Ashis Kumar Mandal

Biography

Ashis Kumar Mandal is currently a Senior Scientist in the department of Glass Science and Technology Section, Glass Division CSIR Central glass and ceramic research institute India. He completed B.E. (Chemical), Jadavpur University and PhD (Engineering), Jadavpur University.He was awarded Recipient of best poster award in Glass and Glass Ceramic category for poster entitled “Self Stirring Effect in Glass Melted Using Microwave Radiation” by Ashis Kumar Mandal and Ranjan Sen in the National Symposium on Materials and Processing-2012 (MAP-2012) Organized by Materials Research Society of India (Mumbai-Chapter) in association with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai at Multipurpose Hall Training School Hostel, BARC, Anushaktinagar Mumbai- 400 094 during October 10-12, 2012, The poster entitled ‘Energy transfer based eye safe infra-red luminescence from Nd3+-Yb3+-Er3+ triple ion doped metaphosphate glasses’ A. D. Sontakke, K.Biswas, A. K. Mandal, K. Annapurna, received first prize for the best poster presented at International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials (ICAFM-09) held at NIIST, Trivandrum, Kerala (India) during 9 – 10 Dec 2009 etc.

Research Interest

Material processing using microwave energy, Working to develop green glass melting process using microwave energy, Preparation of glass ceramic using microwave heating, RE-doped nanocomposite glass-ceramics, filter glasses for UV transmission and IR absorption. Transition metal doped glasses. Setting up pilot scale facility for production of specialty glasses, indigenous development of Nd doped phosphate glass. Optimization Glass Melting Process to develop phosphate glass in pilot scale. Cold crucible Induction Melting for producing ultra pure glass at high temperature. Determination of iron redox ratio (Fe2+/∑Fe) in glass.