Chandan Bera
Scientist C
Department of Science and Technology
Institute of Nanotechnology
India
Biography
Educational Qualification: INST Faculty Directory Dr. Chandan Bera Scientist C Educational Qualification: PhD Ecole Centrale Paris, France. 2007-2010 Thesis: Thermoelectric Properties of Nanocomposite Materials. Supervisor: Sebastian Volz, EM2C, Ecole Centrale Paris, France Natalio Mingo, CEA Grenoble, LITEN, Grenbole, France. M.Sc in Physics. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. India. 2005-2007 Thesis: Synthesis and Characterization of non-linear optical properties of Indium arsenide quantum dots embedded in Silicon matrix. Supervisor: B.P. Singh, Physics department, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. B.Sc in Physics. 2002-2005 with Mathematics and Chemistry. University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Positions Held ::Dec 2012 – April 2014, Postdoctoral fellow at ICAMS, RUB, Germany June 2012 – Nov 2012 Postdoctoral fellow at LAMCOS, INSA-Lyon. June 2011- Apr 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow at EEWS, KAIST. Mar - May 2011 Visiting Scientist at CAMCS, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. Patent: European patent Title: Thermoelectric material and method of fabrication, File date:10.04.15, Application no: EP20150305539.
Research Interest
♦ Thermal and electronic transport. ♦ Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, Computational Nanoscience. ♦ Thermoelectrics, Photovoltics, Metal-Air battery and renewable energy.
Publications
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Prabhjot Kaur, Chandan Bera, Effect of alloying on thermal conductivity and thermoelectric properties of CoAsS and CoSbS, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, (2017), DOI: 10.1039/C7CP05170K
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Chandan Bera, Surendra Devarakonda, Vishal Kumar, Ashok K Ganguli, Rupak K Banerjee, Mechanism of Nanoparticle-Mediated Enhanced Energy Transfer during High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Sonication, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, (2017).
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P. Kaur, S. Chakraverty, A. K. Ganguli, Chandan Bera, High anisotropic thermoelectric effect in palladium phosphide sulphide, Phys. Status Solidi B (2017). doi: 10.1002/pssb.201700021
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V. Kumar, S. B. Devarakonda, R. K. Banerjee, A. K. Ganguli, Chandan Bera, Contribution of ultrasound absorption in nanoparticles for hyperthermia application, Proceedings of the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C), National Harbor, MD, 2016.
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Kumar, S., AP Singh, Chandan Bera, M Thirumal, BR Mehta, AK Ganguli, Visible-Light-Driven Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Performance of NaNbO3/Ag2S Core–Shell Heterostructures. ChemSusChem (2016). doi:10.1002/cssc.201600397
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G. K. H. Madsen, A. Katre, Chandan Bera, Calculating the thermal conductivity of the silicon clathrates using the quasi-harmonic approximation. Phys. Status Solidi A (2015). doi: 10.1002/pssa.201532615
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Radoslaw Chmielowski, Daniel Péré, Chandan Bera, Ingo Opahle, Wenjie Xie, Stéphane Jacob, Frédéric Capet, Pascal Roussel, Anke Weidenkaff, Georg K. H. Madsen, and Gilles Dennler, Theoretical and experimental investigations of the thermoelectric properties of Bi2S3, J. Appl. Phys. 117, 125103, 2015.
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Chandan Bera, S. Jacob, I. Opahle, N.S. H. Gunda, R. Chmielowski, G. Dennler, G. K. H. Madesn, Integrated computational materials discovery of Silver doped Tin Sulfide as a thermoelectric material, Physical chemistry chemical physics, 16, 19894, 2014.
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Chandan Bera, Monte Carlo simulation of thermal conductivity of Si nanowire: An investigation on the phonon confinement effect on the thermal transport , J. Appl. Phys. 112, 074323, 2012.
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Chandan Bera, Mathieu soulier, Christelle Navone, Julia Simon, Sebastian Volz, Natalio Mingo. Thermoelectric properties of nano structured Si1-xGex and potential for further improvement. J. Appl. Phys. 108, 124306 , 2010.
