Thin Film Photovoltaic Laboratory

School of Electronics Engineering
KIIT-Deemed to be University

The Thin Film Photovoltaics laboratory is dedicated to provide next generation high-performance thin film solar cells, sensors and opto-electronic devices and applications for affordable energy-sustainable future with the aim to provide impactful solutions for the benefits to industry and society. Currently, the demand for solar energy is gaining interest and a lot of research work is going on to provide cost effective, environment friendly thin film solar cells. This lab supports a multipurpose and interdisciplinary working environment not only for the research but different collaborative activities also. The focus of this lab is to develop and characterize low cost earth abundant thin film solar cells through efficient vacuum and non-vacuum based technologies. In this lab, we continually strive to acquire and intelligently apply the resources to support the research community to advance in the PV field. Current activities of the laboratory cover a broad spectrum, ranging from fundamental research to industrial technology transfer.

Research Domain:

• Fabrication and numerical modelling of CdTe, CIGS, SnS, CuSnS, CZTS based solar cells.
• Fabrication and characterization of thin filmsensors.
• Performance analysis of Perovskite Solar cells.
• Modelling and fabrication of semiconductor devices.
• Fabrication and characteristics study of different magnetic materials.

Several high end equipment for fabrication and characterization purpose are available in the lab like, DC and RF Sputtering, Co-Evaporation, Thermal Evaporation, Ball Milling XRD, ED-XRF, Hall Effect Measurement System, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, I-V and C-V Measurement System. A number of students from B.Tech , M.Tech and PhD are doing research in this lab.