Kaushik Biswas
Scientist
Glass Science and Technology Section, Glass Division
central glass and ceramic research institute
India
Biography
Kaushik Biswas has been awarded INSA Medal for Young Scientist (2012) CSIR Young Scientist Award in Engineering Sciences (2011) Awarded First Prize for Best Young scientist of CGCRI for the year 2009-2010 (Institutional Award) Best paper award on "Glass and Ceramics" published during the year 2009-2010 from CGCRI, Kolkata Awarded sliver medal for being Post Graduate Topper in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2003. "Late J. Singh Memorial Cash Prize" for being the best student in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in 2003. May 2002-Feb 2003: DAAD-Fellowship German Academic Exchange Service.
Research Interest
Thermal, optical and photoluminescence properties of rare earth doped glasses, Crystallization kinetics in Glasses, Oxyfluoride based transparent glass-ceramics, NIR/MIR emissions from low phonon non-conventional oxide glasses, Glasses to improve the efficiency of solar cell via up-conversion/down-conversion, Chalcogenide glasses, Bioactive glass and glass-ceramics.
Publications
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K Biswas, A Sontakke, J Ghosh, K Annapurna(2010)Enhanced blue emission from transparent oxyfluoride glass ceramics containing Pr3+:BaF2 nanocrystals. J Am Ceram Soc 93: 1010-1017.
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S Balaji, G Gupta, K Biswas, D Ghosh, K Annapurna(2016) Role of Yb3+ ions on enhanced ~2.9 µm emission from Ho3+ ions in low phonon oxide glass system. Scientific Reports 6: 29203.
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P Karmakar, AK Subudhi, K Biswas, K Annapurna (2015) Crystallization kinetics analysis of BaF2 and BaGdF5 nanocrystals precipitated from oxyfluoride glass systems: A comparative study. Thermochim Acta 610: 1-9.
