PhD.

Thin films and 2D materials, devices.

PhD in experimental Physics from University of Calcutta, 2018.
Postdoc in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, March, 2018-September 2019.
Postdoc in Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, December, 2019-March 2020; April, 2022-October, 2023.

Assistant professor in Physics, Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur, March, 2020 - till date.

1. 3rd International conference on Physics at Surfaces and Interfaces (PSI 2014), Feb. 24-28, 2014, Puri, Odisha, India : Magnetism and exchange bias in Co thin films on Si (111) (poster).
2. 26th International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS 2014), July 14-18, 2014, Debrecen, Hungary : Ion irradiation induced modification of magnetism and exchange bias in Co thin films on Si (111) (poster).
3. 5th Conference on Neutron Scattering (CNS 2015), Feb. 2-4, 2015, HBCSE, Mumbai, India : PNR study of ultrathin cobalt film on Si (111) with Au capping (poster).
4. Winter school-2014, JNCASR, Bangalore, India, Magnetism and exchange bias in Co thin f ilms on Si (111) (poster).
5. International Conference on Electron Microscopy and XXXVI annual meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI), July 8-10, 2015, Mumbai, India : Study of ion irradiation induced structural changes in a Si/Ni/Si trilayer system (poster). (winner of best poster award)
6. 60th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Dec. 20-25, 2015, Amity University, Delhi, India : Evidence of a superdense nonmagnetic Co layer at the top of a thin Co film on Si(111): a polarized Neutron Reflectivity Study (poster).
7. International Conference on Electron Microscopy and XXXVII annual meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI), June 2-4, 2016, IIT-BHU, Varanasi, India : Evidence of a superdense nonmagnetic Co layer at the top of a thin Co film on Si(111): a polarized Neutron Reflectivity Study (oral).
8. 27th International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids (ICACS27), July 2429, 2016, Lanzhou, China : Fluence dependent oscillatory amorphization and recrystallization in ion irradiation (invited oral presentation by B.N. Dev).
9. 6th Conference on Neutron Scattering (CNS 2016), Nov. 21-23, 2016, Mumbai, India : Experimental evidence of natural phase formation of a superdense nonmagnetic Co layer in a Co thin film on clean Si (poster).
10. 61st DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Dec. 26-30, 2016, KIIT, Bhubaneswar, India : Sign reversals of magnetoresistance in ion-irradiated Co/Cu multilayers at high fluences (poster).
11. International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications- 2017, Feb. 13, 2017, Hyderabad, India : Room Temperature exchange bias in Co thin film on Si(111) (poster).
12. 9th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, June 18-23, 2017, Singapore : (i) Double Sign Reversals of Magnetoresistance in Ion-irradiated Co/Cu Multilayers (poster). (ii) Exchange bias up to room temperature in a CoO/Co/Si(111) system: An effect of superdense nonmagnetic Co (poster).
13. 17th International Conference on Thin Films (ICTF 17), Nov. 14-17, 2017, NPL, Delhi, India : Room Temperature Ion Irradiation Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization in Si Substrate in a Si/Ni/Si Trilayer System (oral).
14. Winter School 2017 on frontiers in materials science, Dec. 4-8, 2017, JNCASR, Bangalore, India : High density nonmagnetic cobalt (poster, oral). (winner of best poster award).
15. 62nd DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Dec. 26-30, 2017, BARC, Mumbai, India : Recrystallization in Si upon ion irradiation at room temperature in Co/Si(111) thin film systems (poster).
16. International Conference on Electron Microscopy and XXXIX annual meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI), July 18-20, 2018, Bhubaneswar, India : Amorphisation and recrystallization in Si substrate upon ion irradiation at room temperature (poster).

1. “Evidence of Formation of Superdense Nonmagnetic Cobalt”, N. Banu, S. Singh, B. Satpati, A. Roy, S. Basu, P. Chakraborty, H.C.P. Movva, V. Lauter, B. N. Dev, Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 41856.
2. “Nanoscale η-NiSi formation via ion irradiation of Si/Ni/Si”, N. Banu, B. Satpati, A. Bhukta, B. N. Dev, J. Appl. Phys., 121 (2017) 045302.
3. “Fluence dependent oscillatory amorphization and recrystallization in ion irradiation”, N. Banu, B. Satpati, B. N. Dev, Nucl. Inst. Meth. B 406 (2017) 689.
4. “Sign reversals of magnetoresistance in ion-irradiated Co/Cu multilayers at high fluences”, N. Banu, I. Das, B. N. Dev, AIP Conf. Proc. 1832 (2017) 080033.
5. “High density nonmagnetic cobalt in thin films”, N. Banu, S. Singh, S. Basu, A. Roy, H.C.P. Movva, V. Lauter, B. Satpati, B. N. Dev, Nanotechnology 29 (2018) 195703.
6. “Oscillatory magnetic behavior in an ion irradiated Si/Ni/Si sandwich system”, N. Banu, B. Satpati, B. N. Dev, Physica B: Condensed Matter 550 (2018) 199-206.
7. “Recrystallization in Si upon ion irradiation at room temperature in Co/Si(111) thin film systems”, N. Banu, B. Satpati, B. N. Dev, AIP Conf. Proc. 1942 (2018) 080063.
8. “Electron energy loss and X-ray absorption behaviour of high density nonmagnetic cobalt”, N. Banu, P. Kumar, N. Pandey, B. Satpati, M. Gupta, B. N. Dev, Thin Solid Films 675 (2019) 177.
9. “Towards X-ray waveguide formation upon ion irradiation of a Co thin film on Si(111)”, N. Banu, S. Roy, B. Satpati, S. Singh, A. Bhukta, P. Chakraborty, S. Basu, B. N. Dev, Materials Research Express 6 (2019) 056419.
10. “Inhomogeneous superconductivity in high-density nonmagnetic cobalt in a polycrystalline Co film”, N. Banu, M. Aslam, A. Paul, S. Banik, S. Das, S. Datta, A. Roy, I. Das, G. Sheet, U. V. Waghmare, S. Ramakrishnan, B. N. Dev, Euro. Phy. Letter, 131 (2020) 47001 (arXiv:1710.06114).
11. “Significantly large magnetocaloric effect in polycrystalline La0.83 Sr0.17 MnO3 near room temperature”, K. das, N. Banu, I. Das, B.N. Dev, Physica B: condensed Matter 545 (2018) 438.
12. “Investigation of size-dependent magnetic ordering in charge ordered antiferromagnetic nanoparticles via magnetocaloric effect”, K. Das, N. Banu, I. Das, B. N. Dev, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 487 (2019) 165309.
13. Growth of a-few-atom wide nanowires with different surface reconstructions via desorption of Au on vicinal Si (111) surfaces”, D. Das, J.C. Mahato, R. Batabyal, N. Banu, B. Bisi, B. N. Dev, AIP Conf Proc. 1536 (2013) 377.
14. “Defect engineered d0 ferromagnetism in tin-doped indium oxide nanostructures and nanocrystalline thin-films”, G.G. Khan, S. Ghosh, A. Sarkar, G. Mandal, G.D. Mukherjee, U. Manju, N. Banu, B. N. Dev, J. of Appl. Phys. 118 (2015) 074303.
15. “Real time investigation of the effect of thermal expansion coefficient mismatch on filmsubstrate strain partitioning in Ag/Si systems”, D. Das, N. Banu, B. Bisi, J.C. Mahato, V. Srihari, R. Halder, B. N. Dev, J. Appl. Phy. 120 (2016) 135301.
16. “Unidirectional endotaxial cobalt di-silicide nanowires on Si(110) substrates”, J.C. Mahato, D. Das, N. Banu, B. Satpati, B. N. Dev, Nanotechnology 28 (2017) 425603.
17. “Ion irradiation effects on a magnetic Si/Ni/Si trilayer and lateral magnetic- nonmagnetic multistrip patterning by focused ion beam”, B.N. Dev, N. Banu, J. Fassbender et. al, Indian Journal of Physics 91 (2017) 1167.
18. “Evolution from non-Griffith phase to Griffith phase : Giant enhancement of magnetoresistance in nanocrystalline (La0.4Y0.6)0.7 Ca0.3MnO3 compound”, S. Banik, N. Banu, I. Das, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 745 (2018) 753.
19. “Magnetocaloric effect of polycrystalline Sm0.5Ca0.5MnO3 compound: Investigation of low temperature magnetic state”, K. Das, N. Banu, I. Das, B.N. Dev, Solid State Communications 274 (2018) 36.
20. “High-Density Non-magnetic Cobalt in Cobalt Thin Films”, B.N. Dev, N. Banu, Recent Advances in Thin Films, Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials (2020), Springer, Singapore, ISBN 978-981-15-6116-0 (DOI:10.1007/978-981-15-6116-0_5).
21. "Imaging quantum oscillations and millitesla pseudomagnetic fields in graphene", Haibiao Zhou, Nadav Auerbach, Matan Uzan, Yaozhang Zhou, Nasrin Banu, Weifeng Zhi, Martin E. Huber, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Yuri Myasoedov, Binghai Yan & Eli Zeldov, Nature, 624, 275-281(2023).
22. "Demonstration and imaging of cryogenic magneto-thermoelectric cooling in a van der Waals semimetal"T. Völkl1, A. Aharon-Steinberg, T. Holder, A. K. Pariari, Y. Myasoedov, M. E. Huber, E. Alpern, N. Banu, M. Hücker & E. Zeldov, Nature Physics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02417-z