Syed Minhaz Hossain

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Academic Qualifications

• Ph,D , Jadavpur University -2002
• M.Sc. (Physics), Jadavpur University-1996
• B.Sc (Physics), Jadavpur University-1994

   Experience

• Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, SUNY @ Buffalo, NY, (2012-2013)
•  KR fellow, Awarded by the American Physical Soceity (2012)
• BOYSCAST fellow, Awarded by the DST, Govt. of India (2007) @ Dipartimento di Fisica, UniversitaDegliStudi di Trento, Italia
• Research Associate (CSIR) at IC Design and Fabrication Center, Dept. of ETCE, Jadavpur University.

Contact

Phone

1. Phone Number Extension:426
2. Mobile: 9830546483

Address

1. Email ID ( Institutional ):shminhaz@physics.iiests.ac.in

   Email ID ( Others, Optional ):shminhaz@gmail.com

Area of Research

• Low dimensional solid state physics
• Photonics and Photovoltaics in nano scale.
• Electronic, optoelectronic and sensing applications of Nanostructured Silicon
• Physics Education Research

Courses Undertaken

  UG Courses

1. Mathematical Physics
2. Electrodynamics
3. Special Relativity
4. Quantum Mechanics
5. Laser/optics
6. Waves and Oscillations

  PG Courses

       Theoretical courses

1. Solid State Physics-I
2. Classical Mechanics
3. Statistical Mechanics
4. Basic Electronics
5. Materials Physics-II
6. Computational Physics ( Departmental Elective)
7. Basics and Applications of Quantum Mechanics (Open Elective)

       Laboratory Courses

1. General Laboratory-I
2. Basic Electronics Laboratory-I
3. Special Laboratory (Solid State Physics)
4. Advanced Laboratory

Ph.D Course Work

1. Physics and Applications of Nanoscopic Solids

Recent Journal Publications (Last 10)

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1. Mechanochemical synthesis of quasi monodispersed core-shell silicon nanostructure S Biswas, A Nandi, S Mukhopadhyay, P Chaudhuri, H Saha, SM Hossain, Applied Surface Science Applied Surface Science 494,326-334(2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.07.071

2. Outstanding Room-Temperature Hydrogen Gas Detection by Plasma-Assisted and Graphene-Functionalized Core–Shell Assembly of SnO₂ Nanoburflower, A Nandi, P Nag, D Panda, S Dhar, SM Hossain, H Saha, S Majumdar, ACS Omega 4 (6), 11053-11065 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01372

3. Performance Enhancement of Solar Cell by Incorporating Bilayer RGO‐ITO Smart Conducting Antireflection Coating A Nandi, S Dhar, S Majumdar, H Saha, SM Hossain Global Challenges, 1800109 (2019)  https://doi.org/10.1002/gch2.201800109

4. "Capillary rise of water: Impact of submerged portion of capillary tube"   Subhasis Maity, , Pradipta Panchadhyayee, Binoy Das,  Syed M Hossain, Physics Education 54(3) (2019)035005, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/ab00af/meta

5. "One-pot Synthesis of Gel Glass Embedded with Luminescent Silicon Nanoparticles" Bhaskar Das Minhaz Hossain, Ashit Pramanick, Arjun Dey, , Mallar Ray, ACS applied materials and interfaces  11(2) 2507-2515 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b17604

6. Application of hybrid rGO-ITO bilayer TCO on a-Si solar cell for performance enhancement, Anupam Nandi, Sourav Mandal, Sugato Ghosh, Sukanta Dhar, Sanhita Majumdar, Hiranmay Saha and Syed Minhaz Hossain, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 9(1) 12-17 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2873707

7. “Trap-assisted Switching in Silicon Nanocrystal based p-i-n Device”, Sudipta Chakrabarty, Sourav Mandal, Susmita Biswas, Ashit Kumar Pramanick, Mallar Ray, Syed,Minhaz Hossain, IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability 18(4),620-627,(2018). https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2018.2878466

8. Multi-parametric Optical Glucose Sensor based on Surface Functionalized nano-Porous Silicon, D. Basu, T. Sarkar, K. Sen, S.M. Hossain, J. Das, IEEE Sensors Journal, 18 (24), 9940-9947 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2872846.

9.  “Development of Graphene Capped Silicon-Silicon oxide Core-Shell Nano-structure: Charge trapping characteristics at the Interfaces”, Anupam Nandi, Susmita Biswas, Sudipta Chakrabarty, Sanhita Majumdar, Hiranmay Saha, Mahesh Saini and Syed Minhaz Hossain, Applied Materials Today.13 (2018),370-380, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2018.10.006

10.  Effect of phonon confinement on photoluminescence from colloidal silicon nanostructure, U. Ghanta, M. Ray, S. Biswas, S. Sardar, T. K. Maji, S. K. Pal, N. R. Bandyopadhyay,  B. Liu and S. M. Hossain, Journal of Luminescence  201, 338-344(2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2018.04.052