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Awards & achievements:

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  1. Selected among the top 100 candidates worldwide, to attend the fully funded Student Leadership Conference (#SLC), Optica Annual Meeting and Frontiers in Optics (#FIO) conference organized by Optica (formerly Optical Society of America #OSA). This was held from 15-20 October 2022 at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, New York, USA.

  2. Selected as Finalist for the Emil Wolf Student Paper Competition in the Student leadership conference & Frontiers in Optics conference, Rochester, USA.

  3. Received ‘BEST POSTER' award in Frontiers in Physics conference, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, March 3-4, 2023.

  4. Received ‘HIGHLIGHTED POSTER' recognition at PMRF annual symposium, conducted by IIT Madras on February 17-18th, 2023.

  5.  Accomplished “Recommendation with Commendation” in the May 2022 PMRF review cycle.

  6. Received ‘BEST POSTER AND PAPER PRESENTATION’ award in National Laser Symposium 29thNLS 2021, DAE-BRNS, SVVV, Indore, Feb 12-15th, 2021.

  7. Awarded ‘EXCELLENCE IN PAPER PRESENTATION AWARD’ XIV Annual Symposium of the Optical Society of India, FRONTIERS IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS (FOP21), IIT Delhi, September 24-27, 2021.

  8. Received ‘BEST POSTER AND PAPER PRESENTATION’ award in National Laser Symposium 30th NLS 2022, DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-30) January 19-22, 2022, DAE Convention Centre, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai, INDIA.

  9. Best paper award (as 2nd author) in ULTRAFAST SCIENCES - 2021 (UFS-2021), November 12 - 14, 2021, UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai University.

  10. Selected for INSPIRE Fellowship, after M.sc, December 2018 by DST, Govt. of India, [DST/INSPIRE/03/2018/001610], later opted for DRDO ACRHEM Fellowship.

  11. Recipient of INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, 2012 in B.Sc. [Registration No: 2054/2011]

  12. 1st Ranker University award in M.Sc. Physics.

  13. ​Member of the Indian Laser Association (ILA)

  14. Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)

International conferences:

  1. Dipanjan Banerjee, Akkanaboina Mangababu, Reshma Beeram, Ravi Kumar Kanaka, Venugopal Rao Soma, Femtosecond Bessel Beam Produced Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Nonlinear Optical Switching and Sensing Applications, Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, New York United States,17 October 2022. 

  2. Dipanjan Banerjee, Mangababu Akkanaboina, Ravi Kumar Kanaka, Venugopal Rao Soma, Ag-Au bimetallic ladder-like nanostructures achieved with femtosecond Bessel beam for real-time sensing of tetryl and ammonium nitrate, SPIE Photonics West, Laser-based Micro-and Nanoprocessing XVII, SPIE 255-260, San Francisco California United States, 17 March 2023.

  3. Dipanjan Banerjee, Reshma Beeram, Venugopal Rao Soma, Ultrafast Bessel Beam Induced Finger-like Silver Nanostructures for Trace-level Picric Acid Sensing, 2022 Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, 11-15, July 2022, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

  4. Mangababu, Dipanjan Banerjee, Kanaka Ravi Kumar, R. Sai Prasad Goud, Venugopal Rao Soma, and S.V.S. Nageswara Rao, A Comparative Study of GaAs Nanostructures Synthesized in Air and Distilled Water by Picosecond Pulsed Laser Ablation and Application in Hazardous Molecules Detection., The International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO), Orlando, Florida, October 17 - 20, 2022.

  5. Received the opportunity of giving a 'Flash Talk' at V International Conference on Ultrafast Optical Science Moscow, Russia, October 4-8th, 2021.

  6. Reshma Beeram, Dipanjan Banerjee, A. Mangababu, Soma Venugopal Rao, Femtosecond Laser Processed Web-like Silicon Nanostructures and Application in Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, CLEO PacificRim, 31 July - 6 August 2022, Sapporo, Japan.

  7. Reshma Beeram, Dipanjan Banerjee, Soma Venugopal RaoSand Dune Like Copper Nanostructures Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Ablation for Trace Explosive Detection, Laser Science, International Conference, Rochester, New York United States,17 October 2022.

Publications

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  1. Dipanjan Banerjee, M Akkanaboina, RK Kanaka, VR Soma,Femtosecond Bessel beam induced ladder-like LIPSS on trimetallic surface for SERS-based sensing of Tetryl and PETN, Applied Surface Science 616, 156561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.156561. 

  2. Dipanjan Banerjee; S. S. B. Moram; C. Byram; J. Rathod; T. Jena; G. K. Podagatlapalli, V. R. Soma, Plasmon-enhanced Ultrafast and Tunable Thermo-Optic Nonlinear Optical Properties of Femtosecond Laser Ablated TiO2 and Silver-doped TiO2 Nanoparticles, 569, 151070, 2021 [Applied Surface Science IF- 6.7]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151070.

  3. Dipanjan Banerjee, A. Mangababu, Subhasree Ghosh, Venugopal Rao Soma, Picosecond Bessel Beam Fabricated Pure, Gold-Coated Silver Nanostructures for Trace-level Sensing of Multiple Explosives and hazardous Molecules, Materials, 15, 12, 41552022, https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15124155. 

  4. Mangababu Akkanaboina, Dipanjan Banerjee, Kanaka Ravi Kumar, R Sai Prasad Goud, Venugopal Rao Soma, SVS Nageswara Ra, Gold nanoparticles coated LIPSS on GaAs for trace detection of RDX and Tetryl Surfaces and Interfaces, International Journal, 36, 102563, //doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102563. 

  5. SJ Khanam, Dipanjan Banerjee, VR Soma, B Murali, Stability enhancement and pronounced three-photon absorption in SrCl 2-doped FAPbBr 3 nanocrystal, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 11, 9, 3283, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TC05528G.

  6. M. Haribabu; B. Dipanjan; S. Hamad; M.S.S. Bharati; J. Chelsea; S. Venugopal Rao, Exciton mediated Surface-Enhanced Raman studies of Aluminium doped Platinum Nano colloids, Optical Materials, 133, 113013, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2022.113013.

  7. R Beeram, D Banerjee, LM Narlagiri, VR Soma,    Machine learning for rapid quantification of trace analyte molecules using SERS and flexible plasmonic paper substrates, Analytical Methods, 2022,14, 1788-1796, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2AY00408A. 

  8. Kanaka Ravi Kumar, Dipanjan Banerjee, A. Mangababu, R. Sai Prasad Goud, A.P. Pathak, Venugopal Rao Soma*, S.V.S. Nageswara Rao#, Resistivity Dependence on Nanostructure Formation in Picosecond Ablation of Silicon and SERS-based Sensing Applications, Journal of Physics D, 55(40), 5103, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac818b.

  9. Allu, R., Banerjee, D., Avasarala, R., Hamad, S., Rao, S. V., & Podagatlapalli, G. K. (2019). Broadband femtosecond nonlinear optical properties of silver nanowire films. Optical Materials, 96, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2019.109305   

  10. A Mangababu, RSP Goud, C Byram, J Rathod, D Banerjee, VR Soma, Multi-functional gallium arsenide nanoparticles and nanostructures fabricated using picosecond laser ablation, Applied Surface Science 589, 152802, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.152802. 

  11. J Rathod, C Byram, RK Kanaka, M Sree Satya Bharati, D Banerjee, VR Soma, Hybrid Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for the Trace Detection of Ammonium Nitrate, Thiram, and Nile Blue, ACS omega, 7, 18, 15969–15981, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c01095. 

  12. LM Narlagiri, MSS Bharati, R Beeram, D Banerjee, VR Soma, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Recent trends in laser-based standoff detection of hazardous molecules, 153, 2022, 116645, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2022.116645. 

  13. K Mondal, S Biswas, A Pramanik, D Banerjee, Giant femtosecond nonlinear optical response in bi-metallic GO nanocomposites for photonic applications, VR Soma, AK Chaudhary, Applied Surface Science 578, 151966, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151966.  

  14. Bharathi, M. S. S., Byram, C., Banerjee, D., Sarma, D., Barkakaty, B., & Soma, V. R. (2021). Gold nanoparticle nanofibres as SERS substrate for detection of methylene blue and a chemical warfare simulant (methyl salicylate). Bulletin of Materials Science, 44(2), Art. No. 103, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-021-02402-9.

  15. Bharathi, M. S. S., Byram, C., Banerjee, D., Sarma, D., Barkakaty, B., & Soma, V. R. (2021). Gold nanoparticle nanofibres as SERS substrate for detection of methylene blue and a chemical warfare simulant (methyl salicylate). Bulletin of Materials Science, 44(2), Art. No. 103, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-021-02402-9

  16. SriVishnu K.S., Dipanjan Banerjee, R. A. Ramnagar, J. Rathod and G. Lingamallu, Venugopal Rao Soma, Optical, Electrochemical, Third-order Nonlinear Optical Investigations of 3,4,5 -trimethoxy Phenyl Substituted Non-aqueous Phthalocyanines, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021; 9: 713939. (IF- 5.25]. Doi: 10.3389/fchem.2021.713939.

  17. Rathi, P., Ekta, Kumar, S., Banerjee, D., Soma, V. R., & Sankar, M. (2020). Unsymmetrical β-functionalized 'push-pull' porphyrins: Synthesis and photophysical, electrochemical and nonlinear optical properties. Dalton Transactions, 49(10), 3198-3208. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9DT04252K

  18. Pati, N. N., Sahoo, S., Sahoo, S. S., Banerjee, D., Rao, S. V., & Panda, P. K. (2020). Chromatographically separable ruffled non-planar isomeric octaalkyl porphycenes: Consequences of unsymmetrical substitution upon structure and photophysical properties. New Journal of Chemistry, 44(23), 9616-9620. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NJ01744B

  19. Kumar, S., Acharyya, J. N., Banerjee, D., Soma, V. R., Vijaya Prakash, G., & Sankar, M. (2021). Strong two-photon absorption and ultrafast dynamics of: Meso -functionalized "push-pull" trans -A2BC porphyrins. Dalton Transactions, 50(18), 6256-6272. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT00378J. 

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