Dr. Samar Jana

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

• Former Head of the Department, 2015-2017
• Member, Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Facility, 2016-till date

Academic Qualifications

• M.Sc (Physics, First Class, Rank Second): Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (1992).
• Ph.D (Science): (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta), University of Calcutta, (1999).

Awards and Honors 

• “Best Thesis Award” for the year 1998-1999, awarded by the Indian Physics Association.
• “National Scholarship” during 1983-1988, awarded by the Government of India.
• “Subhasini Sarkar Scholarship” for the year 1983, awarded by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.

Contact

Phone

1. Office: +9133 2668 4561 to 63 (Ext. 426/453)
2. Mobile: +91 94334 28035, +91 98368 80068

Address

1. E-mail: samarjana@physics.iiests.ac.in, samarjana@yahoo.com
2. Residence: Flat 2B, 50 Lakshmi Narayan Tala Road, Botanic Garden, Howrah 711103, West Bengal, India
3. Webpage: (i) https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=9fTH7DsAAAAJ (ii) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7112-2676

Area of Research

• Spectroscopic characterization of Laser and Luminescent materials
• Development of rare earth optical materials for efficient Solid State Lighting device application
• Photoluminescence, Fluorescence, Phosphorescence etc. in rare earth doped glasses and phosphors
• Optical properties of rare earth Nano-materials

Courses Undertaken

U.G (B.Tech)

• Physics
• Materials Science
• Laboratory

P.G (M.Sc)

• Electromagnetic Theory
• Solid State Physics
• Material Physics (Special Paper: Physics of Laser and its applications, Dielectric and Optical properties of materials)
• General Laboratory
• Special Laboratory
• Advanced Laboratory

Ph.D

• Advanced Spectroscopy of rare earth Laser and Luminescent Materials

Research Guidance

M.Sc Project:  36

Ph.D Thesis: 6

1. Subrata Mitra (Ph.D Awarded, 2015)
2. Subhash Sharma (DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, SRF)
3. Mithun De (UGC-NET Fellowship, SRF)
4. Sourav Ghosh (Institute Fellowship, SRF)
5. Ashoke Maity (DST-SERB Project Fellowship, SRF)
6. Joydeb Biswas (Institute Fellowship, JRF)

Project: (ongoing) 

DST-SERB, Govt. of India, (Amount: Rs. 28.11 Lakhs): "Characteristics of light emission in Eu3+ doped Zinc Phosphate glass matrices".

Recent Publications 

Journal: 

1. Subhash Sharma, Samar Jana and Subrata Mitra, "Spectroscopic and structural properties of 1 mol% Tb³⁺ doped 2% B₂O₃ + 5% ZnO + 30% PbO + 62% P₂O₅ glass for green laser application", Ceramics International (In press, 2019). (Elsevier)
2. Mithun De, Subhash Sharma and Samar Jana, "Enhancement of ⁵D₀→⁷F₂ red emission of Eu³⁺ incorporated in lead sodium phosphate glass matrix", Physica B: Condensed Matter, Volume 556, Page 131-135, (2019). (Elsevier)
3. Subhash Sharma, Mithun De and Samar Jana, "Terbium doped sodium phosphate glass: A strong green emitting glass", Optik- International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Volume 154, Page 576-580, (2018). (Elsevier)
4. Subrata Mitra and Samar Jana, “Intense orange emission in Pr3+ doped lead phosphate glass”, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 85, Page 245-253, (2015). (Elsevier)
5. Subrata Mitra and Samar Jana, “Absorption and luminescence of PrCl3 in methanol, iso-propanol and butanol solvents”, Optik- International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Volume 126, Page 4037-4041, (2015). (Elsevier)
6. Subrata Mitra and Samar Jana, “Properties of the energy bands, Judd-Ofelt parameters and the fluorescence of neodymium chloride (NdCl3) in methanol, iso-propanol and butanol solvents”, Journal of Fluorescence , Volume 25, Page 541-549, (2015). (Springer)
7. Samar Jana and Subrata Mitra, “Characteristics of the energy bands and the spectroscopic parameters of Pr3+ ions in PrCl3 mixed methanol, iso-propanol and butanol solutions”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Volume 83, Page 52-55, (2011). (Elsevier)
8. Samar Jana and Subrata Mitra, “Spectroscopic study of Pr3+ ions in CdCl2 solution”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 457, Page 477-479, (2008). (Elsevier)
9. Samar Jana and R. K. Mukherjee, “Zeeman spectroscopy of Nd3+ ions in CsCdCl3 crystal”, Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 320, Page 289-294, (2000). (Elsevier)
10. Samar Jana and R. K. Mukherjee, “Absorption spectroscopy of Eu3+ ions in CsCdCl3 crystals: an evidence of nonequivalent sites”, Solid State Communications, Volume 116, Page 581-584, (2000). (Elsevier).
11. Samar Jana and R. K. Mukherjee, “Generation and Measurement of Pulsed High Magnetic Field”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 214, Page 234-242, (2000). (Elsevier)

12. Samar Jana and R. K. Mukherjee, "Absorption spectroscopy of R³⁺ (R=Pr, Nd) ion pairs in CsCdCl₃", Physical Review B, Volume 57, Page 3356-3364, (1998). (American Physical Society)

Conference:

1. Samar Jana, Sourav Ghosh, Subhash Sharma, and Ashoke Maity,  “Optical characteristics of Tb³⁺- Eu³⁺ codoped sodium zinc lead phosphate glass”, International Conference on Complex and Functional Materials (ICCFM-2018), at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India, Page 298, (13^th -16^th  December, 2018).

2. Subhash Sharma and Samar Jana, “Photoluminescence study on 1 mole% Tb³⁺ doped 5% ZnO + 5% B₂O₃ + 30% PbO + 59% P₂O₅ glass”, International Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials (ICPCM–2018), at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India, Page 56, (6th -8th December, 2018).

3. Ashoke Maity, Samar Jana, Sourav Ghosh, et al., “Spectroscopic properties of Europium doped strontium zinc lead phosphate glass”, International Conference on Processing and Characterization of Materials (ICPCM–2018), at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India, Page 56, (6th -8th December, 2018).

4. Subhash Sharma, Mithun De and Samar Jana, “Spectroscopic characteristics of Terbium doped Sodium Phosphate glass”, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials and Manufacturing  Engineering, at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India, Page 157, (10-12^th March, 2017).

5. Mithun De, Subhash Sharma and Samar Jana, “Absorption and emission properties of Europium embedded Lead Sodium Phosphate glass”,  International Conference on Emerging Trends in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India, Page 155, (10-12^th March, 2017).

6. Subrata Mitra and Samar Jana, “Energy bands, oscillator strengths and fluorescence of PrCl3 in methanol”, Abstracts of 5th International Conference on Luminescence and its Applications (ICLA-2015), at PES University, Bangalore, India, (9-12 February, 2015).

7. Samar Jana and Subrata Mitra, “Optical absorption and emission properties of Pr3+-doped 0.55PbO-0.45P2O5 glass”, Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Luminescence (ICL’11), at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Page 48 (WP234), (26 June - 1 July, 2011).

8. Samar Jana and R.K. Mukherjee, "Optical behaviour of some trivalent rare earth doped CsCdCl₃ crystals under pulsed high magnetic field", Abstracts of the 4^th International Conference on f–elements, (ICFE’4), at Madrid, Spain, Page J09, (September, 2000).

9. Samar Jana, "Spectral Characteristics of Trivalent Rare Earth Ions doped in CsCdCl₃ crystals", Abstracts of the DAE-BRNS Symposium on Spectroscopy of Lanthanides and Actinides, at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India, Page 127-128, (November, 1999).

10. Samar Jana, "Absorption and Zeeman spectroscopy of some rare earth ions in CsCdCl₃ crystals", Abstracts of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Solid State Physics Symposium, at Haryana, India, (December, 1998).

11. Samar Jana and R. K. Mukherjee, "Spectra of trivalent Neodymium in Cesium Cadmium Trichloride single crystals at a temperature of 10K", Abstracts of the Fifteenth National Symposium on Cryogenics, at National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, Page 106, (September, 1996).

12. Samar Jana and R. K. Mukherjee, "Generation of high magnetic field (pulsed) for Zeeman study in crystals at low temperature", Abstracts of the Fourteenth National Symposium on Cryogenics, at Aurangabad, India, Page 5.11, (May, 1995).