Debajyoti Das
Senior Professor
Energy Research
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
India
Biography
Education: B.Sc.(Physics-Hons), M.Sc.(Physics), Ph.D.(Sc) from University of Calcutta Professional Positions in IACS: Lecturer – 1988–1991 Senior Lecturer – 1991–1997 Reader – 1997–2003 Professor – 2003–2007 Senior Professor – 2007–continuing Professional Activities Abroad: UNIDO Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA – 1989 UNIDO Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, USA – 1989 UNIDO Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan – 1990 Visiting Scientist, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan – 2001 Charge de Recherche (Senior), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France – 2002 Visiting Project (Collaborative) PI, National Taiwan University, Taiwan – 2010, 2011, 2012
Research Interest
Development of Nanomaterials for Energy Applications: (Silicon and Germanium Quantum-Dots, Nano-rods, Nano-tips & Superlattice structures; Carbon Nano-tubes, Nano-Diamond, DLC & Graphene; TCO films e.g., ITO, SnO2 & doped ZnO nanostructures); Solar Cells and Light Emitting Devices.
Publications
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Preferential (220) Crystalline Growth in Nanocrystalline Silicon Films from 27.12 MHz SiH4 Plasma for Applications in Solar Cells’ –– Praloy Mondal and Debajyoti Das; RSC Adv. 5 (2015) 54011–54018.
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Superior Optical Response of Size-controlled Silicon Nano-crystals in a-Si:H/nc-Si:H Superlattice Films for Multi-junction Solar Cells’ –– Debjit Kar and Debajyoti Das; RSC Adv. 5 (2015) 61118–61126.
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Rapid synthesis of nc-Si/a-SiNx:H QD thin films by plasma processing for their cost effective applications in photonic and photovoltaic devices’ –– Debajyoti Das and Basudeb Sain; RSC Adv. 5 (2015) 63572–63579.
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Self-assembled nc-Si–QD/a-SiC thin films from planar ICP-CVD plasma without H2-dilution: a combination of wide optical gap, high conductivity and preferred <220> crystallographic orientation, uniquely appropriate for nc-Si solar cells’ –– Debajyoti Das and Debjit Kar; RSC Adv. 6 (2016) 3860–3869.
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Low temperature grown ZnO:Ga films with predominant c-axis orientation in wurtzite structure, high conductance, transmittance and photoluminescence’ –– Debajyoti Das and Praloy Mondal; RSC Adv. 6 (2016) 6144–6153.