Technical Expertise

1. Creative Thinker and Problem Solver

2. Materials synthesis:

a) Single crystal synthesis using slow cooling, solvent evaporation, inverse temperature crystallization, antisolvent supersaturation, solid state, and melt processing techniques.

b) Thin film deposition in ambient and inert (glove box) conditions using spin-coating, spray-coating, melt-deposition, hot-press, and thermal evaporator setup. Complete solar cell and photodetector fabrication and encapsulation.

c) Other instruments: UV-Ozone cleaner, Sonicator, Rapid thermal annealing, Furnaces, and Hot-plates

3. Analytical skills:

Data modeling, JMP, Yield3, SCAPS-1D, Origin, MATLAB, SolidWorks, Crystal maker, Jmol, and MS Office

4. Materials Characterization:

a) Imaging techniques:

• Scanning electron microscopy + Energy Dispersive X-ray

•  Atomic force microscopy

• Optical microscopy

b) Structural characterization:

• Powder and thin-film Xray diffractometer

• Single crystal Xray diffractometer

• Beamline measurements (aka, particle accelerator :P)

c) Spectroscopy techniques:

• UV-Vis-Nir spectroscopy

• Photoluminescence

• Raman spectroscopy

• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

• External quantum efficiency measurement (EQE)

• Microwave photoconductivity for carrier lifetime measurement

d) Thermal characterization:

• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC),

• Ultrafast calorimetry (flash-DSC),

• Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)

e)  Electrical characterization:

• • Probe station

  • Solar simulator

  • Hall effect

  • Dielectric constant

  • Hot probe

f) Mechanical characterization:

• Viscosity measurement

• Ultimate testing machine (UTM)

• Contact angle measurement