Faculty Details

• PhD, Materials Science (Electronics), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2004
• MSc, Physics & Techno-physics: Solid State Physics, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, 1997
• BSc, Physics, Vidyasagar University, 1995

• Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Centre for Materials Science & Nano-Technology, SMIT, Sikkim Manipal University, India, Associate Professor, Teaching: Undergraduate and post-graduate students, Administration: Departmental official responsibilities, Research: Guided Project students, 2011-2016
• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Techno India, Salt Lake, Kolkata, Under West Bengal University of Technology, India, Assistant Professor, Teaching: Framed out the syllabus for MTech course and taught the course, Administration: Coordinator of MTech in VLSI and Microelectronics course, Research: Guided Project students, 2009-2011
• Photovoltaic Group, InESS (Institute of Electronics of Solids and Systems) CNRS-UMR-7163, Universite de Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, CNRS Fellow, Research: Studied the advanced concepts of photovoltaic solar cells (Process flow) based on multi-/poly-crystalline Silicon film deposited on foreign substrates, 2008-2009
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA, Nanotechnology Scientist, Research: Developed new processes for nano-crystalline Silicon using PVD technique, Maintained Clean room activities; Helped students perform their research work, 2007-2008
• School of Electrical Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, TN, India, Assistant Professor, Teaching: Prepared syllabus on MTech Nanotechnology program for the 2006-08 academic year and onwards, Designed and set up the Nanotechnology laboratory in the institute, Administration: Procurement of instruments, Research: Guided Project students, 2006-2007
• Thin Film Nano and Microelectronics Research Laboratory, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Research: Studied the integration issues of high-k materials as gate insulators and metal nitrides as gate electrodes in CMOS devices for sub-65 nm technology nodes, Optimised the electrical measurement processes to determine charge defects in ultra-thin oxide layers, Developed a process to extract the metal work function values for different metal gate electrodes with stacked gate dielectrics, 2003-2006

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

• Area of Interest Semiconductor Materials: Processing and Characterisation, Materials Science


• Area of Expertise Microelectronics Processing Technology, Photovoltaic, Nano Electronics, Materials Science: Electrical (Solar Cell, Gas Sensor) & Electronic (MOSFET, TFT etc.) Devices


• Area of Research
  • Micro- and Nano-Electronics: Modelling & Processing
  • Solar Cell: Modelling & Processing
  • Growth and Characterization of New Zinc-Based Nanomaterials and Their Applications in Bio-Medical, Photo-Catalytic for Organic Dyes, etc.
  • Gas Sensors Using Graphene (Synthesized from Natural Cellulosic Material)
  • Thin Film Silicon-Based Solar Cell

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Dr Somenath Chatterjee is Professor in the Department of CMSNT at SMIT.

• Head of the Centre for Materials Science & Nanotechnology (CMSNT).
• Guided Students for smooth running of their conducting research.
• Execution of the Government sponsored research project.

• Cost Effective Synthesis of Graphene and Metal-Incorporated Graphene: Their Application as Sensors of Environmental Gases

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | AK Ray

  October 1, 2013

• Charge Trapping and Dielectric Relaxation in Connection with Breakdown of High-k Gate Dielectric Stacks

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | T Yuan | W Luo | Y Kuo | J Lu

  January 1, 2006 | Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices, USA

• High Performance High-k Gate Dielectrics Based on Mixed Oxides

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo | J Lu | J Yan | J Tewg

  January 1, 2006 | Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices, USA

• Effects of Post Metallisation Annealing on the Electrical Reliability of Ultra-Thin HfO2 Films with MoN and WN Gate Electrodes

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo | J Yan | J Tewg | J Lu

  January 1, 2005 | IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, USA

• Zr-Doped HfO2 High-k Dielectric with an Inserted HfNx Interface Layer

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J Yan | J Lu | HC Kim | Y Kuo

  January 1, 2005 | AVS 52nd International Symposium, USA

• Sub 2 nm Thick Zirconium Doped Hafnium Oxide High-K Gate Dielectrics

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo | J Lu | J Yan | T Yuan

  January 1, 2005 | 208th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, USA

• Electrical Characterisation of Ultra-Thin HfO2 Gate Dielectric with Metal Nitride Gate Electrodes

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo | J Lu | J-Y Tewg | H-C. Wen

  January 1, 2004 | International Workshop on Electrical Characterisation and Reliability for High-k Device, USA

• Leakage Current Characteristics of High-K ZrO2 Films on Si1-yCy

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | G Dalapati | S Samanta | PK Bose | CK Maiti

  January 1, 2004 | International Conference on Communication Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS), India

• Effect of Multi-Junction Approach on Electrical Measurements of Silicon and Germanium Alloy Based Thin-Film Solar Cell Using AMPS-1D

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S Singh | H Pal

  January 1, 2014 | International Journal of Photo Energy, Vol 2014, Pg 1-6

• Optimisation of the Performance of GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs Based Resonant Tunnelling Diode Using Transfer Matrix Approach

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S Roy | S Biswas | S Gupta Chatterjee

  January 1, 2013 | Quantum Matter, Vol 2 (5), Pg 341-352

• Electron Mobility in n-GaN at Ohmic Fields

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Shyamasree Gupta Chatterjee | Souradeep Chakrabarti

  J Advance Physics, Vol 2, Pg 36-39

• Modelling of Electron Transport in III-Nitride Compound Semiconductors for Low Field and Low Temperature Applications

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S Chakraborty | S Gupta Chatterjee | D. Chattopadhyay

  January 1, 2011 | ECS Transactions, Vol 34 (1), Pg 125-136

• Effects of Interfacial Charges on Doped and Undoped HfOx Stack Layer with TiN Metal Gate Electrode for Nano-Scaled CMOS Generation

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo

  January 1, 2011 | J Nano-Electron. Physics, Vol 3 (1), Pg 162-169

• Properties of n-Type Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells Formed by Aluminium Induced Crystallisation and CVD Thickening

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Ö Tüzün | Y Qiu | A. Slaoui | I Gordon

  Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol 94, Pg 1869-74

• Thermal Annealing Effect on Electrical Properties of Metal Nitride Gate Electrodes with Hafnium Oxide Gate Dielectrics in Nano-Metric MOS Devices

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo | J Lu

  January 1, 2008 | Microelectronics Engineering, Vol 85, Pg 202-9

• Determination of Band Discontinuities in Silicon Hetero-Structures

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | LK Bera

  January 1, 2007 | IETE Journal of Research, Vol 53(3), Pg 199

• Silicon Hetero-Epitaxial Layer Characterisation by Atomic Force Microscopy

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Y Kuo | J Lu | JY Tewg | P Majhi

  Microelectronics Reliability, Vol 46, Pg 69-76

• Electrical Reliability Aspects of HfO2 High-k Gate Dielectrics with TaN Metal Gate Electrodes Under Constant Voltage Stress

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J Lu | Y Kuo | JY Tewg

  January 1, 2006 | J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, Vol 24 (1), Pg 349-57

• Near Room Temperature Sensing of Nitric Oxide Using SnO2/Ni-Decorated Natural Cellulosic Graphene Nanohybrid Film

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | A. K. Chakraborty | P. K. Guha | S. Chatterjee | S. Santra | D. Samanta | S. Dey | S. Gupta Chatterjee

  Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, December 2018, Volume 29, Issue 23, pp 20162-20171. [Impact factor: 2.324]

• Control of Size and Distribution of Silicon Quantum Dots in Silicon Dielectrics for Solar Cell Application: A Review

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Dutta | S. Chatterjee | K. Mallem | Y. H. Cho | J. Yi

  Renewable Energy, Accepted, 2018. [Impact factor: 4.9]

• A Review on Bio-Synthesized Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Using Plant Extracts as Reductants and Stabilizing Agents

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Parita Basnet | T. Inakhunbi Chanu | Dhrubajyoti Samanta | Somenath Chatterjee

  Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Vol. 183, pp. 201-221, 2018. [Impact factor: 3.1]

• Quantified Differentiation of Surface Topography for Nano-Materials As-Obtained from Atomic Force Microscopy Images

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Mousumi Gupta | Somenath Chatterjee

  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 27, Issue 6, pp 2734-40, 2018. [Impact factor: 1.34]

• Effect of Grain Boundaries on the Performance of Thin-Film-Based Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells: A Numerical Modeling

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Nikita Chhetri | Somenath Chatterjee

  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 27, Issue 6, pp 2643-48, 2018. [Impact factor: 1.34]

• Synthesis of Flexible Graphene/Polymer Composites for Supercapacitor Applications

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Himangshu Pal | Somenath Chatterjee | Shuvam Bhubna | Praduman Kumar | Rajat Mahapatra

  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 27, Issue 6, pp 2668-72, 2018. [Impact factor: 1.34]

• Organic Dye Degradation under Solar Irradiation by Hydrothermally Synthesized ZnS Nanospheres

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Dhrubajyoti Samanta | T. Inakhunbi Chanu | Somenath Chatterjee | Parita Basnet

  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 27, Issue 6, pp. 2673-78, 2018. [Impact factor: 1.34]

• Effect of Reaction Parameters on Morphology and Photoluminescence of Intrinsic and Mn-doped ZnS Microspheres Synthesized by Hydrothermal Method

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | T. Inakhunbi Chanu | Dhrubajyoti Samanta | Archana Tiwari | Somenath Chatterjee

  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Volume 27, Issue 6, pp 2610-16, 2018. [Impact factor: 1.34]

• Electrical and Optical Characterization of SiOxNy and SiO2 Dielectric Layers and Rear Surface Passivation by Using SiO2/SiOxNy Stack Layers with Screen Printed Local Al-BSF for c-Si Solar Cells

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | N. Balaji | J. Yi | H. T. Nguyen | C. Park | M. Ju | J. Raja | S. Chatterjee | R Jeyakumar

  Current Applied Physics, 18, 107-113, 2018. [Impact factor: 2.12]

• Citrus Limetta Juice as Capping Agent in Hydrothermal Synthesis of ZnS Nanosphere for Photocatalytic Activity

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Chatterjee | T. I. Chanu | D. Samanta

  Materials Research Bulletin, 88, 85-90, 2017. [Impact factor: 2.873]

• Effect of Reaction Parameters on Photoluminescence and Photocatalytic Activity of Zinc Sulfide Nanosphere Synthesized by Hydrothermal Route

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | T. I. Chanu | D. Samanta | A. Tiwari | S. Chatterjee

  Applied Surface Science, 391, 548-56, 2017 [Impact factor: 4.439]

• Improved Data Retention of InSnZnO Nonvolatile Memory by H2O2 Treated Al2O3 Tunneling Layer: A Cost-Effective Method

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J. Raja | C. P. T. Nguyen | C. Lee | N. Balaji | S. Chatterjee | K. Jang | H. Kim | J. Yi

  IEEE Electron Device Letters, 37: 10, pp. 1272-1275, 2016. [Impact factor: 3.433]

• Surface Passivation of Boron Emitters on n-Type c-Si Solar Cells Using Silicon Dioxide and a PECVD Silicon Oxynitride Stack

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Chatterjee | J. Yi | R. Jeyakumar | S. Lee | C. Park | J. Raja | H. T. T. Nguyen | K. Nikesh | N. Balaji

  RSC Advances, Vol. 6, Issue 74, pp. 70040-45, 2016. [Impact factor: 3.1]

• Graphene-Metal Oxide Nanohybrids for Toxic Gas Sensor

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. G. Chatterjee | S. Chatterjee | A. K. Ray | A. K. Chakraborty

  Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, Vol. 221, 1170-81, 2015. [Impact factor: 5.667]

• Improvement of Mobility in Oxide-Based Thin Film Transistors: A Brief Review

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J. Raja | K. Jang | C. P.T. Nguyen | S. Chatterjee | J. Yi | N. Balaji | S. Qamar Hussain

  Trans. on Electrical and Electronic Materials, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 234-240, 2015

• Boosting the Mobility and Bias Stability of Oxide-Based Thin-Film Transistors with Ultra-Thin Nanocrystalline InSnO: Zr Layer

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J. Raja | K. Jang | J. Yi | S. Qamar Hussain | N. Balaji | S. Chatterjee | S. Velumani

  Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 106, 033501 (2015). [Impact factor: 3.495]

• Improvement of Data Retention Characteristics of OSOSO Multi-Stacked MIS Capacitor for Flat Panel Display Technology

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J. Raja | S. Jung | K. Jang | Z. Jin | S. Chatterjee | S. Velumani | J. Kim | J. Yi

  Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 37, pp. 9-13, 2015. [Impact factor: 2.593]

• Aging Effects on the Stability of Nitrogen-Doped and Un-Doped InGaZnO Thin-Film Transistors

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J. Raja | K. Jang | N. Balaji | S. Q. Hussain | S. Velumani | S. Chatterjee | J. Yi | T. Kim

  Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 37, pp. 129-34, 2015. [Impact factor: 2.593]

• Thermal Exfoliation of Natural Cellulosic Material for Graphene Synthesis

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | A. K. Ray | S. Chatterjee | J. K. Singh | H. Bapari

  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 24, pp. 80-84, 2015. [Impact factor: 1.34]

• Drain-Induced Barrier Lowering and Parasitic Resistance Induced Instabilities in Short-Channel InSnZnO TFTs

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | J. Raja | K. Jang | C. P. T. Nguyen | N. Balaji | S. Chatterjee | J. Yi

  IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 756-8, 2014. [Impact factor: 3.433]

• Effect of Multi-junction Approach on Electrical Measurements of Silicon and Germanium Alloy Based Thin-film Solar Cell Using AMPS-1D

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Chatterjee | S. Singh | H. Pal

  International Journal of Photoenergy, Vol. 2014, P. 1-6, 2014. [Impact factor: 1.563]

• Optimization of the Performance of GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs Based Resonant Tunneling Diode Using Transfer Matrix Approach

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Chatterjee | S. Gupta | Chatterjee | S. Biswas | S. Roy

  Quantum Matter, Vol. 2 (5), P. 341-352, 2013.

• Electron Mobility in n-GaN at Ohmic Fields

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Somenath Chatterjee | Souradeep Chakrabarti | Shyamasree Gupta | Chatterjee

  J. Adv. Phys., Vol. 2, P. 36-39, 2013.

• Photo-catalytic Activity of Green Synthesized Pure ZnS and Ag-ZnS Nanocomposite Under Sunlight

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | D. Samanta | P. Basnet | T. Chanu | S. G. Chatterjee | J. Mukherjee | S. Chatterjee

  International 63rd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (DAE SSPS 2018), published in AIP Proceedings, USA

• Removal of Cationic Water Pollutants Using PEG Stabilized ZnO Nanoparticles Under Solar Irradiation

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | P. Basnet | T. Chanu | D. Samanta | J. Mukherjee | S. Chatterjee

  International 63rd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (DAE SSPS 2018), published in AIP Proceedings, USA.

• Effect of Thickness and Temperature on Electrical Properties of Single Junction Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Somnath Biswas | Somenath Chatterjee

  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Communication and Electronics Systems (ICCES 2017) IEEE Xplore Compliant - Part Number: CFP17AWO-ART, ISBN: 978-1-5090-5013-0.

• Accurate Data Extraction Approach for Absorption Coefficient Calculation in Solar Cell Application

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Somnath Biswas | Somenath Chatterjee

  2nd IEEE International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT 2017), India (IEEE Xplore Compliant - Part Number: CFP17K52-ART, ISBN: 978-1-5090-6697-1).

• An Efficient Modelling of Amorphous Silicon and Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Film Transistor for AMOLED Display Using MATLAB

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | Suman Das | Somenath Chatterjee

  IEEE International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT), India, 26th-27th August, 2016.

• Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Devices for Recharging Cell-phone Batteries

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | H. Pal | S. Ghosh | R. Chatterjee | R. Mahapatra | S. Chatterjee

  IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, Computing and Communications (MicroCom), India, 23rd-25th January, 2016.

• Modelling of Hetro-Junction Intrinsic Thin Film Solar Cell Using AMPS ID

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Biswas | S. Chatterjee

  International Conference on "Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment" (RESE 2015), Pollachi, India, August 10-13, 2015.

• Third Generation of Silicon Photovoltaics: A Considerable Approach

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Chatterjee | S. Prasad

  National Conference on Materials Science for Energy Harvesting, Ranchi, India, 8-9th January, 2015

• Synthesis of Graphene / Metal-incorporated Graphene from Natural Cellulosic Materials

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | S. Gupta Chatterjee | V. Sharma | S. Chatterjee | P.K. Guha | A. K. Ray

  OS II - 6, International Symposium for Research Scholars on Metallurgy, Materials Science and Engineering (ISRS), IIT-Chennai, India, 11-12 Dec., 2014 (Best Paper Award).

• Effects of Low Temperature Annealing on the Interface Properties of Thermal Silicon Oxide For Silicon Surface Passivation

  Dr. Somenath Chatterjee | N. Balaji | C. Park | M. Ju | J. Raja | S. Chatterjee | V. Subramaniam | J. Yi

  7A, Advances in Functional Semiconducting Materials at the XXIII International Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico, August 17-21, 2014