Satchidananda Rath – School of Basic Sciences

Dr. Satchidananda Rath

Associate Professor

Brief Resume

Personal Website

Research Interests:

Nanoclusters for molecular electronic Applications; Two-dimensional Semiconductor nanostructures for Solar Cell, Optoelectronics and sensors applications; Rheological behavior of soft matter/nanomaterials dispersion; Study of Ultrafast processes;

Education

Degree	Discipline	Year	School
Ph.D.	Physics	2006	Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar

Condensed Matter Physics [Post Gaduate Level]
Semiconductor Physics [Post Graduate Level]
Quantum Mechanics [Post Graduate Level]
M.Sc Physics Lab [Post Graduate Level]
BTech Physics Theory & Lab [Undergraduate Level]

Current Ph.D. Students:

Mr. Gyanadeep Mallik
Mr. Atanu Kabiraj
Ms. Pragyan Paramita Dash
Ms. Priyanka Kumari
Mr. Gajendra Kalo

Ph.D. Degree Awarded:

Dr. (Mrs.) Oindrila Halder
Dr. (Mr.) Deepak Kumar Swain

Japan Society for Promotion of Science -2007

(3). Dr. S. Rath (PI) Growth of Semiconductor heterostructure nanolayers for Solar cell application, SERB, DST, India -2020.
(2). Dr. S. Rath (PI), “Growth and Charcaterization of Semiconductor-graphene hybrid nanosheets for Solar Cell application”- Nanomission, DST India-2017
(1). Dr. S Rath (PI) and Dr. N. V. N. L. Murty, “Fabrication and Characterization of CVD diamond detector for Plasma diagnostics in Nuclear fusion Reactors, BRNS, DAE, India-2017

Author(s)	Recent Publication (International Journals)
G. Mallik, A. Kabiraj, P.P. Dash, P. Kumari, Utkalika P. Sahoo, P.K. Sahoo, S. Rath	1 Schottky junction based solar cell behavior of trichome hierarchical SnO2 nano-structures, Optical Materials 144, 114306 (2023)
G. Mallik, A. Kabiraj , D. K. Swain, P. P. Dash, P. Kumari, and S. Rath	2 Entropy-driven nonequilibrium phonon-stimulated electron-phonon coupling in tin dioxide nanorods, Phys. Rev. E 109, 024213 (2024)
A. Kabiraj, G. Mallik, P. P. Dash, P. Kumari, M. Bandyopadhyay, and S. Rath	3 Observation of non-equilibrium fluctuation in the shear-stress-driven hemoglobin aggregates, Eur. Phys. J. E. 46, 131 (2023).
G. Mallik, S. Rath	4 Electrical properties of CuO nanoflakes/Au heterojunction under photo excitation, Materials Today: Proceedings 62, 5997-6000 (2022).
A. Kabiraj, S. Rath	5 Observation of order-disorder phase transition in sheared nanofluids, Materials Today: Proceedings 62, 6001-6003, (2022).
S. Mohapatra, M. Abhangi, S. Vala, P. Kumar Sahu, S. Rath and N.V.L. Narasimha Murty	6 Comparative study of Single Crystal (SC)-Diamond and 4H-SiC bulk radiation detectors for room temperature alpha spectroscopy, JINST 16, P06020 (2021).
O. Halder, G. Mallik, J. SuffczyÅ„ski, W. Pacuski, K. S. K. Varadwaj, B. Satpati and S. RathO. Halder, G. Mallik, J. SuffczyÅ„ski, W. Pacuski, K. S. K. Varadwaj, B. Satpati and S. Rath	7 Enhanced Exciton Binding Energy, Zeeman Splitting and Spin Polarization in Hybrid Layered Nanosheets Comprised of (Cd,Mn)Se and Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Oxide : Implication for Semiconductor Devices, Nanotechnology 32, 325204 (2021)
D. K. Swain, G. Mallik, P. Srivastava, A. K.Kuswaha, P. Raput, S. N. Jha, S. Lim, S. Kim and S. Rath	8 Single Mn Atom Doping in Chiral Sensitive Assembled Gold Clusters to Molecular Magnet ACS Nano 15, 6289-95 (2021)
S. Mahapatra, P. K. Sahu, S. Rath, N. V. L. N Murty	9 Defect characterization and numerical modeling single-crystal ultra-pure intrinsic diamond, Diamond & Related Materials, 106, 107822 (2020)
S. Mahapatra, P. K. Sahu, S. Rath, P. K. Sahoo, S. Verma, N. V. L. N Murty	10 Impact of Nitrogen induced defect dynamics on UV response of diamond photodetectors, SuperLattices and Microstructures 142, 105604 (2020)
D. K. Swain, G. Mallik and S. Rath	11 Ultrafast Rotation of the CdS Nanopods asserted from Excited State Dynamics, Physica E , 110, 1 (2019)
D. K. Swain, G. Mallik and S. Rath,	12 Ultrafast Rotation of the CdS Nanopods asserted from Excited State Dynamics, Physica E , 110, 1 (2019)
O. Halder, B. Satpati, P. Rajput, N. Mohapatra, S. N. Jha, J. Suffczynski, W. Pacuski and S. Rath	13 Light Emitting Spin Active Electronic States in Ultra-thin Mn doped CdSe Layered Nanosheets, Scientific Reports 9, 1804 (2019)
D. K. Swain, A. Narzary, A. K. Singh, A. Chandra, T. Nagasawa, S. Yamamoto, M. Mitsuishi and S. Rath	14 Observation of self-polarization in BSA protected Au20 clusters, Nanotechnology 28, 445704-1-6 (2017)
A.S. Das, M. Roy, D. Roy, T. Kar, S. Rath and S. Bhattacharya	15 Investigation of microstructure and DC conductivity of V2O5-Nd2O3 glass nanocomposite, Chemistry Select 2, 11273-11280 (2017)
S. Dhal, S. Chatterjee, S. Facsko, W. Moller, R. Bottger, B. Satpati, S. Rath and R. Hubner	16 Discrete single crystalline titanium oxide nanoparticle formation from a two-dimensional nanowelded network, Cryst. Growth Des, 17, 2660 (2017)
P. Nandi, C. Giri, B. Joseph, S Rath, U. Manju and D. Topwal	17 CH3NH3PbI3, A potential solar cell candidate: Structural and spectroscopic investigation, J. Phys. Chem. A, 120, 9732 â€“ 9739 (2016)
S. Rath, O. Halder, A. Pradhani, B. Satpati, A. Maity, T. Chini, N. Gogurla and S. K. Ray,	18 White-light emission by phonon assisted coherent mixing of excitons in Au8-CdS hybrid nanorods, Nanotechnology 27, 496706 (2016).
S. R. Mohapatra, B. Sahu, M. Chandrasekhar, P. Kumar, S. D. Kaushik, S. Rath, A. K. Singh,	19 Effect of cobalt substitution on structure, impedance, ferroelectric and magnetic properties of multiferroic Bi2Fe4O9 ceramics, Ceram. Int. 42, 12352 (2016).
A. S. Das, M. Roy, D. Roy, S. Rath and S. Bhattacharya	20 Structural and optical properties of V2O5-MnO3-ZnO glass-nanocomposite system, Trans. Ind. Ceram. Soc. 75, 1 (2016).
M. Kumar, R. Singh, S. Nandy, A. Ghosh, S. Rath and T. Som	21 Tunable optoelectronic properties of pulsed dc sputter-deposited ZnO:Al thin films: Role of growth angle, J. Appl. Phys. 120, 015302 (2016)
B. D. Mohapatra, S. P. Mantry, N. Behera, S. Rath and K. S. K. Varadwaj	22 Simulation of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction activity on nitrogen doped graphene through noncovalent molecular functionalization, Chem. Commun 52, 10385 (2016)
A. Pradhani, O. Halder, S. Nozaki and S. Rath	23 Raman modes, dipole moment and chairality in periodically positioned Au8 clusters, RSC Advances 5, 65208 â€“ 13 (2015)
O.Halder, A. Pradhani, P. K. Sahoo, B. Satpati and S. Rath	24 Highly luminescent two dimensional excitons in atomically thin CdSe nanosheets, Appl. Phys. Lett 104, 182109- 1- 4 (2014)
S. Rath, S. Nozaki, D. Palagin, V. Matulis, O. Ivashkevich, and S. Maki	25 Aqueous-based synthesis of atomic gold clusters: Geometry and optical properties, Appl. Phys. Lett 97, 053103-1-3 (2010).
S. N. Sarangi, S. Rath, K. Goswami, S. Nozaki and S. N. Sahu,	26 DNA template driven CdSe nanowires and nanoparticles: structure and optical properties, Physica E 42, 1670 (2010)
S. Rath, S. N. Sarangi and S. N. Sahu	27 XPS studies of the DNA-cations interacted self-assembled HgTe quantum dots formed under electrodeposition and the resultant biomolecular application, Nanotechnology 19, 115606- 1-7 (2008).
S. Rath, S. N. Sarangi and S. N. Sahu	28 Biocatalytic growth of semiconductor nanowires, J. Appl. Phys. 101, 074306-1-5 (2007).
B.K. Patel, S. Rath, S. N. Sarangi and S. N. Sahu	29 HgS nanoparticles:Structure and optical properties, Appl. Phys. A 86, 447- 450 (2007)
S. Rath and S. N. Sahu	30 Electronic structure of HgTe nanocrystals: An observation of p-d weakening, Surf. Sc. (Letter) 600, L110 – L115 (2006).
B. K. Patel, S. Rath and S. N. Sahu,	31 Surface photovoltage studies of Si nanocrystallites prepared by electrochemical etching, Physica E 33, 268 â€“ 272 (2006)
S. Rath, K. Das, S. N. Sarangi, A. K. Dash, S. K. Ray and S. N. Sahu	32 Synthesis of LECBD grown cluster assembled SeO2 thin films, Appl. Surf. Sci. 253, 2138-2142 (2006).
S. Rath, D. Paramanik, S. N. Sarangi, S. Verma and S. N. Sahu	33 Surface characterization and electronic structure of HgTe nanocrystalline thin films, Phys. Rev. B, 72, 205410-1-6 (2005)
S. Rath, G. B. N. Chainy, S. Nozaki and S. N. Sahu	34 DNA template-driven synthesis of HgTe nanoparticles, Physica E, 30, 182-185 (2005)
S. Rath, S. N. Sahu	35 Mercury telluride nanocrystalline thin films: A Unique photoluminescence in the visible regime, J. Metastable and Nanocrystalline Material 23, 125-128 (2005)
S. Rath and S. N. Sahu	36 Composition-dependent optical properties of nanocrystalline Mercury telluride, Euro Phys. Lett. 67, 294 – 300 (2004)
S. Rath, A. K. Dash, S. N. Sahu and S. Nozaki	37 Quantum confinement effect in HgTe nanocrystals and visible luminescence, Int. J. Nanoscience 3, 393-401 (2004)
S. Rath, S. Nozaki, H. Ono, K. Uchida and S. Kojima	38 Growth and optical properties of SnO2 ultra-small nanorods by the novel micelle technique, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1087, V03-29 (2008).

2022 onward Associate Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, Jatni-752050, Odisha, India; 2010-2022 Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, Jatni-752050, Odisha, India; 2009-2010 Visiting Scienctist, IGCAR Kalpakaam TamilNadu, India; 2007-2009 JSPS Fellow UEC Chofu, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-2007 Post Doctoral Fellow, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; 2000 – 2006 Ph.D in Physics, Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Mn Doped CdSe Layered Nanosheets – Spin Active Light Emission

Optical Coherence in Semiconductor-metal hybrid Nanostructures

(Invited Talk) in the National Seminar on “Recent Trends in Physics” organised by Maharishi College Bhubaneswar, during January 8-9, 2017.

Ultra-small Nanomaterials: A journeying to Quantum Science and Technology

(Invited tlak) in the workshop on ” Frontiers in Material Sciences” organized by Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, January 6-7, 2017.

Nanotechnology: A mesoscopic revolution

(Invited talk) in National seminar on “Recent Trends in Nanotechnology” Organised by BJB Autonomus College, Bhubaneswar during October 27-28, 2016

White Light Emission: Phonon assisted Coherent mixing of Excitons

Research Facilities:

The Research Laboratory is equipped with advanced Instruments;

Micro Raman set up [T64000 Horiba Raman Spectrometer]
Time resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy [Horiba]
Small angle x-ray scattering [Anton Paar]
Solar Simulator [Procurement is in progress]

Candidates interested to work on Designing and Characterization of 2D semiconductor based Solar cell are encouraged to my group.

Current Research Finding

[Schematic of Phonon assisted Coherent mixing of excitons in metal-semiconductor hybrid nanorods]

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