Atul Kumar

Dr Atul Kumar (PhD IIT Patna)

Assistant Prof. ECE Dept. KL University India

Research Area

Photovoltaic
Earth abundant material solar cells devices
Device Modeling & Simulation

Scopus id: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57198890849

ORCID id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-0938

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DehAmcIAAAAJ&hl=en

Web of Science id: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAT-2947-2020

email: atul.pph14 @iitp.ac.in

er.atul89@gmail.com

heonra@gmail.com

Awards and Achievements

Organised 6 days FDP titled "Integration of renewable energy and smart grid for smart cities" at ECE Dept. KL University during 14-19 June 2021.

2. Best poster award in ICRCS-2017 organized during January 12-13, 2017 by Govt. Engineering College Bikaner India. Poster title "Simulation of CZTS solar cells for efficiency enhancement"

3. Best Oral Presentation award in ICRTNCE-2019 during February 16-17, 2019 at NIT Surat India. Presentation title "Impurity photovoltaics and split spectrum for efficiency gain in CZTS solar cell"

4. Presented Poster on "Grain Size effect on performance of CZTS solar cells" in GPVC-2019 during 13-15 March 2019 at Gwangju South Korea.

5. Presented poster on "SIMULATION BASED OPTIMIZATION OF CZTS SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCY" in PVSEC-27 during 12-17 Novemeber 2017 at Shiga, Japan.

6. Reviewer for "Current Applied Physics", "IET Power Electronics", "IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices", "Emergent material", Cogent Engineering.

Publication

Journals

Kumar, A; P Ranjan; Defects signature in VOC characterization of thin-film solar cells, 220, Solar Energy (2021) 35-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.03.017
Kumar, A; Thandaiah Prabu, A Das;Configuration analysis of SnS based solar cells for high-efficiency devices, Optical and Quantum Electronics (2022)DOI: 10.1007/s11082-022-03940-0
Kumar, A; Efficiency enhancement of CZTS solar cells using structural engineering, Superlattices and Microstructures (2021) 106872. DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2021.106872
Kumar, A; Comparative device performance of CZTS solar cell with alternative back contact, 12(10):100092 Materials Letters X (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlblux.2021.100092
Kumar, A; Theoretical analysis of CZTS/CZTSSe tandem solar cell, Optical and Quantum Electronics (2021)DOI: 10.1007/s11082-021-03183-5
Kumar, A; P Ranjan; Computational Analysis of Chalcogenides as an Inorganic Hole Transport Layer in Perovskite Solar Cells, 53(9) Optical and Quantum Electronics (2021) DOI: 10.1007/s11082-021-03186-2
MT Islam, Kumar, A, Thakur AK; Defect Density Control Using an Intrinsic Layer to Enhance Conversion Efficiency in an Optimized SnS Solar Cell, Journal of Electronic Materials. (2021) DOI: 10.1007/s11664-021-08881-0
Kumar, A; Thakur, A.D; Impurity photovoltaic and split spectrum for efficiency gain in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell, 238, Optik (2021) 166783.DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.166783
Kumar, A; Numerical modelling of ion-migration caused hysteresis in perovskite solar cells, 53, Optical and Quantum Electronics (2021) 166. DOI: 10.1007/s11082-021-02806-1
Kumar, A; Impact of selenium composition variation in CZTS solar cell, 234 Optik (2021) 166421.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.166421
Kumar, A; Ranjan, P; Impact of light soaking on absorber and buffer layer in thin film solar cells, 126, Applied Physics A (2020) 397. DOI: 10.1007/s00339-020-03595-2
Kumar, A; Thakur, A.D; Comprehensive loss modeling in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells, 19, Current Applied Physics (2019) 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2019.07.005
Kumar, A; Thakur, A.D; Improving the optoelectrical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 using gold and graphene nano-fillers, 30, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, (2019) 8546. DOI: 10.1007/s10854-019-01175-6
Kumar, A; Thakur, A.D; Role of contact work function, back surface ﬁeld, and conduction bandoffset in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell, 57, S3, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (2018) 10.7567/JJAP.57.08RC05
Arunmetha, S., Dhineshbabu, N.R., Kumar, A., R Jayavel; Preparation of sulfur doped TiO2 nanoparticles from rutile sand and their performance testing in hybrid solar cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron (2021). DOI: 10.1007/s10854-021-07218-1
JL Prasanna, E Goel, A Kumar, A Kumar Review of nanomaterials impact on improving the performance of dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells

Optical and Quantum Electronics 54 (11), 1-39 (2022)

JL Prasanna, E Goel, A Kumar, A Laref, C Santhosh, P Ranjan, A Kumar Bandgap graded perovskite solar cell for above 30% efficiency Optik 269, 169891(2022)
JL Prasanna, E Goel, A Kumar, A Kumar Reduced interfacial recombination in perovskite solar cells by structural engineering simulation Journal of Optics(2022
LM Livingston, A Raj, RT Prabu, A Kumar, Computational analysis of FeS2 material for solar cell application, Optical and Quantum Electronics 55 (3), 1-14, 2023
S Gomathi, AGS Raj, CS Mishra, A Kumar, Straddling type sandwiched absorber based solar cell structure, Optik 272, 170354

Conference proceedings

Atul Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, Design issues for optimum solar cell configuration, AIP Conference Proceedings 1953, 050022 (2018); doi: 10.1063/1.5032677 (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5032677)
Atul Kumar, Pranay Ranjan, Ajay D. Thakur, Secondary Phases in CZTS Thin Films Grown Using Direct Liquid Coating Approach, Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2017.11.059
Atul Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, Investigating absence of optimal photovoltaics response in CZTS solar cell, AIP Conference Proceedings 1953, 050024 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5032679
Atul Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, The simulation of CZTS solar cell for performance improvement, AIP Conference Proceedings 1953, 050009 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5032664
Atul Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, Improvement of efficiency in CZTSSe solar cell by using back surface field, IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 360 012027 (2018) doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/360/1/012027
Atul Kumar, Anup V. Sanchela, C.V. Tomy, Ajay D Thakur , Cu2ZnSnS4 Films using an Eco-friendly Direct Liquid Coating Approach for Solar Cell Applications Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 5, Issue 11, Part 2, 2018, Pages 23156-23160 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2018.11.046
Pranay Ranjan, Atul Kumar, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D. Thakur, Graphene oxide based p-n junctions, Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 11, Part 2, 2019, Pages 830-832 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.03.051
Pranay Ranjan, Atul Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, Free Standing Graphene Oxide Films for Gas Sensing Applications, Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume 5,Issue 1, Part 1, 2018, Pages 732-736, ISSN 2214-7853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2017.11.140.
Atul Kumar; Narender Kumar; Pranay Ranjan; Ajay D Thakur, Electrical and Optical Characterisation of CZTS Thin-Film for Sensing Applications, (ASET) IEEE 10.1109/ASET53988.2022.9734877