Awards & achievements
International Awards
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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.
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Selected as a Finalist for the Emil Wolf Student Paper Competition in the Student leadership conference & Frontiers in Optics conference, Rochester, USA.
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Received Best Student Presentation International Award, 3rd position, in the International Conference on Optical and Photonic Engineering 2023 (icOPEN), SPIE Singapore.
National Awards
[1] Received ‘BEST POSTER AND PAPER PRESENTATION’ award in National Laser Symposium 29th NLS 2021, DAE-BRNS, SVVV, Indore, Feb 12-15th, 2021.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] Received ‘BEST POSTER' award in Frontiers in Physics conference, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India March 3-4, 2023.
[5] Received ‘HIGHLIGHTED POSTER' recognition at Prime Minister Research Fellowship annual symposium, conducted by IIT Madras, Madras, India on February 17-18th, 2023.
[6] 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.
[7] 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].
[8] Gold Medalist, 1st Ranker in University award in M.Sc. Physics.
[9] Life Member of the Indian Laser Association (ILA).
[10] Member of the OPTICA/ Optical Society of America (OSA)
[11] Member of SPIE, USA.
International conferences
[1] D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, R.K. Kanaka, V.R. Soma, Ag-Au bimetallic ladder-like nanostructures achieved with femtosecond Bessel beam for real-time sensing of tetryl and ammonium nitrate, Laser-Based Micro- Nanoprocessing XVII. (2023) 19. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2649704.
[2] D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, S. Pradhan, V. Rao Soma*, Uniform LIPSS on copper created using zeroth-order femtosecond Bessel beam for SERS-based applications, Int. Conf. Opt. Photonic Eng. (IcOPEN 2023). (2024) 3. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3021658.
[3] D. Banerjee, R. Beeram, V.R. Soma, Ultrafast Bessel Beam Induced Finger-like Silver Nanostructures for Trace-level Picric Acid Sensing, in Opt. InfoBase Conf. Pap., Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2022: p. LM2B.5. https://doi.org/10.1364/lacsea.2022.lm2b.5.
[4] D. Banerjee, A. Mangababu, R. Beeram, R.K. Kanaka, V.R. Soma, Femtosecond Bessel Beam Produced Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Nonlinear Optical Switching and Sensing Applications, in: Opt. InfoBase Conf. Pap., Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2022: p. FW6C.5. https://doi.org/10.1364/fio.2022.fw6c.5.
[5] D. Banerjee, S.S.B. Moram, V.R. Soma, Ag-doped TiO2 Nanoparticles Generated with Femtosecond Laser Ablation for Sensing RDX and Ammonium Nitrate, in Front. Opt. + Laser Sci. 2023 (FiO, LS), Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2023: p. JM7A.1. https://doi.org/10.1364/fio.2023.jm7a.1.
[6] R. Beeram, D. Banerjee, S.V. Rao, Sand Dune Like Copper Nanostructures Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Ablation for Trace Explosive Detection, in Opt. InfoBase Conf. Pap., Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2022: p. JTu4A.27. https://doi.org/10.1364/fio.2022.jtu4a.27.
[7] R. Beeram, D. Banerjee, A. Mangababu, S.V. Rao, Femtosecond Laser Processed Web-like Silicon Nanostructures and Application in Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, in Opt. InfoBase Conf. Pap., Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2022: p. CThP5D_04. https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEOPR.2022.CThP5D_04.
[8] M.S.S. Bharathi, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, Femtosecond Laser Ablation Assisted Single-step Fabrication of Metal-semiconductor Interfaced SERS-active Substrate, in Laser Congr. 2023 (ASSL, LAC), Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2023: p. JW2A.7. https://doi.org/10.1364/assl.2023.jw2a.7.
[9] M.S. Ahmed, C. Biswas, D. Banerjee, B. Bhavani, S. Prasanthkumar, L. Giribabu, V.R. Soma, S.S.K. Raavi, Ultrafast Photoexcited Molecular Dynamics of Metalated Porphyrin - Napthalimide Based Donor-Acceptor Systems, in 2022 Conf. Lasers Electro-Optics, CLEO 2022 - Proc., Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2022: p. JW3B.4. https://doi.org/10.1364/cleo_at.2022.jw3b.4.
[10] M.S. Ahmed, S. Lavadiya, S.K. Nayak, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, S.S.K. Raavi, Superior Three-Photon Absorption and Ultrafast Nonlinear Photonic Switching Response of Double Perovskite Cs2AgInCl6 Nanocrystals, in Opt. InfoBase Conf. Pap., Optica Publishing Group, Washington, D.C., 2022: p. JTu4B.14. https://doi.org/10.1364/fio.2022.jtu4b.14.
Journal Publications
[1] D. 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, Appl. Surf. Sci. 569 (2021) 151070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151070.
[2] D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, R. Kumar Kanaka, V. Rao Soma, Femtosecond Bessel beam induced ladder-like LIPSS on the trimetallic surface for SERS-based sensing of Tetryl and PETN, Appl. Surf. Sci. 616 (2023) 156561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.156561.
[3] D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, R.K. Kanaka, B. Ghose, V.R. Soma, Nanotubular Arrayed LIPSS Achieved with Femtosecond Bessel Beam on Silver Surface for SERS-Based Multiple Explosive Sensing, J. Phys. Chem. C. 128 (2024) 4655–4665. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c00160.
[4] D. Banerjee, A. Mangababu, Ravi Kumar Kanaka, Venugopal Rao Soma, Plasmonic Alloy Nanocolloids Fabricated via Femtosecond Bessel Beam for Photonic and SERS-based Sensing Applications, Optical Materials [IF 3.9].
[5] D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, S. Ghosh, V.R. Soma, Picosecond Bessel beam fabricated pure, gold-coated silver nanostructures for trace-level sensing of multiple explosives and hazardous molecules, Materials, 15 (2022) 4155. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15124155.
[6] D. Banerjee, Anunay Samanta, Venugopal Rao, Giant Three-photon and Four-photon Absorption in MAPbBr3 and FAPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals. (To be submitted to Journal of Physicsal Chemistry letters, JPCL).
[7] S.J. Khanam, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, B. Murali, Stability enhancement and pronounced three-photon absorption in SrCl2-doped FAPbBr3 nano crystals, J. Mater. Chem. C. 11 (2023) 3275–3283. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2tc05528g.
[8] M. Akkanaboina, D. Banerjee, K. Ravi Kumar, R. Sai Prasad Goud, V.R. Soma, S.V.S. Nageswara Rao, Sub-70 nm surface structures on femtosecond laser irradiated GaAs in distilled water and sensing application, Opt. Lett. 48 (2023) 5539. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.502527.
[9] K.R. Kumar, D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, R.S.P. Goud, A. Anjum, A.P.G. Prakash, A.P. Pathak, V.R. Soma, S.V.S.N. Rao, New aspects of femtosecond laser ablation of Si in water: a material perspective, J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 36 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad2f55.
[10] K.R. Kumar, D. Banerjee, A. Mangababu, R.S. Prasad Goud, A.P. Pathak, V.R. Soma, S.V.S. Nageswara Rao, Resistivity dependence on nanostructure formation in picosecond ablation of silicon and SERS-based sensing applications, J. Phys. D. Appl. Phys. 55 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac818b.
[11] B.K. Singh, D. Banerjee, A. Mangababu, Y. Shadangi, N.K. Mukhopadhyay, R. Rawat, A.P. Pathak, S.V. Rao, A. Tiwari, A. Tripathi, Ultra-short pulsed laser ablation of decagonal AlCoNi and AlCoCuNi quasicrystals, J. Alloys Compd. 968 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.172238.
[12] M. Akkanaboina, D. Banerjee, K.R. Kumar, R.S.P. Goud, V.R. Soma, S.V.S.N. Rao, Gold nanoparticles coated LIPSS on GaAs for trace detection of RDX and Tetryl, Surfaces and Interfaces. 36 (2023) 102563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102563.
[13] R.K. Rohal, D. Banerjee, T. Manchanda, V. Bhardwaj, V.R. Soma, M. Sankar, Ethyl acetoacetate and acetylacetone appended hexabromo porphyrins: synthesis, spectral, electrochemical, and femtosecond third-order nonlinear optical studies, Dalt. Trans. 52 (2023) 5523–5533. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3dt00005b.
[14] R.K. Rohal, D. Banerjee, N. Rana, V.R. Soma, M. Sankar, Third-order nonlinear optical properties of highly electron deficient, nonplanar push-pull porphyrins: β-nitro-hexa-substituted porphyrins bearing bromo, phenyl, and phenylethynyl groups, Dalt. Trans. 53 (2024) 6436–6444. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dt00045e.
[15] R. Allu, D. Banerjee, R. Avasarala, S. Hamad, S.V. Rao, G.K. Podagatlapalli, Broadband femtosecond nonlinear optical properties of silver nanowire films, Opt. Mater. (Amst). 96 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2019.109305.
[16] M. Haribabu, B. Dipanjan, M.S.S. Bharati, J. Chelsea, A. Chandrasekhar, P. Kanaka raju, S. Venugopal Rao, S. Hamad, G. Krishna Podagatlapalli, Exciton-mediated surface-enhanced Raman studies of Aluminum doped platinum nano colloids, Opt. Mater. (Amst). 133 (2022) 113013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2022.113013.
[17] R. Beeram, D. Banerjee, L.M. Narlagiri, V.R. Soma, Machine learning for rapid quantification of trace analyte molecules using SERS and flexible plasmonic paper substrates, Anal. Methods. 14 (2022) 1788–1796. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2AY00408A.
[18] K.S. Srivishnu, D. Banerjee, R.A. Ramnagar, J. Rathod, L. Giribabu, V.R. Soma, Optical, Electrochemical, Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Investigations of 3,4,5-Trimethoxy Phenyl Substituted Non-Aqueous Phthalocyanines, Front. Chem. 9 (2021) 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.713939.
[19] A. Mangababu, D. Banerjee, K. Ravi Kumar, R. Sai Prasad Goud, V. Rao Soma, S.V.S. Nageswara Rao, Comparative study of GaAs nanostructures synthesized in air and distilled water by picosecond pulsed laser ablation and application in hazardous molecules detection, J. Laser Appl. 34 (2022). https://doi.org/10.2351/7.0000750.
[20] M.S. Ahmed, L. Sireesha, S.K. Nayak, R. Bakthavatsalam, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, J. Kundu, S.S.K. Raavi, Tunable near-infrared emission and three-photon absorption in lanthanide-doped double perovskite nanocrystals, Nanoscale. 15 (2023) 9372–9389. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3nr00988b.
[21] M.S. Ahmed, C. Biswas, D. Banerjee, P. Chetti, J.S. Yang, V.R. Soma, S.S.K. Raavi, Femtosecond Third-Order Non-Linear Optical Properties of Unconstrained Green Fluorescence Protein Chromophores, Front. Phys. 10 (2022) 914135. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2022.914135.
[22] M.S. Ahmed, C. Biswas, B. Bhavani, S. Prasanthkumar, D. Banerjee, V. Kumar, P. Chetti, L. Giribabu, V. Rao Soma, S.S.K. Raavi, Metalated porphyrin-napthalimide based donor-acceptor systems with long-lived triplet states and effective three-photon absorption, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Chem. 435 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114324.
[23] M.S.S. Bharathi, C. Byram, D. Banerjee, D. Sarma, B. Barkakaty, V.R. Soma, Gold nanoparticle nanofibres as SERS substrate for detection of methylene blue and a chemical warfare simulant (methyl salicylate), Bull. Mater. Sci. 44 (2021) 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-021-02402-9.
[24] C. Biswas, P.S. Gangadhar, L. Giribabu, P. Chetti, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, S.S.K. Raavi, Ultrafast intramolecular charge transfer dynamics and nonlinear optical properties of phenothiazine-based push–pull zinc porphyrin, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A Chem. 433 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114141.
[25] A. Mangababu, R. Sai Prasad Goud, C. Byram, J. Rathod, D. Banerjee, V. Rao Soma, S.V.S. Nageswara Rao, Multi-functional gallium arsenide nanoparticles and nanostructures fabricated using picosecond laser ablation, Appl. Surf. Sci. 589 (2022) 152802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.152802.
[26] K. Mondal, S. Biswas, A. Pramanik, D. Banerjee, V. Rao Soma, A. Kumar Chaudhary, P. Kumbhakar, Giant femtosecond nonlinear optical response in bi-metallic GO nanocomposites for photonic applications, Appl. Surf. Sci. 578 (2022) 151966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.151966.
[27] S. Kumar, J.N. Acharyya, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, G. Vijaya Prakash, M. Sankar, Strong two-photon absorption and ultrafast dynamics of Meso -functionalized “push-pull” trans -A2BC porphyrins, Dalt. Trans. 50 (2021) 6256–6272. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1dt00378j.
[28] S.K. Nayak, R. Kore, M.S. Ahmed, P. Verma, R. Vallavoju, D. Banerjee, S. Pola, V.R. Soma, P. Chetti, S.S.K. Raavi, Femtosecond nonlinear optical properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-based Benzo[e]pyrene derivatives, Opt. Mater. (Amst). 137 (2023) 113603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2023.113603.
[29] N.N. Pati, S. Sahoo, S.S. Sahoo, D. Banerjee, S.V. Rao, P.K. Panda, Chromatographically separable ruffled non-planar isomeric octaalkylporphycenes: Consequences of unsymmetrical substitution upon structure and photophysical properties, New J. Chem. 44 (2020) 9616–9620. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0nj01744b.
[30] A. Pramanik, P. Kumbhakar, A. Dey, K. Mondal, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, P. Kumbhakar, C.S. Tiwary, Synthesis, Green Photoluminescence and Studies of Nonlinear Optical Spatial Self Phase Modulation Effect in 2D Ga2Te3 Nanosheets, ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 1 (2023) 1634–1642. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.3c00119.
[31] P. Rathi, Ekta, S. Kumar, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, M. Sankar, Unsymmetrical β-functionalized “push-pull” porphyrins: Synthesis and photophysical, electrochemical and nonlinear optical properties, Dalt. Trans. 49 (2020) 3198–3208. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04252k.
[32] J. Rathod, C. Byram, R.K. Kanaka, M.S.S. Bharati, D. Banerjee, M. Akkanaboina, V.R. Soma, Hybrid Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for the Trace Detection of Ammonium Nitrate, Thiram, and Nile Blue, ACS Omega. 7 (2022) 15969–15981. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c01095.
[33] K.S. Srivishnu, M.N. Rajesh, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, L. Giribabu, Novel phosphorus(v) tetrabenzotriaza corroles: synthesis, characterization, optical, electrochemical, and femtosecond nonlinear optical studies, Dalt. Trans. 51 (2022) 13779–13794. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dt02298b.
[34] M.S. Ahmed, K.S. Srivishnu, C. Biswas, D. Banerjee, P. Chetti, V.R. Soma, L. Giribabu, S.S.K. Raavi, Novel metallated imidazole phthalocyanines: synthesis, ultrafast excited-state carrier dynamics and multiphoton absorption properties, Mater. Adv. 4 (2023) 3532–3550. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ma00225j.
[35] V.K. Ashith, E.D. D’Silva, D. Banerjee, S.V. Rao, Characterization of sol gel derived spin coated copper incorporation of CdS films for nonlinear optical applications, Curr. Appl. Phys. 57 (2024) 93–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2023.11.004.
[36] Twinkle J, Sailaja M, Dipanjan B, Babuji P, Rajasekhar V, Hamad S, Saikiran V, Chandrasekhar A, Kanaka Raju P, G.K. Podagatlapalli, Strong Two and Three-Photon Absorption Coefficients of Gold-Doped Titanium Di-Oxide Nanoparticles Achieved by Femtosecond Z-Scan Technique, Plasmonics. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-02161-9.
Review Articles Published
[1] C. Byram, S.S.B. Moram, D. Banerjee, R. Beeram, J. Rathod, V.R. Soma, Review of ultrafast laser ablation for sensing and photonic applications, J. Opt. (United Kingdom). 25 (2023) 043001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/acbc31.
[2] L.M. Narlagiri, M.S.S. Bharati, R. Beeram, D. Banerjee, V.R. Soma, Recent trends in laser-based standoff detection of hazardous molecules, TrAC - Trends Anal. Chem. 153 (2022) 116645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2022.116645.