Dr. Pavan Pujar
Dr. Pavan Pujar joined the Department of Ceramic Engineering, IIT (BHU) in 2023. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, working jointly at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Subsequently, Dr. Pavan served as a Brain Korea Postdoctoral Researcher at the Multi-Functional-Nano-Bio-Electronics-Lab at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. During this time, he specialized in designing and fabricating ultralow power electronic devices, particularly field-effect transistors using oxide semiconductors and unconventional ultrathin ferroelectrics. His expertise encompasses thin film processing for energy-efficient electronics. His research findings have been published in renowned peer-reviewed journals of Materials Science and Engineering, and he holds patents in both Indian and Korean jurisdictions.
Awards and recognitions
(1) Received Best Publication Award from SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS under outstanding research
(2) Recipient of ‘Brain Korea Postdoctoral Fellowship’ for the year 2020-2022.
(3) Nominated in final four under ‘Innovative Student Projects Award 2020’ (National level) based on Doctoral thesis by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); Govt. of India.
(4) Recipient of ‘International Travel Grant for Young Scientists’ Department of Science and Technology (DST); Govt. of India, 2018.
(5) Best poster award: Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2022 at Boston, USA (nominee) and International Conference Smart Materials and Technologies for Emerging Electronics, 2016.
(6) First prize: paper presentation at SRISHTI 2012, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
(1) Pavan Pujar, Komalakrushna Hadagalli, Shakya Kaushal Rajendraprasad, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “method and system for fabricating a porous ceramic structure using combustible pore former”. Indian patent. Status: Published. Application Number: 201841033533, Date of filing: 06/09/2018.
(2) Saumen Mandal, Bikesh Gupta, Pavan Pujar, Komalakrushna Hadagalli, Robbi Vivek Vardhan, “Fabrication of High Conductive Metallic Films at Low Temperature”. Indian Patent. Patent number: 347677. Status: Granted. Date of filing: 15/02/2017.
(3) Kishor Kumar M. J, Pavan Pujar, Jagannathan T. K, “Method and system for preparing a lanthanum zirconium based dielectric ink for microelectronics”. Indian Patent. Patent number: 347616 Status: Granted. Date of filing: 15/12/2017.
(4) Sunkook Kim, Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, “Method for forming hafnium oxide-based ferroelectric film using solution combustion method and negative capacitance semiconductor device including same”. Korean Patent. Status: Filed. Application Number: 10-2021-0125603, Date of filing: 23/09/2021.
(5) Sunkook Kim, Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, “Ferroelectric thin film manufacturing method, precursor solution for ferroelectric thin film”. Korean Patent. Status: Filed. Application Number:10-2022-0133825, Date of filing: 18/10/2022.
(1) Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Young-Hoon Kim, Nicolò Zagni, Jeonghyeon Oh, Eunha Lee, Srinivas Gandla, Pavan Nukala, Young-Min Kim, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, Sunkook Kim, “An aqueous route to oxygen-deficient wake-up-free la-doped HfO2 ferroelectrics for negative capacitance field effect transistors”, ACS Nano (2023).
(2) Uisik Jeong, Hyun Yeol Rho, Haewon Cho, Muhammad Naqi, Joo On Oh, Yongin Cho, Pavan Pujar, Sunkook Kim, “Ferroelectric La-doped HfO2 deposited via chemical solution on silicon for tellurium field-effect phototransistors”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 968 (2023) 172082.
(3) Changgyun Moon, Pavan Pujar, Srinivas Gandla, Byungjun So, Dongmin Kim, Sunjong Lee, Kon-Woo Kwon, and Sunkook Kim, “Interplay between Capillary and Marangoni Flows in Randomly Orienting MoSx Clusters for Anticounterfeiting Purposes”, Communication materials (Accepted-2023).
(4) Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Sunkook Kim, “Phases in HfO2-based ferroelectric thin films and their integration in low-power devices”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5 (2022), 11.
(5) Robbi Vivek Vardhan, Nitesh Eknath Chaudhari, Pavan Pujar, Saumen Mandal, “A revisit to solution-processed zirconia and its stabilized derivatives as protective coatings for base-stainless steel”, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences (2022) 1.
(6) Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Srinivas Gandla, Muhammad Naqi, Seongin Hong, Sunkook Kim, “Sub-thermionic negative capacitance field effect transistors with solution combustion-derived Hf0.5Zr0.5O2”, Advanced Functional Materials 31 (2021) 2103748.
(7) Anamika Sen, Heekyeong Park, Pavan Pujar, Arindam Bala, Haewon Cho, Na Liu, Srinivas Gandla and Sunkook Kim, “Probing the Efficacy of Large-Scale Nonporous IGZO for Visible-to-NIR Detection Capability: An Approach toward High-Performance Image Sensor Circuitry” ACS Nano 16 (2022) 9267.
(8) Haewon Cho, Pavan Pujar, Minsu Choi, Muhammad Naqi, Yongin Cho, Hyun Yeol Rho, Jaichan Lee, Sunkook Kim, “Expeditiously Crystallized Pure Orthorhombic-Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 for Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 (2021) 60250.
(9) Pavan Pujar, M. J. Kishor Kumar, Muhammad Naqi, Srinivas Gandla, Hae Won Cho, Sung Hyeon Jung, Hyung Koun Cho, Jagannathan T. Kalathi, Sunkook Kim, “High-intensity ultrasound-assisted low-temperature formulation of lanthanum zirconium oxide nanodispersion for thin-film transistors”, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces 12 (2020) 44926.
(10) Hae Won Cho, Pavan Pujar, Minsu Choi, Seunghun Kang, Seongin Hong, Junwoo Park, Seungho Baek, Yunseok Kim, Jaichan Lee, Sunkook Kim, “Direct growth of orthorhombic Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films for hysteresis-free MoS2 negative capacitance field-effect transistors”, npj 2D Materials and Applications 5, 46 (2021).
(11) Pavan Pujar, Srinivas Gandla, Dipti Gupta, Sunkook Kim, Myung Gil Kim, “Trends in low-temperature combustion derived thin films for solution processed electronics”, Advanced Electronic Materials 6 (2020) 2000464.
(12) Arindam Bala, Pavan Pujar, Debottam Daw, Yongin Cho, Muhammad Naqi, Haewon Cho, Srinivas Gandla, Sunkook Kim, “Transparent and Flexible Copper Iodide Resistive Memories Processed with a Dissolution Recrystallization Solution Technique”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 4 8 (2022) 3973–3979.
(13) Pavan Pujar, Srinivas Gandla, Mukesh Singh, Bikesh Gupta, Kartick Tarafder, Dipti Gupta, Yong-Young Noh, Saumen Mandal, “Development of low temperature stoichiometric solution combustion derived transparent conductive ternary zinc tin co-doped indium oxide electrodes”, RSC Advances 7 (2017) 48253.
(14) Pavan Pujar, Robbi Vivek Vardhan, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “A balancing between super transparency and conductivity of solution combustion derived titanium doped indium oxide: effect of charge carrier density and mobility”, Thin Solid Films 660 (2018) 267.
(15) Pavan Pujar, P. Anusha, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “Investigation of sintering kinetics and morphological evolution of silver films from nano-dispersion”, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing 124 (2018) 831.
(16) Pavan Pujar, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “High-performance low voltage operation of indium zinc tin oxide thin film transistors using chemically derived sodium β-alumina dielectric”, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 30 (2019) 9097.
(17) Pavan Pujar, Bikesh Gupta, Pradyut Sengupta, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “Sodium ion incorporated alumina - A versatile anisotropic ceramic”, Journal of the European Ceramic Society 39 (2019) 4473.
(18) Pavan Pujar, Abhishesh Pal, Saumen Mandal, “Combustion aided in situ consolidation of high strength porous ceramic structures with a minimum thermal budget”, Materials Letters 265 (2020) 127410.
(19) Arindam Bala, Na Liu, Anamika Sen, Yongin Cho, Pavan Pujar, Byungjun So, Sunkook Kim, “Low-Temperature Plasma-Assisted Growth of Large-Area MoS2 for Transparent Phototransistors” Advanced Functional Materials (2022) 2205106.
(20) Muhammad Naqi, Nayoung Kwon, Sung Hyeon Jung, Pavan Pujar, Hae Won Cho, Yong In Cho, Hyung Koun Cho, Byungkwon Lim, Sunkook Kim, “High-Performance Non-Volatile InGaZnO Based Flash Memory Device Embedded with a Monolayer Au Nanoparticles” Nanomaterials 11 (2021) 1101.
(21) Muhammad Naqi, Kyung Hwan Choi, Youngin Cho, Hyunyeol Rho, Hae Won Cho, Pavan Pujar, Na liu, Hyun-Suk Kim, Jae-Young Choi, Sunkook Kim, “Flexible Platform Oriented: Unipolar-type Hybrid Dual-Channel Scalable Field-Effect Phototransistors Array based on Tellurium Nanowires and Tellurium-Film with Highly Linear Photoresponsivity” Advanced Electronic Materials (2022) 2101331.
(22) Bikesh Gupta, Pavan Pujar, Sib Sankar Mal, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “Retention of high dielectric constant sodium beta alumina via solution combustion: role of aluminum ions complexation with fuel,” Ceramics International 44 (2018) 1500.
(23) Srinivas Gandla, Muhammad Naqi, Mingoo Lee, Jung Joon Lee, Yoochan Won, Pavan Pujar, Junchul Kim, Sunghoo Lee, Sunkook Kim, “Highly linear and stable flexible temperature sensor based on laser induced carbonization of polyimide substrates for personal mobile monitoring” Advanced Materials Technologies 5 (2020) 2000014.
(24) Manjunath G, Pavan Pujar, Bikesh Gupta, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal, “Low-temperature reducible particle-free screen-printable silver ink for the fabrication of high conductive electrodes” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 30 (2019) 18647.
(25) Seungho Baek, Junil Kim, Pavan Pujar, Hyuk-Jun Kwon, Sunkook Kim, Srinivas Gandla, “Sub-zero Temperature Sensor based on Laser-written Carbon” Advanced Electronic Materials (2022) 2101252.
(26) Haewon Cho, Pavan Pujar, Yong In Cho, Seongin Hong, Sunkook Kim, “Ultrathin Al-Assisted Al2O3 Passivation Layer for High-Stability Tungsten Diselenide Transistors and their ambipolar inverter” Advanced Electronic Materials 8 (2022) 2101012.
(27) Ashritha Salian, Pavan Pujar, Saumen Mandal, “Facile in-situ formation of high conductive Ag and CuxOy composite films: A role of aqueous spray combustion,” Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 30 (2019) 2888.
(28) Arindam Bala, Byungjun So, Pavan Pujar, Changgyun Moon, Sunkook Kim, “In situ synthesis of two-dimensional lateral semiconducting-Mo:Se//Metallic-Mo junctions using controlled diffusion of Se for high performance large-scaled Memristor,” ACS Nano 17 (2023), 4296.
Invited talks
(1) Pavan Pujar, “Surface characterization: Tools & Applications”, A National Workshop, 17th Dec 2020 at the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
(2) Pavan Pujar, “Distinct technologies featuring nanoparticles and molecular precursors of silver to deposit electrodes for optoelectronic devices”, Fourth International Conference on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications. ICN 2019. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. April 2019.
Selected conference presentations
(1) Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Sunkook Kim; Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2022, Boston, USA.
(2) Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Sunkook Kim; 6th International Conference of Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE) 2020, Jeju, South Korea.
(3) Pavan Pujar, Kartick Tarafder, Dipti Gupta, Yong-Young Noh and Saumen Mandal; International Union of Material Research Societies-International Conference on Electronic Materials (IUMRS-ICEM) 2018, Daejeon, South Korea.
(4) Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Sunkook Kim; The 6th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE) 2020, Jeju, South Korea.
(5) Pavan Pujar, Dipti Gupta and Saumen Mandal; Advanced Ceramics and Nanomaterials for Sustainable Development (ACeND) 2018, Bengaluru, India.
(6) Pavan Pujar, Mayur Goti, Kartick Tarafder and Saumen Mandal; International Conference on Ceramic and Advanced Materials for Energy and Environment (CAMEE) 2015, Bengaluru, India.
(7) Pavan Pujar, Bikesh Gupta, Saumen Mandal; International conference (IUMRS-ICYRAM) 2016, Bengaluru, India.
(8) Pavan Pujar, Bikesh Gupta, Vandana Singh, Kartick Tarafder, Dipti Gupta, Saumen Mandal; International conference (ICRAN) 2016, Delhi, India.
(9) Uisik Jeong, Haewon Cho, Pavan Pujar, Sunkook Kim; Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2022, Boston, USA.
(10) Mayur Goti, Pavan Pujar, Mayank Kedia, Saumen Mandal; International Conference Smart Materials and Technologies for Emerging Electronics (IC-SMTEE) 2016, Mangaluru, India.
Theory courses
MCR 202: Thermodynamics and Phase equilibria in ceramic systems
MCR 205: Ceramic Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations
MCR 203: Particle Mechanics and Fluid Flow Processes
MCR 532: Sensors and Actuators
MCR 311: Glass and Glass Ceramics
MCR 404: Plant, Equipment and Furnace Design
Laboratory courses
Industrial operation lab
Glass Ceramics lab
We are actively seeking Ph.D. students to join our research team and contribute to our ongoing projects.