Employee Name
Gayathri N. Banerjee
Official Address
Radiation Damage Studies Section
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
1/AF, Bidhannagar,
Kolkata - 700 064
gayathri@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
+91 33 23182316
Designation
Scientific Officer H
Qualifications
- PhD (1999) : Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore INDIA (Thesis title: Electronic conduction in metallic perovskite oxides)
- M.Sc. (1992) : Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, INDIA
- B.Sc. (1990) : University of Madras
Field of Work
• Radiation damage studies of structural materials using ion beams
• Characterisation using XRD, FEESEM-EBSD/EDX etc.
• Thermophysical properties of metallic materials
• Development of irradiation facilities in collaboration with MEG,VECC and APG, VECC
Publications
Journal Publications:
• Post irradiated microstructure and mechanical properties of pure V, N.Gayathri, P.Mukherjee, Sudipta Mandal, Apu Sarkar, Uttiyoarnab Saha, S. Dey A.Dutta, T.K.Roy, Suman Neogy, Journal of Nuclear Materials, Volume 564, June 2022, 153648
• A novel approach to analyse combined pre and post strain rate dependent phase transformation in uniaxially deformed AISI 304 stainless steel using XRD and EBSD, S. Dey, N.Gayathri, P. Mukherjee, Argha Dutta, Manoj Kumar Mitra, Philosophical Magazine, Volume 102, - Issue 2, 112-136 (2022)
• Observation of radiation enhanced phase formation and subsequent dissolution at very high doses in Ar9+ ion irradiated Ti-modified stainless steel, N.Gayathri, Kalipada Das, P.Mukherjee, Ranjini Menon and P.Y.Nabhiraj, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, On line 24th June 2019, Volume 165, December 2019, 108379.
• An approach in the analysis of microstructure of proton irradiated T91 through XRDLPA using synchrotron and laboratory source, Argha Dutta, N.Gayathri, P.Mukherjee, Santu Dey, Sudipta Mandal, Tapatee Kundu Roy, Apu Sarkar, S.Neogy, Archna Sagdeo, Journal of Nuclear Materials Volume 514, February 2019, Pages 161-170
• Depth profiling of ion-induced damage in D9 alloy using X-ray diffraction, S. Dey, N. Gayathri & P. Mukherjee, Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 173, (3–4), 300–317, (2018),
• Study of Initial Stages of Ball-Milling of Cu Powder Using X-ray Diffraction N. Gayathri, & P. Mukherjee, J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. D (2018), Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D, April 2018, Volume 99, Issue 1, pp 125–132,
• Magnetic and transport behavior of Ni-substituted GdBaCo2O5+d perovskite - - Phys. Rev. B 77, 085113 (2008), A. Bharathi, P. Yasodha, N. Gayathri, A. T. Satya, R. Nagendran, N. Thirumurugan, C. S. Sundar, and Y. Hariharan
• Point Contact Spectroscopy and Temperature Dependence of Resistivity of Metallic Sodium Tungsten Bronzes - Role of Optical Phonons, N. Gayathri and A. K. Raychaudhuri - - Journal of Low Temperature Physics 137 (3-4): 471-489, 2004
• Effect of particle size on the magnetic and transport properties of La0.875Sr0.125MnO3, Anulekha Dutta, N. Gayathri and R. Ranganathan - Phys. Rev. B 68, 054432 (2003)
• Book Chapter: Microstructural Characterisation of Structural Materials of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor, P. Mukherjee, P. Barat, A. Sarkar, M. Bhattacharya, N. Gayathri, Chapter for “Nuclear Materials” to be published by Nova Science Publishers. (2011)
Awards / Honours
• DAE Science & Technical Excellence Award – 2020
• DAE Group Achievement Award – 2017, 2019
• Best Paper Award – Indian Institution of Engineers (India) - 2019
• CNRS fellowship as Research Associate from Oct 2000 to June 2001