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Bipul Pal

Bipul Pal

Position
Professor
Location
Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
Room No: S-130 in Research Complex
    Email: bipul [at] iiserkol.ac.in
    Tel: 033 - 61360000 (1248)

Research group

Research areas

  • Exciton dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures, nonlinear optical phenomena in organic and inorganic materials

We use various linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopic techniques to study the optoelectronic properties of emerging materials.

  • B. Sc. (Physics), University of Kalyani, 1996 (University Topper)
  • M. Sc. (Physics), University of Kalyani, 1998 (University Topper)
  • Ph. D. (Physics), TIFR Mumbai, 2004 (Best Thesis Award)
  • Professor, IISER Kolkata (2018 onwards)
  • Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2012 - 2018)
  • Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2007 - 2012)
  • JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tsuluba, Japan (2005 - 2007)
  • INOUE Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tsuluba, Japan (2004 - 2005)
  • Research Scholar, TIFR Mumbai (1998 - 2004)
  • Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences from Indian Academy of Sciences (2008)
  • INSA Young Scientist Award from Indian National Science Academy (2009)
  • International guest professorship at the University of Goettingen, Germany (2012)
  1. Mondal, Richarj; Bansal, Bhavtosh; Mandal, Arjun; Chakrabarti, Subhananda; Pal, Bipul. "Pauli blocking dynamics in optically excited quantum dots: A picosecond excitation-correlation spectroscopic study." Physical Review B, 87, 115317 (2013).
  2. Bhattacharya, Rupak; Mondal, Richarj; Khatua, Pradip; Rudra, A.; Kapon, E.; Malzer, S.; Doehler, G.; Pal, Bipul, Bansal, Bhavtosh."Measurements of the electric field of zero-point optical phonons in GaAs quantum wells support the Urbach rule for zero-temperature lifetime broadening." Physical Review Letters, 114, 047402 (2015).
  3. Roy, Samrat; Mandal, Arnab; Raj R, Akshay; Bhattacharyya, Sayan; Pal, Bipul. "Thermal Nonlinear Refraction in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanostructure Colloids." J. Phys. Chem. C, 124, 15558 (2020).
  4. Roy, Samrat; Manna, Subhadip; Mitra, Chiranjib; and Pal, Bipul. "Photothermal Control of Helicity-Dependent Current in Epitaxial Sb2Te2Se Topological Insulator Thin-Films at Ambient Temperature." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 9909 (2022).
  5. Roy, Samrat; Nandi, Sujay Kumar; Haldar, Debasis; Pal, Bipul. "Effect of spatial folding of molecules on two-photon absorption and nonlinear refraction in foldamers". Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10, 8767 (2022).
  6. Mandal, Arnab; Roy, Samrat; Mondal, Anamika; Gupta, Shresth; Pal, Bipul; Bhattacharyya, Sayan. "Spacer Switched Two-Dimensional Tin Bromide Perovskites Leading to Ambient-Stable Near-Unity Photoluminescence Quantum Yield". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13, 9103 (2022).
SL NO Grant Title Sponsoring Agency Project Period
1 Linear and nonlinear optical study of Er-doped ZnO nanocrystals and thin films Indian National Science Academy (INSA) April, 2010 - March, 2013
2 Time resolved nonlinear optical spectroscopy in transition metal doped ZnO nanoparticles and thinfilms DST-SERB May, 2012 - May, 2015
3 Ultrafast and polarization-resolved optical study of the carrier, spin, and valley dynamics in two-dimensional layered materials and van der Waals heterostructures SERB February, 2023 - February, 2026
  • Member, DPS teaching Lab committee