Spectroscopy and Analytical Techniques

Biography

Purushottam Chakraborty is a senior professor at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India and an honorary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research interests range from ‘ion beam analysis of materials’ to ‘x-uv optics and photonics’. He worked at many renowned centres like FOM – Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Padova University, ICTP, Laval University, Osaka Electro-communication University, etc. He has published more than 125 papers including reviews and book-chapters. He has been awarded the ‘most eminent mass spectrometrist of India’ and is one of the world leaders in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS).

Research Interest

Atomic Collisions in Solids, Inelastic ion‐surface collisions,   Secondary ion mass Spectrometry (SIMS), Ion beam   analysis of surfaces and interfaces, ion beam modification   of materials, X‐UV optics, Nonlinear Optics and Photonics, Low‐dimensional materials and nanostructures