Profile

Suresh Kumar Podapangi, working as a PhD student at University of Rome “Tor Vergata” under Prof. Thomas M Brown. His research focuses on the fabrication of Perovskite solar cells using eco-friendly techniques at the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE), Rome. He gained three years of experience at Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore, as a Research Assistant, where he was focused on the Perovskite Solar cells and Organic solar cells device fabrication and characterization. He worked as a Research assistant at Polymers and Functional Materials Department, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. He pursued undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad and a master’s degree in Green Energy Technology from Pondicherry University (Central Govt. University of India).

Research Activity

Suresh Kumar Podapangi's work mainly involves design and fabrication of low-cost perovskite solar cells without employing carcinogenic, reprotoxic or hazardous solvents. This will motivate the industry and start-up to employ such green fabrication techniques to commercialize perovskite solar cells/modules with proper encapsulants to be available on market shelves in the near future not so far.

Publications

1. Aiswarya Abhisek Mohapatra, Ravichandran Shivanna, Suresh Podapangi, Alexander Hinderhofer, M. Ibrahim Dar, Nilabja Maity, Frank Schreiber, Aditya Sadhanala, Richard H. Friend,* and Satish Patil*, “Role of Morphology and Fö rster Resonance Energy Transfer in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells” ACS Applied Energy Materials 2020 3 (12), 12025-12036

2. Suresh Kumar P, Prashanthi T, Akash Singh and Sushobhan Avasthi, “Spray-coated Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Processed in Ambient on NiOx Substrates: An Optimization Voyage from Thin-films to Devices” (Accepted as Oral Presentation at 10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2019, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore).

3. Debasish Mandal, Smruthi Rekha, Tanweer Ahmed, Suresh Kumar P, Arindam Ghosh and Naga Phani Babu Aetukuri, “Atomically-Smooth Single-Crystalline VO2 (101) Thin Films with Sharp Metal-Insulator Transition” (Submitted Journal in Journal of Applied Physics JAP).

4. Suresh Kumar P, Prashanthi T, Akash Singh and Sushobhan Avasthi, “An Endeavor towards Process Optimization of Spray-coated Perovskite Solar cells in Ambient” (Presented at International Workshop and Conference on Perovskite & Hybrid Photovoltaics 2019, IIT-Delhi, India).

5. Rudra mukherjee, Anwesha Saha, Suresh Kumar P, Praveen C Ramamurthy and Sushobhan Avasthi “Enhancement in Open-Circuit Voltage of Semi-transparent, stable MAPbI3-xBrx perovskite solar cells by methylamine treatment and optimal Hole Transport Layer” (Presented at 4th International Conference on Emerging Electronics 2018, Bangalore, India).

6. Pramod Ravindra, Suresh Kumar P, Eashwer Atresh, Asmita Jash, Rajeev Ranjan and Sushobhan Avasthi, “Ag2CrO4 Schottky Junction for All Oxide Solar Cells”. (Published IEEE Xplore; 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion 2018, Hawaii, USA).

7. Akash Singh, Suresh Kumar Podapangi and Sushobhan Avasthi, “Cation Exchange Assisted Dimensional Down-conversion of Perovskite Thin Films using Vapor Annealing: An Interplay of Tolerance Factor”. Publish in Integrated Ferroelectrics 2018 VOL.194,103–110. ( https://doi.org/10.1080/10584587.2018.1514866 )

8. Promod Ravindra, Suresh kumar P, Sushobhan Avasthi, “Schottcky junction Solar cells Using Ag2CrO4 as absorber”. (Presented at 17th International Conference Thin Films, November 2017, New Delhi, India).

9. Pallavi Singh, Rudra Mukherjee, Suresh Kumar P, Pranjal Srivastava and Sushobhan Avasthi, “Improvement in carrier lifetime and morphology by Magnesium inclusion in perovskite matrix”. Accepted Poster at 4th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO2018), Lausanne, Switzerland].

10. Suresh Kumar Podapangi and Surya Prakash Singh, “CIGS Ink: Magical effect of Solvents”. (Manuscript under Progress).