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Department of Physics

Dr. Uttam Manna

Associate Professor of Physics
Physics
Office
MLT Moulton Hall 313c
Office Phone
(309) 438-2037office
phone
Email
umanna@ilstu.eduemail
Website
http://www.mannalab.orgwebsite
  • About
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Biography

Dr. Manna joined the Illinois State Physics department in Fall 2016. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Before arriving at Illinois State, he worked as a postdoctoral research scientist at the James Franck Institute at The University of Chicago and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University. His research interests are experimental nanophotonics, light-matter interactions at the nanoscale.

Current Courses

PHY 102.001 Atoms To Galaxies

PHY 102.002 Atoms To Galaxies

PHY 390.018 Computational Research In Physics

PHY 340.001 Electricity And Magnetism II

PHY 270.001 Experimental Physics

PHY 270.002 Experimental Physics

PHY 290.018 Research In Physics

PHY 102.003 Atoms To Galaxies

PHY 102.004 Atoms To Galaxies

PHY 240.001 Electricity And Magnetism I

PHY 240.002 Electricity And Magnetism I

Journal Article

Manna, U., Gómez-Viloria, I., Sevik, R., Tribaldo, I., Biswas, M., Molina-Terriza, G., & Olmos-Trigo, J. Detection of Hybrid Optical Anapoles in Dielectric Microspheres. Advanced Optical Materials (2025): e01315.
Biswas, M., Rozyyev, V., Mane, A., Korveziroska, A., Manna, U., & Elam, J. Sequential Infiltration Synthesis of Silicon Dioxide in Polymers with Ester Groups─ Insight from In Situ Infrared Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126.15 (2023): 6346.
Coe, B., Sevik, R., Biswas, M., & Manna, U. Resonant coupling of molecular excitons and optical anapoles in silicon nanosphere-J-aggregate heterostructures under vector beam illumination. Applied Optics 62.20 (2023): 5487.
Coe, B., Olmos-Trigo, J., Qualls, D., Alexis, M., Szczerba, M., Abujetas, D., Biswas, M., & Manna, U. Unraveling Dipolar Regime and Kerker Conditions in Mid-Index Mesoscale Dielectric Materials. Advanced Optical Materials 2202140 (2022)
Pandey, K., Perez, M., Korveziroska, A., Manna, U., & Biswas, M. Fabrication of TiO2 nanodot films using simple solution dipping method and block copolymer template. Journal of Applied Physics 131 (2022): 074901.

Presentations

Beam Engineering for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in Optical Nanostructures. META 2024. (2024)
Dual Detection of Kerker Anapoles in Dielectric Microspheres. American Physical Society March Meeting. (2024)
Nanomaterials Patterning Involving Undergraduates at Illinois State University. American Physical Society March Meeting. (2024)
Nanopatterning Inorganic Materials using Selective Infiltration inside Polymers for Emerging Technologies’. American Chemical Society Spring Meeting. (2024)
Nanopatterning of Nitride Nanostructures for Optoelectronic Applications. META 2024. (2024)
Kerker Conditions in Mid-index Mesoscale Dielectric Materials. European Material Research Society Spring Meeting. (2023)
Nanopatterning using Sequential Infiltration Synthesis. ISU University Research Symposium. Illinois State University. (2023)
Optical trapping with magnetic fields of light. SPIE Optics & Photonics 2023. (2023)
Sequential Infiltration Synthesis of Silicon Dioxide for Nanopatterning – In Situ FTIR study. APS March Meeting 2023. (2023)
Nanophotonics Research Involving Undergraduates at Illinois State University. APS March Meeting 2022. (2022)

Grants & Contracts

Advanced Nanopatterning for Next-Generation Resistive Switching Memory Devices. Advancing Research and Creative Scholarship (ARCS) - FY2025 Track I. Illinois State University. (2025)
RUI: Selective Excitation and Charge Dynamics of Dark Molecular Transitions. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2025)
RUI: Unraveling Novel Nanophotonic Effects in Mid-Index Micro-Sized Dielectric Materials. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2025)
RUI: Unraveling Novel Nanophotonic Effects in Mid-Index Micro-Sized Dielectric Materials. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2022)
MRI: Acquisition of a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope to Advance Multidisciplinary Research and Education. National Science Foundation. Federal. (2021)