Progress report

Participants

Int	Ext	Total	Int	Ext	Total
1.	2-day Workshop Nanotechnology: Fabrication & Characterization Techniques (NanoFact)	June 13,14, 08	Talk	X	11	11	70	50	120
2.	3-day Workshop Frontiers of Electronics & Communication	Aug 7-9, 09 NERIST, Arunachal	Outreach Program at NE State,	06	Nil	06	06	43 (NE states)	49
3.	M.K. DasGupta memorial seminar (International Year of Astronomy)	Sept 01, 09	Workshop	Nil	04	04	46	30	76
4.	Teaching of Electronics in Colleges	Nov. 6-8, 09 Scottish Church College	Joint activity with adopted College	06 +10	01	17	17	53	70
5.	One day Workshop Photonic Devices and Systems for Long and Mid Infrared Applications	Dec. 13, 09	Indo- UK International Workshop	02	03	05	18	16	34
6.	Workshop on Future Generation ICT and its Standards	Dec. 13, 09	CTIF-India International Workshop	X	09	09	16	20	36

Summer School

Title Date/Venue Category Speakers Participants In Out Total In Out Total Summer School Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures (SemiNano08) June 2-20, 2008 HoT 9 8 17 1 18 19 Summer School Physics and Simulation Techniques for Nanoscale Electronic Devices (NanoDev 09) June 1-19, 2009 HoT 9 15 24 5 11 16

Winter School

Winter School Broadband Microwave Systems & Communication (MiSCom 09)	Feb. 4-24, 09	HoT	7	14	21	1	15	16
Winter School DSP Algorithm, Architecture and Applications (DSPA++-2010)	Jan 04-22, 2010	HoT	12	4	16	2	12	14

Conferences

International Conference Computers & Devices for Communication (CODEC 09)	Dec. 14-16, 09	International Conference						170
International Conference Applied ElectroMagnetic Conference (AEMC 09)	Dec. 14-16, 09	International Conference	X	15	15			150

Visits, Lectures by Distinguished Scientists and Other Lectures arranged

	2005-06
	Speaker	title	Date	In collaboration with
1.	Prof. Subal Kar (IRPE)	RF and Microwave Research Related to Muon Collider and X-Ray Laser	04.05.05	AP/MTT-IEEE
2.	Prof. D. Datta, ECE Dept., IIT Kharagpur	On Optical Access Networks	2.09.2005	LEOS – IEEE
3.	Prof. B. K. Sarkar ISRO Chaior Professor, IIT-Kharagpur	Linear Accelerators for Medical Applications	16.09.05	AP-MTT, IEEE Kolkata
4.	P. K. Basu, P. K. Saha, Susanta Sen, N,. R. Das	Optical Communication Systems and Networking	30.09., 2005	LEOS - IEEE
5.	Sri Tirtha Pratim Das, ISRO	A Physicist Perception for Advanced Quantum Technologies for Space Travel	5.10.2005	RPE Assocn.
6.	Sri Saptarshi Chowdhury, WIPRO Technologies, Bangalore	Wireless Technology – The Way of Life	21.10. 2005	RPE Assocn.
7.	Prof. Dr. Y. M. M. Antar Canada Research Chair in Applied Electromagnetics and Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg. Royal Military College of Canada	An Overview of Recent Research and New Challenges in Antennas, Radar Studies and Microwave Engineering at R.M.C.	31.10.05	AP-MTT, IEEE
8.	Dr. T. Chattopadhyay, Dept. of Physics, Visva Bharati University	THz signal generation through optical parametric oscillation	24.11. 2005	LEOS - IEEE
9.	Sri Anil Gupta Cadence, USA	On VLSI design	28. 11.2005	RPE Assocn.
10.	Dr. Ian Glover Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK	Measurements and Modelling of Propagation across the Indoor Outdoor Interface for WLAN Applications	14.12.05	AP-MTT, IEEE
11.	Dr. Subir Das	Security in Wi-Fi Networks and its Management	16.12.05	RPE Association
12.	Prof. Sanjit K. Mitra, ECE, Univ. California-Santa Barbara	Digital Filter Design using MATLAB	22.12. 2005	CAS
13.	Prof. Hiroshi Iwai, Tokyo Inst. Technol., Japan	Nano CMOS	3.01.2006	IEEE-EDS/LEOS
14.	Prof. B. P. Pal, Dept. Physics, IIT-Delhi	Photonic Band Gap	3.01.2006	Do
15.	Prof. Yashawant Gupta NCRA, TIFR-Pune	Exploring the Radio Frequency Universe with the GMRT	25.01.2006	RPE Assocn.
16.	Prof. S. Ananthakrishnan NCRA, TIFR-Pune	Millimeterwave Research of J.C. Bose and post-independence Research in Radio Astronomy in India	27.01.2006, 2006	RPR Assocn.
17.	Dr. Dipak Chakrabarti PRL, Ahmedabad	Environmental Chemistry and Pollution	March 2, 3,6,8,10 2006	CAS
18.	Professor Supriya Chakrabarti, Chair, Center for Space Science, Boston University, USA	An Imaging Spectrograph for Solar-Terrestrial Interactions Studies	March 10, 2006	S. K. Mitra Centre

2006-07

	Speaker	title	Date	In collaboration with
	Dr. A. P. Mitra, FRS Honorary Scientist, NPL	Radio Science : India in global scene.	April, 19, 2006	Indian Physical Society
	Prof. S. K. Lahiri ECE Dept., IIT Kharagpur	IOSIMM	June 30, 2007	LEOS – IEEE
	Dr Kuntal Chakrabarty, SINP, Kolkata	Carbon nanotubes: present status and future goals	July 28, 2006	LEOS-IEEE
	Dr. Subhananda Chakrabarti Univ. Glasgow, UK	Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors	August 4, 2006	LEOS-IEEE
	Prof. B. K. Sarkar, IIT-Kharagpur	A comprehensive review of various Radar systems	8.09.06	APS-MTTS, IEEE Kolkata
	Dr. S. B. Sharma, SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	Radar and Radiometric Anennas	8.09.06	Do
	Dr. A. Vangadarajan, LRDE, DRDO, Bangalore	Synthetic Aperture Radar	8.09.06	Do
	Dr. S. S. Rana, SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	Microwave sensors for remote sensing	8.09.06	Do
	Dr. K. N. Shamanna, ADA, DRDO, Bangalore	RCS and its measurement	8.09.06	Do
	Prof. Debes Das, Minister in Charge, IT, Govt WB	Status of VLSI Design Industry	14.09.2006
	Dr. M. H. Engineer, Bose Institute, Kolkata	Pioneering work of Acharya J. C. Bose in communication and electrophysics	8.12.2006	IEEE-LEOS and IEEE-AP/MTT
	Prof. Prabhat Misra, University of Florida	VLSI CAD	15.12. 20056	CAS
	Prof. Dinesh Sharma, EE Dept, IIT-Bombay	Analog, mixed signal and RF VLSI design	16.12.2006	TEQIP
	Dr. Amitabha Das, Motoriola, USA	Do	16.12.2006
	S. K. Lahiri, IIT-Kharagpur	MEMS & NEMS	16.12.2006	do
	Prof. H. Saha, JU	Smart Sensors	16.12.2006	do
	Dr. A. Vengadarajan LRDE, Bangalore	Synthetic aperture RADARs	16.12.2006	do
	Prof. D. Datta, ECE, IIT-Kharagpur	Optical Networks	16.12.2006	Do
	Dr. D. Guha, RPE	Modern antennas for wireless communication	16.12.2006	do
	Prof. K. Thyagarajan Physics Dept, IIT-Delhi	Nonlinear optics: the good, bad and esoteric	27.12.2006	IEEE-LEOS
	Dr. Subir Saha, Motorola, Bangalore, India	Research as career in India	3.01.07	RPE Association
	Dr. A. K. Bandyopadhyay, Scientist G, NPL, New Delhi	Raman spectroscopic studies of materials under high pressure	10.01.2007	LEOS – IEEE
	Teachers and students of INRAPHEL	Science Day: Advances in Communication	28.02.07	TEQIP, CAS, IEEE-LEOS, IEEE Students Branch, CU
	Prof. M. J. Deen, Canada Research Chair, McMaster Univ	High sensitivity photodetectors for emerging applications	25 & 27 March, 2007	IEEE-LEOS, Canadian Govt and Embassy

2007-08

	Prof. M. N. Sen, ITME, Diamond Harbour, Kolkata	Integrated circuits- the scenario around its invention	23 May, 2007	CU Students Branch, IEEE
	Prof. B. N. Biswas, Director of Academy of Technology, Adi Saptagram, WB	Phased locked loop: an introduction	29 May, 2007.	CU Students Branch, IEEE
	Dr. Subhash Bera, SAC, Ahmedabad	Communication payload: a part of ISRO activities	8 June 2007	LEOS, AP-MTT of IEEE CU Students Branch, IEEE
	Prof. Siddhartha Sen, IIT-Kharagpur	MEMS sensors	12 July, 2007	CU Students Branch, IEEE
	Prof. Bhargab Bhattacharyya, ISI, Kolkata	Biochip architecture and some associated design problems	23 July, 2007	CU Students Branch, IEEE
	Dr. Partha Pratim Pande, Dept EECS, Washington St. Univ, Pullman, WA, USA	The case for three dimensional networks on chip	August 3, 2007	CU Students Branch, IEEE
	Prof. Chetan Parikh, DAIICT, Dr. N. Krishnapura, IIT-M	Low power design techniques in analog and mixed signal design	August 11, 2007	VSI, RPE, JU, ISI, IEEE-CAS Kolkata Tutorial of VDAT 07
	Dr. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke Univ, USA and	Design and test of microfluidic biochips	August 11, 2007	Do
	Dr. E. Larsson, Linkoping Univ, Sweden and Dr. K. Chakrabarty, Duke Univ USA	Manufacturing test solutions for system-on-chip ICs	August 11, 2007	Do
	Drs. Navneet Kaushik, Shallen Babu and Sameer Chilarige, Cadence Design Systems, India	Compression, delay test, and diagnosis: ensure high quality, low cost and quick yield ramp of nanometer ICs	August 11, 2007	do
	Prof. Amit Patra and Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay, IIT-KGP andDr. Ram Anant and Dr. S. Venkataraman, TI-India	Power management circuit design and applications	August 11, 2007	do
	Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti, Director, CSP, Boston Univ., USA	An attempted observation of an extoplanet from a rocket	August 13, 2007	RPEA
	Dr. D. P. Duari, Director, Director, M.P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, Kolkata	Astronomy & Astrophysics- Current Perspective & Future Challenge	September 5, 2007	RPEA, CUSB-IEEE
	Prof. S. K. Saha, IIA, Bangalore	Diffraction limited imaging with single telescope	September 13, 2007	RPEA
	Prof. N. B. Chakrabarti, Emeritus Prof., IIT-KGP	Early history of development of Electronics in India	October 1, 2007	RPE
	Dr. Somnath Mukherjee, RB Technology, CA, USA	Chipless RF identification by remote measurement of complex impedance	October 15, 2007	RPEA
	Dr. Sanatan Chattopadhyay, Dept. Electronic Sc., CU	Strained Si CMOS	November 30, 2007	LEOS-IEEE
	Prof. J. K. Bhattacharyya, IACS, Kolkata	Patterns in Nature	December 5, 2007	CUSB-IEEE
	Speakers in IMT advanced : Towards 4G	Please see list below	Dec. 07, 2007	RPE, CTIF-Denmark
	Prof. P. K. Datta, Dept Physics, IIT-Kharagpur	Applications of cascaded second order nonlinear optical processes	December 17, 2007	CUSB-IEEE
	Speakers in Applied Electromagnetic Conference (AEMC 07)	Please see list below	Dec. 19-20, 2007	AP-MTT, IEEE -Calcutta
	Mr. Sankhadip Das, Univ. Sheffield, UK	Superlattice type-II infrared photodetectors	January 22, 2008	LEOS, CUSB-IEEE
	Dr. Samir Mondal, Ireland	Physics and applications of photonic crystals	January 22, 2008	LEOS, CUSB-IEEE
	Prof. G. P. Agrawal, Univ. Rochester, USA	Nonlinear optics relevant to optical fibre and applications	Feb. 21, 2008	LEOS, RPE, Dept El Sc
	Prof. B. N. Basu	Microwave Tubes	March 4, 2008	CAS
	Prof. S. Ananthakrishnan	Square Kilometer Array	March 16-31, 2008	CAS, IEEE
	Prof. B. M. Arora	Semiconductor Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics	March 19-26, 2008	CU-UPE, CAS, IEEE

2008-09

	Name	Organization	Title of Talk
1.	Prof. Susanta Sen	Univ. Calcutta	Welcome address
2.	Prof. Ramjee Prasad	CTIF-Denmark	Introduction to IMT-Advanced
3.	Prof. Mary Ann Ingram	Georgia Inst Tech., USA	Physical layer
4.	Prof. Ole Brun Masdsen	CTIF-Denmark	Network Challenges
5.	Prof. Liljana Gavrilovska	Univ. Kril & Methodi, Skopje, Repub. Macadonia	Ad hoc Networks
6.	Prof. Egon Toft	Aalborg Univ, Denmark	Telehealth
7.	Prof. Marina Ruggieri	CTIF-Italy	Navigations & applications
8.	Prof. Knud Erik Skouby	Danish Univ. Technol.	Socio-economic implications
9.	Dr. S. K. Chakravarty	Cal Telephones, BSNL, India	Wired and Wireless Telephones

2008-09

	J. Sarma Dept E&EE, Univ. Bath, UK	Surfing the Surface Plasmon Waves .	UGC-UPE April 1, 2008
	Dr. Koushik Maharatna School of ECEngg University of Southampton	Bio-inspired reconfigurable array for implantable neuro-therapeutics (BRAIN): a mission	RPEA
	Chandrakanta Kumar Scientist E ISRO-Bangalore	Antenna technology used in Chandrayyan mission by ISRO	RPEA
	Dr. Subhasish Chakrabarti Dept E& EE, Univ. of Manchester, UK	Photonic Engineering of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers with Aperiodic Lattices	UGC-NRC, LEOS, CUSB
	Prof. Dipankar Biswas, INRAPHEL, CU	Explanation of strange PL observed on annealing of III-V semiconductor nanostructures	UGC-NRC, LEOS, CUSB
	Prof. Subir Sarkar, E&TCE, JU	Single electronics- a prospective substitute beyond CMOS for VLSI circuits	UGC-NRC
	Prof. Bhargab Bhattacharya, ISI, Kolkata	Nanofluidics and biochips	UGC-NRC, LEOS, CUSB
	Dr. Kuntal Chakrabarti, SNBNCBS, Kolkata	Carbon Nanotubes	UGC-NRC, LEOS
	Prof. P. K. Basu INRAPHEL	Terahertz electronics and communication	IEEE-WIE, CUSB June 20, 2008
	Prof. N. R. Das INRAPHEL	Advances in Photodiodes for optical detection	LEOS Jan 07, 09
	Dr. Sanatan Chattopadhyay Dept. electronic Sc., CU	CMOS: challenges	LEOS
Speakers and title of talks in Three Day Workshop on Wireless Communication : Air Interface Design for Broadband Wireless Systems: WiMAX, 3GPP LTE, IMT - Advanced August 4- 06, 2008

	Name	Organization	Title of Talk
1.	Prof. Debesh Das	Minister-in-Charge, IT, Govt WB	Keynote address
2.	Prof. Ramjee Prasad	Director, CTIF, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark	Visions of Future Wireless Systems (4G)
			Conclusions
3.	Prof. Flemming Bjerge Frederiksen	CTIF/RATE Section, Department of Electronics Systems, AAU. Denmark	A more flexible usage of the “scarce” spectrum ?
4.	Dr. Muhammad Imadur Rahman	Research Engineer, Ericsson Research, Sweden	Transceiver issues from PHY point of view (part I)
			Uplink Issues (part II)
			MAC: Link Adaptation (part I)
			MAC: Resource Allocation (part II)
5	Dr. Suvra Sekhar Das	Senior Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services, India	Wireless channel propagation and cellular concept (part I)
			Downlink Issues (part II)
			MAC: Link Adaptation (part II)
			MAC: Resource Allocation (part I)
6	Dr. Nicola Marchetti	Assistant Professor, CTIF/RATE Section, Department of Electronics Systems, AAU, Denmark	Transceiver issues from PHY point of view (part II)
			Downlink Issues (part I)
			Uplink Issues (part I)
			Technological Comparisons
7	Mr. Michael Jensen	Head of Network Planning WIP Labs/ CTIF-NetSec Section, Department Electronics Systems, AAU. Denmark	WIP Labs’ Network Planning: an Overview
Speakers and title of talks in One Day Seminar HOMMER-2008 on August 22, 2008

	Name	Organization	Title of Talk
1.	Prof. P. K. Saha	INRAPHEL	Half a Century of Research in Microwaves at INRAPHEL
2.	Dr. S. S. Rana	SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad	Microwave and Laser Remote Sensing
3.	Prof. S. K. Koul	CARE, IIT-Delhi	Recent Trends in Millimeterwave Circuit Design and Technology
4.	Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee	IIT-Kanpur	New Frontiers in Nanoscience and Technology using Microwaves for Generation of Multielement Focused Ion Beams.

	2009-10
No	Name & Affiliation	Title	Date/	Organizer
	Professor Supriya Chakrabarti, Director, Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, USA	Hands-On Space Experiments from Cradle to Grave: The Sounding Rocket Program at Boston University	May 27, 2009	SK Mitra Centre
	Dr. Sanjay Krishna, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA	Infra Red NanoDevices	June 02, 2009	UGC-NRCPS, IEEE-PS, IEEE-CUSB
	Prof. Upamanya Madhow University of California, Santa Barbara, USA	M.M.Wave Communication and Sensor Networks	July 08	IEEE-PS, RPEA
	Dr. Partha Pratim Pandey, Washington State University, Pullman, USA	On-chip Wireless Communication Network for Multi-Core Systems	Aug. 17, 09	RPEA, IEEE-CUSB,
	Mr. Satadru Sarkar	CMOS Compact Modeling in Semiconductor Industry	Aug. 20 2009	RPEA, IEEE-CUSB

ANNEXURE X

Critical/Essential Requirements for continuaion of CAS
Recurring Expenses
Budget for next phase
Recurring Expenses

No	Item	Rate	Total in lakhs
1.	Contingency and consumables	@ 2,00 x 5 yrs	10.00
2.	Travel and other support to faculties to attend national conferences	@0.60 x 5 yrs	3.00
3.	Visiting Faculty	@o.50 x 5 yrs	2.50
4.	Seminar (International): 2 in 5 yrs	@1.00 x 2	2.00
5.	Secretarial & technical assistance	@0.60 x 5 yrs	3.00
6.	Advisory committee meetings: 1 per year	@0.50 x 5	2.50
7.	Project Fellows : 5 nos	@ 0.15 x 12 x 5 x 5 yrs	45.00
	Total (R)		68.00

List of Equipment and Facilities required for next phase

No	Item	Spec, etc	Purpose	Cost
1.	Lecture auditorium		General	10.00
2.	Ladies toilet (2 nos)			2.00
3	Lightning detector	EFM 100 and LD 250 light sensor (Boltek , NY)	Thunderstorm & rain characteristics	2.50
4.	Optical Disdrometer (OTT Parsivel) (OTT:Germany)	OTT:Germany	Do	5.00
5.	Data logger	Agilent	Do	1.50
6.	Spectrum Analyzer & other measurement equipment		Signal Processing Theory, Algorithm, Architecture	2.00
7.	Necessary Interfacing accessories		Do	3.00
8.	Implementation tools and equipment		Do	6.00
9.	He-Cd laser	CW: 20 mW	Characterisation of UV photodiodes	12.00
10.	Dual frequency GPS receiver	GLONASS GALILEO SBAS Receiver (Make: Septentrio NV/SA, Belgium)	GPS	15,00
11.	Antenna Calibration and Power meter with low VSWR Flexible port	1,0-26,5 GHz (Make: Agilent)	USB antenna	12.00
12.	Rapid Thermal Annealing Unit & accessories	Mini Lamp Annealer MILA-5000 (ULVAC)	1-9-19 Hakusan Midori-Ku Yokohama	5.50
13.	Oxidation Furnace Unit	Tube Furnace type F21100	Barndtead Thermolyne, USA	7.00
14.	Passive components for microwaves and millimeter waves		Microwave & mm wave research	10.00
15.	Cross Light softwares: Lastip and Absys	Cross Light Inc	Design of semiconductor photonic devices	10.00
	Total			103.50