Educational Background:
BTech, IIT Kharagpur
Ph.D, IISc Bangalore
Post Doc, Mainz Germany
Professional Background:
Scientific Officer SD, I.G.C.A.R. Kalpakkam, Oct. 1994- Aug. 1996
Scientific Officer E, I.G.C.A.R. Kalpakkam, Sept. 1996- June 2000
Reader, S.N.B.N.C.B.S. Kolkata July 2000 --June 2006
Associate Professor, S.N.B.N.C.B.S. Kolkata July 2006 --Present
Important awards and fellowship of academies:
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
Main area of work
Micro-structure selection in solids
Driven phases and non-equilibrium phase transitions
Colloids in external fields
Mechanical properties of small sized objects
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- Properties of solids in low dimensions and in confinement
- Commensurate in commensurate transitions
- Statics and dynamics of interfaces
Significant recent publications:
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K.
Zahn, A. Wille, G. Maret, S. Sengupta, P. Nielaba, Elastic properties
of 2D colloidal crystals from video microscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90,
155506 (2003).
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M. Rao and S. Sengupta, Nucleation of Solids in Solids: Ferrites and Martensites, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 045502 (2003).
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Debasish
Chaudhuri and Surajit Sengupta, Constrained deformation of a confined
solid: Anomalous failure by nucleation of smectic bands, Phys. Rev.
Lett., 93, 115702 (2004).
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A.
Chaudhuri, S. Sengupta and Madan Rao, Stress relaxation in a perfect
nanocrystal by coherent ejection of lattice layers, Phys. Rev. Lett.,
95, 266103 (2005).
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A. Sengupta, S. Sengupta and G. I. Menon, Driven Disordered Periodic
Media with an Underlying Structural Phase Transition, Phys. Rev. B 75,
180201(R) (2007).
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