Semiconductor Materials, Devices and Characterization Group (SMDC)
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.
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.
Nishi Parikh
Doctoral Student
B.Sc. M.Sc.
CSIR-NET, SLET, GATE, GPSC
Email: nishiparikh97@gmail.com, nishi.pphd19@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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 nanocoposites.
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.
Hemant Kumari
B.E., M.Tech
Email: hemant.kumari@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Hemant Kumari worked as Junior Research Fellow (project staff) on “Mechnochemical approach for perovskite solar cell: A way towards efficient stable and low cost solar cells”, at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) Gujarat, funded by DST.
She completed her B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Govt. Engineering College Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh and M. Tech in Optoelectronics and Laser Technology from Pt. Ravisankar Shukla University Raipur, Chhattisgarh. As part of the final year thesis during the M.Tech program, she is completed one year project on "Synthesis and Investigation of optical properties of Perylene doped-Methylammonium lead halide Perovskite Nanocrystals" at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad. Her research focuses to increase the stability in complex conditions of temperature, humidity and light harvesting properties of the perovskite solar cell.
kashyap Bhatt
B.E.,M.Tech
Email: kashyapbhatt5389@gmail.com
kashyap bhatt is second year student of M.tech (energy system) at Pandit Dindyal Petroleum University (PDPU) Gandhinagar Gujarat
He completed his bachelor of engineering (electrical) from Atmiya institute of Technology located at rajkot, right now he is working under Dr. Pankaj yadav.