Indra Dasgupta
Senior Professor
Solid State Physics
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
India
Biography
Education: Ph.D (1996), Calcutta University (Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, based on a work done at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India) M.Sc (Physics) (1990), IIT Kanpur B.Sc (Physics Honours) (1987*), Presidency College, Calcutta University (*Results declared in 1988) Post-doctoral Work: Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany (1995-1999) Positions held: Senior Professor, Department of Solid State Physics, IACS, Kolkata (2013 -present). Professor, Department of Solid State Physics, IACS, Kolkata (2008 -2013). Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay (2009). Associate Professor, Department of Solid State Physics, IACS, Kolkata (2007-2008) (on lien from IIT Bombay). Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT, Bombay (2005-2009). Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur (2003) (on lien from IIT Bombay). Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay (2001-2005). Visiting Faculty Member (Lecturer), Department of Physics, IIT Bombay (1999-2001). Visiting Positions: Visitor, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (2010, 2011, 2012) Visitor, University Paris Sud, Orsay, France, (June-July, 2008) Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,Stuttgart, Germany, (May - June, 2006). Visitor, University of Missouri Columbia, USA, Aug-2005 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,Stuttgart, Germany, (May - July, 2001). Visitor, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Summer 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
Research Interest
Research Interests: Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics: Electronic structure calculations of novel magnetic systems, strongly correlated systems, low-dimensional quantum spin systems, magnetic properties of materials at nano scale and disordered systems.
Publications
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Exchange striction induced giant ferroelectric polarization in copper based multiferroic material α-Cu2V2O7 J. Sannigrahi, S Bhowal, S. Giri, S. Majumdar and I. Dasgupta Phys. Rev. B 91, 220407(Rapid Comm) (2015)
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Strain induced band alignment in wurtzite-zincblende InAs heterostructured nanowires. Jaya Kumar Panda, Anushree Roy, Arup Chakraborty,Indra Dasgupta, Elena Hasanu, Daniele Ercolani, Mauro Gemmi, and Lucia Sorba Phys. Rev. B 92, 205302 (2015)
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Electronic structure and spin-orbit driven novel magnetism in d4.5 insulator Ba3YIr2O 9 S. K. Panda, S. Bhowal, Ying Li, S. Ganguly, R Valenti, L. Nordstrom and I. Dasgupta Phys. Rev. B 92, 180403(Rapid Comm.), (2015)
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Chemical Tailoring of Band Offsets at the Interface of ZnSe-CdS Heterostructures for Delocalized Photo-Excited Charge Carriers A Dalui, A Chakraborty, U Thupakula, A H Khan, S Sengupta, B Satpati, D D Sarma, I. Dasgupta and S. Acharya J. Physical Chemistry C , 120 10118 (2016)
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First principles study of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of spin chain compounds Ca3ZnMnO6 and Ca3ZnCoO6 J. Chakraborty, S. Samanta, BRK Nanda and I Dasgupta J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28 375501 (2016)
