Purdue University North Central
1401 S. U.S. 421
Westville, IN 46391

Phone: (219) 785-5254
Fax:(219) 785-5507
pdas@pnc.edu
Office: SWRZ 311B

Fall 2005

Grants and Awards

    NSF-ILI award: A Physics Computing Laboratory with an Interactive Digitized Video Component, 
    1996 - 1998.

    Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant: Study of Pulsed Fluorescence, 1993

    Outstanding Teacher in Science, Purdue University North Central, 1993-94

    NSF College Faculty Research Opportunity Award (ROA): Laser Induced Chemical Reactions and
    Energy Transfer, 1988 - 1989

Research

    Physics of small solid state particles and solid surfaces; Linear and nonlinear spectroscopic properties
    of adsorbates near small particles and solid surfaces; Physics of nanoparticles and nano-scale
    structures. 

Selected Publications

    Das, P. C. and A. Puri, Energy flow and fluorescence near a small metal particle, Physical Review B,
    65, 155416 (1-8), (2002)

    Garcia, L., A Puri, and P. C. Das, Gauss’s theorem revisited. European Journal of Physics, 16, 
    266-270 (1995)

    Moini, S., A. Puri, D. Habibollahzadeh, and P. C. Das, Ground State Energy Estimation of Jellium 
    Systems by Spatial Gridding. Modern Physics Letters B, 9, 45-53 (1995)

    Moini, S. A., A. Puri, and P. C. Das, Photochemistry near a semiconductor surface. Journal of 
    Chemical Physics, 98, 746-752 (1993)

    Das, P. C., A. Puri, and T. F. George, Photodissociation near a rough metal surface: Effect of reaction
    fields. Journal of Chemical Physics, 93, 9106-9112 (1990)

    Das, P. C., A. Puri, and T. F. George, Electromagnetic Reaction to Molecular Relaxation and Its 
    Effect on Absorption Near a Rough Surface. Solid State Communications, 72, 895-899 (1989)

    Das, P. C., H. Metiu, and A. Puri, Surface enhanced two-photon absorption near a small metal 
    particle. Journal of Chemical Physics, 89, 6497-6505 (1988)