Baquer Mazhari
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur, UP 208016
INDIA
(Also with Samtel
Centre and National Centre for Flexible
Electronics)
Tel. +91-512-2597924 (Office)
+91-512-2598528 (Res)
Email : baquer@iitk.ac.in
Education
B.Tech. -- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 1987
M.S. -- University of Maryland College park, 1989
Ph.D. -- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1993
Teaching Interests
1. Organic
Electronics (PG course) : Introduction
2. Flexible
Electronics (PG course): Introduction
3. Analog
Circuits (PG course) (Video lecture notes)
4. Introduction
to Bipolar and MOS Analog Circuits (UG course): video
lecture notes
5. Introduction
to Semiconductor Devices (UG Couse): video
lecture notes
6.
Introduction
to digital IC Design: (UG Couse): video lecture notes
7.
Introduction
to Electronics: Video lecture notes
Some unconventional views on
Devices and Circuits:
1. Why does depletion approximation in PN Junction work
so well?
3. What does doping in semiconductor have to do with
drying of clothes?
4. Is cut-in voltage of a diode an illusion?
5. What exactly happens when we apply Thevenin and Norton
Theorem?
6. How does negative feedback decrease distortion in
amplifiers?
7. Is biasing in the middle optimum for maximum voltage
swing in amplifiers?
8. A Tradeoff perspective on Amplifiers
9. Millers Theorem and the Mystery of the Missing Pole?
10 Electronics is a
general purpose problem solving tool
All video lectures can be found at the following Youtube Channel
Research Interests
Organic and Flexible Electronics:
(Thin film Transistors; Solar cells; LEDs; Sensors)
Awards
Distinguished Teacher award, IIT Kanpur, 2015
Gopal Das Bhandari Distinguished Teacher
award, IIT Kanpur, 2019
Excellence in Teaching award, IIT Kanpur,
2019
Recent Publications and Patents:
1.
S. M. H.
Rizvi and B. Mazhari, "Investigation of Traps in Thin-Film Organic
Semiconductors Using Differential Analysis of Steady-State Current-Voltage
Characteristics," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices,
vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 3430-3437, Aug. 2018.
2.
R. Agarwal
and B. Mazhari, "Floating Drain-Based Measurement of ON-State Voltage of
an OTFT for Sensing Applications," in IEEE Transactions on
Electron Devices, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 3460-3465, Aug. 2018.
3.
R. Agarwal
and B. Mazhari, "An Organic Temperature Sensor Based on Asymmetric Metal
Insulator Semiconductor Capacitor With Electrically Tunable Sensing Area,"
in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-4, March 2018.
4.
Rizvi, S. M.
H. and Mazhari, B,
An
improved method for extraction of mobility from space charge limited current in
organic semiconductor films, Journal of Applied Physics, 2017
5.
B. Mazhari
and A. Gangwar, An organic device with thin film transistor merged with light
emitting diode through use of an accumulation layer in TFT as an electrode ,US
patent no : US 9536935 , Jan. 3,2017
6.
B. Mazhari, A. Ashok, Four-Terminal
Gate-Controlled Thin-Film organic Thyristor, US patent no : US Patent 9,831,453, 2017
7.
Ankita
Gangwar and Baquer Mazhari, A Thin film transistor with high drain current
induced by a trap-assisted electric double layer, IEEE Trans.
Electron devices, 2016
8.
B. Mazhari and A. Gangwar,Thin Film Transistor
With A Current-Induced Channel ,US patent : 9,515,273, 2016
9.
Ankita
Gangwar and Baquer Mazhari, A Current-Induced Channel Organic Thin-Film
Transistor, IEEE Trans. Electron devices, 63 (1), 459-464, 2016
10.
Ashish K.
Agarwal, Rajesh Agarwal and B. mazhari Channel Pinch-Off Near Drain In Top
Contact Organic Thin Film Transistor, IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol.36, no.9,
pp.947-949, Sept. 2015
11.
M. N. Islam
and B. Mazhari, Organic Thin Film Transistors with
Asymmetrically Placed Source and Drain Contact, IEEE Trans. Electron devices,
2014.
12.
Traps
signature in steady state current-voltage characteristics of organic diode,
Rizvi, S. M. H. and Mantri, P. and Mazhari, B., Journal of Applied Physics,
115, 244502 (2014)
13.
Prachi Mantri, S.M.H. Rizvi, B. Mazhari, Estimation of built-in voltage from
steady-state current-voltage characteristics of organic diodes, Organic Electronics, Volume 14, Issue 3,
August 2013, Pages 2034-2038.
14.
Vinay Kumar
Singh and Baquer Mazhari, Measurement of threshold voltage in organic thin film
transistors, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 253304 , June 2013.
15.
Arun Tej Mallajosyula, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, Baquer Mazhari, Charge
transport in polythiophene:fullerene:nanotube bulk heterojunction photovoltaic
devices investigated by impedance spectroscopy, Current Applied Physics, June
2013
16.
M.
N. Islam and B. Mazhari, Organic Thin Film Transistors with Asymmetrically Placed Source and
Drain Contact, Organic Electronics,
Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2013, Pages 862-867.
17.
Ashish K. Agarwal, and B. mazhari, Simultaneous Extraction of
Source and Drain Resistances inTop Contact Organic Thin Film Transistors From a
Single Test Structure, Organic Electronics: physics, materials,
applications 13 (11) ,
pp. 2659-2666, Nov. 2012.
18.
Mallajosyula, Arun Tej, Iyer, S. Sundar Kumar; Mazhari Baquer,Capacitance-voltage characteristics of
P3HT:PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells with ohmic contacts and the impact of
single walled carbon nanotubes on them, Org. Electronics, Volume
13, Issue 7, July 2012, Pages 1158-1165
19.
Vinay K. Singh, Baquer Mazhari, Impact
of scaling of dielectric thickness on mobility in top-contact pentacene organic
thin film transistors , J. Appl. Phys. 111, 034905 , Feb
2012
20.
Vinay K. Singh, Ashish K. Agarwal and Baquer Mazhari, Measurement of Source Resistance in Top Contact Organic Thin Film
Transistors, IEEE
Electron Device Lett., EDL-9, March 2012