Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Hi, I am Chanchal and working as a postdoc with Professor C. Barry Carter at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut.
I am mainly working on the in-situ intercalation reactions like lithiation and sodiation of the 2D layer materials especially the TMDCs in TEM. The aim of this work is to understand the intercalation mechanism in the layer materials and also understand the degradation and the amorphization of these systems during the reactions. These are extremely essential to develop advanced and safer electrode materials with higher capacities. I am also involved in the in-situ heating experiments of phase change memory systems e.g. Ge-Sb-Te film in TEM. Here the aim is to study the kinetics of the reaction and the phase transformation behavior of the system. Being a beam sensitive material, GST readily degrades under the electron beam and to overcome that we have used the direct-electron-detection and large field of view camera in the aberration corrected TEM. All the TEM related works have been performed at Centre for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), one of the five nanoscience research centers of the DOE and associated with the Sandia and Los Alamos National Lab.
I did my PhD from Homi Bhabha National Institute, India. During my PhD, I have extensively used the TEM based techniques to study the phase transformational aspects in different metallic systems and intermetallic systems.
I am the member of several professional societies at the USA and in India. My publication details can be found at the following links,
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4038-8156
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LsvK-eoAAAAJ&hl=en
I can be reached at the following e-mail ids, chanchal123@gmail.com and chanchal.ghosh@uconn.edu
Looking forward to meeting you all virtually during M&M 2021.
Thank you for going through my talk and the poster at M&M 2021.
