Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies

Institute for Plasma Research

Gandhinagar

Name             : Dr. Subroto Mukherjee

Qualification : Ph.D (Plasma Sciences)

Designation   : Head - FCIPT Division

                        Professor

Contact

Phone                : 079 - 23269011

Mobile               : +91 - 9978443790, 9825933962

E-mail ID           : mukherji@ipr.res.in, dr_s_mukherjee@yahoo.com

Current Projects

• Plasma Popularization in University

• Dusty plasma studies for simulation of tokamak edge graphite erosion

• Transient plasma response to fast peturbations

• Cu doped TiN coatings

Publications

• "Local flux governing mechanism for the self-assembly of silver nanoparticles on ripple patterned templates" M. Ranjan, S. Numazawa, S. Mukherjee, Material Research Express 1(2014) 015038.

• "Simulation and measurement of solar harvesting enhancement of silver plasmonic nano-particles on GaSb nano-dots" Lorenzo Rosa, Mukesh Ranjan, Mukul Bhatnagar, Daryoush Mortazavi, Subroto Mukherjee, Saulius Juodkazisa, Journal of Photonics 2014 (2014) 1.

• "Investigation on nanoadhesive bonding of plasma modified titanium for aerospace application" S. Ahmed, D. Chakrabarty, S. Mukherjee, J. Alphonsa, G. Jhala and S. Bhowmik, Advances in Aircraft and Spacecraft Science, 1 (2014) 1.

• "An overview of spacecraft charging research in India" Spacecraft Plasma Interaction eXperiments SPIX -II Suryakant B. Gupta, S. Mukherjee, Keena R. Kalaria, Naresh P. Vaghela, Rashmi S. Joshi, Suresh E. Puthanveettil, M. Sankaran and Ranganath S. Ekkundi IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2014); [DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2014.2306019]

• "Al₂O₃ films grown by glow discharge plasma aluminizing" N. I. Jamnapara, Vishal Nayak, D. U. Avtani, N. L. Chauhan, D.Panda, S.B.Gupta, K.Kalaria, N. Vaghela, S. Mukherjee, A. S. Khanna, Surface Engineering, 30 (2014).
   

Book Chapter (2)

• Mukherjee, S. (2010): "Surface Engineering with low pressure plasmas", p188-213, ed. D.S. Rao & S.V. Joshi, ARCI, India;; Book Name - "Surface Engineering"; published by Daya Publishers, Delhi; ISBN: 978-81-7035-628-8

• Mukherjee, S. (2008): "Low pressure plasma based nitrogen incorporation techniques for surface     modification", p343-354, ed. R. Wei, Southwest Research Institute, USA; Book Name - "Plasma Surface Engineering research and its Practical Applications"; published by Research Signpost, Trivandrum; ISBN: 978-81-308-0257-2

Patents

• Mukherjee, S., John, P.I. (1999): An apparatus and process for thermochemical diffusion on the surface of the substrate;Indian patent, Application No. Bom/301/99 dated 20.4.1999 (Indian Patent No. 193446)

• Nema, S., Mukherjee, S., John, P.I. (1999): Plasma polymer coating on substrate; Indian patent, Application No. Bom/303/99 dated 20.4.1999 (Indian Patent No. 194499)

• Mukherjee, S., John, P.I. (1999): A process for nitriding substrate and apparatus thereof; Indian patent, Application No. Bom/304/99 dated 20.4.1999 (Indian Patent No. 193684)

• Mukherjee, S., John, P.I. (1996): An apparatus for the modification of surface hardness of steel; Indian patent, Application No. Bom/407/96 dated 20.10.1997 (Indian Patent No. 189630 - Awarded/sealed on 16 October 2003)

• Mukherjee, S., John, P.I. (1996): A process for the modification of a nozzle of a diesel engine; Indian patent, Application No. Bom/408/96 dated 27.10.1997 (Indian Patent No. 188282 - Awarded/sealed on 09 May 2003)