CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute

Ashim Kumar Chakraborty
Chief Scientist & Head

Material Characterization Division

Phone: (033) 24733496 (Ex.3204)
Fax: +91-33-24730957
E-mail: ashim@cgcri.res.in

B.Sc. (Physics), Cotton College Gauhati University
B.Tech. Instrumentation & Electronics Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
M.E. Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Mr. Chakraborty joined CGCRI on March 1987

Research Interest

Material Characterization Techniques, Strain & Temperature Sensor, Special glass melting process control engineering, Design of special purpose electronic instruments

Professional Career

Organisation	Position Held	Duration
Simon Carves India Ltd Surat Gujrat	Graduate Engineer Trainee	1983-84
I.R.Technology Services, Kolkata	Sr. Engineer	1984-87
Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata	Scientist	1987-till date

Selected Publications

Publications: In SCI journals = 8; In Conferences = 10; .
Selected Papers:

"Galvanostatic Deposition and Electrical Characterization of Cuprous-Oxide Thin-Films", A. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. K. Chakraborty, A. P. Chatterjee, et al., Thin Solid Films, 209, (1992) 92.
"The synthesis, characterization and sintering of sol-gel derived cordierite ceramics for electronic applications", D.Pal, A.K.Chakraborty, Suchitra Sen and S.K.Sen, Journal of Materials Science, 31(1996), 3995-4005.
"Fibre Bragg gratings in structural health monitoring-Present status and applications", Mousumi Majumder, Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Ashim Kumar Chakraborty, Kamal Dasgupta and D.K.Bhattacharya, Sensors and Actuators A 147 (2008) 150-164.
"Electrical Resistivity of Transition Metal Ion Doped Mullite", S.P.Chaudhuri. S.K.Patra and A.K.Chakraborty, Journal of European Ceramic Society, 19(1999), 2941-2950,
"Fibre Bragg grating strain sensor and study of its packaging material for use in critical analysis on steel structure", Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Mousumi Majumder, Ashim Kumar Chakraborty, Asok Kumar Dikshit and Dipak Kumar Bhattacharya, Sensors and Actuators A 150 (2009) 78-86.

Copyright: "Software to calculate the polynomial oefficients and generate the temperature vs. emf table for B,J,K,R and S type thermocouple". Mousumi Majumder and Ashim Kumar Chakraborty Copy right no. 13/CR/2004.

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Landmark Research Contribution

Establishment of Centralized Materials Characterization Facility at CGCRI.