The Diffraction Group (DIF)

Neutron diffraction is a powerful and often unique tool for studying the structure of materials used in everyday life.

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Tapan Chatterji

The DIF Group's people


Tapan Chatterji

e-mail:

chatterji(at)ill.eu

Room:

103-ILL4

Phone:

+33 (0)4 76 20 7066

FAX:

+33 (0)4 76 20 7648

Instr. phone:

+33 (0)4 76 20 7141


Research interests

  • Magnetism (magnetic structure, excitations and phase transitions in cuprates and manganites)
  • Spin, charge and orbital ordering in transition metal oxides
  • Neutron scattering, X-ray scattering, muon spin rotation and relaxation spectrocopy


Recent publications (of 210+ published papers)

  • Antiferromagnetic phase transition and spin correlations in NiO
    T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B. 79, 172403 (2009).
  • Pressure and temperature induced M3 phonon softening in ReO3
    T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B. 79, 184302 (2009).
  • Negative thermal expansion of ReO3 in the extended temperature range
    T. Chatterji et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 241902 (2009).
  • Neutron diffraction investigation of the magnetic structure and magnetoelastic effects NdMnO3
    T. Chatterji et al., J. Phys; Condens. Matter 21, 126003 (2009).
  • Low energy nuclear spin excitations in CoO
    T. Chatterji, and G.J. Schneider
    Phys. Rev. B. 79, 212409 (2009).
  • Anomalous hyperfine interaction in CoF2 investigated by high resolution neutron spectroscopy
    T. Chatterji, and G.J. Schneider
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 436008 (2009).
  • Determination of the magnetic structure of the field-induced phases of HoMnO3
    P.J. Brown and T. Chatterji
    Phys. Rev. B 77, 104407 (2008).
  • Neutron diffraction investigation of the magneto-elastic effect in LaMnO3
    T. Chatterji, P.F. Henry and B. Ouladdiaf
    Phys. Rev. B 77, 212403 (2008).
  • Neutron scattering investigations of multiferroic YMnO3
    T. Chatterji
    Pramana: J. Phys. 71, 847 (2008).
  • Low energy nuclear spin excitations in NdMg3 and NdCo2
    T. Chatterji, G.J. Schneider and R.M. Galera
    Phys. Rev. B 78, 012411 (2008).
  • Negative thermal expansion of ReO3: Neutron diffraction experiments and dynamical lattice calculations
    T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 78, 134105 (2008).

Books

  • Sub editor: Neutron scattering section of the book
    "Scattering: Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Pure and Applied Science", Ed. P. Pike and P. Sabatier, Academic Press (2002)
  • Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites, Ed. Tapan Chatterji, Kluwer Academic Press (2004)
  • Neutron Scattering from Magnetic Materials, Ed. Tapan Chatterji, Elsevier (2006)


Studies

  • 1972 Ph.D. (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
    Thesis "X-ray Studies of Lattice Defects and Lattice Vibrations in F.C.C. Metals and Alloys"
  • 1965 M.Sc. (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
  • 1963 B.Sc. (Hons. in Physics) Presidency College, Calcutta, India


Post-doctoral research

  • Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany


Employments

  • Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State research, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Max-Planck-Institute of Physics of Complx Systems, Dresden, Germany
  • Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
  • Long term visitor at the Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble.

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