Nikhil Chander
Associate Professor
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
E-mail: nikhil@iitbhilai.ac.in
Areas of Interest
- Photovoltaics, Stability and Reliability of Solar Cells and Modules, Nanotechnology, Sensors and Devices, Plasmonics.
Education
- PhD, 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- MTech, 2011, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology Pune
- BTech, 2007, National Institute of Technology Durgapur
Courses Taught
- EEL202: Analog Circuits
- EEP502: Sensors and Instrumentation Lab
- EE201: Electronic Devices
- EE601: Solar Photovoltaic Devices and Systems
Work Experience
- August 2007-May 2008: Application Programmer, IBM India Pvt. Ltd., India.
- May 2008-June 2009: Engineer-Telecom, Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd., India.
- August 2015-June 2016: Senior Project Associate and Project Engineer, National Centre for Flexible Electronics, IIT Kanpur, India.
- July 2016-September 2017: DST-INSPIRE Faculty, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
- September 2017-July 2024: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bhilai, India.
- July 2024 - To date: Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IIT Bhilai, India.
Selected Publications
- (Naba Kr Rana, S Debata, SK Panda, Dhruv P Singh, Nikhil Chander) Modification of hydrophobic PTAA layer with Al2O3 nanoparticle over large-area inverted perovskite solar cell, Materials Letters, 136827, (2024).
- (Naba Kr Rana, Dhruv P Singh, Nikhil Chander) Defect Passivation and Fabrication of Stable Large-Area (2.0 cm2) Perovskite Solar Cells with Cost-Effective Metal Contacts, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 6 (5), 3325-3336, (2024).
- (Shravan Kumar Singh, Nikhil Chander) Mid-life degradation evaluation of polycrystalline Si solar photovoltaic modules in a 100 kWp grid-tied system in east-central India, Renewable Energy, 199, 351-367 (2022).
- (Manas R Samantaray, Dhriti S Ghosh, Nikhil Chander). Four-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells based on large-area perovskite solar cells utilizing low-cost copper semi-transparent electrode, Applied Physics A, 128, Article number: 111, (2022).
- (Nikhil Chander, E Jayaraman, M Rawat, A Bagui, SSK Iyer). Stability and Reliability of PTB7: PC71BM and PTB7: PC61BM Inverted Organic Solar Cells: A Comparative Study. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 9, 183-193, (2019).