Background
Professor S. Bhattacharyya started working in the school of Physics since 2007. Before joining Wits he worked extensively in nano-structured and low-dimensional disordered carbon focusing on the electronic transport properties in the USA, UK, Germany, and in India. In 2008 he has secured major funding in terms of a Nanotechnology Flagship Programme (NFP) to support the activities of a new laboratory in Nano-science and Nanotechnology research. Also in 2008-11 he has been awarded a number of large research grants under the National Nanotechnology Equipment Programme (NNEP), National Research Foundation (NRF), from CSIR-National Laser Centre (NLC) and also from NRF Unlocking the Future grant. In 2008 he started setting up a modern research laboratory under cleanroom environment dedicated to perform research in carbon-based nano-electronics which he dreams to convert into a dedicated carbon based quantum information centre. In building up this new laboratory and appointing research staff he received ample financial support from the University Research Office (URC), faculty of science and School of Physics.
As a member his research in developing strong materials is well supported by the DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials (CoESM) hosted by the School of Physics. At present he owns several items of expensive research equipment granted from the NNEP programme, from DST/NRF CoESM, CSIR-NLC and also the URC to perform research starting from synthesis to electrical characterization and also making devices. He has identified several research areas of activity for the laboratory in which a number of students and postdoctoral fellows are working. With his team effort the newly formed group Nano-Scale Transport Physics Laboratory, Witwatersrand is working in a number of areas including nano-electronics, nano-materials synthesis, nano-device characterization and also theoretical condensed matter physics (transport phenomena). The group is expanding in the area of carbon-based spintronics, fabrication of nano-electronic devices, novel millimetre wave devices and theoretical physics. We maintain good collaborative projects with our colleagues, within university, with neighboring institutes and internationally. Postdoctoral fellowship and studentship are available.
Awards and Grants
- Nanotechnology Flagship Programme (NRF), 2008-2011, 2012-2015
- Nanotechnology Equipment Programme (NRF) 2008, 2009 and 2010
- Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, 1998
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