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Rajat Banerjee

Name: Rajat Banerjee

Designation: Professor

Area of Research: Brittle Fracture, Fatigue, Nanomaterial, Non-Oxide Thin Film, Opto-Electronics

Contact address:

Department of Physics
School of Mathematical Sciences
Ramakrishna Vivekananda Education and Research Institute
Belur, Howrah 711202
West Bengal

Email Address:

Phone: 91-33-2654-9999

Education:

  • Ph.D in Material Science (JU) 1997
  • Master of Science (M.Sc, Mathematics CU) 1989
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (IMM-ISI) 1990

Post Doctoral Research Experience:

  • Visiting Scientist: Friedrich-Schiller Universitat, Jena Germany (1996- 1998)
  • Research Associate (full faculty Position), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, USA(1998-2000)
  • Guest Researcher National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), Gaithsburg USA (2003-2005)
  • Research Faculty, Florida State University, worked in Harold Kroto, Nobel Laurate group (2007-2009)
  • Guest Researcher under EU-Heritage fellowship, Politechnico Di Torino Torino, Italy (2013-2014)

Job Profile:

  1. Worked In Indian Statistical Institute as Research Assistant on a project “Atmospheric Studies of Bounded layers (1988-1990)
  2. Worked in Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (1990-2024) Under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India, as Principal Scientific Officer

Field of Research:

  1. Continuum Mechanics (Basic Research)
    • Indentation & Impact Fatigue on Glasses and Ceramics.
    • Mathematical Modeling of Initiation & Propagation of Cracks using Finite Element Methods (FEM).
    • Theoretical and simulation study of Armour Ceramics .
    • Basic understanding of solid state physics nonlinear dynamics including modeling and numerical simulation
  2. Research on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Product Fabrication
    • Fabrication of thin hard Coating of SiC and Si3N4 on Silicon or Micro-Electrical-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) , Nano- Electrical-Mechanical-Systems(NEMS), Piezo Sensor and LED (Light Emitting Diode)
    • Fabrication and Analysis of Fullerene and Carbon Nanotube Glasses for nonlinear dynamics including Modeling ,Numerical Simulation and Electrical Properties for conductor –insulator device.

Product Development:

  • Development of Reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride Radome for strategic application. (TRL-7)
  • Silicon Nitride bearing balls for Aircraft Application (TRL-7)
  • Silicon Nitride Porous tube for Atomic Energy (TRL-7)
  • Silicon Carbide LED. (TRL-4)
  • Silicon Carbide Pressure Piezo Sensor (TRL-4)

Awards

  1. International:
    • BEST PAPER AWARD XVIIth International Congress of Glass Beijing 1995
    • COLLOQUIUM AWARD “ OTTO-SCHOTT COLLOQUIUM Jena, Germany 1997
    • CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION (OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION) NANO-PHYSICS AND MATERIAL SCIENCE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARD AND TECHNOLOGY (NIST) US, Department of Commerce 2004
    • CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION PROF. HAROLD KROTO, NOBEL LAUREATE Florida State University USA 2012
    • EU HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP Politechnico Di Torino, Torino, Italy HERITAGE FOUNDATION NAPLES, FRANCE 2013
  2. National:
    • Carbon Award Science Association of Bengal Kolkata 2012
    • Best Poster Award 59th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium Chennai 2014
    • Best Poster Award Microscopy in Material Science Biomimetic technology DMSRDE, DRDO Kanpur 2015
    • Life Time Achievement Award VDgood Technological Company.Chennai 2016
    • Certificate of Appreciation ARDB, DRDO New Delhi 2022
    • Certificate of Appreciation RBSN Radome RCI, DRDO Hyderabad 2022
    • Certificate of Appreciation as Senior Assessor CII Exim Bank Award CII Bangalore 2021

Teaching

  1. Guest Professor in the Department of CeramicTechnology Viswa Bharati University giving lectures on mechanical behavior of ceramic material and its application (1998-2000)
  2. Prof. of Academy CSIR (AcSIR) teaching Research Methodology particularly on statistical methods and computer simulation.
  3. Chairman, Academic Council of Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology University (GIETU) Gunupur, Odisha.

Invited Lectures:

  1. Indentation Fatigue on glasses Otto-Schott Institute, Germany, October 1996
  2. Mathematical Analysis of Indentation Fatigue of Glasses Forshunzentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 1997.
  3. Critical Fatigue Behaviour of Brittle Material Inter University Consortium. (IUC), Calcutta. August 1997
  4. Cracking phenomena in Lithium-di-Silicate Glass Ceramic Department of Applied Mathematics, Calcutta, June 2000
  5. Some properties of Carbon Fibre Composite Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, November 2001
  6. Theoretical study of Silicon Single Crystal in MEMS and NEMS application University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA, March 2004
  7. Operational Research in Management Science Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Management Science Gunupur, Orrisa, December 2005
  8. Carbon Nanotubes and their Manifold applications First National Workshop on Nanoscience and Biochips ( Nano- Bio 2007) Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata, August 2007
  9. Business Opportunities of Nanotechnology Based Materials in Plastic Industries Indian Plastic Industries, Kolkata ,January 2009
  10. Novel SWCNT-Borosilicate glass composite: A new generation material for structural and electronic interface device applications , International Conference on Nanocomposite (ICNC-2011) Kottayam, January 2011
  11. Carbon nanotube and its application in insulating Composite Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Management Science Gunupur, Orrisa July 2011
  12. Carbon Nanotube –A Material for Versatile Application M C Chaki Memorial Lecture, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science August 2012
  13. SWCNT-Borosilicate Glass Composite: A Novel New Generation Material for Structural Electronic and Optical Interface Device Applications Condense Matter Physics Day NIT Rourkela, August 2013
  14. A Novel Electronic, Mechanical and Optical Properties of SWCNT- Borosilicate Glass Composite for Device Applications Politecnic di Torino, Italy November 2013
  15. Nanotechnology- A Launching Pad In The Eye of A Mathematician Tensor Conference , Jadavpur University March 2015
  16. A Brief Review on SWCNT glass composite: Its application in Electronic Component and Mechanical Structure DMSRDE Plenary Lecture Kanpur, January 2016
  17. Development of Cutting Edge Technology in India-A path for self-reliant in Missile Radome : Calcutta Mathematical Society , Kolkata , December 2023

PhD Guidance

  1. Arnab Ghosh “Evaluation of Electrical and Optical Properties of some Single-Walled-Carbon-Nanotube glass composite and its structure property correlation”  Jadavpur 2011-2014
  2. Sujan Ghosh“Evaluation of Mechanical and Thermal properties of Single-Walled-Carbon-nanotube Glass Composite” Jadavpur 2011-2014
  3. Jonaki Mukherjee “Deposition and Characterization of Hard Coatings on Silicon Wafer” Jadavpur ARDB, DRDO 2012-2015
  4. Kusumita Kundu “Optical Study of Boron Doped SiC coating on Silicon for LED application” AcSIR ARDB,, DRDO 2017-2022
  5. Ajitesh Kar “Fabrication of White light LED from SiC thin film” Jadavpur 2020-2024

Reviewer of Projects:

  1. M.Sc/ M. Tech Project reviewer of Jadavpur University.
  2. DST / CSIR /DRDO project reviewer.

Project Completed:

INTERNATIONAL
Indo-German Project Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany & Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute Local Characterization of Glasses 10 lakh 1998-2001 PI
NATIONAL
CSIR Network Project Development of Ceramic- Rubber Composites (CRC) for high impact Resistance 30 Lakhs 2005-2007 Co-PI
CSIR Network Project Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Glass composite (SWCNT) for Photovoltaic and IR Application 4 Crore 2011-2013 PI
ARDB (DRDO) Tribological Properties of Silicon Single Crystals for Micro- Electro-Mechanical-Systems and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems application 25 Lakhs 2011-2014 PI
CSIR Network Project High Impact Armour Material for Defense application 11.96 Crore 2012-2017 Co-PI
DMSRDE (DRDO) Rare earth doped hard coating for MEMS application 9.5 Lakhs 2016-2018 PI
RCI DRDO Fabrication of Reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride Radome 15.34 Crore 2015-2021 PI
ARDB Electrical and optical Behaviour of Hard Coating on silicon Substrate for Switching Devices and LED application 35 Lakhs 2017- 2022 PI

Current Sponsored Project as PI

NATIOANAL
ARDB DRDO (Sensor Materials) Fabrication of high temperature Piezo sensor for Application in Aeroengine 40 Lakhs 2023-2025 PI
CVRDE DRDO Silicon Nitride ball for Aerospace application 39 Lakhs 2021-2024 PI

Patents/Copyright:

  • Copyright a Software for Management Information system in CSIR Laboratory.

Book Chapter and Editor:

  1. Contributed a book chapter on “Glass Matrix Composite” for the book “Ceramic Matrix Composites- Microstructure / Property relationship” published by Woodhead Publishing limited Cambridge, U.K,2006.
  2. Book Editor:
    • “Chief Editor” of the book“ Ceramic Nanocomposite” 2013 published by Woodhead Publishing limited Cambridge, U.K,

Professional Membership:

  1. Life Member, Material Research Society of India.
  2. Life Member Calcutta Mathematical Society.
  3. Life Member, Science Association of Bengal
  4. Life Member Indian Science Congress Association
  5. Life Member Computer Society of India

Fellow:

  • HERITAGE FELLOW Erasmus Mundus HERITAGE FOUNDATION, EUROPEAN UNION NAPLES, FRANCE

Papers Published:

  • Published more than 80 papers in SCI Journal
  • Published more than 40 Conference Journal Proceedings

High Impact Factor/Citation papers

  1. Strength of Silicon, Sapphire and Glass in the Subthreshold Flaw region Y.G. Jung, A. Pajares, Rajat Banerjee  and B.R. Lawn, Acta Materialia, 52, 2004
  2. Nano-fabricated Materials in Cancer Treatment and Agri- biotech  Applications: Buckyballs in Quantum Holy Grails Dwijesh Dutta Majumder, Rajat Banerjee, Sunit k Mukhopadhyay, Christian Ulrich, Arunava Samanta, & Arunava Goswami IETE Journal of Research, Vol-52(5), September 2006
  3. Nano-materials: Science of bottom-up and top-down Dwijesh Dutta Majumder,Rajat Banerjee, Christian Ulrich, I Mewis, Arunava Goswami , IETE Technical Review Vol 24(1), January-February 2007, pp 9-25
  4. Synthesis and Electrical Properties of a Single walled Carbon Nanotube- Borosilicate Glass Composite A,Ghosh, S.Ghosh, S Das, P.K. Das, D.D. Dutta Majumdar and Rajat Banerjee Chem. Phys. Letters, 496 (2010)
  5. Single walled carbon nanotube-borosilicate glass composite as Broadband Near infrared emitter for multifunctional photonic applications Arnab Ghosh, Sujan Ghosh, S Das, P K.Das, Rajat Banerjee Chemical Physics Letters 570 (2013) 113–117
  6. Liquid polycarbosilane derived SiC coating on silicon (111) wafer for enhanced mechanical properties Jonaki Mukherjee, Ashok Ranjan, A.K.Saxena Probal Kumar Das, Rajat Banerjee Applied Surface Science 270 (2013) 219–224
  7. A novel carbon rich crystalline (C) SiC/Si(n) interface using liquid polycarbosilane as precursor- A unique schottky junction Jonaki Mukherjee, Ashok  Ranjan, A.K.Saxena,Probal Kumar Das, Sankar Karan, D D Majumdar, Rajat Banerjee Journal of Material Chemsitry C (Royal Society Pub.) 2013, 1 (42)
  8. Wide visible and unique NIR fluorescence from SiC nanocrystals embedded in carbon rich SiC matrix derived from liquid polycarbosilane Jonaki Mukherjee, Arnab Ghosh Sujan Ghosh, Ashok Ranjan, Arvind K.Saxena, Probal K. Das and Rajat Banerjee RSC Advance (Royal Society Pub.) 2014, 4, 13822–13826
  9. Near Infrared Fluorescence and Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-Lead Silicate Glass Composite Arnab Ghosh, Sujan Ghosh, Jonaki Mukherjee, S Das, P K.Das, Rajat Banerjee Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 385 (2014) 129–135
  10. Improved thermal properties of borosilicate glass composite containing single walled carbon nanotube bundles Sujan Ghosh, Arnab Ghosh, Jonaki Mukherjee and Rajat Banerjee RSC Advance (Royal Society Pub.) 2015, 5, 51116–51121
  11. Boron doped Silicon Carbide (SiC) thin film on Silicon (Si) – a novel  Electrode material  for supercapacitor Application Kusumita  Kundu and Rajat Banerjee  DOI: 10.1007/s10854-020-04346-y Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2020
  12. Boron Doped SiC thin film on Silicon synthesized from Polycarbosilane: A new lead free material for applications in Piezosensors Kusumita Kundu , Arnab Ghosh , S. Pratihar , Shiv Govind Singh and Rajat Banerjee
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06966-4
    Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2021
  13. White Light Emission of Wide Band Gap Silicon Carbide-A Review Ajitesh Kar, Kusumita Kundu, Himadri Chattapadhyay and Rajat Banerjee Journal of American Ceramic Society, 105:3100–3115,  2022
  14. Carbon nanotube–glass composite with high dielectric constant and low dielectric loss for energy storage device applications Arnab Ghosh, Sujan Ghosh, Jonaki Mukherjee & Rajat Banerjee Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 64 (1), 1–6, 2023
  15. Studies on the fatigue failure behaviour of novel carbon nanotube-glass composites Sujan Ghosh, Arnab Ghosh, Jonaki Mukherjee & Rajat Banerjee Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 65 (1), 1-9, 2024
  16. Development of SiC thin film as a source of white light emission. Ajitesh Kar, Kusumita Kundu, Rajat Banerjee & Himadri Chattopadhyay Optical Materials 155 (2024) 115795.

Theory To Product Development ( Lab to Market):

(Integrating Lab scale research to market oriented product)

Product Name TRL level Technology Transferred Year
Development of Reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride Radome for strategic application 7 DRDO 2022
Silicon Nitride Porous tube for Atomic Energy 7 Atomic Energy 2020
Silicon Nitride bearing balls for Aircraft Application 7 DRDO 2024
Silicon Carbide LED 4
Silicon Carbide Pressure Piezo Sensor 4
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