Prof. Milan Kumar Sanyal

Name: Milan Kumar Sanyal

Birth Date and place: 6th January 1954, India.

Official and Mailing address:

Prof. M.K. Sanyal, Surface Physics and Materials Science Division

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,

1/AF, BidhanNagar, Calcutta 700 064, INDIA.

Emails. milank.sanyal@saha.ac.in; milank.sanyal@bose.res.in; milank.sanyal@gmail.com

Telephone: +91 9874235010 (mobile) +913323214763 (Office) +913323374637 (Fax) +91333215453 (Residence)

Education and Career:

Ph.D. (Physics), University of Bombay, 1987
Scientific Officer, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Aug 1977- Feb1995
Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA 1989-1992
Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), July 2009-Jan 2014
Professor, SINP, February1995- January 2016
Emeritus Professor (J.C. Bose Fellow) SINP, February 2016 – Present
Emeritus Professor (Raja Ramanna Fellow) Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, May 2018 – Present
Adjunct Professor, International Centre for Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, April 2014 - Present
Co-Chairman, India-Japan Science Council 2014-Present .

Awards and Fellowships:

First prize in the Fifth Colloquium for Young Physicists (1987) Indian Physical Society.
N.S. Satya Murthy memorial Young Scientist awilank.sanyalard of the Indian Physics Association, 1987.
Medal of Material Research Society, India 2000 • Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (2001)
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2002) • Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India (2003).
J.C. Bose National Fellowship 2007 – 2022 • DAE Raja Ramanna Lecture in Physics 2008
Member, Indian National Science Academy Council (2010-2013)
Member, Science Advisory Committee of the Cabinet, Government of India (2009-2015)
CNR Rao Prize Lecture in Advanced Materials (2013)
President, Indian Physical Society (2009-2013)
President, Indian Physics Associations (2010-2013)
Fellow, The World Academy of Science (2016)
National Research Award, Nano Science and Technology, Government of India (2017)
Raja Ramanna Fellowship 2018 – Present

Outline of Research Career

Milan K. Sanyal (MKS) is an Emeritus Professor and a former Director of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP). He is also Emeritus Professor (Raja Ramanna Fellow) in Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences since May 2018 and an Adjunct Professor, International Centre for Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre. MKS joined SINP in February 1995 to initiate a research group in surface physics. Prof. Sanyal is a fellow of all three academies of sciences in India and has also received several awards and recognitions. He was/is Member of several important national committees and at present Co-Chairperson of India-Japan Science Council. Prof. Sanyal has made fundamental contributions to develop understanding of growth-mechanism and structure-property relationship of low-dimensional materials like quantum-dots, nanowires and multi-layered thin-films. He has developed experimental and theoretical techniques to extract structural information of confinement-induced ordering in low-dimensional materials using grazing incidence x-ray scattering techniques. MKS started his research career with studies on phase transitions in quasicrystalline materials and established possibility of having stable phase in this then-discovered system [Sanyal et al, Nature 328, 704 (1987)]. During his postdoctoral stay in Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA, MKS developed several data analysis formalism, based on Born approximation and distorted-wave Born approximation, to extract accurate information regarding the thickness, interfacial widths, electron density profiles and in-plane correlation in liquid-surface, ultra-thin films and multilayered structures from the reflectivity and diffuse x-ray scattering data obtained from a synchrotron source. His paper on liquid surface (Sanyal et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 628 (1991)) is one of the most cited paper in the field. MKS and his collaborators later used this x-ray scattering technique to monitor in-situ ordering process of nanomaterials produced at the liquid-liquid interface [Sanyal et al, J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 1739 (2008)]. The first application of the inversion scheme developed by MKS was to detect the signature of molecular layering as a function of depth in ultra-thin polymer films as the thickness approach the molecular size (radius of gyration) (Sanyal et al. Europhys. Lett. 36, 265, (1996)). MKS investigated anomalies in glass-transition temperature and thermal expansion in ultra-thin polymer films [Bhattacharya, Sanyal et al, Phys. Rev. E 71, 041801 (2005)]. Other interesting results were ion-beam induced nanoscale ripple formation on silicon surface [Chini, Sanyal and Bhattacharyya, Phys. Rev. B 66, 153404 (2002)] and formation of rectifier with individual gold nanoclusters in LB films [Pal, Sanyal et al, Phys. Rev. B 71, 121404(R) (2005)]. MKS and his PhD students have discovered charge density wave (CDW) state in conducting-polymer nanowires exhibiting switching transition to highly conducting state, which can also be controlled by light giving novel photo-response [Rahman and Sanyal, ACS Nano. 7, 7894 (2013)] - the CDW gap was found to be 3.5 meV [Sarma, Sanyal and Littlewood, Phys. Rev. B91, 165409 (2015)]. He has also developed new techniques to correlate structure and optical-properties of semiconductor quantum dots [Sharma, Sanyal et al, Phys. Rev. B 89, 205304 (2014) and Dey, Sanyal et al, Scientific Reports 8, 7514 (2018)]. MKS and his research group in SINP have worked extensively on structure and growth mechanism of metal-organic multilayered films deposited using Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) techniques. Results of a systematic study of in-plane morphology by x-ray diffuse scattering and by atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques were used to predict growth mechanism of these films and to obtain nano-structured semiconductor layers through chemical reaction at interfaces [Basu and Sanyal, Phys. Rep. 363, 1 (2002)]. MKS has used these well characterized LB films to probe two-dimensional (2D) physics, particularly melting [Mukhopadhyay, Sanyal et al, Phys. Rev. B 70, 245408 (2004)] and magnetic ordering [Gayen, Sanyal et al, Phys. Rev. B 82, 174429 (2010)].

List of Publications

1. Correlating Photoluminescence and Structural Properties of Uncapped and GaAs-Capped Epitaxial InGaAs Quantum Dots, A. B. Dey, M. K. Sanyal, I. Farrer, K. Perumal, D. A. Ritchie, Q. Li, J. Wu, V. Dravid, Scientific Reports 8, 7514 (2018).

2. Continuous Uptake or Saturation - Investigation of Concentration and Surface Packing-Specific Hemin Interaction with Lipid Membranes, R. P. Giri, M. K. Mukhopadhyay, U. Basak, A. Chakrabarti, M.K. Sanyal, B. Runge, B. Murphy, J. Phys. Chem B. 122, 7547 (2018).

3. Differential adsorption of a membrane skeletal protein, spectrin, in phospholipid membranes, R. P. Giri, M. K. Mukhopadhyay, M. Mitra, A. Chakrabarti, M. K. Sanyal, S. K. Ghosh, S. Bera, L. B. Lurio, Y. Ma and S. K. Sinha, EPL 118, 58002 (2017).

4. In-Situ GISAXS Study of Supramolecular Nanofibers having Ultrafast Humidity Sensitivity, A. Bhattacharyya, M. K. Sanyal, U. Mogera, S. J.George, M. K. Mukhopadhyay, S. Maiti and G.U. Kulkarni, Scientific Reports 7, 246 (2017).

5. Evidence of contact epitaxy in the self-assembly of HgSe nanocrystals formed at a liquid–liquid interface, S. Maiti, M. K. Sanyal, M. K. Jana, B. Runge, B. M. Murphy, K. Biswas and C. N. R. Rao, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 095101 (2017).

6. Neutron scattering study of the crystallographic and spin structure in antiferromagnetic EuZrO3, R. Saha, A. Sundaresan, M. K. Sanyal, C.N.R. Rao, F. Orlandi, P. Manuel and S. Langridge, Phys. Rev. B 93, 014409 (2016).

7. Density dependent composition of InAs quantum dots extracted from grazing incidence x-ray diffraction measurements, M. Sharma, M. K. Sanyal, I. Farrer, D.A. Ritchie, A. B. Dey, A. Bhattacharyya, O. H. Seeck, J. Skiba-Szymanska, M. Felle, A. J. Bennett and A. J. Shields, Scientific Reports, 5 15732 (2015).

8. Evidence of the charge-density wave state in polypyrrole nanotubes, A. Sarma, M. K. Sanyal and P. B. Littlewood, Phys. Rev. B 91, 165409 (2015).

9. Reversible monolayer-to-crystalline phase transition in amphiphilicsile-sesquioxane at the air-water interface, R. Banerjee, M. K. Sanyal, M. K. Bera, A. Gibaud, B. Lin and M. Meron, Scientific Reports, 5 8497 (2015).

10. Excitation power-independent photoluminescence of inverted quantum hut structures embedded in SiGesuperlattice, M. Sharma, M. K. Sanyal, A. Katiyar and S. K. Ray, Applied Physics A 119, 55 (2015) .

11. Bi-stable resistive switching in an array of Cu/CuxO/Au nanowires, S. Gayen, M.K. Sanyal, A. Sarma, B. Satpati, Applied Physics A 118, 119 (2015).

12. Anomalous x-ray scattering study of the growth of inverted quantum hut structures in a Si-Ge superlattice emitting strong photoluminescence, M. Sharma, M. K. Sanyal, B. Satpati, O. H. Seeck and S. K. Ray, Phys. Rev. B 89, 205304 (2014).

13. Tuning of colossal dielectric constant in gold-polypyrrole composite nanotubes using in-situ x-ray diffraction techniques, A. Sarma and M.K. Sanyal, AIP Advances 4, 097121 (2014).

14. Preface for the Theme Issue on “Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering, M.K. Sanyal, A. Gibaud, J. Wang, J. Appl. Phys. 116, 222101 (2014).

15. Asymmetric water diffusion driven nanotube actuator, A. Rahman, A. Sarma, S. Gayen and M. K. Sanyal, RSC Advances 4, 17573 (2014)

16. Relaxation of Ultrathin Polystyrene Films Hyperswollen in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, J. K. Bal, T. Beuvier, M. S. Chebil, G. Vignaud, Y. Grohens, M. K. Sanyal and A Gibaud, Macromolecules 47, 8738 (2014).

17. Concentration Mediated Structural Transition of Triblock Copolymer Ultrathin Films, J. K. Bal, M. Mukherjee, N. Delorme, M. K. Sanyal and A. Gibaud, Langmuir, 30 5808 (2014).

18. Core level photoemission studies on conducting polypyrrole polymer nanotubes showing switching transitions, I. Sarkar, A. Sarma, M. K. Sanyal, S. Thieß and W. Drube, J. Appl. Phys. 114, 163707 (2013).

19. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, S. K Sinha, M. K Sanyal, A. Gibaud, Science and Technology of Nanostructured Mag. Mat. 259, 145 (2013).

20. Formation of single-crystalline CuS at the organic–aqueous interface, S. Maiti, M. K. Sanyal, N. Varghese, B. Satpati, D. Dasgupta, J. Daillant, David Carriere, Oleg Konovolov and C N R Rao, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 25, 395401 (2013).

21. Correlated Charge Carrier-like Photoresponse of Polymer Nanowires, A. Rahman and M. K. Sanyal, ACS Nano 7, 7894 (2013).

22. Diameter-dependent coercivity of cobalt nanowires, S. Gayen, M. K. Sanyal, B. Satpati, A. Rahman, Appl Phys A 112, 775 (2013).

23. Hybrid nanotubes: Single step formation of homogeneous nanotubes of polypyrrole-gold composites and novel switching transition of resistance beyond liquid nitrogen temperature, A. Sarma, M.K. Sanyal, A. Rahman and B. Satpati, J. Appl Phys 112, 044304 (2012).

24. In-Situ X-ray Reflectivity Study of Polystyrene Ultrathin Films Swollen in Carbon Dioxide, M. Souheib Chebil, G. Vignaud, Y. Grohens, O. Konovalov, M. K. Sanyal, T. Beuvier and A. Gibaud, Macromolecules 45, 6611 (2012).

25. In Situ X-ray Reflectivity Study of Polystyrene Ultrathin Films Swollen in Carbon Dioxide, M.S. Chebil, G. Vignaud, Y. Grohens, O. Konovalov, M.K. Sanyal, T. Beuvier and A. Gibaud, Macromolecules, 45, 6611 (2012).

26. Exact compositional analysis of SiGe alloys by matrix effect compensated MCs+-SIMS, B. Saha, P. Chakraborty, H. Gnaser, M. Sharma and M. K. Sanyal, Appl Phys A 108, 671 (2012).

27. Structural re-ordering in monolayers of gold nanoparticles during transfer from water surface to solid substrate, R. Banerjee, M. K. Sanyal, M. K. Bera, A. Singh, J. Novak and O. Konovalov, Phys. Rev. E 83, 051605 (2011).

28. Structural and morphological characterization of MBE grown Si/Ge multilayer using X-ray scattering techniques, M. Sharma, M. K. Sanyal, M. Mukhopadhyay, M. K. Bera, B. Saha and P. Chakraborty, J. Appl Phys 110, 102204 (2011).

29. Polarized Neutron Reflectivity Study of Spin Vortices Formed in Gd-based Langmuir-Blodgett Films, S. Gayen, M. K. Sanyal, A. Sarma, M. Wolff, K. Zhernenkov and H. Zabel, Phys. Rev. B 82, 174429 (2010).

30. Small-angle x-ray scattering study of the aggregation of gold nanoparticles during formation at the toluene-water interface, M. K. Bera, M. K. Sanyal, L. Yang, K. Biswas, A. Gibaud and C. N. R. Rao, Phys. Rev. B 81, 115415 (2010).

31. Bias dependent crossover from variable range hopping to power-law characteristics in the resistivity of polymer nanowires, A. Rahman and M. K. Sanyal, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22, 175301 (2010).

32. Anomalous effect of biased oscillating field on the switching behaviour: Modulating friction of charge carriers in nanowires, A. Rahman and M. K. Sanyal, EPL 88, 47009 (2009).

33. Nanopattern formation in self-assembled monolayers of thiol-capped Au nanocrystals, R. Banerjee, S. Hazra, S. Banerjee and M. K. Sanyal, Phys. Rev. E 80, 056204 (2009).

34. Surface and interfacial structural characterization of MBE grown Si/Ge multilayers, B. Saha, M. Sharma, A. Sarma, A. Rath, P.V. Satyam, P. Chakraborty, M. K. Sanyal, Appl Surf Sci. 256, 547 (2009).

35. Negative capacitance in Wigner crystal forming polymer nanowires, A. Rahman and M.K. Sanyal, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 242102 (2009).

36. Suppression of Mn photoluminescence in ferromagnetic state of Mn-doped ZnS nanocrystals, I. Sarkar, M.K. Sanyal, S. Takeyama, S. Kar, H. Hirayama, H. Mino, F. Komori and S. Biswas, Phys. Rev. B 79, 054410 (2009).

37. The use of grazing incidence X-ray scattering techniques to probe chemical reactions at the liquid–liquid interface: the formation and ordering of gold nanoparticles, M. K. Sanyal, Journal of Materials Chemistry 19, 4300 (2009).

38. Gold Nanoparticles at the Liquid−Liquid Interface: X-ray Study and Monte Carlo Simulation, S. Kubowicz, M.A. Hartmann, J. Daillant, M.K. Sanyal, V.V. Agrawal, C. Blot, O. Konovalov and H. Mohwald, Langmuir 25, 952 (2008).

39. The tunable bistable and multistable memory effect in polymer nanowires, A. Rahman and M.K. Sanyal, Nanotechnology 19, 395203 (2008).

40. Effect of vibrations on the formation of gold nanoparticle aggregates at the toluene–water interface, M.K. Bera, M.K. Sanyal, R. Banerjee, K. Kalyanikutty and C.N.R. Rao, Chem. Phys. Lett. 461, 97 (2008).

41. Formation and ordering of gold nanoparticles at the toluene-water interface, M.K. Sanyal, V.V. Agrawal, M.K. Bera, K. Kalyanikutty, J. Daillant, C. Blot, S. Kubowicz, O. Konovalov and C.N.R. Rao, J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 1739 (2008).

42. Enhanced surface diffusion in forming ion-beam-induced nanopatterns on Si(001), R. Banerjee, S. Hazra and M.K. Sanyal, J. Phys. D 41, 055306 (2008).

43. Novel switching transition of resistance observed in conducting polymer nanowires, A. Rahman and M.K. Sanyal, Adv. Mater. 19, 3956 (2007).

44. Observation of charge density wave characteristics in conducting polymer nanowires: possibility of Wigner crystallization, A. Rahman, M.K. Sanyal, Phys. Rev. B 76, 045110 (2007).

45. Enhancement of electron–electron interactions in chemically synthesized polymer nanowires, A. Rahman, M.K. Sanyal, R. Gangopadhayy, A. De, Chem. Phys. Lett. 447, 268 (2007).

46. Reversible buckling in monolayer of gold nanoparticles on water surface, M.K. Bera, M.K. Sanyal, S. Pal, J. Daillant, A. Datta, G.U. Kulkarni, D. Luzet and O. Konovalov, Europhysics Lett (EPL). 78, 56003 (2007).

47. Ferromagnetism in zinc sulfide nanocrystals: Dependence on manganese concentration, I. Sarkar, M.K. Sanyal, S. Kar, S. Biswas, S. Banerjee, S. Chaudhuri, S. Takeyama, H. Mino and F. Komori, Phys. Rev. B 74, 224409 (2007).

48. Magnetic Interactions in Layered Nickel Alkanethiolates, N.S. John, G. U. Kulkarni, A. Datta, S.K. Pati, F. Komori, G. Kavitha, C. Narayana and M.K. Sanyal, J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 1868 (2007).

49. High-temperature induced nano-crystal formation in ion-beam-induced amorphous silicon ripples, J. Grenzer, A. Mucklich, S. Grigorian, U. Pietsch, D.P. Datta, T.K. Chini, S. Hazra and M.K. Sanyal, Phys. Stat. Solidi A 204, 2555 (2007).

50. Polarized neutron scattering and sub-Kelvin magnetization measurements in two-dimensional Gadolinium stearate Langmuir-Blodgett films, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, M.K. Sanyal, T. Sakakibara, V. Leiner, R.M. Dalgliesh and S. Langridge, Phys. Rev. B 74, 014402 (2006).

51. Growth of bimolecular films of three-tailed amphiphiles, S. Kundu, A. Datta, M.K. Sanyal, J. Daillant, D. Luzet, C. Blot and B. Struth, Phys. Rev. E 73, 061602 (2006).

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52. Evidence of a ratchet effect in nanowires of a conducting polymer, A. Rahman, M.K. Sanyal, R. Gangopadhayy, A. De and I. Das, Phys. Rev. B 73, 125313 (2006).

53. Low erosion behaviorof polystyrene films under erbium ion implantation, M. Bhattacharya, M.K. Sanyal, T.K. Chini and P. Chakraborty, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 071902 (2006).

54. Oxide circle formation at silicon–polymer interface, M. Bhattacharya, M.K. Sanyal, Appl. Surf. Sci. 252, 8301 (2006).

55. Two dimensional magnetic ordering in a multilayer structure, M. K. Mukhopadhyay, M. K., Sanyal, Pramana: Journal of Physics 67, 207 (2006).

56. Micro-structural anisotropy at the ion-induced rippled amorphous-crystalline interface of silicon, S. Grigorian, U. Pietsch, J. Grenzer, D.P. Datta, T.K. Chini, S. Hazra and M.K. Sanyal, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 231915 (2006).

57. Extracellular biosynthesis of magnetite using fungi, A. Bharde, D. Routaray, V. Bansal, A. Ahmad, I. Sarkar, S.M. Yusuf, M.K. Sanyal, M. Sastry, Small, 2, 135 (2006).

58. Molecular monolayers and thin films, M.K. Sanyal, Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics (Academic Press) edited by F. Bassani, G. L. Liedl and P. Wyder, Volume 4 page 14 (2005)

59. Two dimensional ferromagnetic ordering in a metal-organic multilayer structure, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, M.K. Sanyal, R.M. Dalgliesh and S. Langridge, International Journal of Nanoscience 4, 831 (2005)

60. Formation of a rectifier with gold nanoclusters: X-ray reflectivity and atomic force microscopy measurements, S. Pal, M.K. Sanyal, N.S. John, G.U. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 71, 121404(R) (2005).

61. Interplay between hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions for deciding the molecular orientation in Langmuir–Blodgett film deposition, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, J. Webster and J. Penfold, Chem. Phys. Lett. 407, 276 (2005).

62. Glass transition in ultra-thin polymer films : a thermal expansion study, M. Bhattacharya, M.K. Sanyal, Th. Geue and U. Pietsch, Phys. Rev. E 71, 041801 (2005)

63. Dramatic enhancement of capillary wave fluctuations of a decorated water surface, A. Datta, S. Kundu, M.K. Sanyal, J. Daillant, D. Luzet, C. Blot and B. Struth, Phys. Rev. E 71, 041604 (2005)

64. Transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional melting in Langmuir-Blodgett films, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, M. Mukherjee, Th. Geue, J. Grenzer and U. Pietsch, Phys. Rev. B 70, 245408 (2004).

65. Ripple structure of crystalline layers in ion-beam-induced Si wafers, S. Hazra, T.K. Chini, M.K. Sanyal, J. Grenzer and U. Pietsch; Phys. Rev. B 70, 121307(R) (2004).

66. Deposition of a metal-organic heterostructure to form magnetic-nonmagnetic bilayer films, S. Pal, N.S. John, P.J. Thomas, G.U. Kulkarni and M.K. Sanyal, J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 10770 (2004).

67. Morphology and transport properties of nanostructural gold on silicon, S. Pal, M.K. Sanyal, S. Hazra, S. Kundu, F. Schreiber, J. Pflaum, E. Barrena and H. Dosch, J. Appl. Phys. 95, 1430 (2004).

68. Energy dispersive x-ray reflectivity to study phase transitions in thin films, M. Bhattacharya, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, S. Pal and M.K. Sanyal, Rad. Phys. Chem. 70, 611 (2004).

69. The role of interfacial structures in magnetic multilayers, S. Kundu, S. Hazra, A. Datta, S. Banerjee and M.K. Sanyal, SERC Research Highlights p.178 (2003).

70. Multilayered Structures, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta and S. Hazra, in Materials Research: Current Scenario and Future Projections, Eds. R. Chidambaram and S. Banerje, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, p.600 (2003).

71. Energy dispersive x-ray reflectivity technique to study thermal properties of polymer films, M. Bhattacharya, M. Mukherjee, M. K. Sanyal, Th. Geue, J. Grenzer, and U. Pietsch, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 2882 (2003).

72. Field induced two-dimensional ferromagnetic ordering in a gadolinium stearate Langmuir-Blodgett film, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, .M.K. Sanyal, M.D. Mukadam, S.M. Yusuf and J.K. Basu, Phys. Rev. B 68, 174427 (2003).

73. Reversible negative thermal expansion of polymer films, M. Mukherjee, M. Bhattacharya, M.K. Sanyal, Th. Geue, J. Grenzer and U. Pietsch, Phys. Rev. E 66, 061801 (2002).

74. Morphology of nanostructured materials, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta and S. Hazra, Pure Appl. Chem. 74, 1553 (2002).

75. Energy dependent wavelength of the ion induced nanoscale ripple, T.K. Chini, M.K. Sanyal and S.R. Bhattacharyya, Phys. Rev. B 66, 153404 (2002).

76. Ordering and Growth of Langmuir-Blodgett films : X-ray Scattering Studies, J.K. Basu and M.K. Sanyal, Physics Reports 363, 1 (2002).

77. Role of molecular self-assembling in Langmuir-Blodgett film Growth, M.K. Sanyal, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, M. Mukherjee, A. Datta, J.K. Basu and J. Penfold, Phys. Rev. B65, 033409, (2002).

78. Evolution of surface morphology of ion sputtered GaAs(100) D. Datta, S.R. Bhattacharyya, T.K. Chini and M.K. Sanyal, Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 193, 596, (2002).

79. Nanostructuring with a high current isotope seperator and ion implanter, T.K. Chini, D. Datta, S.R. Bhattacharyya and M.K. Sanyal, Appl. Surf. Sci. 182, 313, (2001).

80. Scanning Probe Microscopy and X-ray Studies of Confined Metal Films,S. Hazra, S. Pal, S. Kundu and M.K. Sanyal, Appl. Surf. Sci. 182, 244, (2001).

81. Study of thin film multilayers using X-ray reflectivity and scanning probe microscopy, S. Banerjee, A. Datta and M.K. Sanyal, Vacuum 60, 371, (2001).

82. X-ray scattering and atomic force microscopy study of melting of Langmuir-Blodgett films, J.K. Basu, M.K. Sanyal, M. Mukherjee and S. Banerjee, Phys. Rev. B62, 11109, (2000).

83. Surface Physics at Saha Institute, S. Banerjee, S.R. Bhattacharyya, P. Chakraborty, A. Datta, D. Ghose, S. Kundu, and M.K. Sanyal, Current Science 78, 1507, (2000).

84. Interfacial diffusion in a double quantum-well structure, S. Sarkar, P. Chakraborty, M.K. Sanyal, F. Caccavale and B.M. Arora, Surf. Interface Anal. 29, 659, (2000).

85. Role of interfacial correlation in melting of Langmuir-Blodgett films, J.K. Basu, M.K. Sanyal, S. Banerjee and M. Mukherjee, Physica, B283, 6, (2000).

86. Microstructural characterization of TiAl thin films grown by DC magnetron co-sputtering technique, C. Padmaprabu, P. Kuppusami, A.L.E. Terrance, E. Mohandas, V.S. Raghunathan, S. Banerjee and M.K. Sanyal, Mat. Lett. 43, 106 (2000).

87. Growth mechanism of Langmuir-Blodgett films, J.K. Basu, S. Hazra and M.K. Sanyal, Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 4675 (1999). 88. Study of interdiffusion in thin Fe film deposited on Si(111) by x-ray reflectivity and secondary ion mass spectrometry, S. Banerjee, G. Raghavan and M.K. Sanyal, J. Applied Physics 85 , 7135 (1999).

89. Extraction of density profile for near perfect multilayers, M.K. Sanyal, S. Hazra, J.K. Basu and A. Datta, Phys. Rev., B58, R4258 (1998).

90. Liquid-like interfacial correlations in LB films, M.K. Sanyal, J.K. Basu and A. Datta, Physica, B248, 217 (1998).

91. Morphology of thin silver film grown by dc sputtering on Si(001), S. Kundu, S. Hazra, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Mandal, S. Chaudhuri and A.K. Pal, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 31, L73 (1998).

92. Anomalous X-ray reflectivity study of metal oxide thin films, S. Banerjee, Y.K. Park, D.R. Lee, Y.H. Jeong, K.-B. Lee, S.B. Yoon, H.M. Choi, J.-C. Park, J.S. Roh, M.K. Sanyal, Appl. Surf. Sci., 136, 41 (1998).

93. Interfacial profile of a Bragg Mirror, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, A.K. Srivastava, B.M. Arora, S. Banerjee, P. Chakraborty, F. Caccavale, O. Sakata and H. Hashizume, Appl. Surf. Sci., 133, 98 (1998).

94. X-ray reflectivity study of thin organic films, J.K. Basu, M.K. Sanyal and A. Datta, Radiat. Phys. Chem. 51, 541 (1998). ilank.sanyal 95. X-ray scattering studies of surfaces and interfaces, M.K. Sanyal, Radiat. Phys. Chem. 51, 487 (1998).

96. Capillary waves in Langmuir-Blodgett interfaces and formation of confined CdS layers, J.K. Basu and M.K. Sanyal, Phys. Rev. Lett., 79, 4617 (1997).

97. Formation of Highly Condensed Ferric Stearate Monolayers at Air-Water Interface, A. Datta, M.K. Sanyal, A. Dhanabalan and S.S. Major, J. Phys. Chem., 101, 9280 (1997).

98. X-ray reflectivity study of semiconductor interfaces, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, S. Banerjee, A.K. Srivastava, B.M. Arora, S. Kanakaraju and S. Mohan, J. Sync. Rad., 4, 185 (1997).

99. Structural models of quasicrystals: significance of positron annihilation studies, R. Chidambaram, M.K. Sanyal, P.M.G. Nambissan and P Sen, Prog. Crystal growth Char. Mat. 34, 207 (1997).

100. Determination of small fluctuations in electron density profiles of thin films : layer formation in polystyrene film, M.K. Sanyal, J.K. Basu, A. Datta and S. Banerjee, Europhys. Lett. 36, 265 (1996).

101. X-ray reflectivity study of Ge-Si-Ge films, S. Banerjee, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, S. Kanakaraju and S. Mohan, Phys. Rev., B54, 16377 (1996).

102. Off-specular X-ray Scattering Studies of the Morphology of Thin Films, S.K. Sinha, Y.P. Feng, C.A. Melendres, D.D. Lee, T.P. Russell, S.K. Satija, E.B. Sirota and M.K. Sanyal, Physica, A231, 99 (1996).

103. Anomalous dispersion X-ray reflectometry for model-independent determination of Al/C multilayer structures, T. Ohkawa, Y. Yamaguchi, O. Sakata, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, S. Banerjee and H. Hashizume, Physica, B221, 416 (1996).

104. A simulation study of multi-atom tips and estimation of resolution in Atomic Force Microscopy, S. Banerjee, M.K. Sanyal, A. Datta, Appl. Surf. Sci,. 99, 255 (1996).

105. Positron annihilation studies of quasicrystals, R. Chidambaram, M.K. Sanyal, P.M.G. Nambissan and P. Sen, Metals Materials Prog. 8, 45, (1996).

106. Simulated melting in an organic monolayer, S. Modak, A. Datta and M.K. Sanyal, Indian Journal of Physics, 69, 113 (2015).

107. Positron Annihilation Studies of Icosahedral and Decagonal Quasicrystalline Alloys, R. Chidambaram, M.K. Sanyal, P.M.G. Nambissan and P Sen, Materials Science Forum 175, 331 (2015).

108. Resonance magnetic x-ray scattering study of erbium, M.K. Sanyal, D. Gibbs, J. Bohr and M. Wulff, Phys. Rev., B49, 1079 (1994).

109. X-ray scattering studies of surface roughness of GaAs/AlAs multilayers, S.K. Sinha, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Satija, C.F. Majkrzak, D.A. Neumann, H. Homma, S. Szpala, A. Gibaud and H. Markoc, Physica, B198, 72 (1994).

110. Surface structure, M.K. Sanyal, Current Science 67, 880 (1994)

111. The effect of growth defects on the x-ray reflectivity of multilayer systems, Appl. Surf. Sci. 74, 315 (1994).

112. Fourier reconstruction of density profiles of thin films using anomalous x-ray reflectivity, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Sinha, A. Gibaud, K.G. Huang, B.L. Carvalho, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, X. Zhao and W. Zhao, Europhys. Lett., 21, 691, (1993). 113. Positron annihilation studies on Al-Cu-Fe :their significance for the structural models of icosahedral quasicrystals, R. Chidambaram, M.K. Sanyal, V.S. Raghunathan, P.M.G. Nambissan and P. Sen, Phys. Rev. B48, 3030 (1993).

114. Wetting properties of thin liquid polyethylene propylene films, W. Zhao, X. Zhao, M.H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, L.J. Fetters, R. Plano, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Sinha, B.B. Sauer, Phys. Rev. Lett., 70, 1453 (1993).

115. Diffuse x-ray scattering study of toluene and polybromostyrene PBrS / toluene solutions, W. Zhao, X. Zhao, J. Sokolov, M.H. Rafailovich, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Sinha, B.H. Cao, M.W. Kim, B.B. Sauer, J. Chem. Phys., 97, 8536 (1992).

116. X-ray scattering studies of multilayer interfaces, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Sinha, A. Gibaud, S.K. Satija, C.F. Majkrzak and H. Homma, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 237, 393 (1992).

117. X-ray scattering study of capillary wave fluctuation at a liquid surface, M.K. Sanyal, S.K. Sinha, K.G. Huang, B.M. Ocko, Phys. Rev. Lett., 66, 628 (1991).

118. A positron annihilation study of vacancy-type defects in Al-Cu-Fe quasicrystals, R. Chidambaram, M.K. Sanyal, P.M.G. Nambissan and P. Sen, J.Phys.: Cond. Matt. 2, 9941 (1990).

119. Annealing of vacancy type defects and crystallization of icosahedral Al-Mn-Si, R. Chidambaram, M.K. Sanyal, P.M.G. Nambissan and P. Sen, J.Phys.: Cond. Matt. 2, 251 (1990).

120. Crystallization and structural relaxation of quasicrystalline Al-Mn : a positron annihilation study, M.K. Sanyal, P.M.G. Nambissan, R. Chidambaram and P. Sen, J.Phys.: Cond. Matt.1, 3733 (1989).

121. On the perfect penrose tiling and its basic building blocks V.C. Sahni and M.K. Sanyal, Pramana, 32, L77 (1989).

122. Crystallization and structural relaxation in quasicrystalline Al6CuMg4, M.K. Sanyal, V.C. Sahni, G.K. Dey and S. Banerjee, Phase Transitions 16, 383 (1989).

123. X-ray structural study of crystalline and quasicrystalline Al6CuMg4, M.K. Sanyal, V.C. Sahni and R. Chidambaram, Solid State Commun. 66, 1043 (1988).

124. Evidence for endothermic quasicrystalline-crystalline phase transitions in Al6CuMg4 , M.K. Sanyal, V.C. Sahni and G.K. Dey, Nature 328, 704 (1987).

125. Phase transitions in quasicrystalline Al6CuMg4 , M.K. Sanyal, V.C. Sahni, G.K. Dey and Varshney, Phys. Rev. B 36, 2443 (1987).

126. Endothermic quasicrystalline-crystalline phase transitions in Al6CuMg4 , M.K. Sanyal, V.C. Sahni and G.K. Dey, Pramana 28, L709 (1987).

127. A microprocessor based energy dispersive x-ray diffractometer, M.K. Sanyal, V.C. Sahni. and G.P. Das, Anal. Instrum. 16, 281 (1987).