Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Dr. Soumen Karmakar
Assistant Professor, Physics
M.Sc, Ph.D
Contact Address
Permanent Address Malanchapally, Englishbazar, Malda-732101, West Bengal.
Local Address Simaria, Jasidih-814142, Deoghar, Jharkhand Phone: 7908058061
Phone (Office)
Phone Residence
Email Id skarmakar@bitmesra.ac.in
Joined Institute on : 23-Apr-2009

  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 14 Years

Research : 19 Years

  Professional Background
  1. Assistant Professor at BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar (March 2010 onwards)
  2. Lecturer at BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar (April 2009 to Feb 2010)
  3. Boys’ Hostel Warden at BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar (Sept. 2012 to Jan 2019)
  4. Faculty Advisor to Literary Society at BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar (July 2011 onwards)
  5. In-Charge, Institute Canteen at BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar (2012 onwards)
  6. SRF at L&PTD, BARC, Mumbai and Department of Physics, University of Pune with fellowship from BARC, Mumbai (Jan 2007 to Jan 2009)
  7. JRF at L&PTD, BARC, Mumbai and Department of Physics, University of Pune with fellowship from BARC, Mumbai (Jan 2005 to Jan 2007)
  8. JRF at the Department of Physics, University of Pune with fellowship from BRNS, DAE, Govt. of India (Dec. 2003 to Jan 2005)

Individual Experience :

  1. Hand on experience in (a) Field Emission Microscopy, (b) Ultra-high vacuum system operation, (c) Thermal plasma reactor designing and operation
  1. Successfully completed the 5-day FDP on the theme “Inculcating Universal Human Values in Technical Education” organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) from 14 June, 2021 to 18 June, 2021.
  1. Has undergone Innovation Ambassador training (Foundation Level) conducted by MoE's Innovation Cell & AICTE during the period from 30th June - 30th July 2021.
  1. Acted as the Convener in organizing the National Conference on Improvised Plasma Technologies for Nanomaterials Processing and Applications (NCIPT-2016) held during 25-26 Feb. 2016 at BIT Mesra, Off-Campus Deoghar, and sponsored by JCST (Department of Higher and Technical Education), Ranchi, Jharkhand.
  1. Delivered an Invited Talk entitled “Phenomenological perspectives of formation of few-layer graphene in carbon arcs” during the National Symposium on Emerging Plasma Techniques for Materials Processing and Industrial Applications (N-SEPMI 2014) held at the Dept. of Physics, University of Pune during 13-15 Feb 2014.
  1. Successfully completed UGC Sponsored Orientation Programme at Ranchi University,Ranchi from 16/05/2016 to 12/06/2016.
  Research Areas
 

Experimental Plasma Physics, Nanotechnology and Materials Science

 

  Award and Honours
 
  1. Buti Young Scientist Award conferred by the Plasma Science Society (PSSI) of India in recognition of pathbreaking research in carbon arc plasma assisted synthesis of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene (2008)
  1. Best Paper Award in 2nd DAE-BRNS International Symposium on Materials Chemistry for the contribution in Materials Chemistry (2008)
  1. Best Oral Presentation Award conferred by the Indian Physics Association (Pune Chapter) for the best paper presentation at the Raman Memorial Conference (2007)
  1. Dr. M. R. Bhide Prize conferred by the Indian Physics Association (Pune Chapter) for the paper having potential for industrialization (2007)
  1. Dr. R. K. Bhalla Award conferred by the Indian Physics Association (Pune Chapter) for being the Best Research Scholar in Physics in UoP (2007)
  1. National Scholar Book Grant by the Dept. of Physics, University of Pune, INDIA for being among the top 10 Indian Nationals in the merit list at the M.Sc. entrance level (2001)
  1. ‘Best Student as per Moral Excellence’ Awarded by the Ramkrishna Mission Vivekanada Vidyamandir, Malda, WB, INDIA (1995)
  Publications
 

(A) International Journal Publication (SCI: 21, SCOPUS: 03)

  1. Dutta, M. K., Sarkar, R. K., & Karmakar, S. (2021) Fabrication and characterization of CdS-Cu2S thin film heterojunction diode using chemical bath deposition technique (2021) Bulgarian Chemical Communications 53 158
  2. Karmakar, S. Selective synthesis of DC carbon arc-generated carbon nanotube and layered-graphene and the associated mechanism (2020) Nanotechnology 32(10), 105602
  3. Srivastava, R., Chattopadhyay, J., Patel, R., Agrawal, S., Nouseen, S., Kumar, S., & Karmakar, S. Highly efficient ternary hierarchical NiV2S4 nanosphere as hydrogen evolving electrocatalyst (2020) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45(41), 21308-21318
  4. Maurya, J. C., Karmakar, S., Barve, S., Bhoraskar, S. V., Das, A. K., & Mathe, V. L. (2014, April). Assessing the purity of CNT from its composite with polymer-A new approach (2014) AIP Conf. Proc.1591 534
  5. Karmakar, S., Nawale, A. B., Kanhe, N. S., Sathe, V. G., Mathe, V. L., & Bhoraskar, S. V. Tailored conversion of synthetic graphite into rotationally misoriented few-layer graphene by cold thermal shock driven controlled failure (2014) Carbon 67 534-545
  6. Karmakar S, Nawale AB, Lalla NP, Sathe VG, Kolekar SK, Mathe VL, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Gas phase condensation of few-layer graphene with rotational stacking faults in an electric arc (2013) Carbon 55 209
  7. Shinde M, Patil R, Karmakar S, Bhoraskar SV, Rane S, Gade W and Amalnerkar D Antimicrobial Properties of Uncapped Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by DC Arc Thermal Plasma Technique (2012) J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 12 887
  8. Kulkarni NV, karmakar S, Asthana SN, Nawale AB, Shaikh A, Patole S, Woo JB, Mathe VL, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Study on growth of hollow nanoparticles of alumina (2011) J. Nanoparticle Res. 46 2212
  9. Nawale AB, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Das AK, Bhoraskar SV and Mathe VL Phase controlled structure formation of the nanocrystalline zirconia using thermal plasma technique (2010) J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 208 012121
  10. Banerjee I, Joshi NK, Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Sahasrabudhe SN, Mahapata SK, Barhai PK, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK Effect of ambient pressure on the axial behavior Ar-H2 transferred thermal arc-plasma column (2010) IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 38 982
  11. Shinde MD, Power AU, Karmakar S, Seth T, Raut VB, Rane S, Das AK, Bhoraskar SV and Amalnerkar DP Synthesis of uncapped silver nanoparticles using DC arc plasma technique: effect of change in plasma gas on morphological properties (2010) Int. J. Nanotechnol. 7 1110
  12. Banerjee I, Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Nawale AB, Mathe VL, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Effect of ambient pressure on the crystalline phase of nano TiO2 particles synthesized by dc thermal transferred arc plasma reactor (2010) J. Nanoparticle Res. 12 581-90
  13. Banerjee I, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Mathe VL, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK Optical emission spectroscopic study during the evaporation of Aluminum in the thermal plasma reactor (2010) Plasma Sci. Tech. 12 27-30
  14. Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Nawale AB, Lalla NP, Mishra R, Sathe VG, Bhoraskar SB and Das AK A novel approach towards bulk synthesis of few layer graphenes in an electric arc (2009) J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 42 11201
  15. Late DJ, Karmakar S, More MA, Bhoraskar SV and Joag DS Arc plasma synthesized LaB6 nanocrystallite film on various substrates as a field emitter J. Nanoparticle Res. 12 2393-2403
  16. Shinde MD, Power A, Karmakar S, Seth T, Raut V, Rane S, Bhoraskar SV and Amalnerkar D Uncapped silver nanoparticles synthesized by DC arc thermal plasma technique for conductor paste formulation (2009) J. Nanoparticle Res. 11 2043-7
  17. Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Banerjee I, Sahasrabudhe SN, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Growth of nanoparticles of Al2O3, AlN and iron oxide with different crystalline phases in a thermal plasma reactor (2008) Mat. Res. Bull. 44 581-8
  18. Das AK, Bhoraskar SV, Kakati M and Karmakar S Arc Plasma Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials: Techniques and Innovations (2008) AIP Conf. Proc. 1063 159
  19. Karmakar S, kulkarni NV, Sathe VG, Shrivastava AK, Shinde M, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK A new approach towards improving the quality and yield of arc-generated carbon nanotubes (2007) J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 4829
  20.  Nagar H, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Sahu B, Banerjee I, Chaudhari PS, Pasricha R, Das AK, Bhoraskar SV, Date SK and Keune W Mössbauer spectroscopic investigations of nano-phase iron oxides synthesized by thermal plasma route (2008) Mat. Charac. 39 1215
  21. Karmakar S, Nagar H, Pasricha R, Seth T, Sathe VG, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK Effect of a focusing electric field on the formation of arc generated carbon nanotubes (2006) Nanotechnology 17 5896
  22. Banerjee I, Joshi NK, Sahasrabudhe S, Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Ghorui SK, Tak AK, Murthy PSS, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK In situ studies of emission characteristics of the DC thermal arc plasma column during synthesis of nano AlN particles (2006) IEEE Trans. Plas. Sci.  34 2611
  23. Ghorui SK, Sahasrabudhe SN, Joshi NK, Tak AK, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Banerjee I, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK Role of Arc Stability in Nanosynthesis (2006) IEEE Trans. Plas. Sci. 34 121
  24. Banerjee I, Joshi NK, Sahasrabudhe SN, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Ghorui S,  Tak AK, Murthy PSS, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK  In situ optical emission spectroscopic investigations during arc-plasma synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles by thermal plasma (2006) IEEE Trans. Plas. Sci. 34 1175

(B) International Conference Proceedings

  1. Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Ashok AB, Lalla NP, Mishra R, Sathe VG, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK 2008 Synthesis and characterization of multi-layer graphene sheet in a magnetic field assisted arc Proc. of 2nd DAE-BRNS Sym. Mater. Chem. p278
  2. Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Sathe VG, Srivastava AK, Kulkarni SD, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK Effect of focusing electric field on the process efficiency of electric arc derived carbon nanotubes International Conference on Lasers and Nanomaterials, Nov 30-Dec 2, 2006, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
  3. Nagar H, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Banarjee I, Chaudhari P, Date SK, Bhoraskar SV, Pasricha R, Das AK, Sahoo B and Keune W Structural and Mössbauer Spectroscopic investigations of Nanophase Iron Oxides Synthesized by Thermal Plasma Route CSIEE 2006 (Poster presentation)
  4. Purohit V, Shinde M, Dey S, Karmakar S, R Pasricha AB Mandale, T Seth, CV Dharmadhikari and SV Bhoraskar Novel method for synthesis of Zinc nanothreads by Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma 8th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, IISC Bangalore, India, Technical Digest p 103
  5. Late DJ, More MA, Misra P, Singh BN, Karmakar S, Lureja LM, Bhoraskar SV and Joag DS Synthesis and characterization of Nanocrystalline LaB6 and its field electron emission characteristics 8th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, IISC Banglore, India, Technical Digest p 256
  6. Shinde M, Pawar A, Karmakar S, Rane S, Seth T, Raut V, Bhoraskar SV and Amanlerkar D Synthesis of nanoparticles of silver using DC arc thermal plasma: Study of change in plasma gases on morphological properties of nanoparticles. International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Nanoechnology (ICBENT) -2008 held at Dr. D. Y. Patil University, Kolhapur, India during 21-23 Oct. 2008. (Received First prize for oral presentation)

(C) National Conference Proceedings

  1. Karmakar S, Nagar H, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Effects of Filler-Purity and Alignment in Polystyrene-MWNT Nano-Composites on their Percolative Electrical Transport Properties Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences, held during 18-19th Feb 2012 at BIT Mesra, Extension Centre Deoghar.
  2. Karmakar S et al Study of generation and properties of electric-arc synthesized carbon nanotubes Proc. Plasma 2008
  3. Karmakar S et al Selective bulk synthesis of few layer graphene sheets in an electric arc Proc. Plasma 2008
  4. Karmakar S, Nagar H, Jog JP, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK AC Conductivity Measurement of Polymer Composites as a Promising Tool to Characterized Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes 2008 Proceedings of the 52nd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium p 355  
  5. Nawale A, Karmakar S, Kulkarni NV, Das AK, Bhoraskar SV and Mathe VL Synthesis of Nanocrystalline ZrO2 by Transferred Arc Thermal Plasma Route 2008 Proceedings of the 52nd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium p 353  
  6. Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Banerjee I, Sahasrabuddhe SN, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Synthesis of nanophase metal oxides by gas phase condensation 2004 Proceedings of the 49th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium p 225   
  7. Shinde MD, Rana AS, Seth T, Raut VB, Amalnerkar DP, Banerjee I, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Bhoraskar SV and Das AK Study of AlN nanoparticles synthesized by Transferred arc thermal plasma reactor Paper presented at the National Nanotechnology Conference (Nano-2005) Organized at AMITY Institute of Nanotechnology, New Delhi, held during the 27-28 May 2005
  8. Shinde MD, Seth T, Raut VB, Amalnerkar DP, Banerjee I, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Das AK, Bhoraskar SV Silver nanopowders Synthesized by Transferred Arc Thermal Plasma Reactor: A potential way for large-scale generation of silver nanopowders for antimicrobial applications Published in PBAMP-2006, BARC, Mumbai during 20-21 September 2006.
  9. Banerjee I, Kulkarni NV, Karmakar S, Sheikh AD, Shinde M, Mathe VL, Das AK and Bhoraskar SV Large scale synthesis of TiO2 nano particles required for environmental purification Published in PBAMP-2006, BARC, Mumbai during 20-21 September 2006.

 

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  • Member, International Association Innovation Professional, Texas, USA since January, 2018
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  Text and Reference Books
 

Co-authored a book titled “Plasma Synthesis of Nanomaterials Diagnostics and characterization” (ISBN No.81-88513-11-3) published jointly by University of Pune, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Mumbai) and Adus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.

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