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Prof.Jitendra Kumar

Designation: Inspire Faculty

Department: Electronics Engineering

Email: jitendrakumar[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

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About Me: I am Dr. Jitendra Kumar, an INSPIRE Faculty in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. My team is dedicated to researching materials for renewable energy, with a particular focus on the development of inorganic thin-film solar cells. We aim to advance sustainable energy solutions through innovative material applications.

Research Interest: Materials For Electronic Devices, Transparent Semiconductors, And The Study Of Semiconductor Defects

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Analog Interface Electronics (ECE 301, August-November, 2024, IIT Dhanbad)
  • Wireless Sensor Networks (ECO 500, January-April, 2024, IIT Dhanbad)
  • Analog Interface Electronics (ECE 301, August-November, 2023, co-instructor, IIT Dhanbad)

Academics

  • Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering, 2019

        Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

  • Masters in Technology in Nanotechnology, 2011

        Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

  • Bachelors in Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering, 2009

        Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India

Position

  1. INSPIRE Faculty, 2023 - Present, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
  2. Marie Curie Fellow, 2025 - Present, INL-Portugal
  3. Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020 - 2023, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  4. Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019 - 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  5. Project Associate, 2019, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  6. Visiting Researcher, 2015, Martin-Luther University, Germany
  7. Visiting Researcher, 2014,bIndian Institute of Science Bangalore

Awards and Honors

  1. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Recipient, 2024.
  2. INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2023.
  3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence Recipient, 2023.
  4. Young Scientist Travel Grant Award, Awarded by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2022.
  5. Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2019.
  6. Best Poster Presentation Award, 4th-IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics, Bengaluru, India, 2018.
  7. International Travel Support Award, Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India, 2018.
  8. Certificate of Merit, Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2018.
  9. Best Oral Presentation Award, MSE PG symposium, PADARTH, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2013. 

Publications

Books Published

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

After Joining IIT Dhanbad

 

1. Anchal Vashishtha, Subila KB, Yaniv Dror, Jitendra Kumar, Priyakumari CP, Eran Edri, “What can chemical bonding tell us about photoinduced self-healing reactions in inorganic semiconductors? Insight from Bismuth-Antimony Selenide” Inorganic Chemistry, 2024.

 

Before Joining IIT Dhanbad

 

  1. Jitendra Kumar, Eran Edri, "Benign solution-processed Sb2Se3 nanowires for photovoltaic applications" Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4348366 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4348366 
  2. Anchal Vashishtha, Jitendra Kumar, Neetika Singh, Eran Edri, “Surface Potential Variation Across (hk1) and non-(hk1) Grain Boundaries of Antimony Triselenide”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023, 948, 169714.
  3. Yakov Shitrit, Maheshwaran Duraiyarasu, Jitendra Kumar, Siva Reddy, Assaf Ya'akobovitz, Yaron Cohen, Eran Edri, "Deposition of Bismuth Nanoplatelets onto Graphene Foam for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction" ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 2022, 5, 11, 16354–16364.
  4. Jitendra Kumar, Omer Vana, Subila, Eran Edri, "Benign solution-processed (BixSb1-x)2Se3 alloys for short-wavelength infrared mesoporous solar cells" Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, 10, 11220 - 11231.
  5. Jitendra Kumar, Yaniv Dror, Eran Edri, "(BixSb1-x)2Se3 thin films for short-wavelength infrared region solar cells" Journal of Materials Chemistry C,  2022, 10, 8702-8710.
  6. Neha Kumari, Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 films obtained by sulfurization under different sulfur-vapor pressures in a sealed ambient" Solar Energy 231(2022) 484-495.
  7. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Optical phonons in pentanary compound (AgxCu1-x)2ZnSnS4 semiconductor: a Raman study" Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 865 (2021) 158113.
  8. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Scalable Fabrication and Electrical Contact formation Process for Vertically Oriented Silicon Nanopillars in Trenches" Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 122 (2021) 105470.
  9. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Tailoring the surface morphology of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films for photovoltaic application" Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 93 ,173-181, 2019.   
  10. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Evolution of the microstructural, electrical and optical characteristics of sol-gel derived Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films during Sulfurization" Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 91, 31-40, 2019. 
  11. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Effect of cation ratios and monoethanolamine on the     morphology of solution processed Cu2ZnSnS4 films" MRS Advances, 4 (16), 945-951, 2019.  
  12. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Effect of silicon conductivity and HF/H2O2 ratio on the morphology of silicon nanostructures obtained via metal-assisted chemical etching" Journal of Electronic Materials, 47, 1583-1588, 2018. 
  13. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, "Structural and optical properties of (AgxCu1-x)2ZnSnS4 thin films synthesised via solution route" Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 727, 1089-1094, 2017. 
  14. Jitendra Kumar, S. K. Manhas, Dharmendra Singh, “Optimization of the vertical silicon nanowire-based solar cell using 3D TCAD simulation” 13th-International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Singapore, December 2012.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1.  Jitendra Kumar, Yaniv Dror, Omer Vana, “(Sb,Bi)2Se3 thin films for short wavelength infrared region solar cell”, E-MRS 2023 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, June 2023.
  2. Jitendra Kumar, Omer Vana, Subila Balakrishnan, Eran Edri, “Benign solution-processed Sb2Se3 and Bi-alloyed Sb2Se3 solar cells for the short-wavelength infrared region solar cells”, HI-SCORE All-Hands-Meeting, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany, November 2022.
  3. Jitendra Kumar, Omer Vana, Subila Balakrishnan, Eran Edri, “Solution processed (BixSb1-x)2Se3 nanowires for near-infrared solar cell”, Climate Day: Special Spotlight Event on Environmental Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, November 2022.
  4. Jitendra Kumar, Omer Vana, Eran Edri, “Solution processed Sb2Se3 and Bi2-xSbxSe3 for energy applications”, 86th Annual meeting of Israel Chemical Society (ICS), Tel-Aviv, Israel, September 2022.
  5. Jitendra Kumar, Neha Kumari, “A study of the efficiency limiting defects in Cu2BaxZn1-xSnSe4 thin film based solar cell”, 86th Annual meeting of Israel Chemical Society (ICS), Tel-Aviv, Israel, September 2022.
  6. Jitendra Kumar, Sameer Sapra, “Inorganic Perovskite CsPbIxBr3-x Nanocubes and Influence of Bi Doping”, 86th Annual meeting of Israel Chemical Society (ICS), Tel-Aviv, Israel, September 2022.
  7. Jitendra Kumar, Omer Vana, Subila, Eran Edri, “Benign solution-processed (BixSb1-x)2Se3 alloys for short wavelength infrared solar”, 23rd Sede Boqer Symposium on Solar Electricity Production, September 2022.
  8. Jitendra Kumar, Neha Kumari, “A study of the efficiency limiting defects in Cu2BaxZn1-xSnSe4 thin film based solar cell”, The 2022 Latsis Symposium on Earth-Abundant Materials for Future Photovoltaics, EPFL, Switzerland.
  9. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, ”Synthesis and characterization of (AgxCu1-x)2ZnSnS4 thin-film for photovoltaic application” Virtual Chalcogenide PV conference 2020, May 2020, Jointly organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut Photovoltaïque d'Ilede-France (IPVF), Empa, Universität Luxemburg, AIST and Colorado State University.
  10. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Fabrication of silicon nanowire-based device platform using deep reactive ion etching” 4th International Conference on Emerging Electronics, Royal Orchid Convention Center, Bengaluru, India, December 2018.
  11. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Structural and electronic properties of the pentanery compound (AgxCu1-x)2ZnSnS4 synthesized via solution route” Material research society fall meeting and exhibit, Boston, USA, November 2018.
  12. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Investigation of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films using Raman spectroscopy” International Conference on Materials Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, June 2017.
  13. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Application of alumina as a hard mask in Deep Reactive Ion Etching for the fabrication of micro-trenches with micro-Pillars” 8th-ISSS National Conference on “MEMS, Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, IIT Kanpur, India, September 2016.
  14. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Morphology of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films obtained through solution chemistry” 20th International Conference on Ternary and Multinary Compounds, Halle (Saale), Germany, September 2016. 
  15. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “A novel silicon nanowire-based device plate form for sensor and energy harvesting application” National Symposium on Nano Science & Technology, CeNSE, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, June 2016.
  16. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) compound semiconductor as a solar cell absorber material” Research Scholar’s day, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, April 2015.
  17. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Nanograss fabrication using metal-assisted chemical etching” International Conference on Advance in Energy Material, IIT Roorkee, Saharanpur campus, India July 2014.
  18. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Fabrication of heavily doped N-Type silicon nanowire via metal-assisted chemical etching” 7th-ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 2014.
  19. Jitendra Kumar, Sarang Ingole, “Nanowire fabrication via metal-assisted chemical etching” MSE PG Symposium, PADARTH, IIT Kanpur, India, November 2013.
  20. Jitendra Kumar, S. K. Manhas, Dharmendra Singh, A. K. Saxena and  B. K. Kaushik, “Optimisation of lateral silicon nanowire-based solar cell using 3D-TCAD simulation” 15th-VLSI Design and Test Symposium, Pune, India, July 2011.

 

Workshops

  1. Introduction to AFM, theory and practical aspects organized by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, June 2017.
  2. 6th INUP (Indian Nanoelectronics Users’ Program) Hands-on Training on MEMS fabrication technologies organized by Centre for Nanoscience & Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science  Bangalore, India, June 2013.
  3. 6th INUP (Indian Nanoelectronics Users’ Program) Hands-on Training workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies organized by Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN), Indian Institute of Technology  Bombay, India, October 2011.
  4. 4th INUP (Indian Nanoelectronics Users’ Program) Familiarization workshop and International Winter School on Nano-Scale Materials and Devices (IWNMD-2010) jointly organized by Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge  University and Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, December 2010. 

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

Chalcogenide-Perovskite (BaZrS3) based Photovoltaic Devices

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India (2023-2028) (Rs. 112 lakhs)

Guidance

Ph.D. Student

  1. Debabrata Saha, Research Interest: BaZrS3 Thin Film Solar Cells

M.Tech. Students

 

  1. Adarsh srivastav, Research Interest: BaZrS3 Thin Films For Solar Cell Applications
  2. Ranjan Prakash, Research Interest: Sb2S3 Thin Films Solar Cells
  3. Aditya Bhushan, Research Interest: AgBiS2 Thin Films Solar Cells

B.Tech. Students

  1. Wazire Gireeraj

  2. Devesh Rawat

  3. Kilam Soren

  4. Ayush Agrawal

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