About Swastik Kar
Education and Professional Preparation:
- Presidency College, Calcutta University, India, BS in Physics: 1995
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, MS in Physics: 1998
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, PhD in Physics: 2004
- Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Postdoc in Experimental Physics (2003-2004)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, Postdoc in Nanomaterials Physics (2004-2008)
Appointments:
- Associate Professor: Department of Physics, Northeastern University, USA (July, 2016 onward)
- Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, Northeastern University, USA (September, 2010 – June, 2016)
- Research Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (July, 2008 – August, 2010)
- Adjunct Faculty: Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (August-December, 2009)
Institutes, Labs & Research Centers
Kar Lab
Physics
Professor Kar’s interests lie in the investigation of electronic, optical, and electrochemical properties of graphene and development of graphene-based applications, including energy generation and storage.
Faculty
Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology focuses on carbon-free technologies which are sustainable from materials and techno-economic point of view.
Publications:
- All publications listed in google scholarRead
- - 2D heterocrystals - Science Advances 2017Read
- - Ultrasensitive Ion Detection - Advanced Materials 2017Read
- - Atomically thin B-N-C-O - Science Advances 2015Read
- - Optoelectronic grade 2D MoS2 - ACS Nano 2015Read
- - Digital optoelectronics using SWNT-silicon junctions - Nature Photonics 2014Read
- - Ultrasensitive Photodetection using Graphene-silicon junctions - Nano Letters 2013Read
Swastik Kar in the news
October 5, 2022
Machine vision breakthrough: This device can see ‘millions of colors’
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Northeastern led by co-author Swastik Kar have built a device that can recognize “millions of colors” using new artificial intelligence techniques
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November 14, 2017
Professors’ venture wins MassChallenge award
Ask any academic researcher about their long-term goals and, among them, you’ll likely hear some variation of the phrase “societal impact.” That’s precisely the motivation behind Guardion, a venture developed by two Northeastern faculty members: Swastik Kar, professor of physics, and Yung Joon Jung, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering.
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August 22, 2017
Jung and Kar’s $200K NSF Grant Could Commercialize Low-Cost Radiation Detectors
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Professor Yung Joon Jung, along with co-principal investigator Associate Professor Swastik Kar of the Department of Physics, has been awarded a $200K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an interdisciplinary research project that uses nanotechnology to create highly sensitive and marketable detectors of radioactivity and nuclear radiation.
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July 25, 2017
Physics discovery unlocks ingredients of 2-D sandwich
Layering 2-D crystals is a little like building a club sandwich, says Northeastern physicist Swastik Kar. But a new discovery allows researchers to rearrange the ingredients, producing new properties and opening up a world of possibilities for new materials.
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July 31, 2015
From cameras to computers, new material could change how we work and play
Northeastern physicists Swastik Kar and Srinivas Sridhar led a research team whose novel work has potential applications for improved cellphone cameras and tiny transistors that when multiplied by the billions could fuel computers.
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February 19, 2014
Want your computer to go faster? Just add light
Every second, your computer must process billions of computational steps to produce even the simplest outputs. Imagine if every one of those steps could be made just a tiny bit more efficient.
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