Semiconductor Materials, Devices and Characterization Group (SMDC)
Nishi Parikh
Doctoral Student
B.Sc. M.Sc.
CSIR-NET, SLET, GATE, GPSC
Email Id.: nishiparikh97@gmail.com, nishi.pphd19@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Nishi received her B.Sc. in Chemistry (Gold medal) from St. Xavier’s College in 2017 and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (Silver Medal) from Gujarat University in 2019. In her Graduate and Post-Graduate research project, she worked on Graphene based nanocomposites.
She has qualified competitive exams like CSIR-NET (LS-AIR 19), SLET, GATE and GPSC. She joined Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in August, 2019. Her research focuses on the chemical routes for the surface and bulk passivation of halide Perovskites. She is involved in synthesizing single crystals of halide Perovskites, developing novel efficient spacer cations and analysing the growth mechanism, structural and optical properties.
Darshankumar Purohit
Doctoral Student
B.Sc., M.Sc.
Email Id.: dmpurohit2171@gmail.com,darshan.pphd21@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Darshankumar Purohit as Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow (Project Staff) on "Mechano-chemical synthesis of low cost and Efficient Perovskite Solar cells", at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU),Gandhinagar -Gujarat, funded by GUJCOST.
He completed his B.Sc. in Physics from Christ College, Rajkot (Gujarat) and M.Sc in Physics from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat). As part of the final year thesis during the M.Sc program, He is completed one year project on "Theoretical Study of Superconducting Material USe2 and UTe2 Using Ab initio Approach", right now he is working under Dr. Pankaj Yadav.
Parthkumar Sevak
Doctoral Student
B.Sc., M.Sc.
Email Id.: parthj7979@gmail.com, parth.sphd21@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Parthkumar Sevak as Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow (project staff) on "Impooving the stability of Perovskite solar Cell(>1000)", at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) Funded by Department of Science and Technology(DST)
He completed his B.Sc. in chemistry from Gujarat University, and M.Sc in Organic-Chemistry from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad (Gujarat). As, right now he is working under Dr. Pankaj Yadav.
Krina Patel
Doctoral Student
B.Sc. M.Sc.
SLET,GPSC
Email Id.: patelkrina901@gmail.com, krina.pphd22@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Krina received her B.Sc. in Physics from Sir P.T Sarvajanik College of Science in 2017 and M.Sc. in Physics from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in 2019. In her Post-Graduate research project, she worked on Bidirectional Counter.
She has qualified competitive exams like SLET and GPSC. She joined Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in April, 2022.Her research focuses on the Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cell.
Siddhi Vinayak Pandey
M.Tech Student
B.Tech. M.Tech.
Email Id.: siddhivinayak.ele17@gmail.com, siddhi.pmtso21@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Siddhi received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (GTU), India in 2021 and Currently pursuing his M.Tech in Energy System (focused on Solar Energy) from Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India. In his graduate program he has worked on the prediction of battery parameters and it's behaviour using Kalman Filter and Machine Learning techniques. Currently he is working as a part of his final year thesis on a project titled 'Investigating the Electrical Properties of Halide Perovskite Using Machine Learning'.​​
Apurba Mahapatra
Doctoral Student
B.Sc, M.Sc, B.Ed
CSIR-NET,GATE,JEST
Email: mahapatraapurba@gmail.com, 517ph1012@nitrkl.ac.in
Apurba joined Department of Physics & Astronomy, NIT Rourkela in July 2017. He completed his B.Sc and M.Sc in Physics from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Before joining the Ph.D. program at NIT Rourkela, he completed his B.Ed from Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana in 2017. He has qualified competitive exams like CSIR-NET (June 2017 LS-AIR 84, June 2018 LS-AIR 9), GATE 2015, JAM 2013 and JEST 2015 (AIR-149). His research focuses on the electrical and optical study of metal halide Perovskites thin films and single crystals for photovoltaic applications.
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His research focuses on the effect of the surface and bulk passivation, ion migration and the influence of surface roughness of halide perovskites single crystals and solar cells. He is trying to understand how all the relevant parameters and interface of PSCs affect the performance and stability of the devices. He is also involved in synthesizing single crystals of halide Perovskites. His research enables us to understand the effect of ion migration inside the perovskite crystals using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. Apurba published eleven international papers (such as RSC, AIP, ACS, MDPI, IOP & PAC Journals etc.). He mentored several Master students for their research projects in our Lab.