Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Sankar Dhar

Sankar Dhar

Professor

School of Natural Sciences


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My primary interest is on the functional oxide materials at sub-500 nm thickness range, where fascinating science has manifested over the last decade. New oxide materials with exotic properties and functions for the next generation electronic devices are being explored by growing thin epitaxial 2D/3D films, nano-materials, and hetero-structures using pulsed laser, pulsed electron and sputter deposition and ion implantation of surfaces. I am currently focused on transparent oxide layers, homo/hetero junction, bandgap engineering, 2D layer-oxide interactions, strain engineering at sharp atomic interfaces, defect induced ferromagnetism and resistive switching. Moreover, I use energetic ion beam for material characterizations and modifications via impurity doping, atomic mixing, alloying, nano-structuring, and solid state catalysis processes.search Interest

Ph.D, IIT Kanpur M.Sc, Jadavpur University

2022- Present Professor, Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar IoE, Delhi-NCR 2012-2022- Head, Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar IoE, Delhi-NCR 2007 ? 2012 Senior Research Scientist,, NUSNNI-NanoCore, National university of Singapore, Singapore 2003 ? 2007 Senior Scientist & Program Leader, NSF Accelerator center, University of Maryland, , College Park, USA 1998 ? 2003 Research Scientist, II. Physics Institute, University of G?ttingen, Germany 1998 ? 1999 Post-doctoral Fellow, II. Physics Institute, University of G?ttingen, Germany

Invited for a panel discussion on the ?Future of Ion beam research? at the international Conference on ?Nanostructures by Ion Beam (ICNIB 2017)? at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyaalya, Indore, INDIA from October 11-13, 2017 (Invited Speaker). Invited talk at the international workshop on the ?Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics" at IACS, Kolkata from 16-17January 2018. Invited for a panel discussion on the ?Future of Ion beam research? at the international Conference on ?Nanostructures by Ion Beam (ICNIB 2017)? at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyaalya, Indore, INDIA from October 11-13, 2017. Invited talk at the ?62nd DAE-Solid State Physics? Symposium at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India from December 26-29, 2017 Invited talk at the 8th International USPEX Workshop at Shiv Nadar University from January 20-24, 2015. Invited talk at the International conference on the ?Current trend in Condensed Matter Physics? NEISER, Bhubaneswar 2015. Invited in the 12 International Surface Paints and Coating Symposium at Greater Noida on 7-9 Oct, 2015. Invited talk at the International Conference on ?Emerging Materials: Characterization & Application? December 4-6, 2014 at CGCRI, Kolkata, 2014. Invited talk at the 3rd international conference on Advanced Nanomaterials (ANM 2012) at IIT Madras from October 17-19, 2012. Invited talk at the IUAC -AU symposium ?Nano-structuring by ion beam?, Allahabad, India 2011. Invited talk in int. conf. ?Advanced Nano-materials & Nanotech?, IIT Guwahati, India 2011. DST young scientist award 1997. UGC-CSIR fellowship 1991. GATE 1990. UGC-CSIR national award for university lecturer 1989.