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Dr. Bhola Nath Pal

Associate Professor
School of Materials Science and Technology,IIT BHU
Phone No(s): 8174917900
Email: bnpal.mst@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Optoelectronic devices; Memory, switching and synaptic devices; Energy harvesting devices; Plasmonic thin film & devices
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Dr. Bhola Nath Pal is an associate professor of School of Material Science and Technology, IIT(BHU). He did his B. Sc. and M. Sc. (in Physics) from University of Calcutta and PhD from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2005). He was post doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA (2006-2009), Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (2009-2013) and at University of Queensland, Australia (2013-2014) before he joined in IIT(BHU) in 2014. He has published more than 90 papers in peer reviewed international journals and having three US and eight Indian patents.

 

1. Organic Electronics

2. Materials Characterization

3. Synthesis and Processing of materials

4. Energy Materials

5. Nano-structured materials

 

Overview

Our team focuses on different solution processed thin film deposition for various applications like electronics/optoelectronics, energy and health. We primarily concentrate on sol-gel derived ion-conducting metal oxide, metal oxide semiconductors and various nanostructured materials for thin film deposition. Ion-conducting oxide thin film has mobile light atoms like Li+, Na+, K+ which can move easily through the solid thin film. This kind of ionic thin film has very high areal capacitance which can be suitable for fabricating low operating voltage thin film transistors (TFTs). Besides, light atoms of ionic oxide can be exchanged easily with other ions like Ag+, Au+, Cu+, which allow us to grow different metal and metal chalcogenide nanocrystal inside oxide materials. These metal /metal oxide or metal chalcogenide /metal oxide thin film has various applications for optoelectronics devices and energy generation. Besides, we grow different nanocrystal by microwave assisted synthesis, hot-injection and hydrothermal process for thin film device application. 

Research area (Thin film device)

1. Solution processed thin film devices,
2. Nanocrystal based Optoelectronics devices,
3. Memory, switching and synaptic device,
4. H2 generation & mechanical energy harvesting device
5. Plasmonic nanomaterials-based thin film & devices

  Ongoing Projects

S.No. Title Cost in Lakh Project start date Duration Role as PI/CoPI Agency
1. Fabrication of Low Power consuming inverted infrared AMOLEDs 48 13/06/22 24 months PI DST
 

2.

 Development of high performance, CMOS compatible and colour selective narrow-band photodetector for high-resolution imaging application 67.14 13/01/20 36 months PI SERB

Completed Projects

S.No. Title Cost in Lakh Project start date Duration Role as PI/CoPI Agency
1. Development of low-voltage, low-power, colloidal quantum dot light-emitting transistors for next generation display technology 55.52 09/09/16 36 months PI SERB
 

2.

 Fabrication of low power-high brightness alternating current polymer electroluminescence device 15.00 4/01/2016 24 months PI IIT(BHU)
 

3.

 Seamless Synthesis of large-area 2D transition metal di-chalcogenide semiconductors and their applications in next-generation high-performance optoelectronic devices
 		 49.9 21/11/17 36 months Co-PI SERB

Google Scholar page:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I0z0uHoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Selected Publications:​

  1. Sobhan Hazra, Sandeep Dahiya, Satya Veer Singh, Utkarsh Pandey, Swati Suman, Parasuraman Swaminathan, Bhola Nath Pal; Flexible Transparent Conductors with a percolated Ag nanostructure and its Application as Efficient Self-bias Plasmonic Photodetector Chem. Eng. J. 2024, 498, 155313
  2. Rajarshi Chakraborty, Subarna Pramanik, Nila Pal, Utkarsh Pandey, Swati Suman, Parasuraman Swaminathan, Bhola Nath Pal; Emulating Low Power Synaptic Plasticity in a Solution Processed Oxide-based Long Retention Memory Transistor with High Learning Accuracy ACS Appl. Mater. and Interface, 2024, 16, 47820−47831
  3. Sobhan Hazra, Sandeep Dahiya, Jay Prakash Bijarniya, Subarna Pramanik, Jahar Sarkar, Bhola Nath Pal; Cost Efficient Ag/Ag-TiO2 Coating Based Flexible Transparent Heat Reflector for Energy-Saving Smart Window ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2024, 7, 7316−7324
  4. Pijush Kanti Aich, Zewdneh Genene, Utkarsh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Ergang Wang, Bhola Nath Pal; Enhancement of photosensitivity in a low operating voltage organic-inorganic bilayer thin film transistor by using an asymmetric source-drain electrode ACS Photonics, s 2024, 11, 3704−3712
  5. Anand Sharma, Vishwas Acharya, Himanshu Marothya, Satya Veer Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Bhola Nath Pal, High-Performance Low-Voltage Thin-Film Transistors: Experimental and Simulation Validation of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Assisted Li5AlO4 Metal Oxide Solution Processing; ACS Appl. Mater. and Interface, 2024, 16, 43682−43693
  6. U Pandey, N Pal, A Ghosh, S Suman, S Biring, BN Pal, Blue sensitive sub-band gap negative photoconductance in SnO 2/TiO 2 NPs bilayer oxide transistor, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 8504-8513
  7. Swati Suman, Utkarsh Pandey, Nila Pal, Parasuraman Swaminathan and Bhola Nath Pal, Narrow-band red-sensitive positive-negative reversible photodetector using organic dye on TiO2/SnO2 heterojunction; ACS Photonics, 2023, 11 (1), 93-101
  8. Utkarsh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Nila Pal, Pijush Kanti Aich and Bhola Nath Pal; Enhanced sub-band gap photosensitivity by an asymmetric source-drain electrode low operating voltage oxide transistor; J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11 (43), 15276-15287
  9. Rajarshi Chakraborty, Nila Pal,…. and Bhola Nath Pal, Fabrication of non-volatile memory transistor by charge compensation of interfacial ionic polarization of a ferroelectric gate dielectric, Appl. Mater. Today, 2023, 33, 101862
  10.  B. N. Pal, B. M. Dhar, K. See, and H. E. Katz, “Solution-deposited sodium beta-alumina gate dielectrics for low-voltage and transparent field-effect transistors”, Nature Materials,  8, 898-903, 2009, News and View: “OXIDE DIELECTRICS A change of direction” H Klauk, Nature Materials, 8, 853-854, 2009.

Complete List of Publication

  1. Sandeep Dahiya, Utkarsh Pandey, Sobhan Hazra, Rajarshi Chakraborty, Subarna Pramanik, Pushpendra Prakash Maurya, and Bhola Nath Pal; High-Performance Broadband Photodetector with Lateral Contact of n+-Si Wafer by Two Asymmetric Work-Function Electrodes, Adv. Mater. Technol. 2024 (Accepted)
  2. Shipra Gupta and Bhola Nath Pal; Organic thin film transistor with aligned nanowires/thin film hybrid channel for low concentration detection of NH3 at room temperature ACS Electron Mater. 2024 (Accepted)
  3. Sandeep Dahiya, Sobhan Hazra, Utkarsh Pandey, Pardeep Dahiya, Subarna Pramanik, Satya Veer Singh, Nikita Kumari, and Bhola Nath Pal; Enhancement in Photo-Response of CuZnS Nanocrystals-Based Photodetector Using Asymmetric Work Function Electrodes Optical Materials Opt. Mater 2024 (Accepted)
  4. Baishali Thakurta, Sobhan Hazra, Alapan Samanta, Adnan Nasir, Amresh Kumar Singh, Deepak Maurya, Bama Charan Mondal, Anupam Giri*, Bhola Nath Pal* and Monalisa Pal*; One-Step Room Temperature Synthesis of Printable Carbon Quantum Dots Ink for Visual Encryption and High-Performance Photodetector Adv. Opt. Mater 2024 (Accepted)
  5. Lipi Pradhan, Sobhan Hazra,  Satya Veer Singh, Bajrang, Anjali Upadhyay, Bhola Nath Pal*, Sudip Mukherjee*; Surface Modification of Medical Grade Biomaterials by Using Low-Temperature -Processed Dual Functional Ag-TiO2 coating for preventing Biofilm Formation J. Mater. Chem. B.2024 (Accepted)
  6. Sobhan Hazra, Sandeep Dahiya, Satya Veer Singh, Utkarsh Pandey, Swati Suman, Parasuraman Swaminathan, Bhola Nath Pal; Flexible Transparent Conductors with a percolated Ag nanostructure and its Application as Efficient Self-bias Plasmonic Photodetector Chem. Eng. J. 2024, 498, 155313
  7. Subarna Pramanik, Rajarshi Chakraborty, Sobhan Hazra, Utkarsh Pandey, and Bhola Nath Pal; Fabrication of high performance memristor device by metallization of Ag+ inside a solution processed Li5AlO4 thin film J. Mater. Chem. C.2024 (Accepted)
  8. Radhe Shyam, Pijush Kanti Aich, Utkarsh Pandey, Bhola Nath Pal*, Rajiv Prakash*; Fabrication of NIR sensitive-low operating voltage phototransistor with unidirectional organic polymer IEEE Sens. J., 2024 (Accepted)
  9. Rajarshi Chakraborty, Subarna Pramanik, Nila Pal, Utkarsh Pandey, Swati Suman, Parasuraman Swaminathan, Bhola Pal; Emulating Low Power Synaptic Plasticity in a Solution Processed Oxide-based Long Retention Memory Transistor with High Learning Accuracy ACS Appl. Mater. and Interface, 2024, 16, 47820−47831
  10. Sobhan Hazra, Sandeep Dahiya, Jay Prakash Bijarniya, Subarna Pramanik, Jahar Sarkar, Bhola Nath Pal; Cost Efficient Ag/Ag-TiO2 Coating Based Flexible Transparent Heat Reflector for Energy-Saving Smart Window ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2024, 7, 7316−7324
  11. Pijush Kanti Aich, Zewdneh Genene, Utkarsh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Ergang Wang*, Bhola Nath Pal*; Enhancement of photosensitivity in a low operating voltage organic-inorganic bilayer thin film transistor by using an asymmetric source-drain electrode ACS Photonics, s 2024, 11, 3704−3712
  12. L Pradhan, S Hazra, S Manna, BN Pal*, S Mukherjee*; Screening of Lithium Substituted Ag-TiO2 Nanoparticle Coating for Antibiofilm Application ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2024, 7, 6101−6113
  13. Anand Sharma, Vishwas Acharya, Himanshu Marothya, Satya Veer Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Bhola Nath Pal, High-Performance Low-Voltage Thin-Film Transistors: Experimental and Simulation Validation of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Assisted Li5AlO4 Metal Oxide Solution Processing; ACS Appl. Mater. and Interface, 2024, 16, 43682−43693
  14. Smruti B Bhatt , Rahul Ranjan , Sandeep Dahiya , Bhola Pal and Prodyut Dhar; Functionalized jute with high-water absorption, low thermal conductivity and efficient radiative cooling for preservation of perishable green vegetables reducing cold storage energy requirements, J. Mater. Chem. A.2024 (Accepted)
  15. Ankita Rawat, Utkarsh Pandey, Ritesh Kumar Chourasia, Gaurav Rajput, Bhola Nath Pal, Nitesh K. Chourasia, Pawan Kumar Kulriya, Role of Ultrathin Ti3C2Tx MXene layer for Developing Solution-Processed High-Performance Low Voltage Metal Oxide Transistor, J. Appl. Phys. 2024, 135, 195301 
  16. Shipra Gupta, Bhola Nath Pal, Rajiv Prakash, Improved ammonia sensitivity and broadband photodetection by using PBTTT-C14/WS2-QDs nano-heterojunction based thin film transistor, Sens. Actuators B Chem. 2024, 414, 135872
  17.  Sandeep Dahiya,  Satya Veer Singh, Utkarsh Pandey,  Sobhan Hazra, Bhola Pal, Microwave Assisted Synthesis of CuZnS Nanocrystals for Spectrally Flat Visible Light Photodetector Application using ZnO/CuZnS Heterojunction; ACS, Appl. Optical Mater. 2024, 148, 114874
  18. U Pandey, N Pal, A Ghosh, S Suman, S Biring, BN Pal, Blue sensitive sub-band gap negative photoconductance in SnO 2/TiO 2 NPs bilayer oxide transistor, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 8504-8513
  19. Shivam Awasthi, Subarna Pramanik, Kamalesh Singh, Anita Mohan and Bhola Nath Pal, Highly Flexible non-Volatile Resistive Memory Device based on ZnO Nanoparticle/Graphene Heterostructures Embedded in Poly(Methyl Methacrylate); ACS Appl. Nano Mater. . 2024, 7, 6392−6400
  20. Satya Veer Singh, Sobhan Hazra, Sandeep Dahiya, Utkarsh Pandeya Sajal Biring and Bhola Nath Pal, Plamonic Hot-Electron Induced Narrowband Photodetector by using In-Situ Grown Ag/TiO2 Nano-Heterojunction Thin Films; Optical Materials, 2024, 148, 114874
  21. Ummiya Qamar, Sobhan Hazra, Chandra Kant, Udita Uday Ghosh, Bhola Nath Pal, Santanu Das,Two-dimensional silver nanonetwork on Ag4Ti5O12 film as highly efficient SERS substrate; Microchemical Journal, 2024, 194, 109686
  22. Swati Suman, Utkarsh Pandey, Nila Pal, Parasuraman Swaminathan and Bhola N. Pal, Narrow-band red-sensitive positive-negative reversible photodetector using organic dye on TiO2/SnO2 heterojunction; ACS Photonics, 2023, 11 (1), 93-101
  23. Swati Suman, Sandeep Dahiya, Ravi P. Jaiswal, Parasuraman Swaminathan and Bhola N. Pal Fabrication of Red Sensitive Heterojunction Photodetector by using a Narrowband Organic Dye; J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127 (38), 19182-19188
  24. Ranjeev Parashar, Suchita Kandpal, Nila Pal,  Debashree Manna, Bhola Nath Pal, Rajesh Kumar, Prakash Mondal; Coexistence of electrochromism and bipolar non-volatile memory in a single viologen; ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces; 2023, 15 (44), 51527-51537
  25. Utkarsh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Nila Pal, Pijush Kanti Aich and Bhola N. Pal; Enhanced sub-band gap photosensitivity by an asymmetric source-drain electrode low operating voltage oxide transistor; J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11 (43), 15276-15287
  26. Ade Kurniawan, Chih-Chien Lee, Johan Iskandar, Chih-Yi Liu, Bhola Pal, Hsin-Ming Cheng, Shun-Wei Liu, Sajal Biring; Optimization of Triazine-Based Acceptor (CN-T2T) as Electron Transport Layers for Highly Efficient Near-Infrared Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes; J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11 (34), 11564-11570
  27. Shipra Gupta, Bhola Nath Pal, Rajiv Prakash, Enhancement of ammonia gas sensitivity and selectivity by depleted layer of PBTTT-C14/MoS2-QDs heterojunction based thin film transistor, Sens. Actuators B Chem. 2023, 393, 134251

  28. Sobhan Hazra, Satya Veer Singh, Sandeep Dahiya, Pijush Kanti Aich, Bhola Nath Pal, Solution Processed Ag/TiO2 Nanostructure-Based Schottky Junction Thin Films for Narrowband Hot-Electron Photodetectors, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2023, 6 (16), 15119-15127
  29. Nila Pal, Rajarshi Chakraborty,…. and Bhola Nath Pal, 2023, Solution Processed Li-Al2O3/LiNbO3/Li-Al2O3 Stacked Gate Dielectric for a Non-volatile Ferroelectric Thin Film Transistor, J. Alloys Compd. 2023, 960, 170691
  30. Rajarshi Chakraborty, Nila Pal,…. and Bhola Nath Pal, Fabrication of non-volatile memory transistor by charge compensation of interfacial ionic polarization of a ferroelectric gate dielectric, Appl. Mater. Today, 2023, 33, 101862
  31. Utkarsh Pandey, Nila Pal, Vishwas Acharya, Pijush Kanti Aich, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Bhola Nath Pal, Dual gated Low Operating Voltage Metal Oxide Thin film transistor for highly sensitive and fast-response pressure sensing application, IEEE Sens. J., 2023, 23, 11482 - 11489
  32. Swapnika Suresh, Mohan Subramaniam, Sobhan Hazra, Bhola Pal, Sudip Batabyal, Solvent evaporation induced large-scale synthesis of Cs4PbBr6 and CsPbBr3 microcrystals: - Optical properties and backlight application for LEDs, ACS Omega 2023, 8 (5), 4616-4626
  33. Vishwas Acharya, Nila Pal, Anand Sharma, Utkarsh Pandey, Sajal Biring and Bhola N. Pal, Solution processed low operating voltage SnO2 thin film transistor by using Li2SnO3 gate dielectric, Mater. Sci. Eng. B , 2023, 289, 116270
  34. Vishwas Acharya, Nila Pal, Utkarsh Pandey, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Suthar, Pradip Kumar Roy, Sajal Biring and Bhola N. Pal, High-k SrTiO3 thin film as Gate dielectric of a Solution processed SnO2 thin film transistor, Mater Sci Semicond Process, 2023, 155, 107228.
  35. Nila Pal, Baishali Thakurta, Rajarshi Chakraborty, Utkarsh Pandey, Vishwas Acharya Sajal Biring, Monalisa Pal, and Bhola N. Pal, Application of Microwave Synthesized Ultra-smooth a-C Thin Film for the Reduction of Dielectric/Semiconductor Interface Trap States of an Oxide Thin Film Transistor, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022 10, 14905-14914
  36. Piyali  Maity, Satya Veer Singh, Anup K. Ghosh and Bhola N. Pal, Highly sensitive broadband photodetector based on PbI2 passivated CdS:Mn Quantum Dots with spectrally flat response, J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126 (34), 14634-14641 
  37. Prashant Kumar Gupta, Utkarsh Pandey, Bhola N. Pal, Amritanshu Pandey, Low Cost Solution-Processed MoS2 Quantum Dots-based Deep-UV Photodetector for Monitoring Disinfection, IEEE Electron Dev. Lett. 2022, 69, 2474-2480
  38. Utkarsh Pandey, Nitesh K. Chourasia, Nila Pal, Sajal Biring and Bhola N. Pal, Functional dielectric properties of solution-processed lithium indium tin oxide (LiInSnO4) and its application as a gate insulator of a low voltage thin film transistor, IEEE Electron Dev. 2022, 69 (3), 1077-1082
  39. Nila Pal, Utkarsh Pandey Sajal Biring and Bhola N. Pal, Solution Processed Low Voltage Metal-Oxide transistor by using TiO2 /Li-Al2O3 stacked Gate Dielectric, J. Mater. Sc. Mater. Electron., 2022, 33, 9580-9589
  40. Satya Veer Singh, Urwashi Gupta, Sajal Biring, Bratindranath Mukherjee, and Bhola N. Pal, In-Situ Grown Nanoscale p-n Heterojuction of Cu2S-TiO2 Thin Film for Efficient Photoelectrocatalytic H2 Evolution, Surface and Interfaces 2022, 28, 10166
  41. Chih-Yi Liu, Moumita Deb, Annada Sankar Sadhu, Riya Karmakar, Ping-Tsung Huang, Yi-Nan Lin, Cheng-Shane Chu, Bhola Nath Pal, Shih-Hsin Chang, Sajal Biring, Resolving Cross-Sensitivity Effect in Fluorescence Quenching for Simultaneously Sensing Oxygen and Ammonia Concentrations by an Optical Dual Gas Sensor, Sensors, 2021, 21, 6940
  42. Piyali Maity, Shiv Kumar, Ravi Kumar, SN Jha, D Bhattacharyya, SR Barman, Sandip Chatterjee, Bhola N Pal, Anup K Ghosh, Role of Cobalt Doping in CdS Quantum Dots for Potential Application in Thin Film Optoelectronic Devices, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125 (3), 2074-2088
  43. AK Singh, NK Chourasia, BN Pal, A Pandey, P Chakrabarti, A Proposed All ZnO Based Thin Film Transistor For UV-B Detection, 2020, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 32 (24), 1548-1551 
  44. B. Kumar, S. V. Singh, A. Chattopadhyay, S. Biring, B. N. Pal, Scalable Synthesis of a Sub-10 nm Chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) Nanocrystal by the Microwave-Assisted Synthesis Technique and Its Application in a Heavy-Metal-Free Broad-Band Photodetector, ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 25947–25953
  45. N. K Chourasia, V. K Singh, A. Sharma, A. Srivastava, B. N Pal, Lithography-free fabrication of low operating voltage and large channel length graphene transistor with current saturation by utilizing Li+ of ion-conducting-oxide gate dielectric, AIP Adv. 2020, 10, 085313
  46. S. V. Singh, A. Sharma, S. Biring, B. N Pal, Solution processed Cu2S/TiO2 heterojunction for visible-near infrared photodetector, Thin Solid Films 710 (2020) 1382752
  47. N. K Chourasia, A. K. Singh, S. Rai, A. Sharma, P Chakrabarti, A. Srivastava and B. N Pal, A Lithography-Free Fabrication of Low-Operating Voltage-Driven, Very Large Channel Length Graphene Field-Effect Transistor With NH3 Sensing Application, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 2020, 67 (10), 4385-4391
  48. N. K. Chourasia, A. Sharma, N. Pal, S. Biring, B. N Pal, Dielectric/Semiconductor Interfacial p‐Doping: A New Technique to Fabricate Solution‐Processed High‐Performance 1 V Ambipolar Oxide Transistors, physica status solidi (RRL), 2020, 14, 2000268
  49. S. V. Singh, U. Gupta, B. Mukherjee, B. N Pal, Role of electronically coupled in situ grown silver sulfides (Ag2S) nanoparticles with TiO2 for the efficient photoelectrochemical H2 evolution, Int. J. Hydrog. Energy, 2020, 45, 30153-30164
  50. Abhishek Kumar Singh, Nitesh K. Chourasia, B. N. Pal, A. Pandey, P. Chakrabarti, Low Operating Voltage Solution Processed Dielectric (Li2ZnO2) and (SnO2) channel based Medium Wave UV-B Phototransistor for Application in Phototherapy, ‎IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 2020, 67 (5), 2028-2034
  51. Soumili Daripa, Koomkoom Khawas, Anand Sharma, Amit Kumar, Bhola Nath Pal, Santanu Das, Satyabrata Jit, and Biplab Kumar Kuila, Simple and direct synthetic route to a rod-coil conjugated block copolymer either from rod or coil block using a single bi-functional initiator, solvent dependent self-assembly and field effect mobility study, ACS Appl. Polymer Mater., 2020, 2, 1283–1293.
  52. SV Singh, MP Kumar, S Anantharaj, B Mukherjee, S Kundu, BN Pal, Direct evidence of an efficient plasmon-induced hot-electron transfer at in situ grown Ag/TiO2 interface for highly enhanced solar H2 generation, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2020, 3, 1821−1830
  53. V Acharya, A Sharma, NK Chourasia, BN Pal, Solution-processed Pb 0.8 Ba 0.2 ZrO 3 as a gate dielectric for low-voltage metal-oxide thin-film transistor, Emergent Materials, 2020, 3, 57–62
  54.  Nila Pal, Anand SharmaVishwas AcharyaNitesh K. Chourasia, Sajal Biring, Bhola N. Pal, Gate Interface Engineering for Subvolt Metal Oxide Transistor Fabrication by Using Ion-Conducting Dielectric with Mn2O3 Gate Interface, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2020, 2, 25-34 
  55. Anand Sharma, Nitesh K. Chourasia, Vishwas Acharya, Nila Pal, Sajal Biring, Shun-Wei Liu and Bhola N. Pal, Ultra-low voltage metal oxide thin film transistor by low-temperature annealed solution processed LiAlO2 gate dielectric, Electron. Mater. Letter. 16, (2020), 22-34
  56. Anand Sharma, Nitesh K. Chourasia, Nila Pal, Sajal Biring and Bhola N. Pal*, Role of electron donation of TiO2 gate interface for developing solution processed high-performance one-volt metal oxide thin film transistor using ion-conducting gate dielectric, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019 123 (33), 20278-20286
  57. Sajal Biring, Yun-Ming Sung, Thanh Phuc Nguyen, Ya-Ze Li, Chih-Chien Lee, Alvin HsienYi Chan, Bhola N. Pal, Somaditya Sen, Shun-Wei Liu, Ken-Tsung Wong, Reconciling the value of Schottky barriers in small molecular organic photovoltaics from J-V and C-V measurements at low temperatures towards the estimation of open circuit voltage at 0 K, Organic Electronics 73 (2019) 166–171
  58. Piyali Maity, Satya Veer Singh, Sajal Biring, Bhola N. Pal*, Anup K Ghosh*, Selective near infrared (NIR) sensitive photodetector fabricated with colloidal CdS: Co quantum dots, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 7725-7733
  59. Hemant Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Bratindranath Mukherjee, Gopal Rawat, Chandan Kumar, Bhola N. Pal and Satyabrata Jit, Effects of Optical Resonance on the Performance of Metal (Pd, Au)/CdSe Quantum Dots (QDs)/ ZnO QDs Optical Cavity Based Spectrum Selective Photodiodes, IEEE T Nanotechnol, 2019 (Accepted) DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2019.2907529
  60. N K Chourasia, A Sharma, V Acharya, N Pal, S Biring, Bhola N Pal*, Solution processed low band gap ion-conducting gate dielectric for low voltage metal oxide transistor, J Alloys Compd. 2019, 777, 1124-1132
  61. Abhyuday Paliwal, Satyaveer Singh, Anand Sharma, Shun-Wei Liu, Sajal Biring and Bhola N. Pal*, Microwave-Polyol Synthesis of Sub-10 nm PbS Nano-crystals for Metal Oxide/Nanocrystal Heterojunction Photodetectors, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2018, 1, 11, 6063-607
  62. Shell thickness dependent tunable threshold voltage single quantum dot rectification diode, Gopal SankarKenath, RekhaMahadevu, Anand Sharma, Vinod K. Gangwar, SandipChaterjee, Anshu Pandey, and Bhola N. Pal J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122 (5), pp 3176–3181
  63. Solution processed Li5AlO4 dielectric for low voltage transistor and its application for low power consumption quantum dot phototransistor, Anand Sharma, Nitesh k.Chourasia, Yogesh Kumar, SatyabrataJit, Shun-Wei Liu, SajalBiring and Bhola N. Pal J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 790-798
  64. Electrical and optical characteristics of solution-processed MoOx and ZnO QDs heterojunction, Hemant Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Gopal Rawat, Chandan Kumar, Bratindranath Mukherjee, Bhola N. Pal and SatyabrataJit, MRS Communications, 2017, 1-6
  65. Single Quantum Dot Rectifying Diode With Tunable Threshold Voltage, Gopal Sankar, PiyaliMaity, Yogesh Kumar, Hemant Kumar,Vinod K Gangwar, SandipChaterjee, SatyabrataJit,Anup K Ghosh and Bhola N. Pal, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 9792-9798
  66. Electrical and Optical Characteristics of Self-Powered Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dot-Based Photodiode H Kumar, Y Kumar, B Mukherjee, G Rawat, C Kumar, BN Pal, S Jit,IEEE J. Quantum Electron.2017, 53 (3), 1-8.
  67. Visible-blind Au/ZnO quantum dots-based highly sensitive and spectrum selective Schottky photodiode Y Kumar, H Kumar, B Mukherjee, G Rawat, C Kumar, BN Pal, S Jit,IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 2017, 64 (7), 2874-2880
  68. Colloidal ZnO quantum dots based spectrum selective ultraviolet photodetectors Y Kumar, H Kumar, G Rawat, C Kumar, A Sharma, BN Pal, S JitIEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.2017,29 (4), 361-364
  69. Heating Effects of Colloidal ZnO Quantum Dots (QDs) on ZnO QD/CdSe QD/MoOx Photodetectors H Kumar, Y Kumar, G Rawat, C Kumar, B Mukherjee, BN Pal, S JitIEEE Trans. Nanotechnol.2017,16 (6), 1073-1080
  70. Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dots and PQT-12-Based Low-Temperature Self-Powered Hybrid Photodetector H Kumar, Y Kumar, G Rawat, C Kumar, B Mukherjee, BN Pal, S JitIEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 29 (20), 1715-1718
  71. Kink effect in TiO2 embedded ZnO quantum dot-based thin film transistors H Kumar, Y Kumar, K Singh, S Kumar, G Rawat, C Kumar, BN Pal, S JitElectronics Letters2017,53 (4), 262-264
  72. Correlation between structural, optical and magnetic properties of Mn-doped ZnO P Kumar, BK Singh, BN Pal, PC Pandey Appl. Phys. A2016,8 (122), 1-12
  73.  IK Kim, BN Pal, M Ullah, PL Burn, SC Lo, P Meredith, EB Namdas, High‐Performance, SolutionProcessed Non‐polymeric Organic Photodiodes, Advanced Optical Materials 3 (1), 50-5
  74. K. Muhieddine, M.Ullah, B. N. Pal, P. Burn, and E. B. Namdas, All Solution-Processed, Hybrid Light Emitting Field Effect Transistors Adv. Mater.2014, 26, 6410–6415IF 19
  75. Dani M Lyons, Ardalan Armin, Martin Stolterfoht, Ravi Chandra R. Nagiri,Ross D Jansen-van Vuuren, Bhola N Pal, Paul L Burn, Shih-Chun Lo, Paul Meredith, Narrow band green organic photodiodes for imaging, Organic electronics2014, 15, 2903–2911
  76. W. Koh, A. Y. Koposov, J. T. Stewart, B N. Pal, I. Robel, J. M. Pietryga& Victor I. Klimov, Heavily doped n-type PbSe and PbS nanocrystals using ground-state charge transfer from cobaltocene, Scientific Report  3 : 2004 (2013), DOI: 10.1038/srep02004,
  77. Dipankar Chakravorty, Bhola Nath Pal, Shilpi Banerjee , Amrita Mandal, SreemantaMitra, DhritiRanjanSaha, Sensing Behaviour of Some Nanocomposite Systems,Soft Nanoscience Letters, 2013, 3, 12
  78. B. N. Pal, I. Robel, A. Mohite, R. Laocharoensuk D. Werder, and V. I. Klimov “High-Sensitivity p-n Junction Photodiodes Based on PbS Nanocrystal Quantum Dots”, Adv. Funct. Mater.,22, 1741-1748, 2012 IF 11.4
  79. .B. N. Pal, Y. Ghosh, S. Brovelli, R. Laocharoensuk, Victor. I. Klimov, J. Hollingsworth, H. Htoon, “Giant' CdSe/CdS core/shell nanocrystal quantum dots as efficient electroluminescent materials: Strong influence of shell thickness on light-emitting diode performance”, Nano Lett., 12 (1), pp 331–336, 2012
  80. S. Brovelli1, F.Santamaría1, R. Viswanatha1, B. N. Pal, S. A. Crooker, V.I. Klimov. Wavefunction engineering in core-shell semiconductor nanocrystals: from fine tunedexciton dynamics and suppressed Augerrecombination to dual-color
  81. J. Sun, B. N. Pal, B. J. Jung, and H. E. Katz, Solution process vertical p-n junction diode for high current density and high speed rectification, organic electronics, 10, 1-7,2009.
  82.  A. Bose, B.N.Pal, A. Datta and D.Chakravorty “Synthesis of two-dimensional metallic silver using sodium beta-alumina crystal channels”,J. Non-Cryt. Solids355 (2009) 1448-1452.
  83. .B. N. Pal, B. M. Dhar,K. See, and H. E. Katz, “Solution-deposited sodium beta-alumina gate dielectrics for low-voltage and transparent field-effect transistors”, Nature Materials,8, 898-903, 2009. IF 39.7 News and View: “OXIDE DIELECTRICS A change of direction” H Klauk, Nature Materials, 8, 853-854, 2009.
  84. .B. N. Pal, J. Sun, B. J. Jung, and H. E. Katz, “Pentacene-Zinc Oxide Vertical Diode with Compatible Grains and 15-MHz Rectification”, Adv. Mater., 20, 1023, 2008. 
  85.  B.N. Pal, P. Trottman, J. Sun, H.E. Katz, “Solution-deposited Zinc oxide and Zinc oxide/Pentacene Bilayer Transistors: High Mobility n-Channel, Ambipolar and Nonvolatile Devices”, Adv. Funct. Mater., 18, 1832, 2008.
  86. Takao Someya, Bhola Nath Pal, Jia Huang, and Howard E. Katz,  “Organic Semiconductor Devices with Enhanced Field and Environmental Responses”, MRS Bulletin.  33, 690, 2008.
  87. B. N. Pal, Jia Sun, B. J. Jung, and H. E. Katz, Solution-deposited ZnO-organic diodes with high current density and high frequency rectification under ambient conditions, MRS  Proc., (2007) 1035-L05-28
  88.  Bhola Nath Pal and Dipankar Chakravorty, “Humidity sensing by composites of glass ceramics containing silver nanoparticles and their conduction mechanism”, Sensor and Actuator B, 114 (2006) 1043
  89. Soumitra Kar, Bhola Nath Pal, Subhadra Chaudhuri and Dipankar Chakravorty.  “One-Dimensional ZnO Nanostructure Arrays- Synthesis, Characterization and Gas Sensing Behavior”, J. Phys. Chem. B,110 (2006) 4605-4611.
  90.  BholaNath Pal, and Dipankar Chakravorty.  “Pattern Formation of Zinc Nanoparticles in Silica Film by Electrodeposition,” J. Phys. Chem. B,110 (2006) 20917-20921
  91. D. Chakravorty, S. Basu, P. K. Mukherjee, S. K. Saha, B. N. Pal, A, Dan and S. Battacharya, “Novel Properties of glass-metal nanocomposites” Journal of non-crystalline solids 352, 2016, 601-609
  92. B. N. Pal, S. Basu and    D. Chakravorty, “Humidity sensing by Fractally Grown Nanocomposites”, J. Appl. Phys., 97, (2005), 034311
  93. B.N.Pal and D. Chakravorty “Humidity Sensing by Composites with Tin-Tin Oxide Core-Shell Nanostructure”, J. Phys. D , 38 , (2005), 3537-3542.
  94.  B. N. Pal, S. Basu and D. Chakravorty “Electrically Aligned Binary System of Nanoparticles”, J. Appl. Phys., 98, (2005)084306
  95. B.N.Pal,T.Kundu, S.Banerjee and D.Chakravorty  “Humidity Sensing by Nanocomosites of Silver nano particles in Silicate Glass-Ceramics”, J. Appl. Phys., (2003) 93, 4201.
  1. A SELF-BIASED DEVICE FOR HARVESTING MECHANICAL ENERGY AND A METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF (Patent Application No.: 202411069932, Indian patent office)
  2. AN ION-CONDUCTING OXIDE-BASED MEMRISTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF (Application No.: 202411046322, Indian Patent office)
  3. AN N-TYPE METAL OXIDE INTERFACE BASED THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND A METHOD OFPREPARATION THEREOF, Bhola Nath Pal, Anand Sharma and Nila Pal (Patent Application No.: 201911033524; Indian Patent office)
  4.  A SUPERCONDUCTIVE MESOSCOPIC FILM AND A METHOD OF FABRICATION THEREOF, Bhola Nath Pal and Sobhan Hazra (Application No.: 202311046399; Indian Patent office)
  5. FERROELECTRIC THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF, Bhola Nath Pal, Rajarshi Chakraborty, Subarna Pramanik (Application no.: 202311034676; Indian Patent office)
  6. AN ION-CONDUCTING OXIDE-BASED MEMRISTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF, Bhola Nath Pal, Subarna Pramanik, Rajarshi Chakraborty (Application no.: 202411046322; Indian Patent office)
  7. A METHOD OF FABRICATION OF A MULTILAYERED TRANSPARENT FILM AND A PRODUCT THEREOF, Bhola Nath Pal and Sobhan Hazra (Application no.: 202411045664; Indian Patent office)
  8.  “Megahertz organic/polymer diodes and methods related thereto”, H. E. Katz, B. N. Pal, and J. Sun,

US patent office, Publication number: US8330149 B2 (Granted)

  1. “Low-voltage, n-channel hybrid transistor”, H. E. Katz, B. N. Pal, and K. See,

US Patent office, Publication number: US8963126 B2 (Granted)

  1. “Device having high dielectric constant, ionically polarizable materials” H. E. Katz, B. N. Pal, and K. See, US patent office, Publication number: US8766246 B2 (Granted)

 

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 Group Members

 

Post Doctoral Fellow
 

Dr. Priyanka Chetri (National Post-Doctoral Fellow (2024-Present))

Research Topic : Growth of different metal oxide nanostructures for photodetector and switching application 
Ph.D. Students
   Mr. Utkarsh Pandey
 Research Interests : Energy harvesting Devices
 Enrollment Year : 2019
 utkarshpandey.rs.mst19@itbhu.ac.in                       
 +91-8009647210
 Mr. Sobhan Hazra
 Research Interests : CMOS compatible narrow band photodetector, transparent photodetector
 Enrollment Year : 2020
 sobhanhazra.rs.mst20@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-7865011834
 Mr. Rajarshi Chakraborty
 Research Interests : Memory devices, Synaptic Devices
 Enrollment Year : 2020
 rajarshichakraborty.rs.mst20@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-7001106633
 Mr. Pijush Kanti Aich
 Research Interests : Organic Light Emitting Transistors
 Enrollment Year : 2020
 pijushkantiaich.rs.mst20@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-9734774538
   Mr. Sandeep
 Research Interests : Microwave synthesized QDs based photodiode
 Enrollment Year : 2020
 sandeep.rs.mst20@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-9927455530
 

 

 Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Yadav
 Research Interests : Bio-FET
 Enrollment Year : 2021
 akhileshkryadav.rs.mst21@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-8896803075
 

 

 Mr. Subarna Pramanik
 Research Interests : 0D/2D materials based phototransistors
 Enrollment Year : 2021
 subarnapramanik.rs.mst21@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-6295870716
External Students

 Ms. Shipra Gupta

 Research Interest:
 Nanomaterials & optoelectronic devices
 sipragupta.rs.mst18@itbhu.ac.in                     
 +91-7355101880

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Alumni

 Dr. Anand Sharma
 Research Scholar (2014-2019)
 Current Position : Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT Bombay
 anandbhu12191@gmail.com                        
 +91-9411489956
 Dr. Satya Veer Singh
 Research Scholar (2014-2019)
 Current Position : Post Doctoral Fellow at IIT BHU
 satyaveersingh777@gmail.com                     
 +91-8410421757
 Dr. Nitesh Kumar Chaurasia
 Research Scholar (2015-2020)
 Current Position : National Post Doctoral Fellow at JNU                              
 niteshphyzics@gmail.com                     
 +91-7376508317
  Dr. Vishwas Acharya
Research Scholar (2015-2021)
Current Position : Post doctoral fellow at IIT Bombay                                       
vishwasacharya59@gmail.com
+91-9415272363
 Dr. Nila Pal
 Research Scholar (2017-2022)
 Current Position :  Post doctoral fellow at IIT Kanpur                              
 nilapal.rs.mst17@itbhu.ac.in                      
 +91-9735017118
S.N. Name of Instruments  
1 Spin Coater (Max. RPM 10K )
(Apexic India )
2 Thermal Evaporator
( Mansa Vacuum Equipment & Hind High Vacuum )
3 Plasma Surface Cleaner (O2, H2 , Ar)
(Diener electronic GmbH)		  
4 I-V Measurement
(Keysight  B2912A)		  
5

Photoluminescence
(Research India RIFS-T1705 and

Oceanoptics Fluorescence Spectrophotometer)

  
6 Parameter (Semiconductor device) Analyzer
(Keysight  B1500A)
 
7 Muffle Furnaces
(Temperature Upto 10000C )		  

 

8

 

Tubular Furnaces
(Temperature Upto 10000C )

  

 

9

 

Ultrasonic Bath
(Labman 2.5L )

  

 

10

 

Quantum Efficiency Measurement System
(QE-R Enli Technology)

  

 

11

 

Hot Plate with Magnetic Stirrer
(IKA C-MAG HS 7 and REMI 1MH)

  

 

12

 

Heating Mantle
(Dan Logitech)

  

 

13

 

Vacuum Oven
(S.D. Instruments and Equipments)

  

 

14

 

Arbitrary Function Generator
(Tektronix AFG31022)

  

 

15

 

Display Color Analyser
(Chroma ATE INC.)

  

 

16

 

Digital and Analog Handheld Optical Power Meter Console
(Thorlabs)

  

 

17

 

Modular Source Meter Unit
(Keysight U2722A)

  

 

18

 

Digital 1A Micro Ohms Meter
(Metravi Model 53C)