Shaibal K Sarkar

Shaibal K Sarkar

Professor

shaibal.sarkar@iitb.ac.in

Academic Background:

  • 2000-2005 PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • 2005-2007 PostDoc, Materials Research Center, University of Missouri at Rolla
  • 2007-2009 PostDoc, University of Colorado at Boulder

Contact Address:

Department of Energy Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400 076

+91 22 2576 7846 (office)
+91 22 2576 4898 (Lab)


https://www.ese.iitb.ac.in/~DIL

Research Interest:

  • Perovskite Solar Cells
  • Transparent Conducting Oxides
  • Atomic Layer Deposition

Courses Offered:

  • EN 640: Solar Photovoltaics; Fundamentals and Applications
  • EN 701: Advance Photovoltaics
  • EN 204: Materials Science for Energy Applications

List of Publications:

  1. S. Ghosh, R. Singh, A. S. Subbiah, P. P. Boix, I. Mora Sero, S. K. Sarkar, Enhanced operational stability through interfacial modification by active encapsulation of perovskite solar cells Appl. Phys, Lett, 2020, 116, 113502 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144038
  2. A. Halder, Y. Rakita, D. Cahen, S. K. Sarkar, Effect of Low Pressure on Tetragonal to Cubic Phase Transition of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite, J. Phys. Chem. Lett, 2020, 11, 4, pp. 1473-1476 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03895
  3. N. Mahuli, D. Halder, A. Paul, S. K. Sarkar, Atomic Layer Deposition of an Sb2Se3 Photo absorber Layer Using Selenium Dimethyldithiocarbamate as a New Se Precursor: Chemistry of Materials, 2019, 31 (18), pp. 7434-7442 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b02085
  4. N. Pathoor, A. Halder, A. Mukherjee, J. Mahato, S. K. Sarkar, A. Chowdhury; Fluorescence Blinking Beyond Nano confinement: Spatially Synchronous Intermittency of Entire Perovskite Microcrystals; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, pp. 11603-1160 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201804852
  5. A. S. Subbiah, N. Mathews, S. Mhaisalkar, S. K. Sarkar, Novel Plasma-Assisted Low-Temperature-Processed SnO2Thin Films for Efficient Flexible Perovskite Photovoltaics; ACS Energy Lett., 2018, 3 (7), pp. 1482-1491 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00692
  6. A. Halder, N. Pathoor, A. Chowdhury, S. K. Sarkar, Photoluminescence Flickering of Micron-Sized Crystals of Methylammonium Lead Bromide: Effect of Ambience and Light Exposure; J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122 (27), pp. 15133-15139
  7. D. Choudhury, G. Rajaraman and S. K. Sarkar, Self-limiting atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 on perovskite surfaces: a reality? Nanoscale, 2016, 8, pp. 7459-7465 https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr06974b
  8. A. Halder, R. Chulliyil, A. S. Subbiah, T. Khan, S. Chattoraj, A. Chowdhury and S. K. Sarkar, Pseudohalide (SCN– ) Doped MAPbI3 Perovskites: A Few Surprises, J. Phys. Chem. Letters, 2015, 6, pp. 3483−3489 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01327
  9. A. Halder, D. Choudhury, S. Ghosh, A. S. Subbiah, S. K. Sarkar; Exploring Thermochromic Behavior of Hydrated Hybrid Perovskites in Solar Cells; J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2015, 6(16), pp. 3180-3184 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01426
  10. A. S. Subbiah, A. Halder, S. Ghosh, N. Mahuli, G. Hodes and S. K. Sarkar; Inorganic Hole Conducting Layers for Perovskite-Based Solar Cells, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2014, 5, pp. 1748−1753 https://doi.org/10.1021/jz500645n
  11. S. Agarwal, M. Seetharaman, N. K. Kumawat, A. S. Subbiah, S. K. Sarkar, D. Kabra, M. A. G. Namboothiry, P. R. Nair; On the uniqueness of ideality factor and voltage exponent of perovskite-based solar cells; J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2014, 5, pp. 4115-4121 https://doi.org/10.1021/jz5021636

Work Experience:

  • 2009-2014: Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay
  • 2015-2021: Associate Professor, IIT Bombay

Current Students:

  • Sudeshna Ghosh (CSIR-NET)
  • Nisha Sarda (PMRF)
  • Sushmita Basak (CSIR-NET)
  • Sagnik Chowdhury
  • Bireswar Mondal (MSc-PhD Dual Degree)
  • Arya Vidhan

Department of Energy Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai - 400076, INDIA

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