Dept of Physics - Cochin University of Science and Technology

Aldrin Antony

Associate Professor

BRIEF BIO

Aldrin received his M.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He was a post-doctoral fellow at ENEA, Italy and Research Scientist at the Grup d’ Energia Solar of the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was a senior scientist at IIT Bombay from 2012 o 2019. Dr. Aldrin has received international postdoctoral fellowships by ICS-UNIDO, ICTP-UNESCO. He was the distinguished ‘National Solar Science Fellow’ of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India. Dr. Aldrin has over 20 years of research experience in material science and works extensively in state-of-the-art solar cell fabrication. He has supervised 4 Ph.D. theses and has published more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has 5 patents to his credit. He is also a consultant to different equipment manufacturing companies for product design, fabrication and process development.

Topics of Research

Biosensors, Gas sensors, 2D materials, Si heterojunction Solar Cells, Memristors, SERS, Semiconductor Devices, Integrated Solutions

Awards

Calicut University, Technical Committee, 2020

SERB, SERB CRG project, 2020

Faculty Start-Up Grant, RUSA, 2022

Projects

Ultrafast laser beamlines for Multidisciplinary, Multitasking Research Programmes, Chancellor's Award - 2019, 4 Crores (21-04-2021 - 21-04-2024)

Fabrication of interdigitated dopant free carrier Selective c-Si solar cell by scalable process with open circuit voltage above 700 mV, SERB-CRG, 35.42 Lakhs (28-12-2021 - 27-12-2024)

Development of 2D Heterojunction Solar Cells, Seed Money for New Research Initiatives (SMNRI, CUSAT), 2.5 Lakhs (2021-09-03 - 2023-08-03)

Development of Air corrosion Sensor Probe, Aqosa Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Industry consultancy project), 2.20 Lakhs (2021-01-07 - 28-02-2022)

3 kW Off Grid Floating Solar PV Plant with Storage for Floating Fish Farming, M/s. Adrak Engineering and Construction India Pvt. Ltd. (Consultancy Project), 6.38 Lakhs (2021-10-01 - 2022-09-01)

Collaboration

Novel Boron-Doped p-Type Cu2O Thin Films as a Hole-Selective Contact in c-Si Solar Cells, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India, International School of Photonics

Effect of different Annealing methods on the Performance Parameters of PEDOT:PSS/n-Si Solar Cells, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE) 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEE50728.2020.9776719, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India, International School of Photonics

Material- and Process-Tolerant High-Efficiency Solar Cells With Dynamic Recovery of Performance,IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 68,4 (2021) 1676-1681. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2021.3056954, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India, International School of Photonics

Co-guided the Ph.D.thesis of Dr. Swasti Bhattia, Coguidance of Ph.D. thesis with Prof. Pradeep Nair, EE department of IIT Bombay

Ph.D.thesis Co-guide of Anil Kumar, Coguidance of Ph.D. thesis with Prof. Pradeep Nair, EE department of IIT Bombay

PhD/Project Students

Paz Carreras Segui, Ph.D. @University of Barcelona, Solar Cells, Doped and multi-compound ZnO based transparent conducting oxides for silicon thin film solar cells (2013)

Marta Lluscà Jané, Ph.D. @University of Barcelona, Solar Cells, Novel light management techniques for thin film solar cells: Nanotextured substrates and transparent conducting upconverters (2015)

Kurias K Markose, Ph.D., Solar Cells, Development of carrier selective contacts and upconversion phosphors for silicon solar cells (2021)

Swasti Bhattia, Ph.D. @IIT Bombay, Solar Cells, Modeling and Fabrication of Low Temperature Processed Si based Heterojunction Solar Cells (2021)

Rameeja T Abdul Rasheed, Ph.D., Solar Cells, (2020)

Anjala Jayaraj, Ph.D., 2D materials, (2020)

Ajmal Mon A, Ph.D., Laser Processings in Solar Cells, (2021)

Antony Sharon, PH.D., Memristors, (2020)

Anil Kumar, Ph.D. @IIT Bombay, Solar Cells, (2017)

Dhanya P Jacob, Ph.D., Nanomaterials and Bio-Sensors, (2022)

Saramgi C.S., Project, Sensors, (2021 - 2022)

Publications

Optoelectronic synaptic plasticity mimicked in a ZnO-based artificial synapse for neuromorphic image sensing application, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.104232

Emulating Synaptic Plasticity in Ionic Liquid-gated Zinc Tin Oxide Neuromorphic Transistor, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08817-2

Mixed tin-lead perovskite nanorod-based resistive memory device, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2022.139437

Exploring the surface enhanced Raman scattering on electrospun TiO2/Ag hybrid structure for pesticide detection, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-022-01638-3

Material- and Process-Tolerant High-Efficiency Solar Cells With Dynamic Recovery of Performance, https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2021.3056954

Studies on the efficacy of alkaline and acidic etching in Aluminium Induced Texturing of glass for solar cell application, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2021.101061

A critical study on different hydrogen plasma treatment methods of a-Si: H/ c-Si interface for enhanced defect passivation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2021.149551

Performance enhancement of organic/Si solar cell using CNT embedded hole selective layer, doi:10.1016/j.solener.2020.09.024

Novel boron doped p-type Cu2O thin film as hole selective contact in c-Si solar cell,, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b22581

Unravelling the Hole Selective Nature of Si/MoOX heterojunction, https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.3019957

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