News & Announcements
New Paper Accepted in Advanced Materials Technologies
Our paper entitled "Emerging Two-Dimensional vdW Materials and Their Heterostructures for Memristive Devices: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives," authored by Shiksha and Mukesh Kumar, has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials Technologies. Congratulations to the team!
New Paper Accepted in Solar RRL
Our paper entitled "Interface-Driven Performance Enhancement in Perovskite Solar Cells Using Oxygen-Tuned Cu-Doped NiOx Hole Transport Layer" authored by Puja, Prithwish Kumar Bhunia, Arpit Verma, Gaurav Bassi, Manoj A. G. Namboothiry, Mukesh Kumar has been accepted for publication in Solar RRL. Congratulations to the team!
New Paper Accepted in Applied Surface Science
Our paper entitled "Performance enhancement and emergence of self-powered in amorphous Ga₂O₃ solar-blind photodetectors via controlled reducing-environment annealing" authored by R. Dahiya, P. Rani, L. Rani, and M. Kumar has been accepted for publication in Applied Surface Science. Congratulations to the team!
DRDO Dare2Dream 4.0 First Prize Winner
The research team led by Prof. Mukesh Kumar won the First Prize in India in the highly competitive Dare2Dream 4.0 contest organized by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Government of India. The group won this prestigious award for their proposal and development of advanced Target Seeking and Proximity Sensing technologies for defense tracking systems.
Paper Published in Applied Physics Letters
Our research work "Universal Ohmic contacts to β-Ga₂O₃ using interfacial dipoles of ultra-thin MgF₂ layer and related defect passivation" has been published in Applied Physics Letters. This work establishes a novel interface dipole method to Passivate defect states and achieve universal Ohmic contacts on wide bandgap β-Ga₂O₃.
PhD Scholar Kartikay Joins the Group
We welcome Mr. Kartikay to the research group. He will be exploring the fabrication of Gallium Oxide thin film-based Neuromorphic and Synaptic devices.
Paper Published in Small Journal
Our joint paper entitled "Interface Engineering and Band Alignment Studies of Cu Doped NiO as a Hole Transport Layer for Triple Cationic Perovskite Solar Cells" has been published in the prestigious materials journal Small.
PhD Defence: Dr. Gaurav Bassi & Dr. Shivani
Congratulations to group members Gaurav Bassi and Shivani for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses! Dr. Gaurav and Dr. Shivani have both joined IIT Bombay as Postdoctoral Fellows. We wish them all the best in their academic careers.