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Suman Mandal

Suman Mandal

Position
Assistant Professor
Location
Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
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Research group

Research areas

  • Organic Electronics, Device Physics, Sensors and Detectors, Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Energy Harvesting Device.

  • Ph.D. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 2020.
  • M.Sc. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 2014
  • B.Sc. (Physics), The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India, 2012.
  • Assistant Professor, IISER-Kolkata (May 2026 - Present)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, United Kingdom (May 2025 - May 2026)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia (Dec 2021 – May 2025)
  • Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP), India (Sep 2021 – Dec 2021)
  • Research Assistant, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom, (Oct 2020 – Aug 2021)
  • SEAL of Excellence European Commission (Horizon Europe)
  • Best Poster Award, International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices: IWPSD 2023
  • ACS Oral Presentation Award 2020, VCAN 2020.
  • Institute Fellowship (during Ph.D.) at IIT Kharagpur
  • Inspire Fellowship (Department of Science & Technology)
  • CSIR-UGC, India, Junior Research Fellowship
  • Inspire Scholarship ((Department of Science & Technology)
  1. S. Mandal*, A. V. Marsh, H. Faber, T. Ghoshal, D. K. Goswami, L. Tsetseris, M. Heeney, T. D. Anthopoulos, A Robust Organic Hydrogen Sensor for Distributed Monitoring Applications, Nature Electronics 8, 343-352 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-025-01352-y.
  2. S. Mandal*, H. M. Mantilla, K. Loganathan, H. Faber, Abhinav Sharma, Murali Gedda, E. Yengel, D. K. Goswami, M. Heeney, T. D. Anthopoulos, Ultra‐Fast Moisture Sensor for Respiratory Cycle Monitoring and Non‐Contact Sensing Applications, Advance Materials 2414005 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202414005.
  3. A. A. Said, E. Aydin, E. Ugur, Z. Xu, C. Deger, B. Vishal, A. Vlk, P. Dally, B. K. Yildirim, R. Azmi, J. Liu, E. A. Jackson, H. M. Johnson, M. Gui, H. Richter, A. R. Pininti, H. Bristow, M. Babics, A. Razzaq, S. Mandal, T. G. Allen, T. D. Anthopoulos, M. Ledinský, I. Yavuz, B. P. Rand, S. De Wolf, Sublimed C60 for efficient and repeatable perovskite-based solar cells, Nature Communications 15, 708 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44974-0.
  4. L. Panagiotidis, F. Aniés, Y. Yu, M. Ghadiyali, H. Faber, Z. Bizak, Y. Kabri, P. Tzourmpakis, S. Mandal, L. Luo, T. Maksudov, M. I. Nugraha, H. F. Mazo‐Mantilla, P. Vanelle, J. Broggi, K. N Salama, U. Schwingenschlögl, M. Heeney, A. Shamim, T. D. Anthopoulos, n‐Type Polymer Radio Frequency Rectifiers Operating at 18.5 GHz, Advance Materials e22754 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202522754.
  5. S. Mandal*, Y. Hou, M. Wang, T. D. Anthopoulos, K. L. Choy, Surface Modification of Hetero-phase Nanoparticles for Low-Cost Solution-Processable High-k Dielectric Polymer Nanocomposites, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, 5, 7371-7379 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c19559.
  6. S. Mandal, A. Mandal, G. Jana, S. Mallik, S. Roy, A. Ghosh, P. K. Chattaraj, D. K. Goswami, Low operating voltage organic field-effect transistors with gelatin as a moisture-induced ionic dielectric layer: the issues of high carrier mobility, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, 19727–19736 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c01499
  7. S. Mandal, M. Banerjee, S. Roy, A. Mandal, A. Ghosh, B. Satpati, D. K. Goswami, Organic Field-Effect Transistor-Based Ultrafast, Flexible, Physiological-Temperature Sensors with Hexagonal Barium Titanate Nanocrystals in Amorphous Matrix as Sensing Material, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 4193-4202 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b19051.
  8. A. Sharma, W. S. AlGhamdi, H. Faber, Y. H. Lin, C. H. Liu, E. K. Hsu, W. Z. Lin, D. Naphade, S. Mandal, M. Heeney, T. D. Anthopoulos, Non-invasive, ultrasensitive detection of glucose in saliva using metal oxide transistors, Biosensors Bioelectronics 237, 115448, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2023.115448
  9. S. Mandal, M. Banerjee, S. Roy, A. Mandal, A. Ghosh, B. Satpati, D. K. Goswami, Organic Field-Effect Transistor-Based Ultrafast, Flexible, Physiological-Temperature Sensors with Hexagonal Barium Titanate Nanocrystals in Amorphous Matrix as Sensing Material, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 4193-4202 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b19051.
  10. S. Mandal, S. Roy, A. Mandal, T. Ghoshal, G. Das, A. Singh and D. K. Goswami, Protein-Based Flexible Moisture-Induced Energy-Harvesting Devices As Self-Biased Electronic Sensors, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2, 780-789 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.9b00842.