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DR. MANORANJAN KHAN

Present Position:	Professor of Instrumentation Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032.
Formerly:	1) Professor of Physics, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Sibpur. 2) Secretary, Faculty of Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032. 3) Reader & Lecturer in Physics

Date of Birth:	26th July, 1946
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:	Total: 30 Years
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:	36 Years, PG level 16 Years.
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE :	15 Years

LEADERSHIP : JOINT COORDINATOR CENTRE FOR PLASMA STUDIES:	1993-2004.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/CO-INVESTIGATOR OF SPONSORED MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT:	1984 - to date.

AWARDS

ASSOCIATE THIRD WORLD ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (ICTP, ITALY) to visit Institute of Plasma Physics Hefei (China), 2000 - 2004. Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics, Shanghai 2005 - to date ii)
VISITING ASSOCIATE, INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS PUNE (INDIA) 1997 - to date. iii)
Teacher Fellowship : 4 Years

PAPERS PUBLISHED :	Total : 69
Referred Journal :	56 (Experimental: 08, Theoretical: 48)
Proceedings :	11
Monograph :	01 [PHYSICS REPORTS 114 (1984)]
Invited Article :	01
RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED :	09 (6.7 Million INR)

Theoretical : 01
Experimental : 01

Ph.D. thesis guided : 06
Ph.D. work in progress : 05

"ADVANCES IN PLASMA PHYSICS RESEARCH"
Published by NOVA Science Publishers INC., U.S.A. (2004)
"RECENT TRENDS IN ASTRO AND PLASMA PHYSICS IN INDIA"
Published by Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata (2003).

Present Research Activities

Theoretical Programmes:
Theoretical research works are being carried out for the last 30 years. Some works have been done in collaboration with the Scientists of Theoretical Physics Division (BARC), Laser & Plasma Technology Division (BARC) and Institute of Plasma Research (Gandhinagar). The works are being conducted under the ongoing DST & DAE sponsored research projects of which myself is the Principal Investigator. Works are also done in the 8 completed research projects sponsored by DAE & DST in which myself acted as Investigator/Principal Investigator since 1984 and rendered leadership in the programmes.
The areas covered.
- Waves and Instabilities in dusty plasmas with application to the cosmic plasma environment like intersteller space, cometary tails, and astrophysical plasmas. Dust charge fluctuation and shock wave generation, formation of voids, etc.
- Secondary electron emission from dust grains and effect on the Dust Acoustic Wave and Dust Ion Acoustic waves in a complex plasma.
- Inertial confinement related problems, nonlinear wave interaction and instabilities in laser produced plasmas including self generated magnetic fields, SBS, SRS, energy transport, radiation transport, target design, Jet formation, parametric instabilities, Richmayer Meshkove (RM) and Releigh Taylor (RT) instabilities and study of Equation of state of solids due to ablatively driven shocks.
- Linear and nonlinear wave processes in plasmas, nonlinear optical processes in plasmas, induced magnetization, magnetic field generation in space plasmas and astrophysical plasma for low and high frequency waves and instabilities, etc.
Experimental Programme:
Recently we have initiated a collaborative research programme with the Scientists of High Pressure Physics Division (BARC) and Prof. D. Batani (University of Milan, Italy) investigate analytically and numerically the growth of Richt-Mayer Meshkove (RM) and Releigh Taylor (RT) instability in ablatively driven shocks in multilayer target in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiment.
We have also conducted experiments in the laboratory of High Pressure Physics Division (BARC, Mumbai).
Experimental work related to Instrumentation Science (Analytical Instruments) in collaboration with Prof. R. Bhar of the Dept. of Instrumentation Science is being conducted since last 5 years and some other future programmes are being taken up.

Ongoing Research Projects:

Title	Funding Agency	Period	Amount (Million INR)	Role(Own designation & PI/CI/PC)
Investigation of interface fluid instabilities in ablatively driven multilayer targets.	DAE	2005-	.68	PI: Prof. Manoranjan Khan CI: Prof. M.R. Gupta Dr. S. Sarkar PC: Prof. R. Singh (IPR, Gandhinagar)
Study of the characteristics of waves in a complex plasma including the effect of ionization, recombination, electron capture and emission of dust grains.	DST	2005-	1.7	PI: Prof. Manoranjan Khan CI: Prof. M.R. Gupta Dr. S. Sarkar Prof. H.C. Pant Dr. B.K. Godwal (BARC, Mumbai)

d) Sponsored Research Project Executed (Principle Investigator/Co-Investigator)
Projects completed : 09

Title	Funding Agency	Period	Amount (Lakhs)	Role (Own designation & PI/CI/PC)
Energy transport in Laser irradiated targets.	DAE	1984-1988	3.5	Co-PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan PI: Prof. B. Chakraborty
Magnetic field generation in laser plasma interaction.	DAE	1988-1991	4.5	Co-PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan PI: Prof. B. Chakraborty
Radiation transport in laser irradiated targets.	DAE	1991-1995	5.0	Co-PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan PI: Prof. B. Chakraborty
Wave processes in plasma including Sun and Ionosphere.	DST	1992-1996	4.0	Co-PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan PI: Prof. B. Chakraborty CI: R.P. Bandopadhyay
Study of long wavelength laser interaction in plasma.	DAE	1995-2000	7.0	PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan CI: Prof. B. Chakraborty Dr. S. Sarkar PC: V.N. Rai (CAT, Indore)
Study of the effect of grain charge fluctuation on waves in a dusty plasma.	DAE	2001-2004	8.0	PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan CI: Prof. M.R. Gupta Dr. S. Sarkar PC: Prof. K. Avinash (IPR, Gandhinagar)
Effect of secondary electron on wave processes in dusty plasma.	DST	2001-2004	8.5	PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan CI: Prof. M.R. Gupta Dr. S. Sarkar
Experimental: Study of R.F. discharge plasmas in pure gases, Co2 laser gas mixture and seeded gas by Langmuir probe technique.	DST	1997-2001	15	Co-PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan PI: Dr. A.M. Basu (Phys. Dept.) CI: Prof. D.C. Sarkar
Study of Pulse Laser Ablated Plasma and Fabrication of High Quality Thin Film.	DST	2001-2005	7.0	Co-PI: Dr. Manoranjan Khan PI: R.B. Bhar, USIC PC: Prof. R.K. Thareja (IIT, Kanpur)

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