Anjan Barman

Key Research Areas

Ultrafast spinchargeand phonon dynamics studied using femtosecond optiBrillouin light-scattering spectro-microscopy of sBroadband and spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance

Dr Anjan Barman

Adjunct Professor (Visiting) School of Natural Sciences

School of Natural Sciences

Ultrafast spin, charge, and phonon dynamics studied using femtosecond optical pump-probe techniques. Brillouin light-scattering spectro-microscopy of spin-wave dispersion and propagation in advanced magnetic structures and devices. Broadband and spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance investigations of ...

Research Overview

Ultrafast spin, charge, and phonon dynamics studied using femtosecond optical pump-probe techniques. Brillouin light-scattering spectro-microscopy of spin-wave dispersion and propagation in advanced magnetic structures and devices. Broadband and spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance investigations of spin waves and pure spin current. Magnonics: from conventional approaches to hybrid and quantum magnonic systems. Spin-orbitronics: pure spin currents, spin Hall effect, spin pumping, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Spintronics with quantum materials. Magnetic straintronics. Spin-texture-driven magnonics and spintronics, including magnetic domain walls, vortices, skyrmions, and artificial spin ice. THz time-domain spectroscopy of thin films and nanostructures. Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of binary mixtures. Coherent control of ultrafast processes via optical pulse shaping.

Education

Ph.D. in Science from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Jadavpur University) in 1999. M.Sc. in Physics from University of Calcutta in 1992.

Experience

01/07/17 - Present: Senior Professor, Department of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata 700106, India. 01/07/13- 30/06/17: Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata 700106, India. 15/05/09 - 30/06/13: Associate Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata 700106, India. 20/12/06 - 14/05/09: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India. 05/2008-03/2023: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan. 03/07/06 - 01/12/06: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. 21/07/05-01/07/06: Postdoctoral Employee, School of Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. 01/02/04-19/07/05: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Chemistry University of Leeds, UK. 01/02/01-31/01/04: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Physics, University of Exeter, UK. 20/04/00-31/01/01: Lecturer of Physics: V. S. College, Vidyasagar University, India. 02/07/99-31/01/00: Postdoctoral Fellow: Physics Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

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1 Article
Substituted Diaziridines via [2 + 1] Annulation of Dialkyl Azodicarboxylates with Diazo Esters and In Situ Pyridinium Ylides
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Bera, S.; Khan, H.; Barman, D.; Bhattacharya, R.; Verma, K.; Rai, P.; Banerjee, S.; Sen, S. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 90(25), 8457-8465 2025 1
2 Article Open access
Aqueous alkaline pH stable halide ((PEA)2CoCl4) perovskite for oxygen reaction electrocatalysis
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Barman, P.; Kumar, V.; Takeyasu, K.; Singh, S.K. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 13(22), 16437-16449 2025 1
3 Article Open access
Optical Biosensor for Bacteremia detection from human blood samples at a label-free Liquid Crystal-Aqueous Interface: A Rapid and Point-of-Care approach
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Das, S.; Barman, P.; Chakraborty, R.; Upadhyay, A.; Sagdeo, A.; Kula, P.; Das, M.K.; Sinha Roy, S.S. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 683, 79-89 2025 2
4 Article Open access
Acidic and Alkaline pH Controlled Oxygen Reduction Reaction Pathway over Co-N4C Catalyst
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Mahapatra, B.K.; Barman, P.; Panigrahi, D.R.; Kochrekar, S.; Paul, B.; Panghal, A.; Kumar U, A.; Dhavale, V.M.; Gupta, M.; Kumar, D.; Kumar, V.; Singh, S.K. Small, 21(11) 2025 5
5 Article
Analysis of Cogging Torque in a Series Hybrid Variable Flux Machine for EV Using Lumped Magnetic Circuit
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Barman, D.; Santra, S.B.; Pillay, P. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 40(5), 7423-7438 2025 0
6 Article
Controlled Generation of β-NiOOH by Sulfuric Acid Treatment Enables Active and Durable Oxygen Evolution Catalysis
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Mete, S.; Panigrahi, D.R.; Barman, P.; Sengar, M.S.; Dhayal, M.; Takeyasu, K.; Singh, S.K. Chemistry - A European Journal 2025 0
7 Article
Solution-processed metal oxide synaptic transistor with bilayer Li-ion-conducting gate dielectric
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Chakraborty, R.; Singh, R.K.; Pramanik, S.; Chetri, P.; Yadav, A.K.; Aich, P.K.; Barman, P.; Pal, B.N. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2025 0
8 Article
Cogging Torque Computation in an Asymmetrical Interior Permanent Magnet Machine for Electric Vehicles
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Barman, D.; Santra, S.B.; Chatterjee, D.; Palisetty, R.; Pillay, P. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, 6(3), 877-887 2025 1
9 Article
Cotton-based fabric waste to microcrystalline cellulose: a sustainable waste management approach
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Singhal, S.; Mittal, A.; Anand, S.; Mangalam, J.; Agarwal, S.; Barman, J.; Singhal, N.; Kumar, R. New Journal of Chemistry, 48(38), 16763-16775 2024 1
10 Article
Light-Induced Generation and Cycloaddition Reactions of Benzyne: Synthesis of Naphthoxindoles E and Annulated Indolizines
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Khan, H.; Barman, D.; Sen, S. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89(9), 6257-6262 2024 4
11 Article Open access
Oxidative Aminopyridylation of Maleimides and 1, 4-Quinones with N-Aminopyridinium Ylides at Room Temperature in the Absence of External Reagents
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Barman, D.; Rath, S.; Ravva, M.; Jacob, J.M.; Sen, S. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 365(23), 4216-4226 2023 4
12 Article
Cu(II)-Catalyzed Multicomponent Reaction of Pyridine Derivatives/Isoquinolines with Iodonium Ylide and 1,4-Quinones Using Mechanochemistry
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Sen, S.; Barman, D.; Khan, H.; Das, R.; Maiti, D. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87(18), 12164-12174 2022 7
13 Article Open access
Defect engineered blue photoluminescence in ZnO:Al/TiO2heterostructures
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Saini, C.P.; Bhowmick, S.; Barman, A.; Kumar, N.; Das, A.; khan, S.A.; Claverie, A.; Kanjilal, D.; Mahato, R.N.; Singh, K.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Applied Physics, 132(6) 2022 0
14 Article
Aliovalent Ta-Doping-Engineered Oxygen Vacancy Configurations for Ultralow-Voltage Resistive Memory Devices: A DFT-Supported Experimental Study
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Barman, A.; Das, D.; Deshmukh, S.; Sarkar, P.K.; Banerjee, D.; Hübner, R.; Gupta, M.; Saini, C.P.; Kumar, S.; Johari, P.; Dhar, S.; Kanjilal, A. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14(30), 34822-34834 2022 5
15 Article Open access
A sustainable C-H functionalization of indoles, pyrroles and furans under a blue LED with iodonium ylides
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Sar, S.; Das, R.; Barman, D.; Latua, P.; Guha, S.; Gremaud, L.; Sen, S. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 19(35), 7627-7632 2021 18
16 Article
Metal-induced progressive alteration of conducting states in memristors for implementing an efficient analog memory: a DFT-supported experimental approach
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Das, D.; Barman, A.; Sarkar, P.K.; Rajput, P.; Jha, S.N.; Hübner, R.; Kanjilal, D.; Johari, P.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(9), 3136-3144 2021 4
17 Article
N1- and N3-Arylations of Hydantoins Employing Diaryliodonium Salts via Copper(I) Catalysis at Room Temperature
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Saikia, R.; Barman, D.; Dutta, A.; Thakur, A. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021(3), 400-410 2021 13
18 Article
Electrodeposited Heusler alloy films with enhanced magneto-optical property
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Karim, M.R.; Panda, D.; Adhikari, A.; Sharangi, P.; Mandal, P.; Ghosh, S.K.; Bedanta, S.; Barman, A.; Sarkar, I. Materials Today Communications, 25 2020 6
19 Article Open access
Unravelling oxygen driven α to β phase transformation in tungsten
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Chattaraj, A.; Balal, M.; Yadav, A.K.; Barman, S.R.; Sinha, A.K.; Jha, S.N.; Joulié, S.; Serín, V.; Claverie, A.; Kumar, V.; Kanjilal, A. Scientific Reports, 10(1) 2020 41
20 Article
Are short-term effects of pollution important for growth and optimal fiscal policy?
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Ghosh, S.; Barman, T.; Gupta, M.R. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22(5), 1262-1288 2020 6
21 Article Open access
Red Mud-Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites for the Electrochemical Sensing of Arsenic
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Deshmukh, S.; Banerjee, D.; Bhattacharya, G.; Fishlock, S.J.; Barman, A.; McLaughlin, J.; Sinha Roy, S. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 3(5), 4084-4090 2020 32
22 Article
Synergistic Effect of Singly Charged Oxygen Vacancies and Ligand Field for Regulating Transport Properties of Resistive Switching Memories
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Das, D.; Barman, A.; Kumar, S.; Sinha, A.K.; Gupta, M.; Singhal, R.; Johari, P.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123(44), 26812-26822 2019 19
23 Article
Resistive switching in reactive electrode-based memristor: Engineering bulk defects and interface inhomogeneity through bias characteristics
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Kumar, A.; Das, M.; Sharma, P.; Garg, V.; Sengar, B.S.; Barman, A.; Kanjilal, A.; Kranti, A.; Mukherjee, S. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 34(3) 2019 5
24 Article
Fabrication of free-standing graphene oxide films using a facile approach toluene swollen paraffin peeling and green reduction of these films into highly conductive reduced graphene oxide films
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Upadhyay, R.; Naicker, S.; Barman, A.; Sinha Roy, S.; Thundat, T.; Waghmare, P.R. Chemical Engineering Journal, 354, 149-161 2018 16
25 Article
Probing the impact of energetic argon ions on the structural properties of ZnO:Al/TiO2 heterostructures
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Saini, C.P.; Barman, A.; Kumar, N.; Cours, R.; Joulié, S.; Serín, V.; Claverie, A.; Sinha, A.K.; Kanjilal, D.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Applied Physics, 124(15) 2018 0
26 Article
The effect of Ti+ ion implantation on the anatase-rutile phase transformation and resistive switching properties of TiO 2 thin films
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Manna, A.; Barman, A.; Joshi, S.R.; Satpati, B.; Dash, P.; Chattaraj, A.; Srivastava, S.K.; Sahoo, P.K.; Kanjilal, A.; Kanjilal, D.; Varma, S. Journal of Applied Physics, 124(15) 2018 20
27 Article
Carbon doping controlled thermoluminescent defect centers in nanoporous alumina for ion beam dosimetry
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Bhowmick, S.; Pal, S.; Das, D.; Singh, V.K.; khan, S.; Hübner, R.; Barman, S.R.; Kanjilal, D.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Applied Physics, 124(13) 2018 5
28 Article
Oxygen mediated phase transformation in room temperature grown TiO2 thin films with enhanced photocatalytic activity
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Banerjee, D.; Barman, A.; Deshmukh, S.; Saini, C.P.; Maity, G.; Pradhan, S.K.; Gupta, M.; Phase, D.M.; Sinha Roy, S.; Kanjilal, A. Applied Physics Letters, 113(8) 2018 9
29 Article
Local probing of the enhanced field electron emission of vertically aligned nitrogen-doped diamond nanorods and their plasma illumination properties
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Deshmukh, S.; Sankaran, K.J.; Kunuku, K.; Korneychuk, S.; Banerjee, D.; Barman, A.; Bhattacharya, G.; Phase, D.M.; Gupta, M.; Verbeeck, J.; Leou, K.C.; Lin, I.N.; Haenen, K.; Sinha Roy, S.S. Diamond and Related Materials, 83, 118-125 2018 15
30 Article
Resistive switching behavior in oxygen ion irradiated TiO2-x films
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Barman, A.; Saini, C.P.; Sarkar, P.K.; Bhattacharjee, G.; Bhattacharya, G.; Srivastava, S.; Satpati, B.; Kanjilal, D.; Ghosh, S.K.; Dhar, S.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 51(6) 2018 20
31 Article
Nanoscale self-recovery of resistive switching in Ar+ irradiated TiO2-x films
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Barman, A.; Saini, C.P.; Sarkar, P.K.; Das, D.; Dhar, S.; Singh, M.; Sinha, A.K.; Kanjilal, D.; Gupta, M.; Phase, D.M.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50(47) 2017 9
32 Article
Impact of Self-Trapped Excitons on Blue Photoluminescence in TiO2 Nanorods on Chemically Etched Si Pyramids
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Saini, C.P.; Barman, A.; Banerjee, D.; Grynko, O.; Prucnal, S.; Gupta, M.; Phase, D.M.; Sinha, A.K.; Kanjilal, D.; Skorupa, W.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121(21), 11448-11454 2017 52
33 Article
Role of oxygen vacancy on the hydrophobic behavior of TiO2 nanorods on chemically etched Si pyramids
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Saini, C.P.; Barman, A.; Das, D.; Satpati, B.; Bhattacharyya, S.R.; Kanjilal, D.; Ponomaryov, A.; Zvyagin, S.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121(1), 278-283 2017 27
34 Article
Multilevel programming in Cu/NiO y /NiO x /Pt unipolar resistive switching devices
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Sarkar, P.K.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Barman, A.; Kanjilal, A.; Roy, A. Nanotechnology, 27(43) 2016 47
35 Article
Oil swollen surfactant gel based synthesis of metal oxides nanoparticles: An attractive alternative for the conventional sol gel synthesis
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Upadhyay, R.K.; Pan, S.; Barman, A.; McLaughlin, J.A.; Sinha Roy, S.S. Ceramics International, 42(10), 12119-12128 2016 7
36 Article
Probing electron density across Ar+ irradiation-induced self-organized TiO2- x nanochannels for memory application
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Barman, A.; Saini, C.P.; Sarkar, P.K.; Roy, A.; Satpati, B.; Kanjilal, D.; Ghosh, S.K.; Dhar, S.; Kanjilal, A. Applied Physics Letters, 108(24) 2016 16
37 Article Open access
Emerging giant resonant exciton induced by Ta substitution in anatase TiO2: A tunable correlation effect
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Yong, Z.; Trevisanutto, P.E.; Chiodo, L.; Santoso, I.; Barman, A.R.; Asmara, T.C.; Dhar, S.; Kotlov, A.; Terentjevs, A.; Della Sala, F.; Olevano, V.; Rübhausen, M.; Venkatesan, T.; Rusydi, A. Physical Review B, 93(20) 2016 18
38 Article
Multilevel resistance state of Cu/La2O3/Pt forming-free switching devices
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Sarkar, P.K.; Prajapat, M.; Barman, A.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Roy, A. Journal of Materials Science, 51(9), 4411-4418 2016 38
39 Article
Self-decorated Au nanoparticles on antireflective Si pyramids with improved hydrophobicity
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Saini, C.P.; Barman, A.; Kumar, M.; Satpati, B.; Som, T.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Applied Physics, 119(13) 2016 11
40 Article
Defect-engineered optical bandgap in self-assembled TiO2 nanorods on Si pyramids
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Saini, C.P.; Barman, A.; Satpati, B.; Bhattacharyya, S.R.; Kanjilal, D.; Kanjilal, A. Applied Physics Letters, 108(1) 2016 23
41 Article
Self-organized titanium oxide nano-channels for resistive memory application
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Barman, A.; Saini, C.P.; Sarkar, P.K.; Satpati, B.; Bhattacharyya, S.R.; Kabiraj, D.; Kanjilal, D.; Dhar, S.; Kanjilal, A. Journal of Applied Physics, 118(22) 2015 27
42 Article
Optical, structural, catalytic and electrochemical properties of the Au nanoparticles synthesized using CTAB based gels
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Upadhyay, R.K.; Deshmukh, S.; Saha, S.; Barman, A.; Sinha Roy, S.S. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 26(10), 7515-7522 2015 3
43 Article
Grape extract assisted green synthesis of reduced graphene oxide for water treatment application
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Upadhyay, R.K.; Soin, N.; Bhattacharya, G.; Saha, S.; Barman, A.; Sinha Roy, S.S. Materials Letters, 160, 355-358 2015 123
44 Article
Fast and facile preparation of CTAB based gels and their applications in Au and Ag nanoparticles synthesis
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Upadhyay, R.K.; Soin, N.; Saha, S.; Barman, A.; Sinha Roy, S. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 156, 105-112 2015 13
45 Article
Improved broadband antireflection in Schottky-like junction of conformal Al-doped ZnO layer on chemically textured Si surfaces
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Saini, C.P.; Barman, A.; Kumar, M.; Sahoo, P.K.; Som, T.; Kanjilal, A. Applied Physics Letters, 105(12) 2014 21
46 Article Open access
Cationic vacancies and anomalous spectral-weight transfer in Ti 1-xTaxO2 thin films studied via polarization-dependent near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
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Qi, D.-C.; Barman, A.R.; Debbichi, L.; Dhar, S.; Santoso, I.; Asmara, T.C.; Omer, H.; Yang, K.; Krüger, P.; Wee, A.T.S.; Venkatesan, T.; Rusydi, A. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 87(24) 2013 21

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Awards & Honors

  • Elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (2026). Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship by Royal Society, UK in 2023. DAE-C. V. Raman Lecture by Indian Physics Association in 2023. Featured in Top 2% Most Cited Scientists' list released by Stanford-Elsevier from 2020-2024. Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London (2021). Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2020). MRSI Medal in 2017 by Materials Research Society of India. UKIERI Standard Research Award, 2012. UKIERI Standard Research Award, 2008. JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellowship in December 2003. Chartered Physicist (CPhys) of Institute of Physics, London in May 2002.

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the American Physical Society. Member (Fellow) of IOP. Member of IEEE. Life Member of MRSI.

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