Pankaj Mandal

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University
100 Edwin H Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Phone: 1-617-497-4649
Fax: 1-617-497-4627
E-mail:

Research Interest:

• Carrier dynamics study of semiconductor nanocrystals by time-domain and time-resolved THz spectroscopy


• THz induced spin dynamics study in nanostructure material


• THz Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bonding in water-biomolecule network

Education

• Ph.D, Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2005)
  Thesis title: Rotational Spectra of Weakly Bound H2S Complexes and 'Hydrogen Bond Radius'; Advisor: Prof. E. Arunan


• M.Sc., Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India (1999)


• B.Sc. (Honours), Chemistry, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India (1997)

Research Experience:

• February 2008-present: Postdoctoral Fellow
  Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  THz Impedance Spectroscopy, with Dr. Andrew J. Speck
  


• January 2006-January 2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
  Time-domain THz spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum dots and metallic nano-particles with Dr. Viktor Chikan


• 2001-2005: Senior Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
• 1999-2001: Junior Research Scholar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Microwave Spectroscopy of Weakly bound complexes formed by supersonic expansion with Prof. E. Arunan

Publications

• "Plasmon-phonon coupling in charged n-type CdSe quantum dots: A THz time-domain spectroscopic study", Pankaj K. Mandal and Viktor Chikan, Nano Letters, 7, 2521 (2007)


• "Ab initio and AIM theoretical analysis of hydrogen-bond radius of HD (D=F, Cl, Br, CN, OH, SH and CCH) donors and some acceptors", B. Raghavendra, Pankaj K. Mandal and E. Arunan, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 8, 5276 (2006)


• "Rotational spectra of weakly bound complexes containing H2O/H2S: Hydrogen bonding vs van der Waals interaction", E. Arunan, Pankaj K. Mandal, Mausumi Goswami and B. Raghavendra, Proc. Ind. Nat. Sci. Acad. 71 A, 377 (2005)


• "Pulsed nozzle Fourier transform microwave spectroscopic and ab initio investigations on the weakly bound Ar-(H2S)2 trimer", Pankaj K. Mandal, M. Goswami and E. Arunan, J. Ind Inst. Sci., 85, 353 (2005) (special issue on cold molecules)


• "Rotational spectra and structure of Ar2-H2S complex: Pulsed Nozzle Fourier Transform Microwave spectroscopic and ab initio studies", Pankaj K. Mandal, D. J. Ramdass and E. Arunan, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 7, 2740 (2005)


• "Rotational spectra and structure of the floppy C2H4-H2S complex: Bridging hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions", M. Goswami, P. K. Mandal, D. J. Ramdass and E. Arunan, Chem. Phys. Lett. 393, 22 (2004)


• "Pulsed Nozzle Fourier Transform Microwave Spectrometer: Advances and Applications", E. Arunan, S. Dev and Pankaj K. Mandal, Appl. Spec. Rev. 39, 131 (2004)


• "Pulsed nozzle Fourier transform microwave spectrometer: Ideal to define hydrogen bond radius", E. Arunan, A. P. Tiwari, Pankaj K. Mandal and P. C. Mathias, Curr. Sci. 82, 533 (2002)


• "Hydrogen bond radii for the hydrogen halides and van der Waals radius of hydrogen", Pankaj K. Mandal and E. Arunan, J. Chem. Phys. 114, 3880 (2001)