We seek to develop all types of electronic devices and components which will enable the goal of making circuits printable like documents or newspapers.
Issues and innovation on replacing conventional lighting sources by better technology such as organic light emitting diode based lighting.
We ask a variety of questions on the effect of localized states on electrical and optical properties, their origin and relevance to applications.
Can hybrid use of inorganic material embedded in organic semiconductors give us better performance of electronic devices keeping the processability advantages of the latter intact ?
Yashowanta Narayan Mohapatra
Welcome To Our Group
He obtained Five Year Integrated M.Sc.(Hons.) in Physics degree from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. He received his doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and carried on his post-doctoral work there before joining IIT Kanpur in May, 1990 with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Materials Science Programme. He has served for three year term each as Head of the Physics Department(2007-2009), Head, Materials Science Programme (2004-2006), and for five years as Coordinator of Samtel Centre of Display Technologies and remains an active member of each of these academic units. In 2006, he became the first occupant of the Pradeep Sindhu Chair Professor at IIT Kanpur. Professor Mohapatra is recipient of MRS Medal of MRS Indian Chapter in 2007. Prof. Mohapatra serves on the editorial board of Journal of Nanophotonics (SPIE), and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics.
According to him, what brought him to IIT Kanpur was his quest for striking a balance between teaching and research, between physics and engineering, and between academic independence and avenues for interdisciplinary collaboration.
He is a member of Materials Research Society, American Physical Society, Society for Semiconductor Devices (SSD). Professor Mohapatra has conducted several one day tutorials on electrical characterization of advanced materials at International MRS Conferences. He has been a visiting faculty at the Pennsylvania State University, and has collaborative research interests with Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State.
He currently is a member of Board of Governers of Institute of Physics (IoP), Bhubaneswar, and is a member of the Research Council of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Trivandrum.
Our group is interested in studying the electronic and Photoelectronic properties of Inorganic and Organic Semiconductors keeping in view their applications in Diodes, solar Cells, Sensors and Transistors.
We are specially interested in defects, disorders and density of states and their impact on properties and application.
K.S. Rao and Durgesh C. Tripathi attended the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting held in San Francisco, California from April 25 - 29, 2011.
- IWPSD 2011 is scheduled to be in I.I.T Kanpur from Dec 19-22, 2011.
- The group is involved in all aspects of organization of this Workshop
