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Senior Professor, Surface Physics and Materials Science Division

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

email: manabendra.mukherjee[at]saha.ac.in / manabsinp[at]gmail.com

Ph: +91-33-2337-5346; Ext. 4212,1126

Fax: + 91-33-2337-4637

Adjunct Professor, University Department of Physics,

B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University,

Muzaffarpur, Bihar 842 001, India

Education

Ph.D. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur Univ.), Kolkata, India, 1989.

M.Sc. (Physics) from Calcutta University, 1983.

Current Research Interest

(a) Vapor deposited organic and nanocomposite films for organic electronic devices.
(b) Application of surface charging of XPS in polymer and Langmuir Blodgett films.	NEXAFS data normalization tutorial
(c) Structure and Swelling dynamics of water soluble polymer, polyelectrolites and nanocomposite films.	Calculation of cross-section from NEXAFS data

Instrumental Techniques Used

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS),

Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy (Synchrotron based),

X-ray and Neutron Reflectivity,

Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), UV-VIS, FTIR, TEM, XRD.

Theoretical modeling

Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculation of DOS and XAS spectra of soft molecules using StoBe and Medea-VASP.

Ph.D. & Post Doctoral Students	Complete Publications
Visiting Positions	Invited Talk
Collaborating Institutes

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