Research

Research IDs

Research Interest

• Photovoltaics

• Batteries

• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Analysis

Reviewer: Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, SPRINGER NATURE

Research Papers

1.  A Reliability and Risk Assessment of Solar Photovoltaic Panels Using a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Approach: A Case Study, Patil, Rajkumar Bhimgonda, Arun Khalkar, Sameer Al-Dahidi, Rita S. Pimpalkar, Sheetal Bhandari, and Michael Pecht., Sustainability 16, no. 10: 4183. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16104183, 2024.

2. Selenization of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film using a Se metal-organic source for solar cell applications, Seong Man Yu, Kwang-Soo Lim, Arun Khalkar, Ji-Beom Yoo, Appl. Phys. A, 122:767, 2016.

3. Comparison of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films and solar cell performance using Zn target with ZnS target, Kwang-Soo Lim, Seong-Man Yu, Arun Khalkar, Tea-Sik Oh, Dong-Wook Shin, Ji-Beom Yoo, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 650, 641-646, 2015.

4. Effects of Sulfurization Pressure on the Conversion Efficiency of Cosputtered Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Film Solar, Arun Khalkar, Kwang-Soo Lim, Seong-Man Yu, Dong-Wook Shin, Tae-Sik Oh, Ji-Beom Yoo, International Journal of Photoenergy, 750846, 2015.

5. Sulfurization approach using sulfur vapor, graphite box and H2S gas atmospheres for cosputtered Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film, Arun Khalkar, Kwang-Soo Lim, Seong-Man Yu, Jin Hyeok Kim, Ji-Beom Yoo, 40th IEEE, PVSC-Denver, 2014.

6. Deposition of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films by magnetron sputtering and sulphurization, Arun Khalkar, Kwang- Soo Lim, Seong-Man Yu, Shashikant P. Patole, Ji-Beom Yoo, Electron. Mater. Lett., Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 43-49, 2014.

7. Effect of growth parameters and annealing atmosphere on the properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited by co-sputtering, Arun Khalkar, Kwang-Soo Lim, Seong-Man Yu, Ji-Beom Yoo, International Journal of Photoenergy, 690165, 2013.

8. Magnetic properties of Ni13-nAln clusters with n = 0–13, M. D. Deshpande, Ravindra Pandey, Miguel A. Blanco, Arun Khalkar, J. Nanopart. Res., 12:1129–1136, 2010.

International / National Conferences / workshops

1. Gokhale Education Society’s Maharashtra Council of Educational Administration & Management’s 27th Conference on ‘Higher Education in India: Developing Employability and Entrepreneurship, Parel, Mumbai, India, February 14-15th, 2020.

2. National level seminar on ‘Energy Storage Systems: Design and Challenges’, R. H. Sapat College of Engineering, Nashik, India, January 24-25th 2020.

3. 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Denver, USA. June 08, 2014.

4.  Global Photovoltaic Conference 2013, BEXCO, Busan, S. Korea. November 25, 2013.

5. International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE),

Gwangju, S. Korea. October 25, 2013.

6. Korea Photovoltaic Society Spring Conference, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea. April 29,

2013.

7. Global Photovoltaic Conference, BEXCO, Busan, S. Korea. November 19, 2012.

8. 22nd International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC-22), Zhejiang, China.

November 03, 2012.

9. International Symposium on Chalcogenide Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science &

Technology, Seoul, Korea, November 09, 2011.

10. Sungkyun International Solar Forum, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, June 26-28, 2011.

11. A3 Symposium on Emerging Materials, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, November 07, 2010.

Research Skill

Scanning Electron microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), X- Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), Hall measurements, Solar simulator, Quantum efficiency measurement, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Four Point Probe, I-V characterization, Photoluminescence, UV-IR spectroscopy.