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Physics Home |Faculty | Tara Das

Tara Das

Professor of Physics

Room: physics 111
Phone: 442-4520
eMail: tpd56@albany.edu
   

Ph.D (1955), Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta University, India
M.Sc. (1951) Calcutta University, India
B.Sc. (Honors) !949 Patna University, India.
Post-doctoral research positions in the USA for one year in Cornell University, Department of Chemistry (1955-1956) and one year in University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics (1956-1957), the academic position of Reader (Associate Professor) in Nuclear Physics at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India (1957-1958) , Research Assistant Professorship at Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA (1958-1959), Research Associate Professorship at Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York City, USA, (1959-1960) and Senior Research Officership at Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, India (1960-1961).
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California, USA 1961-`65
Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California, USA, 1965-`69
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 1969-`71
Professor, Department of Physics, SUNY, Albany, New York, USA, 1971 to present.


Research Areas:
My research interests have been, and continue to be, focused on the first-principle understanding of electronic structures of atomic, molecular, solid-state and biological systems including the aim to explain their spectroscopic (optical, ultraviolet and infrared), magnetic and hyperfine properties. My research group, especially the Ph.D. students, and post-doctoral physicists, are trained to interact closely with experimentalists, using their theoretical predictions of properties of systems to compare with experimental results and in partnership with experimental groups try to attain a proper understanding of the mechanisms and factors that contribute to a variety of properties including magnetic and hyperfine properties, the latter being obtained by experimentalists by a variety of experimental techniques, ranging from laser techniques for atomic properties to various magnetic resonance techniques, including nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance, and associated refinements in these, including a variety of double resonance techniques for solid state (including systems of interest in material) and biological systems.
Current Research:
see above

Research Links:

http://www.albany.edu/%7Etpd56


Recent Publications:

I have omitted my name from the list of the authors in all the publications, listing only the co-authors for each publication. In those very few articles where I am the only author, no author's name is given.

Molecular and Cluster Physics

"Evaluation of the 57mFe quadrupole moment from Hartree-Fock Calculations" (with F. Hagelberg) Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 53a, 358 (1998).

"Hartree-Fock Calculations for FeCl2 and FeBr2: The question of the 57mFe quadrupole moment" (with F. Hagelberg and K.C. Mishra) Phys. Rev. B65, 014425/1 (2002).

Biologically Important Molecules -

"First-Principle Determination of Muon and Muonium Trapping Sites in Horse Heart Cytochrome c and Investigation of Magnetic Hyperfine Properties" (with D. Cammarere, R. H. Scheicher, N. Sahoo and K. Nagamine) Physica B 289-290, 636 (2000).

"Theoretical Study of Trapping Sites for Muon and Muonium in the Heme Group of Cytochrome c and Associated Shifts in Muon Spin Rotation Frequencies" (with D. Cammarere, R. H. Scheicher, T. M. Briere, N. Sahoo, F. L. Pratt and K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 136/137, 759 (2001).

"First-Principles Theory of Muon and Muonium Trapping in the Protein Chain of Cytochrome c and Associated Hyperfine Interactions" (with R. H. Scheicher, D. Cammarere, T. M. Briere, N. Sahoo, F. L. Pratt and K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 136/137, 755 (2001).

"Theory of 14N and 17O Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Polyglycine and Glycine in the Protein Chain of Cytochrome c" (with R. H. Scheicher, D. Cammarere, N. Sahoo and K. Nagamine) Z. Naturforsch. 57a, 523 (2002).

"Theory of 14N and 17O Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in the Single Amino Acids Occurring in the Protein Chain of Cytochrome c" (with R. H. Scheicher, D. Cammarere, N. Sahoo and K. Nagamine) Z. Naturforsch. 57a, 532 (2002).

"First-Principles Study of Muon and Muonium Trapping in the Protein Chain of Cytochrome c" (with R. H. Scheicher, D. Cammarere, N. Sahoo, T. M. Briere, F. L. Pratt and K. Nagamine) Physica B 326, 30 (2003).

Study of Hyperfine Interaction Physics of Physiologically and Energetically Important Molecules

"Theory of Electronic Structure and Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Heroin" (with Ranjit Pati, N. Sahoo and T.P. Das), Jour. Phys. Chem. A 102, 3209 (1998).

Metallic Systems and Hydrogen and Muon in Metals and Alloys

"Hydrogen Absorption Charactaristics in Zr0.2Ho0.8CoFe" (with T. R. Kesavan, S. Ramaprabhu and K.V.S. Rama Rao) J. Alloys and Compounds 268, 10 (1998).

Impurities in Semiconductors-Wave Function-Dependent Properties

"First-Principles Theoretical Investigation of Neutral Vacancy-Associated Muonium Center in Silicon" (with Hong Li, A. N. Usha Roy, N. Sahoo, R. Scheuermann and K. Nagamine) Physica B 289-290, 516 (2000).

"Locations of Implanted 19F* Atoms in Si, Ge and Diamond studied Through Their Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions" (with S. Swingle Nunes, S. B. Sulaiman, N. Sahoo, K. Bharuth Ram, M. Frank, W. Kreische and K. Bonde Nielsen) Hyperfine Interactions 120/121, 151 (1999).

"First-Principles Calculation of Electronics Structures and Hyperfine Interactions for Muonium Centers in ZnO" (with H. Li, T. M. Briere, K. Shimomura, R. Kadono, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine) Physica B 326, 133 (2003).

Organic Ferromagnets

"Hartree-Fock Investigation of Muon Trapping in the Chemical Ferromagnet 4-(p-Chlorobenzylidene amino)-TEMPO" (with Junho Jeong, T. M. Briere, N. Sahoo, S. Ohira, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine), Physica B 289-290, 132 (2000).

"Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Studies of the Positive Muon and Muonium in 4-aryl methyleneamino-TEMPO Derivatives" (with T. M. Briere, J. Jeong, S. Ohira and K. Nagamine), Physica B 289-290, 128 (2000).

"Determination of Easy Axis in a Chemical Ferromagnet, 4-(p-Chlorobenzylideneamino)-TEMPO (TEMPO = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-oxyl) (with Junho Jeong, Tina M. Briere, N. Sahoo, Seiko Ohira, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 136, 769 (2001).

"Theoretical Investigation of Muon and Muonium Trapping and Hyperfine Interactions in the Chemical Ferromagnet p-NPNN (b-phase)" (with Junho Jeong, Tina M. Briere, N. Sahoo, Seiko Ohira, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 136, 763 (2001)..

"Theory of Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions of 14N, 17O and 35Cl Nuclei in p-Cl-Ph-CH-N=TEMPO" (with Junho Jeong, Tina M. Briere, N. Sahoo, Seiko Ohira, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine) Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 57a, 527 (2002).

"Theory of Trapping of Muon and Muonium and Hyperfine Interactions in the Organic Ferromagnet p-NPNN (b-phase) (with Junho Jeong, Tina M. Briere, S. Ohira, N. Sahoo, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine) Physica B 326, 563 (2003).

"Quantitative Test of Electronic Structures of Organic Ferromagnet Systems from First Principles Investigations Using Muon Spin Rotation Data" (with Junho Jeong, T. M. Briere, N. Sahoo, S. Ohira, K. Nishiyama and K. Nagamine) Phys. Rev. B66, 132411 (2002).

Muon Catalyzed Fusion

"Trapping of Helium in Hydrogen" (with A. N. Usha Roy, K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki, S. N. Nakamura, N. Kawamura and K. Nagamine), RIKEN Review 20, 21 (1999) [Focused on Scientific Outputs from RIKEN-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Muon Facility].

"Theory for relative strengths of trapping of He+ ions in solid, liquid and gaseous hydrogen" (with R. H. Scheicher, A. N. U. Roy, K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki, S. N. Nakamura, N. Kawamura, K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 138, 387 (2001).

"Ab initio Investigation of Helium Bubble Formation from Trapped He+ Ions in Solid Hydrogen" (with R. H. Scheicher, K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki, S. N. Nakamura, N. Kawamura, K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 138, 431 (2001).

"Theory of Isotope Effects on He+ Trapping in Solid Hydrogen" (with R. H. Scheicher, K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki, S. N. Nakamura, N. Kawamura, K. Nagamine) Hyperfine Interactions 138, 427 (2001)..

"Ab initio study of trapping of He+ ions in solid, liquid, and gaseous hydrogen" (with R. H. Scheicher, A. N. U. Roy, K. Ishida, T. Matsuzaki, S. N. Nakamura, N. Kawamura, K. Nagamine) RIKEN Review 48, 18 (2002) [Focused on High Performance Computing in RIKEN 2001].

Properties of Nano-Structured Materials

"Studies on the Third Harmonic Generation of Double-Layered Quantum Wires in Magnetic Fields" (with Kang-Xian Guo and Chuan-Yu Chen) Optical and Quantum Electronics 33, 231 (2001).

3. "Studies on the Electro-Optic Effects of Double-Layered Quantum Wires in Magnetic Fields" (with Kang-Xian Guo and Chuan-Yu Chen) Physics B 293, 11 (2000).


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