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Dr. Pavan Pujar

Assistant Professor
Department of Ceramic Engineering IIT (BHU)
Email:
pavan.cer@iitbhu.ac.in
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Website:
https://www.eemdl.com/
Area of Interest:
Functional oxide ceramics, oxide semiconductors and devices, interface engineering in ultrathin materials, unconventional ferroelectrics, defects in complex oxide systems, electronic properties of materials, solution processing of ultrathin films, electroceramics, emerging memory and sensing devices, data-driven materials optimization

Dr. Pavan Pujar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ceramic Engineering at IIT (BHU), Varanasi, and serves as the Principal Investigator of the Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices Lab (EEMDL). His research focuses on functional oxide materials, oxide semiconductors, and ferroelectric thin films for next-generation electronic devices. His work emphasizes the design and fabrication of energy-efficient nanoelectronic devices, including field-effect transistors and memory architectures, using scalable thin film processing techniques. His expertise spans interface engineering, defect physics in complex oxides, and the development of unconventional ultrathin ferroelectrics. His research contributions have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, and he holds patents in Indian and international jurisdictions.

Awards and recognition

  • Received Best Publication Award from SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS under outstanding research

  • Recipient of ‘Brain Korea Postdoctoral Fellowship’ for the year 2020-2022.

  • 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.

  • Recipient of ‘International Travel Grant for Young Scientists’ Department of Science and Technology (DST); Govt. of India, 2018 and 2024.

  • Best poster award: Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2022 at Boston, USA (nominee) and International Conference Smart Materials and Technologies for Emerging Electronics, 2016.

  • First prize: paper presentation at SRISHTI 2012, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar, Development of Highly Conductive, NIR-Transparent Indium Cerium Oxide for Next-Generation LiDAR Sensors in Defence Applications, funding agency: Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA), UPEIDA01/1716, 2026-2028. (33 lakhs).

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar, Prof. Pavan Nukala (IISc Bangalore), Ultra-lower negative capacitance field effect transistors with amorphous oxide semicodnuctors for display backplane, funding agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST) India, INT/ROK/JRP/2024/394, 2024-2027. (84.76 lakhs).

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar, Interfacial Control of Ultrathin Hafnia Ferroelectric Materials for Cryogenic Switching and Quantum-Ready Nanoelectronics, funding agency: ANRF, Gov. of India, ANRF/ECRG/2025/000601/ENS, 2026-2029. (72 lakhs).

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar, Prof. Md. Imteyaz Ahmad, Prof. Joysurya Basu, Synthesis, structure-property correlation in high entropy oxides for electronic and energy applications, funding agency: IIT(BHU), 2025RPMS00001180, 2025-2027. (25.364 lakhs).

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar, Prof. Arai Shunto (NIMS Japan), Sub-thermionic organic transistors enabled by solution-processable inorganic ferroelectrics: Component integration and low-power transistor design. LOTUS programme 2026, India-Japan collaborative research. Research travel grant.

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar, Doped-hafnium oxide ultrathin ferroelectrics from aqueous processing for power efficient electronics, funding agency: Seed funding, IIT(BHU), letter no. Budget/4421 and 10716, 2024-2025. (25 lakhs).

  • Prof. Pavan Pujar (team: atomic alliance), Revolutionizing Solar Energy: All weather power generation via hybrid solar and triboelectric nanogenerator approach (prototype building). Funding agency: IIT Madras and Wipro foundation (ideas to Impact challenge), 2024-2025. (50 thousands).

  • 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. [Corresponding author] [Review article].

  • 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.

  • 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. [Equally contributed].

  • 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.

  • Pavan Pujar, Haewon Cho, Sunkook Kim, “Phases in HfO2-based ferroelectric thin films and their integration in low-power devices”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials (Accepted on 15th Dec 2022) [Invited review].

  • 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). [Equally contributed].

  • 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. [Review article].

  • 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. [Equally contributed].

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. [Review article].

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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 (Accepted on 15th Dec 2022).

  • Ashritha Salian, Pavan Pujar, Robbi Vivek Vardhan, Haewon Cho, Sunkook Kim, Saumen Mandal, “Evolution of High Dielectric Permittivity in Low-Temperature Solution Combustion-Processed Phase-Pure High Entropy Oxide (CoMnNiFeCr) O for Thin Film Transistors,” ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5 (2023) 2608.

  • Haewon Cho, Mayuri Sritharan, Younghyun Ju, Pavan Pujar, Riya Dutta, Woo-Sung Jang, Young-Min Kim, Seongin Hong, Youngki Yoon, Sunkook Kim, “Se-Vacancy Healing with Substitutional Oxygen in WSe2 for High-Mobility p-Type Field-Effect Transistors,” ACS nano (Accepted on 1st May 2023).

  • Namgyu Lee, Pavan Pujar, Seongin Hong, “Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Aluminum Zinc Oxide Synaptic Transistors: Blue LED Stimulation for Enhanced Neuromorphic Computing Applications,” Biomimetics 9 (2024) 547. [Corresponding author].

  • Ravindra Naik Bukke, Aman Shukla, CA Anil, Pavan Pujar, “Advancements in Metal Oxide Thin Film Quality in Solution-Processed High-κ Dielectrics for High-Performance Transistors,” ACS Applied Electronic Materials (Accepted on 5th March 2024).

  • Muhammad Naqi, Taehwan Kim, Yongin Cho, Pavan Pujar, Jongsun Park, Sunkook Kim, “Large scale integrated IGZO crossbar memristor array based artificial neural architecture for scalable in-memory computing,” Materials Today Nano 25 (2024) 100441.

  • 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.

  • Changgyun Moon, Pavan Pujar, Srinivas Gandla, Byungjun So, Sunjong Lee, Dongmin Kim, Kon-Woo Kwon, Sunkook Kim, “Anticounterfeiting tags based on randomly oriented MoSx clusters enabled by capillary and Marangoni flow,” Communications Materials 4 (2023) 96.

  • Jeonghyeon Oh, Avis Sin Hui Wee, Eun-Byeol Park, Jaejin Hwang, Seon Je Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Myat Thet Khine, Pavan Pujar, Jaekwang Lee, Young-Min Kim, Sunkook Kim, “Enhancing Nonenzymatic Glucose Detection Through Cobalt-Substituted Hafnia” Advanced Science (Accepted on 24 Feb 2025).

  • Hyun Yeol Rho, Arindam Bala, Anamika Sen, Uisik Jeong, Jimin Kim, Pavan Pujar, Sunkook Kim, “Plasma-irradiated hafnia ferroelectrics for high-performance flexible thin film transistors” Materials Today Nano 31 (2025) 100639.

  • Lakhan Rawat, Neha Thakur, Pavan Pujar, Ravindra Naik Bukke, “Advances in oxide semiconductors for flexible and stretchable thin film transistors” Flexible and Printed Electronics 10 (2025) 043501.

  • Namgyu Lee, Jaewon Lee, Hyungu Kim, Wonki Lee, Jun Yeon Hwang, Pavan Pujar, Sangmoon Yoon, Seongin Hong, “Correlation among Process, Microstructure/Stoichiometry, and Transport in Spin-Coated Al-Doped ZnO Thin-Film Transistors Subjected to Annealing-Induced Electrical Performance Enhancement” ACS Applied Electronic Materials (accepted on 6th April 2026).

  • Vaibhav Khurana, Pavan Pujar, Mallikarjuna Korrapati, Jayant Kalra, Dipti Gupta, “Phase Separation and Low-pH Exposure Driven Self-Poled PVDF for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Self-Powered IoT Sensors” ACS Applied Electronic Materials 7 (2025) 8939.

Thermodynamics of Materials

Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations

Sensors and Actuators

Plant, Equipment and Furnace Design

Particle Mechanics and Fluid Flow Processes