Curricular Vitae

Nagabhushan Patel

PhD Scholar, Email: ac86cc@r.postjobfree.com

Materials Research Centre, Phone no- +1-857-***-****. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Lab website: http://mrc.iisc.ernet.in/~sbk/ Career Objective

Objective to attain a challengeable position and an exciting career in a reputed organization, where I can leverage my technical and academic skills to grow along with the organization while being resourceful, innovative, and flexible and to be an asset to the organization.

Education:

• August 2018: Ph.D. in sciences, Quantum Structures & Devices Lab, Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Indian institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Thesis Title: “Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Thin Films grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Photodetector Applications”. Advisor: Prof. SB Krupanidhi.

• M.Sc. in Physics (Department of Physics) Kuvempu University Shankaraghatta, Shimoga, Karnataka, India.

Academic Achievements:

1. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) India fellowship (2012-2018). 2. Cleared all the Ph.D. entrance exams conducted at the National level (CSIR-UGC, JEST, GATE & IISc Entrance Exam).

Research Topics:

1. Synthesis & growing of Chalcogenide and Perovskite halides thin films. 2. Material characterization, Optical characterization and Electrical characterization of these materials. 3. Utilizing the electrical, Optical and other properties of these materials in understanding the Band gap of the materials to study the various applications i.e., Photovoltaics- Photo detectors and Solar Cells and etc. Current Work:

1. Vis-Near Infrared Photodetectors based on Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition.

2. Temperature variation and stability of FTO/CH3NH3PbI3 thin films by Pulsed laser deposition. 3. FTO/CH3NH3PBI3 thin films grown by Pulsed laser deposition at room temperature and followed by annealing.

4. FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3 by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Self-Photodetectors. 5. FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3/Spiro-OMTAD hetero structure by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Self- Photodetectors.

6. FTO/TiO2/MoS2/CH3NH3PbI3/Spiro-OMTAD hetero structure by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Solar Cell Applications.

Experimental Skills:

1. Synthesis of Thin films:

• Physical vapor deposition methods: DC-RF Magnetron sputtering and Pulsed Laser depositions.

• Other methods like Spin coating, Thermal Vapor deposition, E-beam Evaporation, etc. 2. Fabrication of devices:

• Experience of working in Class 1000 clean room for fabrication of devices, Operation of EVG Double sided mask aligner, e-beam evaporation, etc. 3. Electrical and materials characterization:

• Electrical measurements using Keithley 2600 series, Agilent B 1505 Semiconductor Analyzer.

• Materials characterization using Scanning Electron Microscope, Transmission electron microscope, Raman spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscope, XPS, PL-TRPL, FIB-FESEM, Solar Simulation & Quantum efficiency measurements, etc Computer Skills:

1. Basics of ANSYS, COMSOL, MATLAB, Lab VIEW.

2. Basics of C programming language.

Publications:

1. Nagabhushan Patel, Sandra Dias and S.B. Krupanidhi “Vis-Near Infrared Photodetectors based on Methyl Ammonium Lead Iodide Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition” The Journal of electronic materials 116**-***-**** (2018).

2. Rohit Pant, Nagabhushan Patel, Karuna Nanda, and S.B. Krupanidihi. “Negative Differential Resistance and Resistive Switching in SnO2/ZnO Interface”. Journal of Applied Physics 122, 125303 (2017). 3. Sandra Dias, Saraswathi Chirakkara, Nagabhushan Patel, S.B. Krupanidhi “Gallium and Indium co-doped ZnO as a Transparent Conducting Oxide for Cu2SnS3 Photodetectors” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 25 October 2017.

4. Bishnu Pandey, Nagabhushan Patel, V. Daramalla and S.B. Krupanidhi “Dynamical magnetoelectric coupling in BaTiO3/ Fe3O4 bilayer multiferroic heterostructures “AIP Advances (Under Review). 5. Nagabhushan Patel, S.B. Krupanidhi “Self-powered photodetector based on an FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3 heterojunction fabricated by Pulsed Lased Deposition” ACS Applied Energy Materials (Submitted), 2019.

6. Nagabhushan Patel, Sandra Dias, S.B. Krupanidhi “Effect of change in annealing temperature of CH3NH3PbI3 thin films by Pulsed Lased Deposition for Self-powered photodetectors” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Submitted), 2019.

7. Nagabhushan Patel, Sandra Dias and S.B. Krupanidhi “Effect of variation in annealing time of CH3NH3PbI3 thin films by Pulsed laser Deposition for Self-powered photodetectors” – (Under Preparation)

8. Nagabhushan Patel, S.B. Krupanidhi “Room temperature grown of FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3/Spiro- OMTAD heterostructure fabricated by Pulsed Lased Deposition for Self-powered photodetectors” Applied Physics Letters (Submitted), 2019.

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Workshops and Conferences Attended:

1. IUMRS-2013, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. 2. IWPSD - 2015, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. 3. MRSI-AGM 27th Meeting-2016, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. 4. CEMAT-2016 conference on emerging Materials, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. 5. IUMRS-ICYRAM -2016, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 6. ICMAT-2017 9Th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, Suntec City, Singapore.

Personal Details:

Date of Birth: 16 May, 1984

Gender: Male

Nationality: Indian

Hobbies - Reading Books, playing chess, Trekking, Jungle walking, Listening to music and other extracurricular activities.

I hereby declare that the information given above is correct and true to the best of my knowledge.

(Nagabhushan Patel)

References:

1. Prof.S.B. Krupanidhi

Materials Research Centre

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore, Karnataka, India-560012

email: ac86cc@r.postjobfree.com

2. Prof. A.M. Umarji

Materials Research Centre

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore, Karnataka, India-560012

email: ac86cc@r.postjobfree.com

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