Solar Cells

Dr. Sharma is a faculty in Materials Science at Department of Physics, Faculty of Science & Technology, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad & Tobago. Before joining UWI, he worked as a Professor Adjunto (IV) at Department of Physics, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil (2014–2019). He has received his Ph.D. in Physics from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. He worked on different research/academic positions in Brazil, France, Czech Republic, India and Mexico from 2007-2014. His research interests include magnetic nanohybrids, their synthesis, characterization and utilization in magnetic and biomedical applications. Dr. Khuram Ali is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. He received his PhD (2015) in Solid State Physics from the School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, with a focus on solar cell development for terrestrial as well as space applications. Dr. Ali has more than ten years of research experience in the areas of materials science, semiconductor device physics, photovoltaics, and modelling of solar cells. His current research interests include magnetic nanoparticles, thin films, anti-reflective coatings for solar cells, photolithography, crystalline solar cells, perovskite solar cells, radiation-resistant solar cells, and electrical and optical studies on p–n junction-based devices.

Synthesis and Processing of nanomaterials.- Perspective of nanomaterials in the performance of solar cells.- Materials for Solar cell applications: an overview of TiO2, ZnO, upconvertingorganic and polymer based solar cells.- Recent advances in Solar cell.- Photovoltaic materials design by computational studies: metal sulfides.- Photovoltaic based Nanomaterials: synthesis and characterization.- Carbon Nanotube: Synthesis and Application in Solar Cells.- Basic concepts, engineering and advances in dye sensitized solar cells.- Quantum dot solar cells.- Organometal halide perovskite-based materials and their applications in solarcell devices.- Effect of Oxygen Vacancies in Electron Transport Layer for Perovskite SolarCells.- Solar Cells and Opto-electronic Devices in Space.- Multijunction (III-V) Solar Cells: From Basics to Advanced Materials Choices.