Faculty Details

Areas of Interest

• Semiconductor
• Photovoltaics Chemical Sensors

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

• PH20D048    RAJAT KUMAR TRIPATHY
• PH20D101    SAGAR MALLICK

Recent Publications

• Tailoring p-and n-type semiconductor through site selective oxygen doping in Cu3N: Density functional studies . Sahoo G., Kashikar R., Jain M.K., Nanda B.R.K. . Materials Research Express . 3 .
  DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/3/6/065902. 2016.
• Evidence of quantum correction to conductivity and variable range hopping conduction in nano-crystalline Cu3N thin film . Sahoo G. and Jain M.K.. AIP Advances. 5 .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4934791. 2015.
• Synthesis of Cu2O from CuO thin films: Optical and electrical properties . Murali D.S., Kumar S., Choudhary R.J., Wadikar A.D., Jain M.K., Subrahmanyam A.. AIP Advances. 5 .
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4919323. 2015.
• Room temperature growth of high crystalline quality Cu3N thin films by modified activated reactive evaporation . Sahoo G., Meher S.R., Jain M.K.. Materials Science and Engineering B: Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology. 191. 7-14.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2014.10.002. 2015.
• Fabrication of double recess structure by single lithography step using silicon-nitride-assisted process in pseudomorphic HEMTs. Bhat K.M., Pathak S., Sai Saravanan G., Sridhar C., Bhaskar S., Badnikar S.L., Vyas H.P., Muralidharan R., Jain M.K., Subrahmanyam A. . Microelectronic Engineering. 127 . 61-67.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2014.04.029. 2014.
• Formation of CuO on thermal and laser-induced oxidation of Cu3N thin films prepared by modified activated reactive evaporation . Sahoo G., Jain M.K.. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing. 118 . 1059-66.
  DOI: 10.1007/s00339-014-8874-5. 2014.
• Band gap variation in copper nitride thin films . Sahoo G., Meher S.R., Jain M.K.. Proceedings of the International Conference on "Advanced Nanomaterials and Emerging Engineering Technologies", ICANMEET 2013. 540-42 .
  DOI: 10.1109/ICANMEET.2013.6609357. 2013.
• Studies on melt-quenched AgInSbTe system . Rangasami C., Jain M.K., Kasiviswanathan S. . AIP Conference Proceedings. 1512 . 38-39.
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4790899. 2013.
• Stability studies on nitrogen doped p-ZnO (NZO) thin films grown by reactive magnetron sputtering . Naidu R.V.M., Subrahmanyam A., Verger A., Jain M.K.. IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology. 9. 715-22.
  DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2013.2246540. 2013.
• Composition-dependent structural, optical and electrical properties of in x Ga1-x N (0.5 ≤ x ≤ 0.93) thin films grown by modified activated reactive evaporation . Meher S.R., Subrahmanyam A., Jain M.K.. Journal of Materials Science. 8 . 457-62.
  DOI: 10.1007/s13391-012-1086-2. 2013.

Teaching

• 2017 :  (Jan - May) - PH6012 - Semiconductor Physics and Devices/ PH5350 Solid State Exp Lab; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I
• 2018 :  (Jan - May) - PHPCL0 Preparatory Course - Physics Lab PHPCT0 Preparatory Course - Physics Theory; (Jul - Nov) - PH5362 Project II
• 2019 :  (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II / PH5360 Project; (Jul - Nov) - PH1020 Physics I
• 2020 :  (Jan - May) - PH2080 Physics Lab IV/ PH7090 Foundations in Experiemntal Physics; (Jul - Nov) - PH2170 Basic Electronics/ PH5060 Physics Lab I (PG)
• 2021 :  (Jan - May) - PH2080 Physics Lab IV/ PH2170 Basic Electronics/ PH7090 Foundations in Experiemntal Physics; (Jul - Nov) - PH5330 Laboratory for Synthesis and characterization of Functional Materials/ PH7090 Foundations in Experiemntal Physics
• 2022 :  (Jan - May) - PH2080 Physics Lab IV / PH2170 Basic Electronics ; (Jul - Nov) - EP2090 Engineering Physics Lab I / PH2170 Basic Electronics
• 2023 :  (Jan - May) - PH7090 Foundations in Experiemntal Physics