Dr. Abhijit Majumdar

Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6 17489 Greifswald, Germany Telephone: +49-3834-864784 Fax: +49-3834-864701 Email: majumdar@ physik.uni-greifswald.de abhijit_majumdar2005@yahoo.com (www.physik.uni-greifswald.de/) (http://www4.physik.uni-greifswald.de/majumdar-publication.php/)

Education:
Research Scientist/Wiessensaft Mitarbeiter, University of Greifswald, Germany, 2010 onwards
Postdoc fellow, E. M. A. University, Greifswald, Germany, 2006-09
Ph.D in Physics, E. M. A. University, Greifswald, Germany, 2002-06
M.Tech. in Electronics, DAV Univ., Indore, India, 2002
M.Sc. in Physics, DAV Univ., Indore, India, 2001
B.Sc. in Physics, Burdwan Univ., W.B., India, 1999

Research Interest:

• Organic thin film deposition by dielectric barrier discharge plasma (for high and low k material), Hard and soft x-ray photoemission study of amorphous thin film deposited my different plasma.
• Quantum chemical and molecular dynamics study on hydro-carbon films
• Mass spectrometry on organic gas plasma Plasma Gas chemistry (CH4/Ar/N2, C2H4/Ar/N2, C2H6/Ar/N2, C2H2/Ar/N2)
• Nano-Cluster deposition and Surface analysis (Cu, Ni, Ti, C, Si, and Ag clusters by cluster ion source and their characterization by XPS, SEM9_EDX, AFM and RTA)
• Plasma application on cells line and Bacteria Treatment and sterilization of bacteria by plasma jet is on going application. For the future prospect we will apply such plasma jet on the treatment of skin and throat cancer cell line.
• Structural dynamics of metal (magnetic or non-magnetic) thin film by neutron scattering. Investigations of hybridized phonon or magnon modes or mixed excitations in several metal alloys.
• Hard and soft x-ray photoemission study for organic and inorganic materials (for depth profile and chemical analysis)

Recent Development:
Plasma Application on Skin diseases treatment (No Damage, No Harm, No Pain)
Mild UV radiation and Temperature produce in Plasma jet is ~ 35 to 60 deg C

Our Recent Activities on Surfaces

Self quenching surface

Diamond like film

Hydrocarbon bubbles on Si surface

Experimental Facilities:

Dielectric Barrier Discharge Set up

Plasma Jet

Cluster ion source

Accelerator

Working Group : Prof. Dr. Rainer Hippler, Dr. Fritz Herrmann, Dr. Abhijit Majumdar, Stefan Wrehde, Andre Mengel, Huang Tung Do, Marina Ganeva, Vladimir Suskov, Heidelore Boldt, Axel Knuth, Daniel Köpp, Jana Kredl, Henrik kotzan.

Group Leader : Prof. Dr. Rainer Hippler (www4.physik.uni-greifswald.de/)

Collaboration with:

• Bessy, Helmholtz Zentrum, Adlarshorf, Einstein Strasse, Berlin, Germany. 2010, 2011 (26th to 1st May)
• Hahn Meitner Institute, Helmholtz Zentrum, Wannsee, Berlin Germany. 2009
• Humboldt-University zu Berlin, Institute für Chemie, Brook-Taylor Str 2, 12489, Germany. 2007
• Max-Planck Institute, Munich, Greifswald, Germany. (www.ipp.mpg.de) 2006
• Universita degli studi ``Magna Graecia" di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. 2006
• Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, WB, India.(www.saha.ac.in) 2005
• INP (Institute for Low Temperature plasma physics), Greifswald, Germany. (www.inp-greifswald.de/web.nsf/index?OpenPage&Language=eng) 2005
• UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, University Campus, Indore-452 001, M.P., India. 2008
• Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 2009

Publications (personal use only):
Citation Index (h index) = 6

1. Abhijit Majumdar, Konstantin Matyash, Jürgen F. Behnke, Ralf Scnneider and Rainer Hippler,“Chemical reaction studies in CH4/Ar and CH4/N2 gas mixture of a dielectric barrier discharge", J. Phys. Chem. A, 109, 9371-9377, 2005 (pdf1)
2. Abhijit Majumdar, Jan Schäfer, Puneet Mishra, Debabrata Ghose, Jürgen Meichsner, Rainer Hippler, “Chemical compositions and bond structure of carbon-nitride film deposited by CH4/N2 barrier discharge” , Surf. Coat. Technol.,201, 6437-6444 2007. (pdf2)
3. Abhijit Majumdar, Rainer Hippler, “Development of DBD plasma processing apparatus for mass spectrometry and thin film deposition” , Rev. Sci. Instrument 78, 075103 (2007). (pdf3)
4. Abhijit Majumdar, Gobind Das, Nainesh Patel, Puneet Mishra, Debabrata Ghose, Rainer Hippler,“Microstructural evaluation of low dielectric constant SiOC:H films prepared by dielectric barrier discharge plasma” J. Electrochemical Society, 155, (1) D22-D26 2008. (pdf4)
5. Abhijit Majumdar, Karsten Schröder, Rainer Hippler, “Cytocompatibility of amorphous hydrogenated carbon nitride films deposited by CH4/N2 dielectric barrier discharge plasmas with respect to cell lines” J. Appl. Phys., 104, 074702 2008. (pdf5)
6. Abhijit Majumdar, Marina Ganeva, D. Köppa, D. Datta, P. Mishra, S.R. Bhattacharayya, D. Ghose, Rainer Hippler, “Surface morphology and composition of films grown by size-selected Cu-nanoclusters” Vacuum, 83, 719-723 2009. (pdf6)
7. Abhijit Majumdar, Gudrun Scholz, Rainer Hippler, “Structural characterization of amorphous hydrogenated-carbon nitride (aH-CNx) film deposited by CH4/N2 dielectric barrier discharge plasma: 13C, 1H Solid State NMR, FTIR and Elemental analysis.” Surf. Coat. Technol., 203, 2013-2016 2009. (pdf7)
8. Abhijit Majumdar, S.R. Bhattacharayya, Rainer Hippler, “Rapid thermal annealing effect on amorphous hydrocarbon film deposited by CH4/Ar dielectric barrier discharge plasma on Si wafer: Surface Morphology and Chemical evaluation” J. Appl. Phys., 105, 094909 2009. (pdf8)
9. Abhijit Majumdar, Ramesh Ummanni, Karsten Schröder, Reinhard Walther, Rainer Hippler, “Cancer cells (MCF-7, Colo-357 and LNCaP) viability on amorphous hydrogenated carbon nitride film deposited by dielectric barrier discharge plasma” J. Appl. Phys, 106, 034702 2009. (pdf9)
10. Abhijit Majumdar, S. R. Bhattacharyya, Rainer Hippler, “Development of metal nanocluster ion source based on dc magnetron plasma sputtering at room temperature” Rev. Sci. Instrument, 80, 095103 2009. (pdf10)
11. Abhijit Majumdar, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Gottfried J. Palm, Rainer Hippler, “Dielectric barrier discharge plasma on E. coli : CH4/N2, O2, N2/O2, N2 and Ar gas composition” J. Appl. Phys. 106, 084701 2009. (pdf11)
12. Abhijit Majumdar, Gobind Das and Rainer Hippler, “Role of nitrogen in the formation of H-CNx film : Aliphatic tendency” , J. Phys. Chem B 113, 15734-15741 2009. (pdf12)
13. Abhijit Majumdar, Basudev Ghosh, Rainer Hippler, “Variation of Polarization and Temperature in the growth of C-N layer in CH4/N2 barrier discharge plasma” Physics of Plasmas 17, 113506 2010 (pdf13).
14. Abhijit Majumdar, Robert Bogdanowicz, Rainer Hippler, “Ellipsometric study of carbon nitride films deposited by DC-magnetron sputtering ” Photonics letter of Poland 3 (2) 70-72, 2011 (pdf14)
15. M. Ohlidal, I. Ohlidal, P. Klapetek, D. Necas and Abhijit Majumdar “Measurement of the thickness distribution and optical constants of non-uniform thin films” , Meas. Sci. Technol. 22, 085104 2011 (pdf15)
16. Sadhan Chandra Das, Abhijit Majumdar, N. P Lalla, T Sripathi, R. Hippler, “Development of simple compensation circuit for ferro-electric loop tracer with variable frequency” Ferroelectrics Letters section , 38, 78-86, 2011.(pdf16)
17. H.C. Thejaswini, Abhijit Majumdar, R. Hippler,"Plasma chemical reactions in C2H2/N2, C2H4/N2, and C2H6/N2 gas mixtures of a laboratory dielectric barrier discharge" Advances in Space Research , 48, 857–861 2011. (pdf17)
18. Abhijit Majumdar, S. C. Das, T. Shripathi, R. Hippler, “Ultra Low-k property of Hydrogenated carbon nitride: Chemical evaluation” Chemical Physics Letter , 524, 62-67 2012 (pdf18)
19. Ulrike Martens, Abhijit Majumdar, R. Hippler, “Deposition of amorphous hydrogenated carbon nitride film by a dielectric barrier discharge” Plasma Process and Polymer (Accepted) , 2012
20. Abhijit Majumdar, R. Hippler, “CH4/N2 dielectric barrier discharge plasma deposition: Dielectric behavior of CN layer studied by Lissajous figure" (Submitted),2012.
21. Abhijit Majumdar, S. C. Das, Walter Langel, T. Sripathi, R. Hippler, “Role of nitrogen in evolution of sp2/sp3 bonding and optical band gap in hydrogenated carbon nitride: Raman spectroscopy” (submitted), 2012.
22. Abhijit Majumdar, Klaus Ellmer and Rainer Hippler, “Role of nitrogen in optical and electrical band gap of hydrogenated/hydrogen free carbon nitride” (in progress), 2012.
23. S. C. Das,Abhijit Majumdar, T. Sripathi, R. Hippler, “Development of fast heating inert gas annealing apparatus operated at atmospheric pressure” (in progress), 2012.
24. Abhijit Majumdar, S. C. Das, Walter Langel, T. Sripathi, R. Hippler, "Delocalization of lone pair electron in reactive O 1s peak in carbon nitride: x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study"(in progress), 2012.
25. Abhijit Majumdar, Sadhan Chandra Das, Thoudinja Sripathi, Rainer Hippler, “Valence band shift towards Fermi edge in hydrogenated carbon nitride” (in progress), 2012.
26. Abhijit Majumdar, S. C. Das, T. Sripathi, R. Hippler, “Interband and Intraband transition in hydrogenated carbon nitride: Angle resolved FTIR spectroscopy” (in progress), 2012.
27. Abhijit Majumdar, Harm Wulf, Rainer Hippler, “Self organized Otahedron structure of Cu3N” (in progress), 2012.
28. Abhijit Majumdar, Klaus Ellmer and Rainer Hippler, “Direct observation of widely tunable band gap of carbon nitride: Role of nitrogen” (in progress), 2012.
29. Abhijit Majumdar, Rainer Hippler, “Oxidation of Mg/MgN surface: x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study” (in progress), 2012.
30. Abhijit Majumdar, Walter Langel and Rainer Hippler, “Carbon absorption at Ti/TiO surface: First Principle study” (in progress), 2012.
31. Abhijit Majumdar, S. C. Das, Walter Langel, R. Hippler, "Structual difference in hydrogenated/hydrogen free carbon nitride: Raman Spectroscopy" in progress 2012.
32. Abhijit Majumdar and Rainer Hippler, “Auger recombination dominates in photoelectron emission of fluorescence material” (in progress), 2012.
33. Abhijit Majumdar and Rainer Hippler, “Multiple ionization effect in photo-emission study of carbon nitride (relaxation of core holes of multiple levels)” (in progress), 2012.
34. Abhijit Majumdar, W. Langel, Rainer Hippler, “First principle study on chemical shift of Hydrogenated carbon nitride soild” (in progress), 2012.
35. Abhijit Majumdar, Iver Lauermann, Brita Hoeafner, Rainer Hippler, “Hard x-ray photoemission study at BESSY KMC I beam line : Depth profile and chemical shift study of H-CNx, TiN and MgN film” (in progress), 2012.
36. Abhijit Majumdar, Basudev Ghosh, Rainer Hippler, “Existance of Quasi-solid phase during CH4/N2 DBD plasma deposition: Satisfy Gibbs phase rule” in progress 2012.
37. Abhijit Majumdar, Basudev Ghosh, Rainer Hippler, “Polarizability of molecules responsible for Molecurlar relaxation” in progress 2012.
38. Abhijit Majumdar, Rainer Hippler, “Amorphous C3N4 phase in hydrogenated carbon nitride” (in progress), 2012.
39. Abhijit Majumdar,Subrata K Mukherjee and Rainer Hippler, "Oxidation of Ti/TiN, Cu/CuN and Mg/MgN thin layer: Photoemission spectroscopy study" (in progress), 2012.
40. Abhijit Majumdar, Walter Langel, Rainer Hippler, "Water and oxygen absorption in TiN surface: Quantum chemical study" 2012
41. Abhijit Majumdar, Basudev Ghosh, Rainer Hippler, “Power estimation, effect of plasma frequency, refractive index and I2Rt heating in DBD plasma” (in progress), 2012.
42. Abhijit Majumdar, Satyaranjan Bhattacharya, Rainer Hippler, “Nano Pillar in DLC film” (in progress), 2012.
43. Abhijit Majumdar, Sadhan Chandra Das, Rainer Hippler, “Nitrogen bubbles in Carbon nitride film” (in progress), 2012.
44. Sadhan Das, Abhijit Majumdar, T Sripathi, Rainer Hippler, “Surface quenching at 1Pa magnetron film, XPS VB results” (in progress), 2012.
45. Abhijit Majumdar and Rainer Hippler,“Chemical reaction studies in C2H6/Ar, C2H4/Ar and C2H2/Ar gas mixture of a dielectric barrier discharge plasma: Mass spectrometry" (in progress), 2012.
46. Abhijit Majumdar, Rainer Hippler, “Dielectric to ferroelectric phase transition in hydrocarbon plasma” (in progress), 2012.
47. Abhijit Majumdar,Klasius Ellmer and Rainer Hippler, “Band gap and electronic structure of H-CNx film deposited by DBD plasma” (in progress), 2012.
48. Abhijit Majumdar,Thomas Swartz Seilinger and Rainer Hippler, “Mass resolution and corresponding breakdown pattern of CH4/N2 fragments in DBD plasma” (in progress), 2012.
49. Abhijit Majumdar, Kaleswar Rao Bhaswani, Rainer Hippler, “Empirical formala for amorphous carbon nitride film : FTIR, Elemental and Mass analysis” , (in progress) 2012.
50. Abhijit Majumdar, Rainer Hippler, “Mass spectrum analysis and I-V characteristics studies of CH4/Ar, CH4/N2, CH4/H2, CH4/He mixture in dielectric barrier discharge plasma” (in progress), 2012.

Conference Proceedings:

1. Abhijit Majumdar, Jürgen F. Behnke, Rainer Hippler, Contributed paper of IXth Int. Symp. on High pressure, low temperatue plasma chemestry (Hakone IX, Padova, Italy, August 23-27), 4P-01, 2004. (pdf1), Hakone IX
2. Abhijit Majumdar and Rainer Hippler on “Study of mass spectrum analysis of CH4/N2 gas mixture in dielectric barrier discharge” . DPG conference (German Physical Society). (Kiel, Germany, March 8-11, 2004), P 3.22, 39
3. Abhijit Majumdar and Rainer Hippler on “Chemical composition and bond structure of carbon-nitride film deposited by CH4/N2 barrier discharge” . IWM (International Workshop for Micro-plasma), (Greifswald, Germany, 08-11 may, 2006), P65
4. Abhijit Majumdar, Tung Mao Tung, Rainer Hippler “Hydrocarbon radicals in C2H6/C2H4/C2H2/Ar plasma: Plasma chemistry”, German Physical Society (DFG), October, 2008.
5. Abhijit Majumdar, Rainer Hippler, Cytocompatibility of H-CNx films deposited by CH4/N2 DBD plasmas with respect to HEK, PC12 and Cancer cell lines (ISPC 19, Bochum, Germany, July 26-31), 627, 2009

Invited Talk:

1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Material and Energy GmbH, former Hahn Meitner Institute, Germany, “Chemical evaluation of Carbon nitride film: X-ray Photoelectron spectroscopy” , 11 August, 2011.
2. IIT Kharagpur, India, “Plasma on Thin Film Deposition and Biology”, 25th January, 2011.
3. Balticnet-Plasmanet, at Pune, Lavasa. European Technology Exchange Programme India, “Plasma application on thin film and animal cell”, 2nd November 2010.
4. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, “Plasma processing and application on human cell” , 15th January, 2010.
5. Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Ahmdabad, India, “Atmospheric pressure plasma on biology” , 18th December, 2009.
6. Expert Workshop on Micro-plasma, Max-Planck Institute, Greifswald, Germany, 09th May, 2006, on “Comparative mass spectrum studies between CH4/N2 and CH4/Ar barrier discharge plasma”
7. International Max-Planck Research School on Bounded plasma (IMPRS), 14th October, greifswald, Germany, 2004. “Study of carbon-nitride film deposited by CH4/N2 gas mixture in barrier discharge plasma”.
8. International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS), 4th December, 2003. “Study of break down properties of CH4/N2 gas mixture dielectric barrier discharge plasma”
9. International Max-Planck Research School on Bounded plasma (IMPRS), 14th November 2002. “X-ray reflectivity of Fe-Ni multilayer thin film”

Other Activity:
Producer and Assistant Director of my 1st Teli Film in Bengali- “Ei Tomader Prithivi” (In English "This is Your World"), related to our Prostitute Society, screened on CTVN (Calcutta Telivision Network in Calcutta, WB, India) on 28th January 2007.