ambarish imageAmbarish Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Centre for Nano Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
Department of Physics (Associate Faculty)
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560012
India
 
Tel: +91 80 2293 2442
Email: ambarish at ece.iisc.ernet.in


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Experience:
Assistant Professor, August 2009 - current, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Post-doctoral fellow, March 2005 – August 2009, Rowland Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
 
Education:
Ph.D. Physics, 2004, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Integrated M.Sc. Physics, 1997, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
 
Research Interests:
Chiral Spectroscopy and Optical Activity, Applications of Nanoscience in Biology, Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Acoustics and Spectroscopy in Superfluid Helium
 
Our work in the news
 
Publications:

12) Magnetically actuated propulsion at low Reynolds numbers: towards nanoscale control
P. Fischer, and A. Ghosh, Nanoscale 3, 557 (2011).

 
11) Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers
A. Ghosh, and P. Fischer, Nano Letters 9 (6), 2243 (2009).

10) Voltage controllable magnetic composite based on multifunctional polyethylene microparticles
A. Ghosh, N. K. Sheridon, and P. Fischer, Small 4 (11), 1956-1958 (2008)

9) Observation of the Faraday effect via beam deflection in a longitudinal magnetic field
Ambarish Ghosh,Winfield Hill, and Peer Fischer, Phys. Rev. A 76, 055402 (2007)

8) Circular differential double diffraction in chiral media
Ambarish Ghosh, Furqan M. Fazal, and Peer Fischer, Opt. Lett. 32, 1836 (2007)

7) Chiral Molecules Split Light: Reflection and Refraction in a Chiral Liquid
Ambarish Ghosh and Peer Fischer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 173002 (2006)

6) Observation of a New Type of Negative Ion in Superfluid Helium
Ambarish Ghosh and Humphrey J. Maris, AIP Conf. Proc. 850, 155 (2006)

5) Charge Transport in Liquid Helium at Low Temperatures
B. Sethumadhavan, W. Yao, H. Eguchi, A. Ghosh, Y. H. Huang, Y. H. Kim, R. E. Lanou, H. J. Maris, A. N. Mocharnuk-Macchia, and G. M. Seidel, AIP Conf. Proc. 850, 159 (2006)

4) Observation of a New Type of Electron Bubble in Superfluid Helium
Ambarish Ghosh and Humphrey J. Maris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265301 (2005)

3) Measurement of the lifetime of excited-state electron bubbles in superfluid helium
Ambarish Ghosh and Humphrey J. Maris, Phys. Rev. B 72, 054512 (2005)

2) Cavitation in superfluid helium possibly arising from penning ionization of dimers
Ambarish Ghosh and Humphrey Maris, J. Low Temp. Phys. 134, 251 (2004)

1) Experiments to study the effect of light on electron bubbles in liquid helium
H.J. Maris, A. Ghosh, D. Konstantinov, and M. Hirsch, J. Low Temp. Phys. 134, 227 (2004)


Patents:

1) Circular birefringence refractometer: method and apparatus for measuring optical activity
Peer Fischer and Ambarish Ghosh, (2007), USPTO application #: PCT/US07/72,248