Sushil Kumar Pandey

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Professional Experience: 

i) Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, NITK, Surathkal- (since December 2019).
ii) Assistant Professor, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad- (July 2019- December 2019).
iii) Assistant Professor (Temporary), Indian Institute of Information Technology Una, Himachal Pradesh- (July 2018- June 2019).
iv) Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,USA- (May 2016- May 2018).
v) Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai-(April 2015- May 2016).

Contact Details

E-mail: 

skpandey@nitk.edu.in
sushilp66@gmail.com

Telephone: 

+91-7052502636
Academic Background
PhD in Microelectronics (Electrical Engineering) : Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore 2015.
Areas of Interest

Growth and characterization of semiconductor thin films
Semiconductor light emitters
Photovoltaic devices, photo-detectors
Two-dimensional materials and devices
TCAD simulation and design of electronics devices

Significant Projects

On-going Projects:

Project Title: Development of Highly Conductive Ultrathin VS2 Crystals for High-Performance Flexible Supercapacitors
Role: Principal Investigator
Duration: 2020-2022
Funding Agency: SERB - DST, Govt of India
Total Budget: 27.86 Lakh Rupees

Supervision of Ph.D

Ongoing:
1. Mr. Ashish Kumar Yadav

Significant Publications
Patents: 
 
  1. AuGe surface plasmons for enhancing performance of optoelectronic materials and devices; Sushil Kumar Pandey, Hemant Ghadi, Punam Murkute and Subhananda Chakrabarti; Indian patent Application No. 201621007212, Published 2017-09-08. 
  2. ZnMgO nanorods by hydrothermal bath treatment for optoelectronic and electronic device applications; Hemant Ghadi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Harshal Rawool and Subhananda Chakrabarti; Indian patent Application No. 201621007211, Published 2017-09-08.

Peer-reviewed Journals:

  1. Madhuri Mishra, Sushama Sushama,Sushil Kumar Pandey, Subhananda Chakrabarti,Phosphorus doping of ZnO using spin‐on dopant process: A better choice than costly and destructive ion-implantation technique, Journal of Luminescence, Accepted, 2021.
  2. Rashmi Ranjan Kumar, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Experimental Investigation and Comparative Analysis of Electron Beam Evaporated ZnO/MgxZn1-xO/CdxZn1-xO Thin Films for Photodiode Applications, Superlattices and Microstructures, 150, 106787, 2021.
  3. Sushama Sushama, Punam Murkute, Hemant Ghadi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Subhananda Chakrabarti,Detection of acceptor-bound exciton peak at 300 K in boron–phosphorus co-doped ZnMgO thin films for room-temperature optoelectronics applications, Optical Materials, Accepted, (2020).
  4. Md Jawaid Alam, Punam Murkute, Sushama Sushama, Hemant Ghadi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, and Subhananda Chakrabarti, Room-temperature ultraviolet-ozone annealing of ZnO and ZnMgO nanorods to attain enhanced optical properties, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 31, 18777–18790 (2020).
  5. Nezhueyotl Izquierdo, Jason C. Myers , Nicholas C. A. Seaton, Sushil K. Pandey, and Stephen Campbell, Thin Film Deposition of Surface Passivated Black Phosphorus, ACS Nano,  13, 6, 7091-7099(2019).
  6. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Hussain Alsalman, Javad Ghasemi Azadani, Nezhueyotl Izquierdo, Tony Low, and Stephen A. Campbell,Controlled p-type substitutional doping in large-area monolayer WSe2 crystals grown by chemicalvapor deposition, Nanoscale, 10, 21374-21385 (2018).
  7. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Nezhueyotl Izquierdo, Rick Liptak and Stephen Campbell,Use ofpassivation layer to improve thermal stability and quality of phosphorene/AZO heterojunction diode,RSC Advances, 7,46201-46207(2017).
  8. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Lavi Tyagi, Hemant Ghadi, Harshal Rawool and SubhanandaChakrabarti, Utilization of self-assembled AuGe nanoparticles for improving performance of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot infrared detector,Journal of MaterialsScience: Materials in Electronics, 28, 12497 (2017).
  9. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Lavi Tyagi, Pranav Shete, Harshal Rawool, Hemant Ghadi, andSubhananda Chakrabarti, AuGe surface plasmon enhances photoluminescence of InAs/GaAs bilayer quantum dot heterostructure,RSC Advances, 6, 26908–26913, 2016.
  10. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Brajendra Singh Sengar, Vivek Garg, Pankaj Sharma,Shailendra Kumar, C. Mukherjee and Shaibal Mukherjee, Band alignment and photon extraction studies of Na-doped MgZnO/Ga-doped ZnO heterojunction for light-emitter applications,Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 118, pp. 165301, 2015.
  11. 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 PhysicsLetters, vol. 103, pp. 072109(1-5), 2013.
  12. 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,Journalof Applied Physics, vol. 114, pp. 163107(1-6), 2013.
  13. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Shruti Verma, Mukul Gupta and Shaibal Mukherjee, Spetroscopic Ellipsometry Study on Electrical and Elemental Properties of Sb-doped ZnO thin films,Current Applied Physics, vol. 15, pp. 479-485, 2015.
  14. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Shruti Verma, and Shaibal Mukherjee,Blueelectroluminescence from Sb-ZnO/Cd-ZnO/Ga-ZnO heterojunction diode fabricated by dual ion beam sputtering,Optics Express, vol. 22, no. 25, pp. 30983-30991, 2014.
  15. 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,Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,vol. 24, pp. 2541-2547, 2013.
  16. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi and ShaibalMukherjee, Design and growth optimization by dual ion beam sputtering of ZnO-based high-efficiency multiple quantum well green light emitting diode,Nanoscience andNanotechnology Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 146-152(7), 2014.
  17. 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.
  18. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Vishnu Awasthi, and ShaibalMukherjee, Theoretical Analysis of Li-Doped CdZnO-Based High Quantum Efficiency Multiple Quantum-Well Green Light Emitting Diode,Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, vol. 9, pp. 1–9, 2014.
  19. Punam Murkute, Hemant Ghadi, Sheetal Patil, Harshal Rawool, Sushil Kumar Pandey and Subhananda Chakrabarti, Use Emerging material zinc magnesium oxide based nanorods: Growth process optimization and sensor application towards humidity detection,Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 256, 204-216 (2017).
  20. Vivek Garg, Brajendra S. Sengar, Vishnu Awasthi, Amitesh Kumar, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shailendra Kumar, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Investigation of valence electron excitation and plasmonic enhancement in sputter grown NMZO thin films: For energy harvesting applications, Optical Materials, 88, 372-377 (2019).
  21. Lavi Tyagi, Sushil Kumar Pandey and Subhananda Chakrabarti,“Improved absorbance and near infrared dispersion of AuGe Nanoparticles over Au nanoparticles prepared with similar thermal annealing environment,” Plasmonics, Vol. 13, 6, pp 1947-1962, 2018.
  22. Punam Murkute, Hemant Ghadi, Shantanu Saha, Sushil Kumar Pandey and Subhananda Chakrabarti, Enhancement in optical characteristics of c-axis-oriented radio frequency-sputtered ZnO thin films through growth ambient and annealing temperature,Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 66, 1-8 (2017).
  23. Vishnu Awasthi, Vivek Garg, Brajendra S. Sengar, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Aaryashree, Shailendra Kumar, C. Mukherjee, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Impact of sputter-instigated plasmonic features in TCO films: for ultrathin photovoltaic applications,AppliedPhysics Letters, 110, 103903 (2017).
  24. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Vivek Garg, Brajendra S. Sengar, Pankaj Sharma, Shailendra Kumar, C. Mukherjee, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Plasmon generation in sputtered Ga-doped MgZnO thin films for solar cell applications,Journal of AppliedPhysics vol. 119, no. 233101, pp. 1-13, 2016.
  25. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Room temperature blue LED based on p-ZnO/ (CdZnO/ZnO) MQWs/ n-ZnO,Journal ofluminescence, 180, 204-208, 2016.
  26. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shailendra Kumar, C. Mukherjee, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Evaluation of band alignment and valence plasmonic features of DIBS grown Ga-doped Mg0.05Zn0.95O/CIGSe heterojunction by photoelectron spectroscopy,Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 48, 485305 (2015).
  27. Pankaj Sharma, Rohit Singh, Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Vivek Garg and Shaibal Mukherjee, Detection of high photoresponse at zero bias from highly conducting ZnO: Ga based UV photodetector,RSC Advance,5, 85523-85529, 2015.
  28. Shantanu Saha, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Nagar, Subhananda Chakrabarti, Effect of Annealing temperature on Optical and Electrical Properties of Nitrogen Implanted p-type ZnMgO Thin Films,Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,26, 12, pp9759–9765, 2015.
  29. Shantanu Saha, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Nagar, Subhananda Chakrabarti, Detection of narrow linewidth acceptor peaks with p-type conduction in phosphorous implanted ZnMgO thin films,Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters,7(10), 822-827,2015.
  30. Shruti Verma, Manoj K. Manna, Sushil Kumar Pandey , Apurba K. Das, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Benzo[ghi]perylene Monoimide Based Photosensitive Lamellar Cd-doped ZnO Nanohybrids, RSC Advances,vol. 4, pp. 62603-62614, 2014.
  31. Shruti Verma, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Influence of Ion Beam Sputtering Deposition Parameters on Highly Photosensitive and Transparent CdZnO Thin Films, Journal of Material Science,vol. 49, pp. 6917-6929, 2014.
  32. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Growth and Characterizations of Dual Ion Beam Sputtered CIGS Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications,Journal of Materials Science: Materials inElectronics, vol. 25, pp. 3069-3076, 2014.
  33. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Ashish Kumar, M. Gupta, V. Sathe, and Shaibal Mukherjee,Behavior of dual ion beam sputtered MgZnO thin films for different oxygen partial pressure,Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics,vol. 25, pp. 772-777, 2014.
  34. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Uday P. Deshpande, Vishnu Awasthi, Ashish Kumar, Mukul Gupta, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Effect of oxygen partial pressure on the behavior of dual ion beam sputtered ZnO thin films,Semiconductor Science andTechnology, vol. 28, pp. 085014(1-7), 2013.
  35. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Mukul Gupta, Vasant Sathe, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Investigation of dual ion beam sputtered transparent conductive Ga-doped ZnO films,Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, vol.24, pp. 4919-4924, 2013.
  36. ManojK. Manna, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shaibal Mukherjee, and Apurba K. Das, Electrodeposited Lamellar Photoconductor Nanohybrids Driven by Peptide Self-assembly, ChemPlusChem,80, 583-590 (2015).

International Conferences

  1. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Nezhueyotl Izquierdo and Stephen Campbell,Ion Bombardment Free SF6 Plasma Thinning of Black Phosphorus for Its Application in Integration of Electronics Devices, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 26 -December 1, 2017.
  2. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Nezhueyotl Izquierdo and Stephen Campbell,Effect of PassivationLayer of the Thermal Stability of a Few-Layer Phosphorene/AZO Heterostructure, MRSSpring Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 17-21, 2017.
  3. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Lavi Tyagi, Hemant Ghadi, Harshal Rawool and SubhanandaChakrabarti, Enhancement in device performance of heptalayer coupled InGaAs quantum dot infrared detector by AuGe surface plasmons, Proc. SPIE 9921, September 17,2016. doi:10.1117/12.2237551.
  4. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Vishnu Awasthi, Mukul Gupta, and ShaibalMukherjee, Growth of Sb-doped p-type ZnO thin films by dual ion beam sputtering,3rdNANO Today 2013 Conference, Biopolis, Singapore, December 08-11, 2013.
  5. Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee,Design and growthoptimization by dual ion beam sputtering of ZnO-based high-efficiency multiple quantum well green light emitting diode,5th IEEE International NanoelectronicsConference, IEEE INEC 2013, Singapore, January 02-04, 2013.
  6. 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, in proceedings ofIEEE NANO 2012-12th InternationalConference on Nanotechnology, International Convention Centre, Birmingham, UnitedKingdom (UK), August 20-23, 2012.
  7. Shruti Verma, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Effect of growth temperature on properties of CdZnO thin films, 17th International Workshopon The Physics of Semiconductor Devices (17th IWPSD), Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, December 10-13, 2013.
  8. 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,3rd NANO Today 2013 Conference, Biopolis, Singapore, December 08-11,2013.
  9. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Sushil Kumar Pandey, M. Gupta, S. R. Barman, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Temperature dependent growth analysis of ZnO and MgxZn1-xO thin films by dual ion beam sputtering technique, 3rdNANO Today 2013 Conference, Biopolis,Singapore, December 08-11, 2013.
  10. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shailedra Kumar, C. Mukherjee, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Electronic band alignment of dual ion beam sputtered CIGSe/Mo films for photovoltaic applications,11th International Conference on Nanosciences andNanotechnologies (NN14), Thessaloniki, Greece, July 08-11, 2014.
  11. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil K. Pandey, Pankaj Sharma, Shailedra Kumar, C. Mukherjee, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Characterizations of DIBS grown Ga-doped MgZnO thin films for solar cell application,Photonics 2014: 12th International Conference on Fiber Optics andPhotonics, IIT Kharagpur, India, December 13-16, 2014.
  12. Shruti Verma, Sushil K. Pandey, Manoj K. Manna, Apurba K. Das, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Synthesis and characterization of Cd-doped ZnO nanohybrids,2nd IEEE InternationalConference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), IISc, Bangalore, India, December 3-6, 2014.
  13. Vishnu Awasthi, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee, CIGS thin film Deposition by Dual Ion Beam Sputtering (DIBS) system for Solar cell Application,17th International Workshop on The Physics of Semiconductor Devices(17th IWPSD), Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, December 10-13, 2013.
  14. Shruti Verma, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee, High Efficiency Hybrid Green Light-Emitting Diode,4th International Conference on AdvancedNano Materials, IIT Madras, India, October 17-19, 2012.
  15. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shruti Verma, Sushil Kumar Pandey, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Theoretical investigation of MgZnO/CdZnO/MgZnO double heterostructure bluish LED with improved internal quantum efficiency,4th International Conference on ElectronicsComputer Technology (ICECT), Kanyakumari, India, April 6-8, 2012.
Achievements

Awards and Achievements:
1. Best Technology Development Award by IIT Indore.
2. Best Research Paper Award by IIT Indore.
3. Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship by IIT Bombay.

 

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