalysis,
2019
Photosensitivity and charge injection dynamics of pentacene based thin-film transistors: influence of substrate temperature
Organic Electronics,
2019
Nonlayered tellurene as an elemental 2D topological insulator: Experimental evidence from scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Nanoscale,
2019
Bi2Se3 topological insulator at the 2D-limit: Role of halide-doping on Dirac point
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,
2018