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    Sanjay Kumar Swami

    About


    Dr. Sanjay Swami was awarded a Ph.D. in Solar Photovoltaics from IIT Delhi. He has been associated with various research laboratories, including LPI, EPFL-Switzerland, BGU-Israel, SCNU-Republic of Korea, IIT Kanpur, and CSIR-NPL. His research interests include the synthesis of materials using chemical and vacuum techniques and their applications in solar photovoltaics. He is also working on developing low-cost and thinner transparent conducting oxides (TCOs). Additionally, he is exploring the use of low-cost and earth-abundant materials for water purification.

    Academic Qualifications


    Ph.D.-Solar Photovoltaics (IIT Delhi)-2016

    M.Tech.-Energy Systems

    M.Sc.-Physics (Spec. in Applied Electronics)

    Research Statement


    Study and fabrication of solar cells using advanced materials (Low cost, non-toxic and earth abundunt).

    Study and fabrication of low cost & thinner TCO and its application.

    Semiconductor materials and its applications.

    Self-cleaning window layer for solar modules

    Water purification.

    Latest Publications


  • 1 M. Yadav, N. Turk, S.K. Swami, A. Singh, V.S. Rao, N. Chaturvedi, D. Kumar, A. Kumar, Investigating impact of operating pressure of sputter deposited ZnO thin films for window layer in solarcells, 100, 75945, Physica Scripta, 2025
  • 2 Y.K. Saini, S. Mahich, S. Gupta, R. Kumar, C.S. Pati Tripathi, A. Kumar, S. Kumari, S.K. Swami#, A.Singh, Bandgap Modulation of Hydrothermally Synthesized CZTS Nanoparticles through NickleIncorporation, 54, 5573, Journal of Electronic Materials, 2025
  • 3 D. Sharma, D.S Kim, S.Y. Oh, K.W. Lee, W.S. Yang, X. Zhang, S.K. Swami, H.K. Cho, and S.W. Cho, Photo-assisted Water Purification through Electrochemically Artificially Adjusted p-Cu2O Light Absorber layer, 27, 29723-29731, ACS Omega, 2024
  • 4 V. Narwal, D. Dalal, A. Singh, D. Kumar, S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, M. Kumar, A. Kumar, A. Kumar, Synthesis of ZnO/CZTS hetero-structure junction by sol-gel spin coating technique, 70, 8345-8353, IETE Journal of Research, 2024
  • 5 A. Kumar, D. Dalal, A. Singh#, D. Kumar, V. Narwal, S.K. Swami#, N. Chaturvedi and M. Kumar#, Study of deposition temperature effect on spray-deposited copper oxide thin films and its schottky diodes, 99, 75927, Physica Scripta, 2024
  • 6 A. Kumar, A. Singh, D. Kumar, A. Garg, V. Dutta, S.K. Swami#, N. Chaturvedi#, and M. Kumar#, Spray deposited carbon nanotube embedded ZnO as an electrons transport layer in inverted organic solar cells, 2, 100088, Hybrid Advances, 2023
  • 7 S.K. Swami, N. Kumar, D.R. Radu, S.W. Cho, J. Lee, Lithium Incorporation into TiO2 Photoanode for Performance Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, 6, 8599-8606, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023
  • 8 S.K. Swami#, B. Barman, A. Kumar, V. Dutta, Multilayer and Thin Transparent Conducting Oxide Fabrication Using RF Magnetron Sputtering on Flexible Substrates, 5, 59-65, Organic Materials, 2023
  • 9 S.K. Swami#, J. Khan, V. Dutta, J. Lee, F. Laquai, N. Chaturvedi, Spray-Deposited Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide as an Efficient Electron Transport Layer for Inverted Organic Solar Cells, 6, 2906-2913, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023
  • 10 A. Singh, Y.K. Saini, A. Kumar, S. Gautam, D. Kumar, V. Dutta, H.K. Lee, J. Lee, S.K. Swami#, Property modulation of graphene oxide incorporated with TiO2 for dye-sensitized solar cells, 7, 44170-44179, ACS Omega, 2022
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    Research Areas


    • Transparent conducting oxides
    • Self-cleaning window layer for solar cells
    • CZTS/CIGS Solar Cells
    • Dye-sensitised solar cells
    • Organic solar cells
    • Perovskite solar cells

    Publications


    1 M. Yadav, N. Turk, S.K. Swami, A. Singh, V.S. Rao, N. Chaturvedi, D. Kumar, A. Kumar, Investigating impact of operating pressure of sputter deposited ZnO thin films for window layer in solarcells, 100, 75945, Physica Scripta, 2025 2 Y.K. Saini, S. Mahich, S. Gupta, R. Kumar, C.S. Pati Tripathi, A. Kumar, S. Kumari, S.K. Swami#, A.Singh, Bandgap Modulation of Hydrothermally Synthesized CZTS Nanoparticles through NickleIncorporation, 54, 5573, Journal of Electronic Materials, 2025 3 D. Sharma, D.S Kim, S.Y. Oh, K.W. Lee, W.S. Yang, X. Zhang, S.K. Swami, H.K. Cho, and S.W. Cho, Photo-assisted Water Purification through Electrochemically Artificially Adjusted p-Cu2O Light Absorber layer, 27, 29723-29731, ACS Omega, 2024 4 V. Narwal, D. Dalal, A. Singh, D. Kumar, S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, M. Kumar, A. Kumar, A. Kumar, Synthesis of ZnO/CZTS hetero-structure junction by sol-gel spin coating technique, 70, 8345-8353, IETE Journal of Research, 2024 5 A. Kumar, D. Dalal, A. Singh#, D. Kumar, V. Narwal, S.K. Swami#, N. Chaturvedi and M. Kumar#, Study of deposition temperature effect on spray-deposited copper oxide thin films and its schottky diodes, 99, 75927, Physica Scripta, 2024 6 A. Kumar, A. Singh, D. Kumar, A. Garg, V. Dutta, S.K. Swami#, N. Chaturvedi#, and M. Kumar#, Spray deposited carbon nanotube embedded ZnO as an electrons transport layer in inverted organic solar cells, 2, 100088, Hybrid Advances, 2023 7 S.K. Swami, N. Kumar, D.R. Radu, S.W. Cho, J. Lee, Lithium Incorporation into TiO2 Photoanode for Performance Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, 6, 8599-8606, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023 8 S.K. Swami#, B. Barman, A. Kumar, V. Dutta, Multilayer and Thin Transparent Conducting Oxide Fabrication Using RF Magnetron Sputtering on Flexible Substrates, 5, 59-65, Organic Materials, 2023 9 S.K. Swami#, J. Khan, V. Dutta, J. Lee, F. Laquai, N. Chaturvedi, Spray-Deposited Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide as an Efficient Electron Transport Layer for Inverted Organic Solar Cells, 6, 2906-2913, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023 10 A. Singh, Y.K. Saini, A. Kumar, S. Gautam, D. Kumar, V. Dutta, H.K. Lee, J. Lee, S.K. Swami#, Property modulation of graphene oxide incorporated with TiO2 for dye-sensitized solar cells, 7, 44170-44179, ACS Omega, 2022 11 A. Kumar, S.K. Swami, V.N. Singh, B. K. Gupta, O.P. Sinha, R. Srivastava, Ethylcellulose?encapsulated inorganic lead halide perovskite nanoparticles for printing and optoelectronic applications, 39, 2100250, Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 2022 12 A. Kumar, S.K. Swami, R. Sharma, S. Yadav, V.N. Singh, J.J. Schneider, O.P. Sinha, R. Srivastava, A study on structural, optical, and electrical characteristics of perovskite CsPbBr3 QD/2D-TiSe2 nanosheet based nanocomposites for optoelectronic applications, 51, 4104-4112, Dalton Transactions, 2022 13 S.S. Rawat, A. Rana, A. Kumar, S.K. Swami#, R. Srivastava, and C.K. Suman, Magneto-electrical properties of nickel phthalocyanine thin film and its application in organic solar cells, 231, 623-629, Solar Energy, 2022 14 S.K. Swami#, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar, V. Kumar, A. Garg and V. Dutta, Spray deposited gallium doped zinc oxide (GZO) thin film as the electron transport layer in inverted organic solar cells, 231, 458-463, Solar Energy, 2022 15 J. Bansal, S.K. Swami, R. Tabassum, S.N. Sharma. A.K. Hafiz, Encapsulation of Cu doped TiO2 nanocomposites with the understanding of weak photocatalytic properties for sunscreen applications, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 2022 16 S. Jain, S.K. Swami, V. Dutta, S.N. Sharma, Impact on structural, morphological and compositional properties of CZTS thin films annealed in different environments, 133, 108879, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2021 17 Ashish Kumar, S.K. Swami, S.S Rawat, V.N. Singh, O.P. Sinha, Ritu Srivastava, Mixed bismuth- antimony based double perovskite nanocrystals for solar cell application, 45, 16769, International Journal of Energy Research, 2021 18 B. Barman, S.K. Swami, V. Dutta, Fabrication of highly conducting ZnO/Ag/ZnO and AZO/Ag/AZO transparent conducting oxide layers using RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature, 129, 105801, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2021 19 A. Kumar, R. Sharma, S. Yadav, S.K. Swami, R. Kumari, V.N. Singh, S. Ojha, J.J. Schneider, R. Srivastava, O.P. Sinha, A study on chemical exfoliation, structural and optical properties of two-dimensional layered titanium diselenide, 50, -3903, Dalton Transactions, 2021 20 J. Bansal, S.K. Swami, A. Singh, T. Sarao, V. Dutta, A.K. Hafiz and S.N. Sharma, Apparatus-dependent sol-gel synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles for dye-sensitized solar cells, 42, 432-439, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 2021 21 J. Bansal, R. Tabassum, S.K. Swami, S. Bishnoi, P. Vashishtha, G. Gupta, S.N. Sharma and A.K. Hafiz, Performance analysis of anomalous photocatalytic activity of Cr-doped TiO2 nanoparticles [Cr(x)TiO2(1?x)], 126, 363, Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing, 2020 22 S.S. Rawat, A. Rana, S.K. Swami, R. Srivastava and C.K. Suman, Investigation of negative magneto-conductance properties of cobalt phthalocyanine thin films, 2, 586, SN Applied Sciences, 2020 23 A. Kumar, S.S. Rawat, S.K. Swami, V.N. Singh, and R. Srivastava, Benzoyl halide as alternative precursor for synthesis of lead-free double perovskite Cs3Bi2Br9 nanocrystals, 20, 3802-3808, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2020 24 D.K. Kumar, S.R Popuri, S.K. Swami, O.R. Onuoha, J.W. Bos, B. Chen, N. Bennett, and H.M. Upadhyaya, Screen printed tin selenide films used as the counter electrodes in dye sensitized solar cells, 190, 28-33, Solar Energy, 2019 25 D.K. Kumar, S.K. Swami, V. Dutta, B. Chen, N. Bennett, and H.M. Upadhyaya, Scalable screen-printing manufacturing process for graphene oxide platinum free alternative counter electrodes in efficient dye-sensitized solar cells, 15, 100105, FlatChem, 2019 26 J. Gopinath, R.K.C. Balasubramanyam, V. Santosh, S.K. Swami, D.K. Kumar, S.K. Gupta, V. Dutta, K.R. Reddy, V. Sadhu, A.V.S. Sainath, T.M. Aminabhavi, Novel anisotropic ordered polymeric materials based on metallopolymer precursors as dye Sensitized solar cells, 358, 1166-1175, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 27 V. Kumar, A. Pandey, S.K. Swami, O.M. Ntwaeaborwa, H.C. Swart, V. Dutta, Synthesis and characterization of Er3+-Yb3+ doped ZnO up conversion nanoparticles for solar cell application, 766, 429-435, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018 28 S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar and V. Dutta, Dye sensitized solar cells using the electric field assisted spray deposited kesterite (Cu2ZnSnS4) films as the counter electrodes for improved performance, 263, 26-33, Electrochimica Acta, 2018 29 S. Shital, S.K. Swami, P. Barnes and V. Dutta, Monte Carlo simulation for optimization of a simple and efficient bifacial DSSC with a scattering layer in the middle, 161, 64-73, Solar Energy, 2018 30 P.S. Chandrasekhar, P.K. Parashar, S.K. Swami, V. Dutta and V.K. Komarala, Enhancement of Y123 dye-sensitized solar cells performance using plasmonic gold nanorods, 20, 9651-9658, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 31 V. Kumar, S.K. Swami, A. Kumar, O.M. Ntwaeaborwa, V. Dutta, H.C. Swart, Eu3+ doped down shifting TiO2 layer for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells, 484, 24-32, Journal of Colloid & Interface Science, 2016 32 N. Chaturvedi, S.K. Swami, and V. Dutta, Electric field assisted spray deposited MoO3 thin films as a hole transport layer for organic solar cells, 137, 379-384, Solar Energy, 2016 33 P.S. Chandrasekhar, N. Kumar, S.K. Swami, V. Dutta and V.K. Komarala, Fabrication of perovskite films using an electrostatic assisted spray technique: the effect of the electric field on morphology, crystallinity and solar cell performance, 8, 6792-6800, Nanoscale, 2016 34 N. Chaturvedi, S.K. Swami and V. Dutta, Spray deposition of Poly (3-hexylthiopene) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester blend under electric field for improved interface and organic solar cell characteristics, 598, 82-87, Thin Solid Films, 2016 35 S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar and V. Dutta, Effects of electric field during deposition on spray deposited indium-doped zinc oxide films, 24, 74-82, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research & Applications, 2016 36 S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar and V. Dutta, Effect of deposition temperature on the structural and electrical properties of spray deposited kesterite (Cu2ZnSnS4) films, 122, 508-516, Solar Energy, 2015 37 S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar, R. Kapoor, V. Dutta, J. Frey, T. Moehl, M. Grätzel, S. Mathew, and M.K. Nazeeruddin, Investigation of electrodeposited cobalt sulphide counter electrodes and their application in next-generation dye sensitized solar cells featuring organic dyes and cobalt-based redox electrolytes, 275, 80-89, Journal of Power Sources, 2015 38 S.K. Swam, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar, N. Chander, V. Dutta, D.K. Kumar, A. Ivaturi, S. Senthilrasu, and H.M. Upadhyaya, Spray deposited copper zinc tin sulphide (Cu2ZnSnS4) film as a counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cells, 16, 23993-23999, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 39 N. Chaturvedi, S.K. Swami and V. Dutta, Plasmonic effect of spray deposited Au nanoparticles on the performance of inverted organic solar cell, 6, 10772-10778, Nanoscale, 2014 40 N. Chander, A.F. Khan, P.S. Chandrasekhar, E. Thouti, S.K. Swami, V. Dutta and V.K. Komarala, Reduced ultraviolet light induced degradation and enhanced light harvesting using YVO4:Eu3+ down-shifting nano-phosphor layer in organometal halide perovskite solar cells, 105, 33904, Applied Physics Letter, 2014 41 A. Kumar, S.K. Swami and V. Dutta, The role of electric field during spray deposition on fluorine doped tin oxide film, 588, 546-550, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2014 42 N. Chaturvedi, S.K. Swami, A. Kumar and V. Dutta, Role of ZnO nanostructured layer spray deposited under an electric field in stability of inverted organic solar cells, 126, 74-82, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 2014 43 N. Chaturvedi, F. Alam, S.K. Swami and V. Dutta, Effect of electric field on the spray deposited poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly(styrenesulfonate) layer and its use in organic solar cell, 114, 184501, Journal of Applied Physics, 2013 44 S.K. Swami, N. Chaturvedi, A. Kumar and V. Dutta, Effect of zinc precursor on Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles synthesized by solvothermal method and its application in dye-sensitized solar cells as the counter electrode, 9, 377-382, Materials Today Energy

    Patents


    # Patents Year

    Projects


    • Development of human health-monitoring electronic device based on human friendly inorganic materials, sponsered by National Research Foundation (NRF), Ministry of Education, Korea, Sponsored
      Completed
    • Fabrication of cadmium-free large area kesterite (Cu2ZnSnS4) solar cells sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Sponsored
      Completed

    Awards


    • JRF and SRF from Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Govt. of India, Year: 2012
    • IIT Delhi-India & EPFL-Switzerland student exchange programme fellowship rom EPFL-Switzerland, Year: 2013
    • National Postdoc Fellow (N-PDF) from Science and Engineering Research Board, Year: 2016
    • INSPIRE Faculty Award from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Year: 2016
    • PBC fellowship from the council for higher education, Israel., Year: 2017

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    Created: 23 November 2019