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BHUPENDRA N. DEV

Professor

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE :
Institute of Physics,
Sachivalaya Marg,
Bhubaneswar - 751 005,
India
E-mail: bhupen@iopb.res.in
FAX : +91-0674-2300142
Phone : +91-0674-2301058 (O)
+91-0674-2300495 (R)

AREA OF RESEARCH: SURFACE SCIENCE and NANOSCIENCE

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
(i) Atomic structure of surfaces, surface modification by ion irradiation.
(ii) Interface structure and roughness.
(iii)Multilayers and their ion beam modification
(iv) Epitaxial layers and Self-assembled epitaxial growth (MBE growth, Quantum dots, Single-electron tunneling)
(v) Defects in epitaxial layers and at their interfaces.

For these studies we use Rutherford backscattering spectrometry
and channeling techniques with MeV ions from our 3MV Pelletron accelerator , X-ray reflectometry
and X-ray standing wave techniques with MoK_alpha_1 X-rays from an 18 KW rotating anode
X-ray source and 200 keV TEM. Besides these facilities in our laboratory we use other techniques
like, EDX, SEM, XPS, SIMS etc. available elsewhere in the country and synchrotron radiation
sources abroad.

We grow epitaxial layers and self-assembled epitaxial structures by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
        In-situ characterizations are done by reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and scanning
        tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) with a variable temperature
        scanning tunneling microscope (VTSTM, Omicron) operating under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) condition .
        The VTSTM is connected with the MBE system.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS (as principal investigator):

(i) Indo-German bilateral collaboration with Prof. G.Materlik, HASYLAB at DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
(ii) Indo-US collaboration with Prof. T.P.Das and Prof. W.M.Gibson, State University of New York at Albany,
New York, U.S.A. and Dr. B.Rath, Naval Research Lab, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

OTHER PARTICULARS:

1. Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE (a journal of Elsevier, The Netherlands).
2. Member of the Council of Indian Physical Society
3. Project Reviewer of Reseaech Grants Council, Hong Kong

RESEARCH GROUP

Ph.D. Students

1. Mr. Jagajit Kamila
2. Mr. Biswarup Satpati
3. Mr. Milind Rundhe
4. Ms. Kuntala Bhattacharjee
5 Mr. Sinu Mathews
6. Mr. Sambhunath Bera
7. Mr. Sumalay Roy
8. Mr. Anupam Roy

Mr. Balakrushna Dash (Scientific Assistant)

PREVIOUS Ph.D. STUDENTS

1. K. Sekar (JSPS Fellow ,Japan, Humboldt Fellow, Germany -> Senior Scientist, Varian Associates, USA)
2. P.V. Satyam (Argonne National Lab., USA -> Faculty, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India)
3. B. Sundaravel (The Chinese University of Hong Kong -> Staff Scientist, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India)
4. Amal K. Das (Paul-Drude Institute, Germany -> Faculty, IIT, Kharagpur, India)
5. B. Rout (University of Melbourne, Australia -> Research Scientist, Louisiana State University, USA)
6. S.K. Ghose (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
7. Dipak K. Goswami (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
8. (co-supervised) : G. Kuri (Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Lab. at DESY, Germany -> Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

List of Publicaitions

Important results

TOOLS USED IN EXPERIMENTS:

1. 3 Million Volt Ion Accelerator