anjan barman

Educational Background:

Ph.D., IACS, Jadavpur University (1999).

M. Sc. (Physics) University of Calcutta (1992).

Professional Background:

Postdoc, Technion, Israel, 1999-2000.

Postdoc, Univ. Exeter, UK, 2001-04.

Postdoc, Univ. Leeds, UK, 2004-05.

Postdoc, Univ. California, Santa Cruz, USA, 2005-06.

Asst. Prof., Univ. South Carolina, USA, 2006.

Asst. Prof., IIT Delhi, India, 2006-09.

Visiting Researcher: CEMS-RIKEN, Japan, 2008-2023.

Associate Professor., S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, 2009-2013.

Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, 2013-2017.

Senior Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, 2017-till date.

Important awards and fellowships

Elected Fellow of Institute of Physics (IOP), UK (2021).

Elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore (2020).

MRSI Medal (2017).

Featured in top 2% most influential scientists list published by Stanford University.

UKIERI Research Award, 2008 and 2012.

JSPS Fellowship, 2003

Chartered Physicist, IOP, London, 2002.

Main area of work

Nanomagnetism and spintronics.

Magnetic Thin Films, Nanostructures, Multilayers, Heterostructures.

Spin-orbitronics: Spin Hall Effect, Spin Pumping, Rashba Effect, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction.

Magnonics: Magnonic crystals, Hybrid, Topological and Quantum Magnonics.

Spintronics in Quantum, Topological & 2D Materials, Antiferromagnets, Heusler Alloys.

Magnetic Skyrmions, Domain Walls, Vortex.

Ultrafast Spin, Carrier and Phonon Dynamics.

Straintronics, Surface Acoustic Waves.

Three Dimensional Nanomagnetism, Artificial Spin Ice.

Ultrafast and THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

Brillouin Light Scattering, Ferromagnetic Resonance, Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy.

Numerical Modelling: Micromagnetic Simulations, Plane-Wave Method.

Student Supervision

Supervised more than 90 Research Students and Postdoctoral Fellows and Scientists. That includes 27 PhD students (17 completed, 10 ongoing).

Research Grants

Secured 16 Research Grants (13 completed, 3 ongoing).

Synergistic Activities

Editorial Board Member of Nanotechnology.

Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports.

Editorial Board Member of Pramana

Reviewer of about 40 international journals including: Springer-Nature, APS AIP, IOP, ACS, IEEE, Wiley, Elsevier journals.

Reviewer of Research Grants from German Research Foundation, National Science Centre Poland, Swiss National Science Foundation, Netherlands Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, Czech Science Foundation, NIE, Strasbourg, France, CEFIPRA (Indo-French), DST India and CSIR India.

Guest-Editor of special issues/roadmap of IOP, AIP, Hindawi journals.

Public Profiles

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Significant recent publications:

R. Fabiha, J. Lundquist, S. Majumder, E. Topsakal, A. Barman and S. Bandyopadhyay, Spin Wave Electromagnetic Nano‐Antenna Enabled by Tripartite Phonon‐Magnon‐Photon Coupling, Advanced Science 2104622 (2022).
S. Sahoo, A. May, A. van Den Berg, A. K. Mondal, S. Ladak and A. Barman, Observation of Coherent Spin Waves in a Three-Dimensional Artificial Spin Ice Structure, Nano Letters 21, 4629 (2021).
A. K. Chaurasiya, A. K. Mondal, J. C. Gartside, K. D. Stenning, A. Vanstone, S. Barman, W. R. Branford, and A. Barman, Comparison of Spin-Wave Modes in Connected and Disconnected Artificial Spin Ice Nanotructure using Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy, ACS Nano 15, 11734 (2021).
S. N. Panda, S. Majumder, S. Choudhury, A. Bhattacharya, S. Sinha, A. Barman, Femtosecond laser induced spin dynamics in Single Layer Graphene/CoFeB Thin Films, Nanoscale 13, 13709 (2021).
S. N. Panda, S. Majumder, A. Bhattacharyya, S. Dutta, S. Choudhury and A. Barman, Structural Phase Dependent Giant Interfacial Spin Transparency in W/CoFeB Thin Film Heterostructure, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 20875 (2021).
S. Choudhury, A. K. Chaurasiya, A. K. Mandal, B. Rana, K. Miura, H. Takanashi, Y. Otani and A. Barman, Voltage Controlled On-Demand Magnonic Nanochannels, Science Advances 6, eaba5457 (2020).
S. N. Panda, S. Mondal, J. Sinha, S. Choudhury and A. Barman, All Optical Detection of Spin Transparency by Spin Pumping in β-Ta/CoFeB Thin Films, Science Advances 5, eaav7200 (2019).
S. Mondal, M. A. Abeed, K. Dutta, A. De, S. Sahoo, A. Barman and S. Bandyopadhyay, Hybrid magneto-dynamical modes in a single magnetostrictive nanomagnet on a piezoelectric substrate, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 43970 (2018).
S. Mondal and A. Barman, Laser Controlled Spin Dynamics of Ferromagnetic Thin Film from Femtosecond to Nanosecond Timescale, Physical Review Applied 10, 054037 (2018).
A. K. Chaurasiya, S. Choudhury, J. Sinha and A. Barman Dependence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on layer thicknesses in Ta/Co-Fe-B/TaOx heterostructures from Brillouin light scattering, Physical Review Applied 9, 014008 (2018).
S. Sahoo, S. Barman, G. Williams, A. May, S. Ladak and A. Barman, Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics in a nanoscale Three-dimensional Cobalt tetrapod Structure, Nanoscale 10, 9981 (2018).
S. Choudhury, S. Barman, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Efficient Modulation of Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional Octagonal Magnonic Crystal, ACS Nano 11, 8814 (2017).
S. Mondal, S. Choudhury, N. Jha, A. Ganguly, J. Sinha and A. Barman, All-optical Detection of the Spin Hall Angle in W/CoFeB/SiO2 Heterostructures by Varying Tungsten Layer Thickness, Physical Review B 96, 054414 (2017).
S. Choudhury, S. Saha, R. Mandal, S. Barman, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Shape and Interface Induced Control of Spin Dynamics of Two-dimensional Bi-component Magnonic Crystals, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 18339 (2016).
S. Pal, S. Saha, M. V. Kamalakar, and A. Barman, Field Dependent Spin Waves in High Aspect Ratio Single Crystalline Ferromagnetic Nanowires, Nano Research 9, 1426 (2016).
S. Saha, S. Barman, Y. Otani and A. Barman, All-Optical Investigation of Tunable Picosecond Magnetization Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Nanostripes with Width Down to 50 nm, Nanoscale 7, 18312 (2015).
A. Ganguly, K. Kondou, H. Sukegawa, S. Mitani, S. Kasai, Y. Niimi, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Thickness Dependence of Spin Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance in Co50Fe50/Pt Bilayer Films, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 072405 (2014).
S. Saha, R. Mandal, S. Barman, D. Kumar, B. Rana, Y. Fukuma, S. Sugimoto, Y. Otani and A. Barman, Tunable Magnonic Spectra in Two Dimensional Magnonic Crystals with Variable Lattice Symmetry, Advanced Functional Materials, 23, 2378 (2013).
R. Mandal, S. Saha, D. Kumar, S. Barman, S. Pal, B. Rana, K. Das, A. K. Raychaudhuri, Y. Fukuma, Y. Otani, and A. Barman, Optically Induced Tunable Magnetization Dynamics in Nanoscale Co Antidot Lattices, ACS Nano 6, 3397 (2012).
B. Rana, D. Kumar, S. Barman, S. Pal, Y. Fukuma, Y. Otani and A. Barman, Detection of picosecond magnetization dynamics of 50 nm magnetic dots down to the single dot regime, ACS Nano 5, 9559 (2011).
S. Pal, B. Rana, O. Hellwig, T. Thompson, and A. Barman, Tunable magnonic frequency and damping in [Co/Pd]8 multilayers with variable Co layer thickness, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 082501 (2011).
S. Sugimoto, Y. Fukuma, S. Kasai, T. Kimura, A. Barman and Y. Otani, Dynamics of coupled vortices in a pair of ferromagnetic disks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 197203 (2011).
A. Barman and S. Barman, Dynamic dephasing of magnetization precession in arrays of thin magnetic nanoelements, Phys. Rev. B 79, 144415 (2009).
A. Barman, S. Wang, J. Maas, A. R. Hawkins, S. Kwon, A. Liddle, J. Bokor, and H. Schmidt, Magneto-optical observation of picosecond dynamics of single nanomagnets, Nano Letters 6, 2939 (2006).