Dr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey

 
Dr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey
Asst. Professor
Ph.D, IIT Indore
Fax: +91-612-302 8246
saurabh[*AT]iitp.ac.in

Ph.D. Positions available for Inspire Fellowship Awardees/ UGC-CSIR-NET(JRF) Holders Fields:Nanotechnology, Solar Cells, LEDs, MEMS based devices, Photodetectors and Sensors. Internship students can write e-mail for projects

Research Areas : Optoelectronics Devices, Semiconductor thin films, Photovoltaic, Sensors, Microelectronics/VLSI device modeling and simulation, MEMS
PIC : Device Fabrication Lab of Electrical Engineering Department leading to the fabrication of optoelectronics devices such as Solar Cell, LEDs, Memristor, Photo-detectors and Sensors.
Group: Sensors and Optoelectronics Research Group (SORG)
Courses taught at IITP : Undergraduate/ Postgraduate
  • Electromagnetic Theory
  • Data Communication
  • Digital Electronics and Microprocessor
  • Signals and Systems
  • Basic Electronics Laboratory
  • Analog Electronics Laboratory
  • Optical Communication
  • Sensors and Actuators
  • VLSI Technology
  • CDMA Technology & System
  • Mobile Communication
  • Advance Communication Techniques
  • VLSI Technology
No. of PhD Students :
Raghvendra Rashmi Ranjan Kumar Deepak Punetha
Professional Experience :
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna since December 2015
  • Faculty, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur from November 2014 to November 2015
  • Assistant Professor, Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Indian Army from April 2014 to November 2014
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering S.V.I.T.S Indore from September 2009 to December 2010
Institute/Departmental Responsibilities :
  • Warden, Boys Hostel (C &D Block)
  • In-charge of Micro/Nano fabrication facility at Incubation Centre
  • Member, landscaping committee
  • Member, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
  • Member, Cultural Committee
  • Member, School Committee
  • Member, Market & license Committee
  • Time table In charge of Electrical Engineering Department from 2015-2018
  • Departmental Webpage In charge
  • Faculty In charge of B.Tech Analog Electronics Lab
  • Faculty Advisor B.Tech 2017 batch
Awards & Honours :
  • Invited Speaker in Workshop “Emerging Devices, Circuits and Systems (EDCS -2019)” at NIT Silchar from 21-25 January 2019
  • Keynote Speaker and Session Chair in ICET: EITM held at NIT Hamirpur (H.P.) in December 2017.
  • Invited Speaker in Workshop “Technology Trends in Optical Communication” at BCE, Bhagalpur from 18-19 July 2016  
  • Best Research Paper Award in IEEE – UPCON 2016 Conference.
  • Biography published in Marquis Who’s who in the World 2015- 2019.
  • CSIR Travel Grant for Singapore by Government of India, 2013
  • Research Fellowship for PhD by MHRD, India, 2011
Member of Professional bodies :
  • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) (Life Member), International Association of Advance Materials (IAAM), Optical Society of India, Institute of Research Engineers & Doctors (Senior Member), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), International Association of Engineers (IAENG)
Editorial & Reviewer Responsibilities :
  • Associate Editor in "Research & Development in Material Science" (RDMS) Journal
  • Guest Editor in “Advances in Optoelectronics” Journal, Hindawi Publication 2017
  • Reviewer: IEEE EDL, Microelectronics journal, Optical and Quantum Electronics etc.
Publications : Journal Papers:
  • Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Sensitivity Enhancement of Ammonia gas sensor based on hydrothermally synthesized rGO/WO3 nanocomposites” IEEE Sensor Journal (In press) 2020.
  • Raghvendra, Rashmi Ranjan and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Performance Evaluation and Material Parameter Perspective of Eco-Friendly Highly Efficient CsSnGeI3 Perovskite Solar Cell” Superlattices and Microstructures vol. 135 106273 2019.
  • Himanshu Dixit, Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Performance Investigation of Mott-Insulator LaVO3 as a Photovoltaic Absorber Material" Journal of Electronic Materials vol.48 pp. 7696 - 7703, 2019.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Sonveer Yadav, “Theoretical analysis of self-phase modulation effect on different parameters in optical transmission system” Photonic Network Communications vol. 38, no.2 pp. 289-297, 2019.
  • Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Ultrasensitive NH₃ Gas Sensor Based on Au/ZnO/n-Si Heterojunction Schottky Diode” IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices vol 66, no. 8 pp. 3560 – 3567, 2019.
  • Prakash Pareek, Ravi Ranjan, Vipul Agarwal, Lokendra Singh, S. K. Pandey, Vikram Palodiya, M. K. Das, “Modeling and design of tin doped group IV alloy based QWEAM” Optical and Quantum Electronics 51:226 (2019).
  • Vipul Agarwal, Monika Agarwal, Prakash Pareek, Vijayshri Chaurasia and S. K. Pandey, “Ultrafast optical message encryption–decryption system using semiconductor optical amplifier based XOR logic gate” Optical and Quantum Electronics 51:221 (2019).
  • Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “CO Gas Sensor Based on E-Beam Evaporated ZnO, MgZnO, and CdZnO Thin Films: A Comparative Study” IEEE Sensor Journal vol.19, pp. 2450-2457, 2019.
  • Himanshu Dixit, Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Improvement in performance of lead free inverted perovskite solar cell by optimization of solar parameters” Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics 179 (2019) 969–976.
  • Deepak Punetha, Himanshu Dixit and Saurabh Kumar Pandey,“Modeling and analysis of an Ni:ZnO-based Schottky pattern for NO2 detection” Journal of Computational Electronics, vol.18, 2019.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Krishna Kumar, “Device Modelling and Performance Analysis of CZTS/CdTe Solar Cell” Advanced Science, Engineering & Medicine, vol.7, 2018.
  • Sonu Bishnoi and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Device performance analysis for lead-free perovskite solar cell optimization” IET Optoelectronics vol. 12, pp. 185-190, 2018.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Modeling Cd-free buffer layer and defects analysis  in CZTS solar cell”, J. of Optoelectronics and Advance Materials vol.18, pp. 625-631, 2016.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Enhanced performance and defects analysis of Mg-ZnO based CIGS solar cell”, J. of Nanoelectronics & Optoelectronics vol.11, pp. 649-655, 2016.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Bias dependent photo-detection of dual ion beam sputtered MgZnO thin films”, Bulletin of Materials Science, vol. 39, pp. 307-313, 2016.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Mukul Gupta, Vasant Sathe and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Behavior of dual ion beam sputtered MgZnO films for different oxygen partial pressure”, J. of Material Science: Material in electronics vol. 25, pp. 772-777, 2014.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Uday P. Deshpande, Mukul Gupta and Shaibal Mukherjee, “ Effect of oxygen partial pressure on the behavior of dual ion beam sputtered ZnO thin films”, Semiconductor Science and  Technology, vol. 28, pp. 085014(1-7), 2013.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Mukul Gupta, Vasant Sathe and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Investigation of dual ion beam sputtered transparent conductive Ga-doped ZnO films”, J. of Material Science: Material in Electronics, vol. 24, pp. 4919-4924, 2013.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, M. Gupta, Uday P. Deshpande and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Influence of in-situ annealing ambient on p-type conduction in dual ion beam sputtered Sb-doped ZnO thin films”,  Applied Physics Letters, vol.103, 072109, 2013.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Ashish Kumar, , Uday P. Deshpande , M. Gupta and Shaibal Mukherjee, “p-type conduction from Sb-doped ZnO thin films grown by dual ion beam sputtering in the absence of oxygen ambient”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol.114, 163107, 2013.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, C. Mukherjee, P. Mishra,  M. Gupta, S.R. Barman, S.W. Dsouza and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Effect of growth temperature on structural, electrical and optical properties of dual ion beam sputtered ZnO thin films”,  J. of Material Science: Material in Electronics, vol. 24, pp. 2541-2547, 2013.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey,Chanchal Soni and Anjali Gupta, “Higher order statistical techniques analysis for non-linear systems evaluation” International Journal of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, vol.3, pp.24-27, 2015.
  • Shruti Verma, Sushil K. Pandey, Saurabh K. Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Theoretical Simulation of Hybrid II-O/III-N Green Light-Emitting Diode with MgZnO/InGaN/MgZnO Heterojunction”, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, vol. 31, pp. 340-350, 2015.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Design and growth optimization by dual ion beam sputtering of ZnO-based high efficiency multiple quantum well green light emitting diode”, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, vol.6 no.2 pp. 146-152, 2014.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Ashish Kumar, Uday P. Deshpande, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Influence of annealing temperature on ZnO thin films grown by dual ion beam sputtering”, Bulletin of Materials Science, vol.37, no.4, pp.1-7, 2014.
  • Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Mukul Gupta and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Growth and characterization of dual ion beam sputtered CIGS thin films for photovoltaic applications” Journal of Material Science: Material in electronics, vol. 25, pp. 3069-3076, 2014.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Vishnu Awasthi and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Theoretical Analysis of Li-Doped CdZnO-Based High Quantum Efficiency Multiple Quantum-Well Green Light Emitting Diode, J. Nanoelectron. Optoelectron. 9, 449-457 2014.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and P. Ramshankar, “Growth analysis of electrodeposited copper thin film on tungsten coated silicon sample”, Journal of Electron Devices, vol.16, pp.1-5, 2012.
International Conferences :
  • Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Optimization in NH3 Gas Response of WO3 Nanorods Based Sensor Array” IEEE Sensor Conference, Montreal, Canada 2019.
  • Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Ultrafast and Highly Selective CO Gas Sensor Based on rGO/Fe3O4 Nanocomposite at Room Temperature” IEEE Sensor Conference, Montreal, Canada 2019.
  • Raghvendra, Rashmi Ranjan and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Performance Improvement and Defects Analysis in Perovskite based Solar Cell”, IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Chicago, USA 2019.
  • Rajib Kumar Jha, Onkar Krishna, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sumit Kumar, “Dynamic Stochastic Resonance Based Blocking Artifacts Removal from Compressed in DCT Domain”, IEEE-ICNF Switzerland 2019.
  • Ayush Kumar and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Design and Performance Analysis of Perovskite Solar Cell”, NUSOD 2018, Hong Kong, China.
  • Rashmi Ranjan Kumar, Deepak Punetha, Raghvendra and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Performance Optimization and Analysis of ZnO based Ultraviolet Photodiode”, NUSOD 2018, Hong Kong, China.
  • Ayush Bakliwal and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Optimal Design and Simulation of High-Efficiency SnS Based Solar Cell”, International Conference on Innovations in Infrastructure (ICIIF), IITRAM, Ahmadabad, May 2018.
  • Deepak Punetha, Rashmi Ranjan and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Numerical Modeling and Performance Analysis of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Thin-Film based Gas Sensor” AIP Proceedings, 1966, 020008 2018.
  • Rashmi Ranjan, Deepak Punetha and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Performance optimization and analysis of ZnO based green light emitting diode”, International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD), IIT Delhi, 2017.
  • Sonu Bishnoi and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Transport properties across La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/STON and La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/ZnO perovskite solar cells”, International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD), IIT Delhi, 2017.
  • Anmol Jain, Vinay Jadaun and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Medical health kit: ECG classification and analysis of heart beat using MATLAB, ICET: EITM-2017, NIT Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, 2017.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Krishna Kumar, “Device Modeling, Optimization and Analysis of CdTe solar cell”, IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics Engineering, IIT BHU, Dec. 2016. (Best Paper Award)
  • Sonveer Yadav, Desh Raj Rana and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Quality factor improvement of self-phase modulation induced optical transmission system”, IEEE International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, Tamilnadu, April, 2016.
  • Chandan Kumar Jha, Vikas and Saurabh Kumar Pandey, “Study and Optimization of Characteristics of GaN based Quantum Well Light Emitting Diode”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics. Intelligent Control and Energy Systems, Delhi, July 2016.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, M. Gupta, V. Sathe and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Influence of substrate temperature variation on dual ion beam sputtered Ga-doped ZnO thin films”, Nano Today Conference, Biopolis, Singapore, Dec. 2013.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Device modeling and optimization of high performance thin film CIGS solar cell with MgZnO buffer layer”, IEEE- International Nanoelectronics Conference (IEEE-INEC), Singapore, Jan. 2013.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, M. Gupta, S.R Barman and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Temperature dependent growth analysis of ZnO and MgZnO thin films by dual ion beam sputtering technique”,  Nano Today Conference Biopolis, Singapore, Dec. 2013.
  • Ricky Anthony, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Influence of in-situ annealing temperature on structural, electrical properties of dual ion beam sputtering grown ZnO thin films”, 6th India Singapore Joint Physics Symposium on Physics and Advanced Materials, ISJPS-2013, IIT-Kharagpur, February 25-27, 2013.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Theoretical study of role of surface defect density on the performance of CIGS solar cell”, proceedings of International Conference on Advance Nano Materials, IIT Madras, Oct. 2012.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, and Shaibal Mukherjee, “High performance from ZnO multiple quantum well green light emitting diode with Li doped CdZnO active region”, International Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO, Birmingham (U.K). Aug. 2012
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Growth of Sb-doped p-type ZnO thin films by dual ion beam sputtering”, 3rd NANO Today Conference, Biopolis, Singapore, Dec., 2013.
  • Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Sushil Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Theoretical Investigation of MgZnO/CdZnO/MgZnO Double Hetero-structure Bluish LED with Improved Internal Quantum Efficiency”, IEEE-International Conference on Electronic and Computer Technology, Kanyakumari, April 2012.
  • Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “Design and growth optimization by dual ion beam sputtering of ZnO based high efficiency multiple quantum well  green light emitting diode”, IEEE- International Nanoelectronics Conference (IEEE-INEC), Singapore, Jan. 2013.
  • Shruti Verma, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey and Shaibal Mukherjee, “High efficiency hybrid green light emitting diode”,  International Conference on Advance Nano Materials, IIT Madras, Oct. 2012.
  • Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee, “CIGS thin film deposition by dual ion beam sputtering system for solar cell application” 17th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, December 10-13, 2013.