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Dr. Ajay Perumal

Assistant Professor

Physical Sciences

ajay@iiserbpr.ac.in

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Academic Background

  • Ph.D. : Institute for Applied PhotoPhysics (IAPP), Technische Universitaet Dresden (TUD), Germany, Advisor: Prof Karl Leo, 2012

  • MSc. : University of Stuttgart/Max Planck Stuttgart, Germany, 2007

  • MSc. : Karnatak University Dharwad, India, 2004

Professional Experience 

  • Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur (2017 - Present)

  • Post-Doc. : Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERIAN), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2016)

  • Post-Doc. : Department of Physics (EXSS), Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, UK (2015)

Awards and Memberships

  • Early Career Research award-2018 DST-SERB, Govt. of India

  • DST Solar Challenge Award and Grant-2021 DST, Govt. of India (Co-PI)

Research Interests

  • Emerging photonic materials: Soft semiconductors, multilayered thin films, functional devices

  • Photonics and Photophysics of emerging photonic materials

  • Photonic and Opto-electronic devices: Perovskite Light emitting devices, Organic LEDs and Solar energy conversion through photovoltaics

  • Flexible, stretchable, and transparent electrodes, functional materials and devices

Research Group

  • Tanwistha Chakrabarti (since July, 2018): M.Sc. in Physics from Presidency University, Kolkata (DST INSPIRE FELLOW)

  • Susmita Mukherjee (since July, 2018): M.Sc. in Physics from University of Burdwan

  • Ashutosh Panigrahy (Since May 2024): BS-MS IISER Berhampur (DST INSPIRE FELLOW)

  • BS-MS Thesis Laishram Librada Singh (Since May 2024)

About me


Dr. Ajay Perumal is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at the Indian institute of science education and research (IISER) in Berhampur, Odisha, India. In his research career, he has focused on a wide variety of novel materials (metal oxides, organic semiconductors, polymers, quantum dots, perovskites) and novel nano-structures produced through a range of fabrication procedures. He has focused primarily on the electronic and optical properties of novel semiconductor materials and nano-structures and their implementation in optoelectronic devices. His primary research interests are light-emitting devices and photovoltaics. His research work has been published in many high-impact factor journals such as Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and Advanced Energy Materials, etc.


Biography

Dr. Ajay Perumal obtained his M.Sc from University of Stuttgart/ Max Planck Stuttgart, Germany (2007) and Karnatak University Dharwad, India (2004). He pursued his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dresden under the guidance of Prof Karl Leo (2012). He went on to do postdoctoral work at Imperial College London (2012-2015) under the guidance of Prof Donal Bradley and later second postdoctoral at NTU Singapore @ Luminous! and Energy research institute (ERIAN) under the guidance of Prof. Subodh Mhaisalkar and Prof Hilmi Volkan Demir.

Research Projects

1.    Project Title: Perovskite nanocrystals, low dimensional perovskite analogues and their application for highly efficient multilayer solution processed electroluminescent devices

Funding Agency: SERB-ECRA/2017/001879

Amount: 52.76 LAKHS

Period: 2018-2022

Status: Completed

2.       Project Title: Highly efficient solution-processed exciplex OLEDs achieved through advanced light extraction techniques

Funding Agency: SERB- CRG/2022/009035

Amount: 58 LAKHS

Period: 2023-2026

Statis: Ongoing

3.       Project Title: Advancement towards Stable and Highly Efficient Solar cell based on Halide perovskite (ASHESH)

Co-PI

Funding Agency: DST/ETC/CASE/RES/2023/01

DST-‘Challenge Awards 2021 on Solar Energy’

Period: 2023-2026

Amount: 1.82 Crore for IISER Berhampur

(6 Crore in total for Consortium of researchers from TIFR-Hyderabad, IIT Mumbai, IISER Berhampur, HRI Allahabad

Status: Ongoing

 

Key Publications

Efficient, Stable, and Reproducible Inverted p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells with a Dopant-Free Spiro-TTB Hole Transport Layer Modified with a PFN-P1 Interfacial Layer ACS Applied Energy Materials 2024


Phosphine oxide based semiconducting small molecule as an additive and an electron transport layer enables efficient and stable perovskite light-emitting devices S Mukherjee, A Panigrahi, YH Lin, A Perumal, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2024, 12, 3365-337

Finding the charge transfer mechanism in CsPbBr 3 nanocrystals and nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dot heterostructures: effect of nanocrystal encapsulation S Ray, MR Sahoo, S Mukherjee, A Perumal, SK Nayak, S Bhaumik RSC advances 2023, 13 (50), 35551-35561

Self assembled hierarchical nanostructured perovskites enable highly efficient LEDs via an energy cascade, XY Chin, A Perumal, A Bruno, N Yantara, SA Veldhuis, L Martínez-Sarti, B Chandran, V Chirvony, A S-Zee Lo, J So, C Soci, M Grätzel, H J Bolink, N Mathews, S G Mhaisalkar Energy & Environmental Science 2018, 11 (7), 1770-1778

Ajay Perumal, Hendrik Faber, Nir Yaacobi-Gross, Pichaya Pattanasattayavong, Paul Stavrinou, Thomas Anthopoulos and Donal D.C. Bradley "Low voltage, high performance solution processed phosphorescent green organic light emitting device with transparent inorganic hole injection and transport layer" Advanced Materials 2015, 27 (1), 93-100

Contact Details

Full Name

Ajay Perumal


Email

ajay@iiserbpr.ac.in


Address

IISER Berhampur


Personal Website

https://ajayperumal.wixsite.com/fnol