Publications

Akash Singh, Manoj K. Jana, David. B. Mitzi, “Organic-Inorganic Metal Halide Glass”, (Patent Granted, US 17/333,862, 2023)

Akash Singh, Suraj Devnani, Vaishali Kushwaha, Shilpi Mishra, Akashdeep Gupta, K.K.S Pandian, “A Goggle: An auxiliary reading device for visually impaired –VISTA (Vision Imparting System using Technological Automation) Glass”, (Patent Pending (Published), India 201721016562, 2017)

Akash Singh and David B. Mitzi, “Emergence of Melt and Glass states of Halide Perovskite Semiconductors” (Nature Review Materials, 2025, 10, 211–227)

Akash Singh, Damara Dayton, Dylan M. Ladd, Guy Reuveni, Piotr Paluch, Lionel Montagne, Julian Mars, Omer Yaffe, Michael Toney, G. N. Manjunatha Reddy, David B. Mitzi “Local Structure in the Crystalline, Melt, and Glassy State of a Metal Halide Perovskite” (Journal of  American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 37, 25656–25668)

Akash Singh, Yi Xie, Curtis Adams III, Benjamin Bobay, David B. Mitzi, “Controlling Glass Forming Kinetics in 2D Perovskites Using Organic Cation Isomers” (Chemical Science, 2024, 15, 6432-6444)

Ethan J. Crace, Akash Singh, Stella Haley, Bethany Claes, David B. Mitzi, “Meltable Hybrid Antimony and Bismuth Iodide 1D Perovskites” (ACS Inorganic Chemistry, 2023, 62, 39, 16161–16169)

Akash Singh, Yongshin Kim, Reece Henry, Harald Ade, David B. Mitzi, “Study of glass formation and crystallization kinetics in a 2D metal halide perovskite using ultrafast calorimetry” (Journal of American Chemical Society, 2023, 145, 33, 18623–18633)

Akash Singh, Ethan Crace, Yi Xie, David B. Mitzi, "A two-dimensional lead-free hybrid perovskite semiconductor with reduced melting temperature" (Chemical Communication, 2023, 59, 8302-8305)

S. K. Podapangi, Farshad Jafarzadeh, Tulja bhavani, Sara Mattiello, Akash Singh, Luca Beverina, Thomas Brown, “Green solvents, materials, and lead-free semiconductors for sustainable fabrication of perovskite solar cells” (RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 18165-18206)

Akash Singh, David B. Mitzi, “Crystallization kinetics in a glass-forming hybrid metal halide perovskite" (ACS Materials Letters 2022, 4 (9), 1840-1847)

Yi Xie, Ruyi Song, Akash Singh, Manoj Jana, Volker Blum, David B. Mitzi, “Kinetically Controlled Structural Transitions in Layered Halide-Based Perovskites: An Approach to Modulate Spin Splitting” (Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144 (33), 15223-15235)

Akash Singh, Manoj K. Jana, David B. Mitzi, “Reversible Crystal–Glass Transition in a Metal Halide Perovskite” (Advanced Materials 2021, 33(3), 2005868)

Akash Singh, Arun S. Chouhan, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Effect of methylamine vapor exposure and ambient ageing on CsxMA1−xPbI3−xBrx perovskites for improved carrier collection” (Materials Research Express 2019, 6(8), 085519)

Ashish Shukla, Akash Singh, Md. Motin Seikh and Asish K Kundu, “Low temperature Magneto-dielectric coupling in nanoscale layered SmFe0.5Co0.5O3 perovskite”. (Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 127 (2019): 164-168.)

Akash Singh, S. K. Podapangi, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Cation Exchange Assisted Dimensional Down-conversion of Perovskite Thin Films using Vapour Annealing: An Interplay of Tolerance Factor”, (Journal of Integrated Ferroelectrics 194.1 (2018): 107-114)

Akash Singh, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Vapor induced Recrystallization of Methylammonium Tin Iodide Perovskite for Enhanced Stability”. (IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC), (2018): 0518-0521, https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547989)

Akash Singh, Suraj Devnani, Vaishali Kushwaha, Shilpi Mishra, Akashdeep Gupta, K.K.S. Pandian, “An Efficient Auxiliary Reading Device for Visually Impaired” (IEEE International Conference on Smart City and Emerging Technology (ICSCET, (2018): 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSCET.2018.8537329)

Akash Singh, Arun S. Chouhan, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Methylamine Vapor Exposure for Improved Morphology and Stability of Cesium-methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskite Thin-Films”, (The Physics of Semiconductor Devices. IWPSD 2017. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97604-4_60, (2017): 391-398)

Akash Singh, Rayan Chakraborty, Yi Xie, Max Mcwhorter, Volker Blum, David B. Mitzi “Suppressing Melting Temperature and Glass Forming Kinetics in Homologous Lead and Tin Iodide Perovskites”. (Under preparation, *Author order subject to change)

Akash Singh, Sushobhan Avasthi “Recrystallization of Pure and Binary MASnxPb1-xI3 Perovskite films from their Methylamine Complex for enhanced stability” (Under preparation)

Akash Singh, Yi Xie, Curtis Adams III, David B. Mitzi, “Enhancing Crysatllization Kinetics in Glass-Forming Halide Perovskite using Organic Cation Isomers” (Oral presentation at  MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Seattle, 2024)

Akash Singh, Yongshin Kim, Reece Henry, Harald Ade, David B. Mitzi, “Glass formation in Metal Halide Perovskite using Ultrafast Calorimetry” (Oral presentation at  MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, 2023)

Akash Singh, Ethan Crace, Yi Xie, David B. Mitzi, “Reduced Melting Temperature of Lead-Free 2D Perovskite Semiconductor to 142 °C” (Oral presentation at  MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, 2023)

Damara Dayton, Julian Mars, Michael Toney, David Mitzi, Akash Singh, “Local Structure of Metal Halide Perovskite Glassy-Crystalline Phase Switching” (Oral presentation at MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, San Francisco, 2023)

Akash Singh, David B. Mitzi, “Glass-Crystal transformation kinetics in a hybrid metal halide perovskite” (Poster presentation at MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, 2022 and at Symposium on Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change, Durham 2023)

Yi Xie, Ruyi Song, Akash Singh, Manoj Jana, Volker Blum, David B. Mitzi, “Kinetically Controlled Structural Transitions in Layered Halide-Based Perovskites: An Approach to Modulate Spin Splitting” (Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, 2022)

Damara Dayton, Akash Singh, Julian Mars, David B. Mitzi, Michael Toney, “Metal Halide Perovskite Reversible Glass transition” (Poster presentation at MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Hawaii, 2022)

Akash Singh, Manoj K. Jana, David B. Mitzi, “Glass formation in metal halide perovskites” (Oral presentation at MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Virtual, 2021)

Akash Singh, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Recrystallization of Pure and Binary MASnxPb1-xI3 Perovskites from their Methylamine Complex” (Poster presentation at MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston 2019)

Akash Singh, “Perovskite reinforced glass for self-sustainable photovoltaic green buildings” (Poster presentation at Duke University Energy Conference, Nov 2019)

S. K. Podapangi, V. Prashanti, Akash Singh, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Spray-Coated Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Processed in Ambient on NiOx Substrates: An Optimization Voyage from Thin-films to Devices” (Poster presentation at 10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Singapore, 2019)

S. K. Podapangi, V. Prashanti, Akash Singh, Sushobhan Avasthi, “An Endeavor Towards Process Optimization of Spray-coated Perovskite Solar Cells in Ambient” (Poster presentation at International Workshop and Conference on Perovskite & Hybrid Photovoltaics (ICPHPV-2019), New Delhi, India)

Akash Singh, Arun Singh Chouhan, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Highly Crystalline Methylammonium Tin Iodide Perovskite Films using Post-deposition Methylamine Vapor Annealing for Improved Grain Size”, (Oral presentation at MRS Spring Meet, Phoenix, 2018)

Akash Singh, Arun Singh Chouhan, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Interaction of Humidity and Polar Molecules with Mixed Cation Perovskite for High Efficiency Solar Cells: Materials and Device Study” (Oral presentation at 17th International Conference on Thin Films, November 2017, New Delhi, India)

Saloni Chaurasia, Akash Singh, Srinivasan Raghavan, Sushobhan Avasthi, “High Quality Epitaxial Germanium on Si (111) using two step annealing” (Oral presentation at 17th International Conference on Thin Films, November 2017, New Delhi, India)

Akash Singh, “Glass formation in Metal Halide Perovskite using Ultrafast Calorimetry” (Carolina Science Symposium, Nov 2023)

Akash Singh, “Applications of Perovskites: Solar Cells & Beyond” (111th Episode, It's a Materials World Podcast, July 2023)

Akash Singh, “Exploring Strategies to Reduce the Melting Point of Metal Halide Perovskites” (MRSX Talks, April 2023)

Akash Singh, “Reversible crystal-glass switching and underlying transformation kinetics in hybrid perovskites” (Fitzpatrick Institute of Photonics Seminar series at Duke, Mar 2023)

Akash Singh, “Vitrified metal halide perovskite glass” (Carolina Science Symposium, Nov 2022)

Akash Singh, “Glass formation in metal halide perovskites” (Duke’s Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Graduate Student Seminar, Nov 2022)

Akash Singh, “Perovskite: A two century tale of a mineral” (Triangle Electrochemical Society, summer seminar series, July 2022)

Akash Singh, “How an engineered phase of a synthetic mineral could broaden up its application space?”
(10th annual Duke GradX, April 2022)

Akash Singh, “Inducing glass formation in metal-halide perovskites” (Student Research Seminar organized by Duke Optical Student Chapter (DOSC), Materials Research Society@Duke (MRS@Duke), and Duke Materials Initiative (DMI), April 2022)

Akash Singh, “Recrystallization of pure and binary MASnxPb1-xI3 perovskite films from their methylamine complex” (Duke Energy Initiative Student Seminar, Sept 2019)