Biography
Biswajit Pal joined Ultrafast Dynamics Group (UFD) in July 2023 as a Visiting PhD Student. Currently, he is a Doctoral Student (PhD) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India. He received his BSc in Physics degree from the University of Calcutta (WB, India) in June 2017 and his MSc in Physics degree from Rajiv Gandhi (Central) University (AR, India) in November 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic, in January 2022, he joined the Department of Physics at IIT Jodhpur to pursue his doctoral studies. He has also received the prestigious DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, to carry out his PhD work in India. Here, in the UFD Group, his work is co-supervised by the KAUST Global Fellow Dr. Christopher E. Petoukhoff under the guidance of Prof. Frédéric Laquai for the period July 2023 to July 2024.
Research Interests
Biswajit's current research is mainly focused on the development of 2D semiconductors for different photovoltaic (organic and perovskite) applications. He emphasises on understanding the charge transport, device performance, surface passivation, and stability of organic and halide perovskite materials-based photovoltaics with the incorporation of 2D semiconducting materials. Also, he has an interest in computational methods like DFT, which helps in understanding the optoelectronic properties of the materials, where compositional engineering helps to tune their properties to screen the different active materials for efficient photovoltaic applications.
Research Interests Keywords
2D semiconductors
Organic Photovoltaics
Perovskite solar cells
