Dinesh Pathak

Biography

Dr. Dinesh Pathak has completed his Master of Science and then Ph. D. degree at Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar on the topic "Preparation and characterization of AgInSe2 films for photovoltaic applications. For the completion of his thesis he has also worked at Functional Nanomaterial laboratory IIT, Roorkee and at Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. During his work, he handled various equipments like thin film coating unit with Thermal evaporation, Hot wall and Laser ablation set up, XRD, FESEM, AFM, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, FTIR, and others related instruments. He has also visited number of National Laboratories /Universities in connection with the research work. Dinesh Pathak has published and presented his work in national and International conferences and journals of high repute. He also holds more than five year teaching experience to teach UG and PG students. He visited Italy, China, Poland, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, USA, Switzerland, Austria and Canada in regards to his research work. He has also reviewed scientific articles of a dozen of scientific publishers. He has also been awarded with IUCr award and Rising Star award at AsCA'09 organised by Asian Crystallographic Association and Chinese Crystallography Society at Beijing, China in 2009. He has awarded with awards (Research Funds) like Project fellow (UGC), Senior Research fellowship (CSIR), Travel awards (DST, CSIR and INSA) and Prestigious Indian DS Kothari PDF award to work on hybrid solar cells. Recently, he has also been selected and participated in Lindau Council of Noble prize winners meetings for the subject category physics in 2012 along with DST-DFG Program to visit the various research laboratories of Germany to explore the research opportunities in Germany. He is also a visiting scientist at Queen’s University Kingston, Canada.

Research Interest

Focused Research Areas. a) Nanostructured Compound semiconductors ( Chalcopyrites) b) Oxide Nanocomposites/ Low cost sol gel synthesis of TCOs c) Ion beam synthesis of Nanomaterials. d) Organic semiconductors/  Organic Inorganic hybrid semiconductor systems.