Dr.

Rajib Nath
Research Associate -I, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences
Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (S.N.B.N.C.B.S)
Block-JD, Sector-III, Saltlake, Kolkata-700098, India
Phone: (+91) 9474921247/9836925636
E-mail: rajibn@bose.res.in / rajibnath.bu@gmail.com
webpage www.rajibnath.weebly.com
Electrical and Magnetic transport measurement of Perovskite oxides in Single crystal and thin film
( 10 nm) form at low temperature (down to 1.5K) with magnetic field (up to 10T)
Research Interests
Thin film deposition by Pulsed laser deposition.
and Experience
Electric double layer FET device fabrication using a hard mask lithography on a nm thick perovskite oxide channel.
Local conductance measurement by ultra high vacuum Scanning Tunnelling microscopy(STM).
Strain driven electrical measurement of thin films grown on Piezoelectric substrate.
Resistive switching in strongly correlated oxides.
Synthesis of metal nano particles by pulsed laser ablation and their functionalistion with semiconductor nano wires .
Impedance spectroscopy in thin film& nanofluids.
Knowledge in sample characterisation techniques like XRD, SEM, TEM, AFM, XPS, VSM,
UV-Visible Spectroscopy, Infra-red spectroscopy.
Experience in independent handling of cryogen free cryostat and 10T magnet system and UHVSTM.

Computer
Knowledge
Education

C and C++ programming and interfacing with instruments, LABVIEW, ORIGIN coding and data
analysis, FORTRAN, LATEX, MS office.
Degree
Postdoc(R.A.-I)
Ph.D.
M.Sc.
B.Sc.

Board/University
S.N.B.N.C.B.S,Kolkata
S.N.B.N.C.B.S,Kolkata
under Calcutta University
The University of Burdwan
The University of Burdwan

% of Marks or Division
N.A.
N.A.

Year
March, 2015(continuing)
October, 2015

77.83, 1st
66.25, 1st

November, 2008
2006

Thesis Topic (Ph.D.): Investigation of novel electrical and magnetic properties of perovskite
oxides
Thesis & Projects
Supervisor:Distinguished Professor Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri
Project Topic (M.Sc.): Synchronization of chaos and its application in communication systems
Supervisor: Dr. Tanmoy Banerjee

Scholastic
Achievements

Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship in Council of Scientific and Industrial research
(CSIR), India based on All India National Eligibility Test in 2008 .

 Qualified WBSET-2008 for lectureship in Physics.

Publications

1. Control of co-existing phases and charge transport in a nanostructured manganite film by field
effect with an electric double layer as the gate dielectric, Rajib Nath and A. K. Raycahudhuri,
RSC Advances, 5, 57875 (2015).
2. Room temperature resistive switching with hysterisis in GdMnO3 thin film with low threshold
voltage, Rajib Nath, A. K. Raycahudhuri, Ya. M. Mukovskii, N. Andreev and Vladimir Chichkov,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 183508 (2014).
3. Electric Double Layer gate controlled non-linear transport in a nanostructured functional perovskite oxide film, Rajib Nath and A. K. Raycahudhuri, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 083515 (2014).
4. Electric field driven destabilization of the insulating state in nominally pure LaMnO3 , Rajib
Nath, A. K. Raycahudhuri, Ya. M. Mukovskii, Parthasarathi Mondal, Dipten Bhattacharya and P.
Mandal, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 25, 155605 (2013).
5. Dielectric Constant Enhancement of Ethylene Glycol by Au NanoNetworks, Rajesh Neogy and
Rajib Nath, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters 4, 409 -413 (2012) .
6. Synthesis of micron sized Gold network structure by assembling individual Gold nanoparticles
by Laser assisted PEGylation method, Rajesh Neogy and Rajib Nath, Micro and Nanosystems
3, 319-325 (2011).

Submitted

7. Enhanced thermal transport in a Nanofluid with Gold nanoparticle network prepared by laser
ablation, Rajesh Kumar Neogy, Rajib Nath and A. K. Raychaudhuri under review in Material
Research express.

8. Large magneto-resistance in the low temperature insulating state of nominally pure LaMnO3
single crystal, Rajib Nath, A. K. Raychaudhuri, Sandeep Agarwal, P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Ya M
Under preparation
Mukovskii and P. Mandal.
9. Strain and electronic phase separation effect on the transport in low hole doped mangnaite, Rajib
Nath, ,Ankita Ghatak, Ravindra Singh Bisht, Barnali Ghosh and A. K. Raychaudhuri.

Patent

Participation &
attendance in
conferences

Patent applied for controlled synthesis of micron sized gold network structure by assembling individual gold nanoparticles by laser ablation, application no. 588/KOL/2013, Ref. No. 1634
/ASA/PP-1251/SNB.(published online)
Contributed talk and poster presentation in Euromat 2014, Lusanne, Switzerland.
Contributed talk and poster presentaion in Advances in Magnetism: Phenomena and materials June
2010, Manali, India
Contributed talk in AMST-2012 February 2012 at Gujrat University, Ahmedabad, India.
Contributed talk on Controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles and nanonetwork by pulsed laser ablation in Seminar on Laser and its application February 2013, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, india
Contributed talk on Nature of the insulating state in Pure LaMnO3 in Bose-Fest 2011 at S.N.B.N.C.B.S,
Kolkata,India
Attended two days conference on Kolkata Moscow Symposium January, 2013 at S.N.B.N.C.B.S,
Kolkata, India

Personal Details

List of Referees

Date of Birth : 15/04/1984

Marital Status: Unmarried, Nationality : Indian.
Passport No. : K4915084, Languages (R & W) : English, Bengali, Hindi
Permanent address: U.C. Sinha Street, P.O.- Dulmi Nadiha
Dist. Purulia, Westbengal,PIN: 723102 ,India.
1. Prof. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri
ExDirector and Distinguished Professor
Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Block-JD, Sector-III, Saltlake, Kolkata-700098, India
Phone: +91-33-2335 5709, Mob:+91 9433038211
FAX: :+91-33-2335-2733
E-mail: arup@bose.res.in & arupraychaudhuri4217@googlemail.com

2. Dr. Dipten Bhattacharya

Nano-structured Materials Division
Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)
Kolkata 700032, India
Phone: +91-33-2473-3469/96/76/77 extn. 3470, Mob:+91 9433799381
E-mail: dipten@cgcri.res.in
3. Dr. Tanmoy Banerjee
Department of Physics
The University of Burdwan
Burdwan - 713104, India
Phone: +91-9434536732
E-mail: tanbanrs@yahoo.co.in