Progress report

ANNEXURE IV

Collaboration (International and National)

In addition to collaboration between the Centre and other Universities/Institutions under the bilateral exchane/agreement programme between countries, the faculties have established individual collaborations as detailed below.

	Name	Name of the Collaborating Scientist/Institution	Nature of collaboration
1.	Prof. A. K. Dasgupta	NPL. GMRT,NMRF-Tirupati, Andhra U, SAC, Boston U, Boston College, USA, ICTP-Trieste	Joint research
2.	Prof. N. Purkait	NPL, PRL	Joint research
3.	Prof. P. K. Saha	RMC, Kingston, Canada, SAMEER-Kolkata	Joint research and book writing
4.	Prof. P. K. Basu	McMaster Univ, Canada	As above
5.	Prof. S. Sen	TIFR	Joint research
6.	Prof. D. Biswas	U Valencia, Spain	Joint research
7.	Prof. Subal Kar	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A	Laser based Ultrafast X-ray source LUX) for ultrafast studies in human cells. Nano structures etc.
8.	Prof. Subal Kar	Yamaguchi University, Japan	Design and Development of low phase-noise metamaterial based IMPATT Oscillator and Power Combiner
9.	Prof. A. Maitra	I)B i) Bose Institute, Kolkata ii) Satellite Application Cnetre, ISRO, Ahmedabd iii) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK iv) Strathclyde Univesrity, UK Microwave Laboratory, Universite vi) Catholique de Louvain, Belgium	Joint research, collaboration in sponsored projects
10.	Dr. D. Guha	Royal MilitaryCollege of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.	Joint works on developing new Planar Antennas
11.	Dr. D. Guha	National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR Lab), Trivandrum, India.	Dielectric Resonators for wideband Wireless Antennas
12.	Dr. D. Guha	Spotwave Wireless Inc., a NorhAmerican Wireless Industry	Design of dual band high gain wireless antenna.
13.	Prof. D. Guha	Indian space Research Organization (ISRO), Bangalore, India	Joint research
14.	Prof. D. Guha	Department of Electronics, University of  Pune, India	Joint research
13.	Prof. N. R. Das	McMaster University, Univ. Sheffield-UK, Pohang Inst Sc. Tech. Korea	Joint research
14.	Dr. Abhijit Biswas	IMEC-Belgium, IIT-Kharagpur	Joint research
15.	Dr. Pranab K Karmakar	GSFC-NASA(USA) , CICS-NOAA (USA), CPTEC-INPE (Brazil); CNRS-(France); IRD (France).	International Collaborative research
16.	Sri Sourabh Das	ISRO	Joint Research
17.	Dr. Pranab K. Karmakar	Instotuto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil.	Joint collaboration with Centre for Research and Training in Microwaves and Millimetre waves, Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics
18.	Prof. Animesh Maitra	Satellite Navigation Payload Area (SNPA), SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	on Ka/Ku band propagation in the Indian region
19.	Prof. Animesh Maitra	Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Group, SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	on Megha Tropiques Mission
20.	Prof. Animesh Maitra	Space Physics Laboratory, VSSC, ISRO, Trivandrum	on Aerosol Studies as a part ARFI Network under ISRO-IGBP programme

Annexure V

List of Journal Publications during 2005-2010
2005-06

No	Name of Teacher	Title, journal, vol, page, year
	A Kundu, B. Bandyopadhyay A N Dutta	Iterative algorithm for microwave tomography using Lavenberg-Marquardt regularization technique Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, Vol. 43, pp 649-653, September 2005.
	Bratati Mukhopadhyay and P.K. Basu	Expression for fundamental absorption coefficient due to alloy-disorder scattering in indirect gap semiconductors (communicated).
	Bratati Mukhopadhyay, Sumitra Ghosh and P.K. Basu	Estimation of the composition of Ge rich Si1-x-yGexCy layers on Si for photodetection at 1.3 and 1.55 ms (revised ms. communicated to Opt. Engg.).
	Subal Kar	Computer-aided numerical characterization and experimental studies for high power operation of IMPATT oscillator Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol.45, no. 3, pp 262 – 265, May 2005
	Mukul. K. Das, N. R. Das and P. K. Basu	Effect of Ge-Composition on the Performance of a SiGe/Si Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 47, pp.247-254, 2005.
	N. R. Das and M. Jamal Deen	A Model for the Performance Analysis and Design of Waveguide PIN Photodetectors IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, Vol. 52, pp.465-472, 2005
	N. R. Das and Alakananda Mitra	A new approach to the modeling of Si – RFIC inductor, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (to be published)
	A.Dasgupta, A.Das, D. Hui, K. K. Bandyopadhyay, M. R. Sivaraman	Ionosphrtic perturbations observed by the GPS following the December 26^th, 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake Earth Planets Space, 58, pp. 167-172, 2006
	A.K. Dasgupta A. Paul, S. Ray, A. Das and S. Ananthakrishnan	Equatorial Bubbles as observed with GPS measurements over Pune, India Radio Sci., 2006 (in press)
	B. K. De, M. Pal, S. S. De, R. Bera, S. K. Adhikari, A. Guha and S. K. Sarkar	Studies on Integrated Field Intensity of ELF-VLF Sferics at Tripura Indian J. Radio & Space Phys., 34, 408, 2005.
	S. S. De, S. K. Adhikari, A. Debnath and P. Das	Studies on Non-Linear Heating of the Lower Ionosphere during Interaction between HF and ELF Signals Indian J. Radio & Space Phys., 34, 413, 2005.
	S. S. De, B. K. De, S. K. Adhikari, S. K. Sarkar, R. Bera, A. Guha and P K Mandal	A Report on Some Specific Features of the Atmospheric Electric Potential Gradient in Kolkata Indian J. Phys., 80,167, 2006.
	S. S. De, B. K. De, S. K. Adhikari, B. K. Sarkarand A. Guha	Study of Amplitude Spectrum of VLF Sferics and Vertical Electric Field at Kolkata. Indian J. Radio & Space Phys., in press, scheduled to be published in April 2006
	D. Guha, M. Biswas and Y. M. M. Antar	Microstrip patch antenna with defected ground structure for cross polarization suppression IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 4, pp. 455-458, 2005
16.	D. Guha, Y. M. M. Antar, J. Y. Siddiqui and M. Biswas D.Guha, L.C.Y.Chu, Y.M.M.Antar	Resonant resistance of probe and microstrip line-fed circular microstrip patches IEE Proc. Microwaves Antennas Propagat., Vol. 152, No.6, pp. 481-484, Dec. 2005. Shaped ultra wideband cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna for wireless communications, under review at Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2006.
17.	S. S. Iqbal, J. Y. Siddiqui and D. Guha	Performance of compact integratable broadband antenna Electromagnetics, (USA) No. 4, vol. 25, pp.317-327, May-June 2005.
18.	S. S. Iqbal, M. Biswas, J. Y. Siddiqui and D. Guha	Performance of cavity backed inverted microstrip broadband antenna Indian J. Radio and Space Phys., vol. 35, pp.54-58, Feb. 2006.
19.	D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	Circular microstrip patch loaded with balanced shorting pins for improved input impedance IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2006 (to appear).
20.	D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	Four-element cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna for wideband monopole-like radiation IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2006 (to appear).
21.	D. Guha, S. Biswas, M. Biswas, J. Y. Siddiqui and Y. M. M. Antar	Concentric Ring Shaped Defected Ground Structures for Microstrip Circuits and Antennas under review at IEEE Microwave and Wireless Component Letters, 2006.
22.	D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	New half-hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna array for broadband monopole-type radiation under review at IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2006
23.	L. C. Y. Chu, D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	Comb-shaped wide band dielectric resonator antenna under review at Electronic Letters, 2006
24.	D. Guha, Y. M. M. Antar, A. Ittiboon, A.Petosa, and A.D. Lee	Improved design guidelines for the ultra wideband monopole-dielectric resonator antenna under review at IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2006.
25.	D. Guha, S. Biswas, M. Biswas, J. Y. Siddiqui and Y. M. M. Antar	Concentric Ring Shaped Defected Ground Structures for Microstrip Circuits and Antennas under review at IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2006
26.	D. Guha, J. Y. Siddiqui and M. Biswas	Accurate formulation for feed Reactance of Probe-fed rectangular and circular microstrip patches under review at IEE Proc. Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 2005
27.	A. Maitra and T. Rakshit Ghosh	Modelling of weighted mean temperature for retrieval of atmospheric water vapour using GPS in the Indian region, Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics, 2006, communicated.
28.	A.Paul, S.K. Chakraborty, A. Das and A. DasGupta	Estimation of Satellite-Based Augmentation System Grid Size at Low Latitudes in the Indian Zone NAVIGATION, 52, 1, 15-22, 2005.
29.	N.N.Purkait M.K.Sengupta, Sanghamitra De and D.K.Chakraborty	Methane emission from the rice fields of West Bengal over a decade Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics, Vol. 34, pp 255-263, August 2005.
30.	S. Ray, A. Paul and A. DasGupta	Equatorial Scintillations in Relation to the Development of Ionization Anomaly Ann. Geo. Phys., 2006 (in press)
31.	Amlan Mazumdar, A. Shah, M. Gokhale, Susanta Sen, S. Ghosh, B. m. Arora, D. Tsui	High-responsivity high-gain In0.5Ga0.47As/InP quantum-well infrared photodetectors grown using metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy, IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 41, pp. 872-879, 2005.
32.	B. C. Roy and P. K. Das	State Space Modeling of Quantum Feedback Control System in Interacting Fock Space To appear in Intl. J. Control

2006-07

No	Name of Teacher	Title, journal, vol, page, year
	Abhirup Das Barman, Ipsita Sengupta and P. K. Basu	A simple SPICE model for traveling wave semiconductor laser amplifier, Microwave & Opt. Technol. Lett. (USA) : accepted
	Bratati MukhopadhyaySumitra Ghosh and P. K. Basu	Estimtion of the composition of Si1-x-yGexCy layer on Si for photodetection at 1.3 and 1.55 µms, Opt. Engg., vol. 46, No. 1Jan 07, pp. 1-7.
	Abhijit Biswas and P. K. Basu	Equivalent circuit models of quantum cascade lasers for SPICE simulation of steady state and dynamic response, Journal of Optics A : Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 9, p. 26-32, (2007)
	A.Ghosal and D.Chattopadhyay	Diffusion thermopower in CdSe single quantum wells , Indian J. Phys. 80(4), 405-407 (2006).
	S. Ray, A. Paul and A. DasGupta	Equatorial scintillations in relation to the development of ionization anomaly, Ann. Geo. Phys., 24, 1429-1442, (2006).
	A. DasGupta, A. Paul, S. Ray, A. Das and S. Anantha-krishnan,	Equatorial bubbles as observed with GPS measurements over Pune, India, Radio Sci., 41, RS5S28, doi: 10.1029/2005RS003359, 2006
	S. Ray and A. DasGupta	Geostationary L-band scintillation observations near the crest of Equatorial Anomaly in the Indian Zone, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys. (UK), 2007 (in press).
	Mukul. K. Das and N. R. Das	Effect of Ge-Composition on the Frequency Response of a Si1-yGey/Si P-i-N Photodetector, Optical Engineering, (2006).
	N. R. Das and Alakananda Mitra	A New Approach to the Modeling of Si – RFIC Inductor, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 48, pp. 1095-1101 (2006).
10.	S. S. De, B. K. De, S. K. Adhikari, B. K. Sarkarand A. Guha	Study of Amplitude Spectrum of VLF Sferics and Vertical Electric Field at Kolkata. Indian J. Radio & Space Phys., 35 (2006), 187

11.	S. S. De, B. K De, S. K. Adhikari, S. K. Sarkar, R. Bera, A. Guha and P. K. Mandal	A Report on Some Specific Features of the Atmospheric Electric Potential Gradient in Kolkata. Indian J. Phys., 80 (2006), 167.
12	S. S. De, A. K. Ghosh, T. K. Ghosh and D. Jana.	Effective Heating in Heavily Doped Semiconductor Devices. Indian J. Pure & Appl. Phys., 44 (2006), 543.
13	S. S. De, B. K De, A. Guha and P. K. Mandal	Detection of 2004 Leonid Meteor Shower by Observing its Effect on VLF Transmission. Indian J. Radio & Space Phys., 35 (2006), 396.
14	S. S. De, B. K. De, S. K. Adhikari, B. K. Sarkar, S. K. Sarkar, A. Guha, P. K. Mandal, S. K. Mandal, H. P. Sardar and M. Ray	The Effect of Recent Venus Transit on Earth’s Atmosphere Accepted for publication in Annals of Geophys.
15	N. N. Purkait, A.K. Saha, Sanghamitra De and D. K. Chakrabarty	Behaviour of methane emission from paddy field of high carbon content, Ind. J Radio Space Phys., vol. 36, pp. 52-58 (2007)
16	A. Maitra and K.Chakravarty	Rain depolarization measurements with a low margin satellite link in Ku band at a tropical location, Electronics Letters, 2007, under review
17	A. Maitra and T. Rakshit Ghosh	Modelling of weighted mean temperature for retrieval of atmospheric water vapour using GPS in the Indian region, Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics, 2006, under review.
18	S. Mukhopadhyay and A.K. Mandal	Lecture notes: Fuzzy rule extraction using Robust Particle Swarm Optimization. Proceedings of ISNN-2006- LNCS by Springer ,vol. 3971 pp. 762 – 767, May 2006.
19	D. Guha, M. Biswas and J. Y. Siddiqui	Harrington’s formula extended to determine accurate feed reactance of probe-fed microstrip patches IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 6, (2007).
20	D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	New half-hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna for broadband monopole-type radiation, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Vol. 54, N0. 12, pp. 3621-3628, (Dec. 2006).
21	D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	Four-element cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna for wideband monopole-like radiation, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., Vol. 54, N0. 9, pp. 2657-2662, (Sept. 2006).
22	M. Biswas, J. Y. Siddiqui, D. Guha, and Y. M. M. Antar	Effect of a cylindrical cavity on the resonance of a circular microstrip patch with variable air-gap, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 418-420, (2006)
23	D. Guha, S. Biswas, M. Biswas, J. Y. Siddiqui and Y. M. M. Antar,	Concentric Ring Shaped Defected Ground Structures for Microstrip Circuits and Antennas to appear in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 402-405, (Dec. 2006).
24	L. C. Y. Chu, D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	Comb-shaped wideband dielectric resonator antenna, Electronic Letters, vol. 42, no. 14, pp. 785-786, ( 6^th July, 2006).
25	D. Guha, Y. M. M.Antar, A. Ittiboon, A. Petosa, and D. Lee	Improved design guidelines for the ultra wideband monopole-dielectric resonator antenna, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 373-376, (Dec. 2006).
26	D. Guha and Y. M. M. Antar	Circular microstrip patch loaded with balanced shorting pins for improved input impedance, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 217-219, (2006).
27	S. S. Iqbal, M. Biswas, J. Y. Siddiqui and D. Guha	Performance of cavity backed inverted microstrip broadband antenna Indian J. Radio and Space Phy., Vol. 35, pp. 54-58, (February 2006).
28	Arpita Das and Mahuya Bhattacharyya	FPGA based Embedded System Design for Medical Image Enhancement Technique used in Mask Mode Radiography, Shortlisted for possible publication in International Journal of Computers, Information Technology and Engineering (IJCITAE).