Yard-wide:
[1] Yard-wide Capstone Day Poster Session Chair [2017 - 2022] and Math and Science Division Representative for Capstone Day [2015 - present]
[2] Member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE): Working Group 1 [2023 - present]
[3] “Liquid Crystal, Nanomaterials, and Optical Science” Internship Sponsor and Coordinator [2015 - present]
[4] Patent application information provider for USNA [2021 – present]
[5] STEM outreach: High School Student Mentorship [2018 – present]
Departmental:
[1] Investment (ASDP) Budget Manager in Physics Department [2017 – present]
[2] Chair of the Midshipman Research Committee in the Physics Department [2014 – present]
[3] Member of the Physics Faculty Search Committee [2015, 2016, 2020, 2021]
[4] SP221 Textbook Coordinator [2021 - 2023]:
[5] Solid State Physics (SP442) Course Lab Manager and Coordinator [2013 - 2019, 2024]:
[6] Physics Self-study Group 2018
Scientific community:
[1] Editorial Board Member of peer-reviewed journal Crystal [2015 – present]:
[2] Reviewer for national and international journals
- Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics, USA.
- Soft Materials, Taylor & Francis Group, UK.
- Journal of Applied Physics, American Institute of Physics, USA.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, American Institute of Physics, USA.
- Liquid Crystals, Taylor & Francis Group, UK.
- Physical Review E, American Physical Society, USA.
- Physical Review Research, American Physical Society, USA.
- Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.
- Carbon, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society, USA.
- Langmuir, American Chemical Society, USA.
- ACS Nano, American Chemical Society, USA.
- ACS Applied Nanomaterials, American Chemical Society, USA.
- Crystals, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- RSC Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.
- Applied Optics, Optical Society of America, USA.
- Optics Express, Optical Society of America, USA.
- Optical Materials Express, Optical Society of America, USA.
- Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, Elsevier, North-Holland.
- Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society, USA.
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, USA.
- Journal of Molecular Liquids, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- Materials Chemistry and Physics, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- Surfaces and Interfaces, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- Chemical Physics Letters, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- ChemPhotoChem, Wiley-VCH, Germany.
- Materials Letters, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- Applied Materials Today, Elsevier, Netherlands.
- Applied Physics B, Springer Verlag, Germany.
Dr. Rajratan Basu
The U.S. Naval Academy
Department of Physics
572c Holloway Road, Stop 9c
Annapolis, MD 21402
Email: basu@usna.edu
Office: (410) 293-6664
Chauvenet Hall 296
Lab: (410) 293-6684
Chauvenet Hall 044