02 Feb 2021
Activity Name: Webinar “Ultrafast Laser Produced Plasmas: Generation, Characterization and Applications”
Organised by: School of Applied Sciences (Physics)
Beneficiaries: Faculties/M.Sc/B.Sc
Venue: Junjappa Hall, Science Block
Date: 25 Jan 2021
Timings: 11.30-12.30 pm
Club: Novel Materials Club
Brief description of the activity conducted:
Department of Physics, under Novel material students club organized a webinar on “Ultrafast Laser Produced Plasmas: Generation, Characterization and Applications”, delivered by Prof. Reji Philip, Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics (UNO) Lab, Light and Matter Physics (LAMP) Group, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560080, India. He is a good researchers, published 205 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 Patents, 3 Book chapters, supervised/ mentored 4 Post-docs, 9 Ph.D. students and 60 Visiting and Master’s project students, delivered 150 Invited talks. Current number of citations >6400, H-index : 41 (from Google Scholar, as on 10Jan 2021). Held a Visiting Scientist positions at the (1) University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA, and (2) University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. Reviewer to several international journals from publishers like the American Institute of Physics (AIP), American Chemical Society (ACS), Optical Society of America (OSA), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC),Elsevier etc.
The talk delivered was very effective and the highlights of the talk is given below.
The field of laser-produced plasmas (LPP) has greatly attracted the research community because of its wide range of applications, which include pulsed laser deposition, generation of X-rays and ion beams, plasma based acceleration etc. This talk will open with a general introduction to plasmas, followed by a discussion of the general plasma diagnostic methods (optical and electrical). Experimental determination of plasma density and temperature will be discussed, and the spectral and temporal characterization of LPPs generated in metallic targets will be elaborated. X-ray emission from LPPs of noble metal nanoparticle suspensions will be discussed. Some applications including High Harmonic Generation (HHG) will be outlined.
