Physics

Pritish Mukherjee
Pritish Mukherjee
Professor & Chair of Physics Department
Contact
Office: PHY 115
Lab: PHY 010
Phone: 813/974-3293
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Education
Ph.D. electrical engineering, 1986, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Research
Research Interests:
- solid state & materials physics
- picosecond lasers and applications
- laser-assisted materials processing
Research Highlight
Time-gated optical plume images in dual-laser ablation invented at USF Physics
Time-gated images of a Type-I clathrate material (Ba8Ga16Ge30) ablated by the dual-laser ablation process invented by Drs. Mukherjee and Witanachchi at LAMSAT in the Physics Department at USF. This patented thin film deposition process uses temporally synchronized and spatially overlapped excimer and CO2 laser pulses to deposit large-area, stoichiometric, defect-free films of multi-component materials. The images show the effect of inter-pulse delay in this process.
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