Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS :

Modeling and Fabrication of flexible c-Si solar cells, Black silicon solar cell, Plasmonics solar cell, Surface passivation of c-Si solar cell, Nano and Opto-electronics devices, Bio-inspired opto-electronics devices, PV Systems, Renewable energy sources, Electric Vehicles, Embedded Systems and Cyber Security.

CORE SKILLS :

• Semiconductor Process Engineering: PECVD Deposition, Thermal oxidation, Sputtering, Evaporation, Spin coating, nano-sphere lithography and Chemical Etching.

• Semiconductor Material Characterization: Profilometry, PL measurement, FTIR, UV-VIS, XRD, FESEM.

• Solar Simulator Calibration and Troubleshooting: Expert in calibration of Solar simulator and testing the cells in all weather conditions. Reliability studies.

• Process and Device simulation: Comsol Multiphysics, Design of Experiment (DOE).

• Series & Shunt Resistance and internal Device Parameter Extraction: Electrical characterization of solar cells and extracting device parameters using MATLAB.

Ongoing Research Activities :

• Modeling and fabrication of Bio-inspired structures for solar cell application.

• Fabrication of Crystalline Black p-Si/n-ZnO based flexible solar cells.

• Fabrication of Gold Nanoparticle masked ITO Nanopillars using argon plasma etching .

• Upgrading the performance of InP/Si based multi junction thin solar cell .

• Utilization of ZnO as a Multidimensional material for ultrathin c-Si solar cell Application.

• Structuring of Macroporous Silicon for Solar cell application.