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भारतीय विज्ञान शिक्षा एवं अनुसंधान संस्थान कोलकाता

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA

... towards excellence in science

An Autonomous Institution, Under the Ministry of Education, Government of India

Ayan Banerjee

Professor
Dept: Physical Sciences (DPS), Center of Excellence in Space Sciences, India (CESSI)
E-mail: ayan [at] iiserkol.ac.in

All Publications:

  1. Kumar, Sumeet; M, Gunaseelan; Vaipully, Rahul; Banerjee, Ayan and Roy, Basudev. 2021."Breaking the diffraction limit in absorption spectroscopy using upconverting nanoparticles." Nanoscale, 13, 11856
  2. Mukherjee, Chandreyee; Kundu, Avijit; Dey, Raunak; Banerjee, Ayan and Sengupta, Kaushik. 2021."Active microrheology using pulsed optical tweezers to probe viscoelasticity of lamin A." Soft Matter, 17, 6787-6796
  3. Banerjee, Arunita; Das, Nandan; Dey, Rajib; Majumdar, Shouvik; Shit, Piuli; Banerjee, Ayan; Ghosh, Nirmalya and Bhadra, Anindita. 2021."Power-laws in dog behavior may pave the way to predictive models: A pattern analysis study." Heliyon, 7, e07243
  4. Paul, Shuvojit; Narinder, N; Banerjee, Ayan; Nayak, Rajesh K; Steindl, Jakob and Bechinger, Clemens. 2021."Bayesian inference of the viscoelastic properties of a Jeffrey’s fluid using optical tweezers." Scientific Reports, 11, 2023
  5. Dey, Raunak; Ghosh, Subrokoli; Kundu, Avijit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2021."Simultaneous Random Number Generation and Optical Tweezers Calibration Employing a Learning Algorithm Based on the Brownian Dynamics of a Trapped Colloidal Particle." Frontiers in Physics, 8:576948, 1-12
  6. Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Ranjan, Anand Dev; Das, Santu; Sen, Rakesh; Roy, Basudev; Roy, Soumyajit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2021."Directed Self-Assembly Driven Mesoscale Lithography Using Laser-Induced and Manipulated Microbubbles: Complex Architectures and Diverse Applications." Nano Letters, 21, 10-25
  7. Sil, Souvik; Basak, Prithviraj; Pahi, Anita and Banerjee, Ayan. 2020."A study of photophoretic trapping exploiting motional resonances of trapped particles induced by wideband excitation." Applied Physics Letters, 117, 221106
  8. Pal, Debapriya; Gupta, Subhasish Dutta; Ghosh, Nirmalya and Banerjee, Ayan. 2020."Direct observation of the effects of spin dependent momentum of light in optical tweezers." APL Photonics, 5, 086106
  9. Tiwari, Roshan; Maji, Krishnendu; A, Ajmal; Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Haldar, Debasish and Banerjee, Ayan. 2020."Laser assisted self-assembly of diphenylalanine: Emergence of robust waveguiding properties and Fano resonances." Journal of Material Chemistry C, 8, 9663
  10. Chandra, Amar Deo and Banerjee, Ayan. 2020."Rapid phase calibration of a spatial light modulator using novel phase masks and optimization of its efficiency using an iterative algorithm." Journal of Modern Optics, 67, 628
  11. Sil, Souvik; Basak, Prithviraj and Banerjee, Ayan. 2020."Characterization of a photophoretic optical trap in air by measuring motional resonances of trapped absorbing mesoscopic particles." Asian Journal of Physics, 29, 163
  12. Paul, Shuvojit; Kumar, Randhir and Banerjee, Ayan. 2019."A quantitative analysis of memory effects in the viscously coupled dynamics of optically trapped Brownian particles." Soft Matter (Communications), 15, 8976
  13. Kundu, Avijit; Paul, Shuvojit; Banerjee, Soumitro and Banerjee, Ayan. 2019."Measurement of Van der Waals force using oscillating optical tweezers." Applied Physics Letters, 115, 123701
  14. Paul, Shuvojit; Kundu, Avijit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2019."Single-shot phase-sensitive wideband active microrheology of viscoelastic fluids using pulse-scanned optical tweezers." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 31, 504001
  15. Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Biswas, Aritra; Roy, Basudev and Banerjee, Ayan. 2019."Self-assembly and complex manipulation of colloidal mesoscopic particles by active thermocapillary stress." Soft Matter, 15, 4703
  16. Paul, Shuvojit; Kundu, Avijit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2019."Active microrheology to determine viscoelastic parameters of Stokes-Oldroyd B fluids using optical tweezers." Journal of Physics Communication, 3, 035002
  17. Thomas, Preethi; Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Mallik, Apabrita; Banerjee, Ayan and Roy, Soumyajit. 2018."Inexpensive Design of Bio-Chip for Disease Diagnostics: Microchip Patterned from a Soft oxometalate-Perylene based Hybrid Composite using Thermo-optical Laser Tweezers." European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , 2019, 469
  18. Paul, Shuvojit; Kumar, Randhir and Banerjee, Ayan. 2018."Two-point active microrheology in a viscous medium exploiting a motional resonance excited in dual-trap optical tweezers." Physical Review E, 97, 042606
  19. Paul, Shuvojit; Roy, Basudev and Banerjee, Ayan. 2018."Free and confined Brownian motion in viscoelastic Stokes-Oldroyd B fluids." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 30, 345101
  20. Paul, Shuvojit; Laskar, Abhrajit; Singh, Rajesh; Roy, Basudev; Adhikari, R. and Banerjee, Ayan. 2017."Direct verification of the fluctuation-dissipation relation in viscously coupled oscillators." Physical Review E Rapid Communication, 96, 050102(R)
  21. Sil, Souvik; Saha, Tushar Kanti; Kumar, Avinash; Bera, Sudipta and Banerjee, Ayan. 2017."Dual-mode optical fiber-based tweezers for robust trapping and manipulation of absorbing particles in air." Journal of Optics (Letters), 12, 12LT02
  22. Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Das, Santu; Paul, Shuvojit; Thomas, Preethi; Roy, Basudev; Mitra, Partha; Roy, Soumyajit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2017."In situ self-assembly and photopolymerization for hetero-phase synthesis and patterning of conducting materials using soft oxometalates in thermo-optical tweezers." Journal of Material Chemistry C, 5, 6718
  23. Bera, Sudipta; Paul, Shuvojit; Singh, Rajesh; Ghosh, Dipanjan; Kundu, Avijit; Banerjee, Ayan and Adhikari, R. 2017."Fast Bayesian inference of optical trap stiffness and particle diffusion." Scientific Reports, 7, 41638
  24. Bera, Sudipta; Kumar, Avinash; Sil, Souvik; Saha, Tushar Kanti; Saha, Tanumoy and Banerjee, Ayan. 2016."Simultaneous measurement of mass and rotation of trapped absorbing particles in air." Optics Letters, 41, 4356
  25. Saha, Sudipta; Singh, Ankit K; Ray, Subir K; Banerjee, Ayan; Gupta, Subhasish Dutta and Ghosh, Nirmalya. 2016."Transverse spin and transverse momentum in scattering of plane waves." Optics Letters, 41, 4499
  26. Roy, Basudev; Mondal, Argha; Bera, Sudipta K and Banerjee, Ayan. 2016."Using Brownian motion to measure shape asymmetry in mesoscopic matter using optical tweezers." Soft Matter, 12, 5077—5080
  27. Roy, Basudev; Panja, Mayukh; Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Sengupta, Supratim; Nandy, Dibyendu and Banerjee, Ayan. 2016."Exploring the phase explosion of water using SOM-mediated micro-bubbles." New Journal of Chemistry, 40, 1048-1056
  28. Mandal, Argha; Roy, Basudev and Banerjee, Ayan. 2015."Generation of microswimmers from passive Brownian particles in a spherically aberrated optical trap." Optics Express, 23, 8021-8028
  29. Thomas, Preethi; Pei, Cuiying; Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Subhrokoli; Das, Santu; Banerjee, Ayan; Ben, Teng; Qiu, Shilun and Roy, Soumyajit. 2015."Site specific supramolecular heterogeneous catalysis by optically patterned soft oxometalate– porous organic framework (SOM–POF) hybrid on a chip." Journal of Material Chemistry A, 3, 1431-1442
  30. Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Banerjee, Ayan; Gupta, Subhasish Dutta and Banerjee, Ayan. 2014."Manifestations of geometric phase and enhanced spin Hall shifts in an optical trap." New Journal of Physics, 16, 083037
  31. Roy, Basudev; Bera, Sudipta K and Banerjee, Ayan. 2014."Simultaneous detection of rotational and translational motion in optical tweezers by measurement of backscattered intensity." Optics Letters, 39, 3316-3319
  32. Roy, Basudev; Sahasrabudhe, Atharva; Parasar, Bibudha; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Panigrahi, Prasanta; Banerjee, Ayan and Roy, Soumyajit. 2014."Micro-OptoMechanical Movements (MOMs) with SoftOxometalates (SOMs): Controlled Motion of Single Soft-Oxometalate Pea-pods Using Exotic Optical Potentials." Journal of Molecular and Engineering Materials, 2, 1440006-17
  33. Roy, Basudev; Arya, Manish; Thomas, Preethi; Jurgschat, Julius Konstantin; Rao, K Venkata; Banerjee, Ayan; Reddy, Chilla Malla and Roy, Soumyajit. 2013."Self-Assembly of Mesoscopic Materials to form Controlled and Continuous Patterns by Thermo-Optically Manipulated Laser Induced Microbubbles." Langmuir, 29 , 14733
  34. Soni, Jalpa; Ghosh, Sayantan; Mansha, Shampy; Kumar, Amit; Gupta, Subhasish Dutta; Banerjee, Ayan and Ghosh, Nirmalya. 2013."Enhancing spin-orbit interaction of light by plasmonic nanostructures." Optics Letters, 38, 1748
  35. Roy, Basudev; Ghosh, Nirmalya; Gupta, S Dutta; Panigrahi, Prasanta K; Roy, Soumyajit and Banerjee, Ayan. 2013."Controlled transportation of mesoscopic particles by enhanced spin orbit interaction of light in an optical trap." Physical Review A, 87, 043823
  36. Roy, Basudev; Pal, Sambit Bikas; Haldar, Arijit; Gupta, Ratnesh Kumar; Ghosh, Nirmalya and Banerjee, Ayan. 2012."Probing the dynamics of an optically trapped particle by phase sensitive back focal plane interferometry." Optics Express, 20, 8317
  37. Haldar, Arijit; Pal, Sambit Bikas; Roy, Basudev; Gupta, S Dutta and Banerjee, Ayan. 2012."Self-assembly of microparticles in stable ring structures in an optical trap." Physical Review A, 85, 033832
  38. Pal, Sambit Bikas; Haldar, Arijit; Roy, Basudev and Banerjee, Ayan. 2012."Measurement of probe displacement to the thermal resolution limit in photonic force microscopy using a miniature quadrant photodetector." Review of Scientific Instruments, 83, 023108
  39. Ghosh, Nirmalya; Banerjee, Ayan and Soni, Jalpa. 2011."Turbid medium polarimetry in biomedical imaging and diagnosis." European Physical Journal of Applied Physics, 54, 30001


  1. Gupta, Subhasish Dutta; Ghosh, Nirmalya and Banerjee, Ayan. 2015." ", "Wave optics: Basic Concepts and Contemporary Trends". CRC Press, ISBN: 9781482237733