S. Sundar Kumar Iyer
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur, India 208016

Office location: WL 122

Email: sskiyer [AT] iitk.ac.in
Tel:   +91-512-259 7820
Fax:  +91-512-259 0063

 

I am also a part of Samtel Centre for Display Technologies


Education

o       B.Tech -- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1990

o       M.S. -- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1993

o       Ph.D.   -- University of California at Berkeley, 1998


Industry Experience

o       Staff Engineer and later Advisor Engineer at IBM Microelectronics, Hopewell Junction New York (1998 to 2004)

o       Summer internship at Texas Instruments, Dallas (Summers of 1993 and 1995)


Teaching Experience

o       Visiting Faculty at IIT Kanpur from July to December, 2003

o       Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur from July 2004 till date


Research Interests

My primary research interest is in

o       Organic Solar Cells

o       Photovoltaic systems

I also work in the areas of

o       Printable Electronics

o       VLSI Technology, Devices and Circuits


 

Select Publications and Patents

 

Journal

 

o       Photovoltaic Behaviour of Organic Polymer - PCBM Bulk Hetero Junctions Solar Cells, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, Dipesh Bajaj and Amruta Bhat, IETE Journal of Research, vol. 52, No. 5, September-October, 2006, pp 391-399

 

o       Electrically Programmable Fuse (eFUSE) using Electromigration in Silicides, C. Kothandaraman, Sundar K. Iyer, Subramanian S. Iyer, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 23, no.9, Sept. 2002, pp. 523-25.

 

o       Separation by plasma implantation of oxygen (SPIMOX) operational phase space, S.S.K. Iyer; Xiang Lu; Jingbao Liu; Jing Min; Zhineng Fan; P.K. Chu; Chenming Hu; N.W. Cheung, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Volume: 25; 5 , Oct. 1997 , pp. 1128 -1135

 

 

Conference Proceedings

 

o       Effect of annealing on poly (3-hexylthiophene) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester bulk heterojunction solar cells, by S. Sundar Kumar Iyer and Vinod Pagare;  Proceedings of the XIV International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices: IWPSD 2007, 16th to 20th December, Editors K.L. Narasimhan and D.K. Sharma, pp. 541-546.

 

o       Fabrication and characterisation of organic thin film transistors with poly (methyl methacrylate) as gate dielectric, by Amit Kumar Chouksey  and S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, Proceedings of ASID 07, 2-3 August, 2007, Singapore, ISBN No: 978-981-8143-5

 

o       Physics and Implementation of Electrically Programmable Fuses in Silicon Technology, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, C. Kothandaraman, Subramanian S. Iyer, Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Chennai, India, December 2003 pp. 408-413.

 

o       SOI MOSFET on low cost SPIMOX substrate, S.S.K. Iyer; Xiang Lu; N.W. Cheung; Chenming Hu International Electron Devices Meeting, 1998. IEDM '98 Technical Digest., 1998 , pp. 1001 -1004

 

 

Filed Patents

o       1231/DEL/2007: An improved organic optoelectronic device; filed on 07-06-2007; Co-inventors: Vibhor Jain, R. Gurunath, Gitalee Bhattachargya, Basanta Kumar Rajbongshi and Arun Tej Mallajosyula

o       933/DEL/2006 : Organic photovoltaic cells with thin films of carbon nano-tubes p-n junctions; 31-03-2006; Co-inventor: Arun Tej Mallajosyula

 

Granted Patents

o       US 6624499 : System for programming fuse structure by electromigration of silicide enhanced by creating temperature gradient; Co-inventors: C.R. Kothandaraman, S.S. Iyer, C. Narayan. 

 

o       US 6429091 : Patterned Buried Insulator; Co-inventors: A.L. Hirsch, N. Rovedo, B.A. Chen, Y. Zhang, H.C. Wann.

 


 

Some other interests:

 

Asha for Education - an action group that attempts to bring socio-economic change in India through education