Ph.D
Condensed Matter Physics: Electronic Properties, Surfaces, MeV Ion Interaction with solids/Surfaces, Many Body processes, Nonlinear Transport of Energy in Condensed Matter, Artificially Reordered structures including Nanostructures and biological nanostructures; MEMS pressure sensors; Quantum dots
(a) Experimental surface studies employing X-ray and UV photoelectron spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction, valence band photoemission as well as near edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy using tunable synchrotron radiation sources (employing SX-700 and TGM beamlines at BESSY, Berlin).
(b) Employed Pelletron accelerator ion beams for modification of solids, large electronic excitation effects and atomic displacements, defects, defect structure and phase transitions, identification of these through techniques such as x-ray diffraction (XRD), x-ray topography (XRT) and scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM).
(c) Ultra high vacuum systems, Film growth, Development of layered structures, heterostructures, quantum dots.
(d) Basic research and technology development for production of metal nanoparticles through electro-explosion of wires
National Science Talent Search Fellowship 1973
National Fellowship 1976
Indo-FRG Bilateral Fellow, 1986
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), 2009
DRDO Research Services Qualitative Requirement Contract Research Services titled “ Measurement and analysis for the development of nanostructures”, April 2003 (completed)
1.Origin of Cu and Zn L2- and L3M45M45 Auger Satellites : Breakdown in Sudden Approximation. D.D. Sarma, C. Carbone, P. Sen, R. Cimino and W.Gudat, Physical Review Letters, 63, 656 (1989)
2. Dissipative Structure Formation in Cold Rolled Fe and Ni after Heavy Ion Irradiation. P. Sen, G. Aggarwal and U. Tiwari, Physical Review Letters, 80,97 (1998)
3. MeV ion induced movement of lattice disorder in single crystalline silicon. P. Sen, J. Akhtar and F.M. Russell, Europhysics Letters, 51, 401 (2000)
4. Shivani Sharma, P. Sen, S.N. Mukhopadhyay, S.K. Guha, MicrobicidalRisug induced morphostructural damage in E. Coli, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 32, 43 (2003) (first publication from India reporting AFM of a biological molecule)
5. D. K. Tiwari, J. Behari, and P. Sen, Time and dose-dependent antimicrobial potential of Ag nanoparticles synthesized by top-down approach. Current Science, 95, 647 (2008)
1.Hemant Dhyani, Chetna Dhand, B. D. Malhotra and P. Sen, Polyaniline-CdS Quantum Dots Composite for Mediator Free Biosensing, J Biosens Bioelectron 3, 112 (2012)
2. Lalit Kumar, Rohit Medwal, P Sen and S Annapoorni, Processing temperature driven morphological evolution of ZnO nanostructures prepared by electro-exploding wire technique. Materials Research Express, 1, 015045 (2014)
3. Navendu Goswami and P. Sen, Water driven stabilization of ZnS nanoparticles prepared by exploding wire technique. Materials Research Express, 1, 025001 (2014)
(1)Title : A novel process for manufacturing silicon nanostructures in single crystalline silicon and silicon nanostructures made thereby useful for making electronic devices
Inventors: (1) JamilAkhtar and (2) PrasenjitSen
Date : 23-03-2001 / NF No. 0224NF2001/ Appln. No. 0326DEL2001
(2) Title : A novel technique to suppress leakage current in a planar semiconductor p-n junction
Inventors: (1) JamilAkhtar and (2) PrasenjitSen
Date : 23-03-2001 / NF No. 0224NF2001/ Appln. No. 0326DEL2001
(3) Title : A novel process and apparatus for production of metallic nanoparticles
Assignee – Jawaharlal Nehru University
Inventors: Faculty :PrasenjitSen
Students :JoyeeGhosh, Alqudami Abdullah, Prashant Kumar and Vandana
Indian Patent Application No. 840/DEL/2003 ; Patent granted ( June, 2006)
(4) Title : A novel process and apparatus for production of metallic nanoparticles
Assignee – Jawaharlal Nehru University
Inventors: Faculty :PrasenjitSen
Students :JoyeeGhosh, Alqudami Abdullah, Prashant Kumar and Vandana
PCT application No. PCT/IN2004/000067
(5) Title : A novel process and apparatus for production of metallic nanoparticles
Assignee – Jawaharlal Nehru University
Inventors: Faculty :PrasenjitSen
Students :JoyeeGhosh, Alqudami Abdullah, Prashant Kumar and Vandana
USA National Phase application No. 10/562,641
(6) Title :A novel process for detecting human haemoglobin variants
Assignee – Jawaharlal Nehru University and Calcutta University
Inventors: Faculty :PrasenjitSen, Anjan K. Dasgupta
Students : Om Parkash and Jaideep Bhattacharya
Indian Patent application number 39/DEL/2006
(7) Title :A novel process for detecting human haemoglobin variants
Assignee – Jawaharlal Nehru University and Calcutta University
Inventors: Faculty :PrasenjitSen, Anjan K. Dasgupta
Students : Om Parkash and Jaideep Bhattacharya
PCT application number PCT/IN2007/000002
(8) Title :A novel process for detecting human haemoglobin variants
Assignee – Jawaharlal Nehru University and Calcutta University
Inventors: Faculty :PrasenjitSen, Anjan K. Dasgupta
Students : Om Parkash and Jaideep Bhattacharya
Malaysia National Phase application/ International Clasification C12Q1/68
Published on 26.02.2010