Dr. Arnab Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics (UG & PG)
Belda College
(Affiliated to Vidyasagar University)
Contact: +91 9609237377
Email: ghoarnab@gmail.com
&
arnabghosh@beldacollege.ac.in
I am an experimental condensed matter physicist with a strong foundation in the synthesis, characterization, and application of advanced functional materials. I earned my Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, under the mentorship of Prof. P. V. Satyam. My doctoral research focused on the growth, detailed characterization, and multifaceted applications of oxide semiconductors and their heterostructures with noble metals. Following my Ph.D., I joined the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. There, my work centered on the growth and optoelectronic applications of inorganic and organic 2D van der Waals materials, focusing on devices such as photodetectors, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and solar cells.
Subsequently, I was awarded the PBC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. My research during this period revolved around the development of advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices, including field-effect transistor (FET)-based photodetectors and LEDs—utilizing graphene and other emerging two-dimensional materials.
I then continued my research journey at the Department of Physics, Yonsei University, South Korea, where I worked as a Research Professor. My focus was on the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their in-situ characterization using transmission and scanning transmission electron microscopy (TEM/STEM) under various external stimuli such as temperature, voltage, and reactive gases.
Since January 2, 2020, I have been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Belda College, affiliated with Vidyasagar University. Here, I am primarily involved in teaching both undergraduate (B.Sc.) and postgraduate (M.Sc.) physics courses. In addition to my teaching duties, I am actively involved in research through the Natural Science Research Centre at Belda College, affiliated with Vidyasagar University. Currently, I am supervising two Ph.D. scholars whose research is centered on the synthesis and modification of advanced functional nanomaterials for high-performance electronic and optoelectronic device applications. I also maintain ongoing collaborative research efforts with my former mentors and institutions, further enriching the scope and impact of my work.
ABOUT ME
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India)
Department of Physics
January, 2020 – Present
Assistant Professor
Belda College (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University)
Department of Physics
July 2019 – 31st December 2020
Post-doctoral Fellow (Research Professor)
Yonsei University, Korea
Department of Physics
June 2018 – June 2019
PBC Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF)
Bar Ilan University, Israel
Faculty of Engineering
21st June 2016 – 21st June 2018
Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India)
Department of Physics
23rd March 2016 – 20th June 2016
Research Scientist
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (India)
Under the guidance of Prof. P. V. Satyam
2011 – 22nd March, 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.)
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (India)
Under the guidance of Prof. P. V. Satyam
2010-2011
Diploma in Advanced Physics
(Equivalent to M. Phil.)
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (India)
2006-2008
Masters in Science (M. Sc.)
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (India)
Department of Physics
2003-2006
Bachelors in Science (B. Sc.)
Vidyasagar University, Medinipore (India)
Department of Physics
AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
2006 : Joint admission test to M. Sc. conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Govt. of India. (All India Rank: 34)
2006 : Merit-cum-Means Scholarship from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Govt. of India.
2008 : Graduate aptitude test in engineering (GATE) organized by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISC).
2008 and 2010 : Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) conducted by leading research institutes, Govt. of India. (https://www.jest.org.in/joint-entrance- screening-test)
2010 : National Eligibility Test(NET) for Junior Research Fellowship & lectureship conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India (www.csir.res.in/).
2022 : "Out Standing Reviewer Award 2021" by Institute of Physics for the Journal "Engineering Research Express".
Scientific Visits:
Visited Indian Beam line at Photon Factory, KEK, Japan, 2013.
Visited MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany, 2015.
Project during Pre-Doctoral Course:
Project Title: Ion beam induced crystallization and amorphization of Silicon.
Project advisor: Prof. T. Som
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Growth, Characterization and Applications of Variable Oxygen Deficient Oxide Hetero- nanostructures (Au-ZnO and Au-Ge02).
Thesis Advisor: Prof. P. V. Satyam,
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
ABOUT ME
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India)
Department of Physics
RESEARCH
Research Interests and ongoing projects:
1) Characterization of materials using dynamic (in-situ) and static (ex-situ) electron microscopy (TEM, FE-SEM).
2) Experiments with electron and ion beams attached to the electron microscopes (SEM-FIB cross-beam system).
3) Growth studies and proposing growth mechanisms/models with the help of electron microscopy techniques.
4) Controlled growth and systematic characterizations of nano-dimensional thin films and structures (using various kinds of physical and chemical vapor deposition techniques along with sol-gel technique).
5) Growth of Oxide semiconductors and their hybrid with noble metals for multifaceted applications.
6) Organic semiconductor thin films growth (using OMBD) towards electronic (OFET) and optoelectronic applications (such as, solar cell, photodetector etc.).
7) Growth and optoelectronic applications of 2D layered materials (such as, MoS2, WS2, g-C3N4 etc...).
PUBLICATIONS
41) A Metal-Insulator-Metal Humidity Sensor Using Albumin-WO3 Composites for Enhanced Responses.
Abhirup Das, Suranjan Giri, Riya Sadhukhan, Arnab Ghosh, Sumita Santra, Dipak K. Goswami*
IEEE Sensors Letters 9 (1), 1500204 (2025).
40) Noncoordinating Anions as Key Modulators of Supramolecular Structures, Optical and Electrical
Properties in Nickel (II) Complexes.
S. Saha, S. Pramanik, S. Pathak, K. Das, R. Sadhukhan, Arnab Ghosh, D. K. Goswami, H. M. Lee, J.
Ortega-Castro, Antonio Frontera and Subrata Mukhopadhyay*
ACS Omega 9 (44), 44494–44506 (2024).
39) γ-GeSe: a new hexagonal polymorph from group IV-VI monochalcogenides.
Sol Lee, Joong-Eon Jung, Han-gyu Kim, Y. Lee, J. M. Park, Jeongsu Jang, S. Yoon, Arnab Ghosh, M. Kim, J.
Kim, W. Na, J. Kim, Hyoung Joon Choi, Hyeonsik Cheong and Kwanpyo Kim*
Nano Letters 21(10), 4305–4313 (2021).
38) Nitrogen Vacancy and Hydrogen Substitution Mediated Tunable Optoelectronic Properties of g-C3N4 2D
Layered Structures: Applications towards Blue LED to Broad-band Photodetection.
Arnab Ghosh*, Himanshu Saini, A. Sarkar, P. Guha, A. K. Samantara, R. Thapa, S. Mandal, A Mandal, J. N.
Behera, S. K. Ray and D. K. Goswami*
(*: Corresponding author)
Appl. surf. Sci. 556, 149773 (2021).
37) Enhanced Plasmonic Effect of Coherently Embedded Inverted Pyramidal Au Nanostructures in Silicon Protected by ZnO film: Highly efficient self-powered panchromatic photodetection application.
Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, S. Mukherjee, A. Sarkar, A. Bhukta, S. Roy, S. K. Ray, P. V. Satyam and Dipak K. Goswami
Manuscript to be submitted (August 2021).
36) The Hybrids of Core‐Shell Chain‐like Nanostructure of Au@ Porous Pd with Graphene for Energy Conversion Application.
Sushanta K Das, Subash Chandra Sahu, Arnab Ghosh and Bikash Kumar Jena
Chemistry Select 5(20), 6048-6053 (2020).
35) Low operating voltage organic field-effect transistors with gelatin as a moisture-induced ionic dielectric layer: The issues of high carrier mobility.
Suman Mandal, Ajoy Mandal, Gourhari Jana, Samik Mallik, Satyajit Roy, Arnab Ghosh, Pratim Kumar
Chattaraj and Dipak K Goswami
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 12(17), 19727-19736 (2020).
34) P-type β-MoO2 Nanostructures on n-Si by Hydrogenation Process: Synthesis and Application towards Self- Biased UV-Visible Photodetection.
P. Guha†, Arnab Ghosh†,*, A. Sarkar, S. Mandal, S. K. Ray, D. K. Goswami* and P. V. Satyam
(†: Equal contribution; *: Corresponding author)
Nanotechnology 30, 035204 (2019).
33) Organic Field-Effect Transistor-Based Ultrafast, Flexible, Physiological-Temperature Sensors with Hexagonal Barium Titanate Nanocrystals in Amorphous Matrix as Sensing Material.
Suman Mandal, M. Banerjee, S. Roy, A. Mandal, Arnab Ghosh, Biswarup Satpati and Dipak K. Goswami*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11(4), 4193-4202 (2019).
32) Graphene Schottky Varactor Diodes for High-Performance Photodetection.
A. Levi, M. Kirshner, O. Sinai, E. Peretz, O. Meshulam, Arnab Ghosh, N. Gotlib, C. Stern, S. Yuan, Fengnian Xia and Doron Naveh*
ACS Photonics 6 (8), 1910-1915 (2019).
31) Plasmonics in Atomically-Thin Crystalline Silver Films.
Z. M. Abd El-Fattah, V. Mkhitaryan, J. Bredde, L. Fernandez, Q. Guo, C. Li, Arnab Ghosh, A. R. Echarri, Doron Naveh, F. Xia, J. E. Ortega and F. Javier García de Abajo*
ACS Nano 13(7), 7771-7779 (2019).
30) The Experimental and Theoretical Insights Towards the CO Induced Pd-Graphene and their Multifunctional Energy Conversion Applications.
S. K. Das, S. C. Sahu, Arnab Ghosh, B. Chakraborty, S. Basu and B. K. Jena*
29) Growth of Au capped GeO2 nanowires for visible-light photodetection.
Arnab Ghosh*, P. Guha, S. Mukherjee, R. Bar, S. K. Ray and P. V. Satyam*
Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 123105 (2016).
28) Tuning Work Function of Randomly Oriented ZnO nanostructures by capping with Faceted Au nanostructure and Oxygen defects: Enhanced Field Emission Experiments and DFT studies.
Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, R. Thapa, S. Sinthika, M. Kumar, B. Rakshit, T. Dash, R. Bar, S. K. Ray and P. V. Satyam*
Nanotechnology 27, 125701 (2016).
27) Simple Growth of Faceted Au–ZnO Hetero-nanostructures on Silicon Substrates Nanowires and Triangular Nanoflakes): A Shape and Defect Driven Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance under Visible Light.
Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, A. K. Samanatara, B. K. Jena, R. Bar, S. K. Ray and P. V. Satyam*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7 (18), 9486–9496 (2015).
26) Study of Faceted Au nanoparticle capped ZnO nanowires: Antireflection, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Photoluminescence aspects.
Arnab Ghosh, R. R. Juluri, P. Guha, R. Sathyavathi, A. Dash, B. K. Jena and P. V. Satyam
J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48, 055303(2015).
25) Polarity selective etching: A self-assisted route for fabricating high density of c-axis oriented tapered GaN nanopillars.
Arnab Ghosh, H. P. Bhasker, A. Mukherjee, T. Kundu, B. P. Singh, S. Dhar*, S. De and A. Chowdhury
J. Appl. Phys. 110, 033528 (2011).
24) Ag nanoparticles decorated molybdenum oxide structures: Growth, characterizations, DFT studies and their application for enhanced field emission.
P. Guha, Arnab Ghosh, R. Thapa, E. M. Kumar, R. Singh and P. V. Satyam*
Nanotechnology 28, 415602 (2017).
23) Effect of Au thickness on Au-Ag bimetallic growth on reconstructed Si(5 5 12) Surfaces.
Anjan Bhukta, Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, P. Maiti and P. V. Satyam*
Appl. Phys. A 123, 174 (2017).
22) MoS2 Quantum Dots as Efficient Catalyst Materials for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.
B. Mohanty, M. Ghorbani, S. Kretschmer, Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, S. K. Panda, B. Jena, A. V. Krasheninnikov* and B. K. Jena*
ACS Catal. 8, 1683–1689 (2018).
21) In-situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Coherently Embedded Silve Nanostructures Growth in Silicon.
P. Guha, R. R. Juluri, A. Bhukta, Arnab Ghosh, S. Maiti, A. Bhattacharya, V. Srihari and P. V. Satyam*
CrystEngComm. 19, 6811-6820 (2017).
20) Filled-carbon nanotubes: 1 D nanomagnets possessing uniaxial magnetization axis controlled by magnetic field gradient.
R. Kumari, A. Singh, B. S. Yadav, D. R. Mohapatra, Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, P. V. Satyam, M. K. Singh, P. K. Tyagi*
19) Covalently Connected Carbon Nanotubes as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction through Band Engineering.
S. Pal, M. Sahoo, V. T. Veettil, K. K. Tadi, Arnab Ghosh, P. V. Satyam, R. K. Biroju, P. M. Ajayan, S. K. Nayak* and T. N. Narayanan*
ACS Catal. 7, 2676−2684 (2017).
18) Highly Active 2D Layered MoS2-rGO Hybrids for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications.
S. Kamila, B. Mohanty, A. K. Samantara, Arnab Ghosh, P. Guha, B. Jena, P. V. Satyam, B. Mishra and Bikash K. Jena*
17) Effect of dry air on interface smoothening in reactive sputter deposited Co/Ti Multilayer.
A. Biswas, A. Porwal, D. Bhattacharya, C. L. Prajapat, Arnab Ghosh, M. Nand, C. Nayak, S. Rai, S. N. Jha, M. R. Singh, D. Bhattacharyya, S. Basu and N.K. Sahoo
Appl. surf. Sci. 416, 168-177 (2017).
16) Silver Endotaxy in Silicon under Various Ambient Conditions and their use as Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Substrates.
R. R. Juluri, Arnab Ghosh, A. Bhukta, Sathyavathi R. and P. V. Satyam*
Thin Solid Films 586, 88–94 (2015).
15) Tunable optoelectronic properties of pulsed dc sputter-deposited ZnO:Al thin films: Role of growth angle.
M. Kumar, R. Singh, S. Nandi, Arnab Ghosh, S. Rath and T. Som*
J. Appl. Phys. 120, 015302 (2016).
14) Coherently Embedded Ag Nanostructures in Si: 3D Imaging and their application to SERS.
R. R. Juluri, A. Rath, Arnab Ghosh, A. Bhukta, Sathyavathi R., D. N. Rao, K. Mueller, K. Frank, M. Schowalter, T. Grieb, F. Krause, A. Rosenauer and P. V. Satyam*
13) Substrate symmetry driven endotaxial silver nanostructures by chemical vapor deposition.
R. R. Juluri, A. Rath, Arnab Ghosh and P. V. Satyam*
J. Phys. Chem. C 117 (25), 13247-13251 (2013).
12) Multilayer Ge Nanocrystals embedded within Al2O3 matrix for high performance floating gate memory devices.
R. Bar, R. Aluguri, S. Manna, Arnab Ghosh, P. V. Satyam and S. K. Ray*
Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 093102 (2015).
11) Facile synthesis of single crystalline n- / p- type ZnO nanorods by lithium substitution and their photoluminescence, electrochemical and photocatalytic properties.
I. Thakur, S. Chatterjee*, S. Swain, Arnab Ghosh, S. K. Behera and Y. S. Chaudhary
New J. Chem. 39, 2612-2619 (2015).
10) Electron irradiation induced buckling, morphological transformation, and inverse Ostwald ripening in nanorod filled inside carbon nanotube.
Anshika Singh et al.,
Appl. surf. Sci. 360, 1003-1008 (2016).
9) Growth of Ag nanostructures on high index Si (5 5 12) surfaces under UHV conditions: Effect of prior surface treatment before deposition.
A. Bhukta, P. Guha, Arnab Ghosh, P. Maiti and P. V. Satyam*
Appl. Phys. A 122, 356 (2016).
8) A Study of initial stages of growth of Au-assisted epitaxial Ge nanowires on clean Ge(100) Surface.
A. Rath, J. K. dash, R. R. Juluri, Arnab Ghosh and P. V. Satyam*
CrystEngComm. 16, 2486-2490 (2014).
7) A Bioinspired Approach for Shaping Au Nanostructures: The Role of Biomolecule Structures in Shape Evolution.
S. C. Sahu, A. K. Samantara, Arnab Ghosh and B. K. Jena*
Chem. Eur. J. 19, 8220-8226 (2013).
6) Sandwiched Graphene with Nitrogen, Sulphur co-doped CQDs: Efficient Metal Free Material for Energy Storage and Conversion Application.
A. K. Samantara, S. C. Sahu, Arnab Ghosh and B. K. Jena*
J. Mater. Chem. A 3, 16961-16970 (2015).
5) Good's buffer derived highly emissive carbon quantum dots: excellent biocompatible anticancer drug carrier.
A. K. Samantara, S. Maji, Arnab Ghosh, B. Bag, R. Dash, B. K. Jena*
Journal of Materials Chemistry B 4 (14), 2412-2420 (2016).
4) Polysaccharide-capped silver nanoparticles inhibit biofilm formation and eliminate multi-drug-resistant bacteria by disrupting bacterial cytoskeleton with reduced cytotoxicity towards mammalian cells.
S. Sanyasi, R. K. Majhi, S. Kumar, M. Mishra, Arnab Ghosh, M. Suar, P. V. Satyam, H. Mohapatra, C. Goswami and L. Goswami*
3) Highly Porous Pd Nanostructures and Reduced Graphene Hybrids: Excellent Electrocatalytic Activity towards Hydrogen Peroxide.
S. C. Sahu, T. Behera, A. Dash, B. Jena, Arnab Ghosh and B. K. Jena*
New J. Chem. 40, 1096-1099 (2016).
2) Photoluminescence study on irradiated yttria stabilized zirconia.
R. Halder, P. Sengupta, V. Sudarsan, Arnab Ghosh, A. Bhukta, G. Sharma, I. Samajdar and G.K. Dey
J. Nucl. Mater. 456, 359-368 (2014).
1) Optical properties of GaN Nanopillars fabricated using ICPRIE technique.
H. P. Bhasker, P. Ghosh, Arnab Ghosh, A. Mukherjee, B. P. Singh and S. Dhar*
EXPERTISE
Expertise in operating High resolution Transmission Electron Microscope with GATAN mage hot and cold stage holders (JEOL-JEM 2010 and JEOL-JEM2100). In-situ TEM experiments.
I have strong operating experience in Cross-beam system coupling a Carl Zeiss , Neon 40 scanning
electron microscope (SEM , Gemini Column) and a Canion 31 focused ion beam (FIB, Orsay Physics), equipped with gas injection system (GIS, Orsay Physics), STEM detector, Four Quadrant Back scattered electron detector (Carl Zeiss), EDS
detector (INCA, Oxford).
I have expertise on TEM specimens preparations (Planar and X-TEM specimen) using FIB as well as mechanically.
Familiar with various kinds of spectroscopic techniques (Low temperature Micro-Photoluminescence/Raman using HORIBA, XPS and UV-Vis-NIR).
Expert on various growth techniques (fro the growth of Thin films and nanostructures): Thermal evaporation, Pulsed laser deposition (PLD), MBE, OMBD, Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and sol-gel technique.
Expertise on multi-probe (two, there and four) transport property measurement (@ various ambiances) sytems.
Expertise in device fabrication using e-beam lithography technique (ELPHY Quantum lithography system (Raith) and TESCAN).
Familiar with environmental scanning electron microscope (FEI, Quanta-250) with heating (up to 1400 °C) and cooling (up to -22 °C) stage attachments.
RBS: I have done accelerator based experiments like Rutherford backscattering spectrometry in 3 MeV Pelletron accelerator, for some collaborative work.
CONTACT
Dr. Arnab Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Physics Department
Belda College (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University)
Belda - 721424, West Bengal, India.
Contact No: +91-9609237377 (Mobile)
E-mail: ghoarnab@gmail.com &
arnabghosh@beldacollege.ac.in
