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Experience Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2016-till date, McLennan Physical Laboratory, Dept.
of Physics, University of Toronto
• Research topic: High-efficiency, thin-silicon, photonic crystal solar cell
• Advisor: Prof. Sajeev John
Education Ph.D., July 2016, Near field characteristics of spoof surface plasmon and tight
binding model description of wave dispersion in metallic and dielectric photonic
crystals (CGPA in course work 9.5/10)
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
• Thesis title: Study of Electromagnetic Waves on a Structured Perfect Electric
Conductor Surface
• Advisor: Dr. Kushal Shah
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7. S. Bhattacharya and S. John, “Beyond 30% conversion efficiency in silicon
solar cells”, under review in Nature Scientific Reports.
8. H. Mei-Li, S. Chen, A. Kaiser, Y. Yan, B. Frey, I. Bhat, R. Dahal, S. Bhattacharya,
S. John, S. Y. Lin, “A low cost and large-scale synthesis of 3D photonic
crystal with SP2 lattice symmetry”, under review in APL Photonics.
Awards & • Our paper, “Designing High-Efficiency Thin Silicon Solar Cells Using Parabolic-
Achievements Pore Photonic Crystals”, Physical Review Applied, Vol. 9, 044009 (2018), illustrated
roadmap towards achieving 28-29% power conversion efficiency (well beyond the
current world-record of 26.7%) on a single-junction silicon solar cell and was featured
as Editor’s Suggestion in April issue.
• Selected (to a team of 25 Indian students and 25 Canadian students) for IC-IMPACTS
Summer Institute on Optical Sensing at University of Toronto (St. George Campus)
based on a competitive selection procedure during June, 2015 and received travel
grant.
• SPIE Best Student Paper Award in 12th International Conference on Fiber Optics
and Photonics, Kharagpur (India), December 2014.
• Conducted laboratory classes and imparted training to the scientists from several
Govt. organizations like ISRO, DRDO and teachers from several AICTE approved
colleges during the tenure of short term course on “Efficient Systems for Microwave
Transmission and Radiation”, organized by Dept. of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur
(January 18th -January 23rd , 2010).
• Conducted laboratory classes and imparted training to the teachers of several AICTE
approved colleges during the tenure of the AICTE/MHRD staff development program
on “Fundamentals and Recent advances in RF & Microwave Communication”, organized
by Dept. of E & ECE, IIT Kharagpur (December 7th -December 20th , 2009).
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Teaching • 2 lectures on Bose-Einstein condensation as a part of the graduate level course on
Experience Statistical Mechanics in Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto (Fall, 2017).
• A guest lecture on Band structure calculation for dielectric and metallic photonic
crystal as a part of the graduate level course on Computational Electromagnetics
(EEL766) offered by Dr. Uday Khankhoje in IIT Delhi (April, 2015). Slides are
available at this link.
Teaching Assistant:
• Advanced Electromagnetics Fall, 2009
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Instructor: Prof. Ajay Chakraborty.
• EMI/EMC Techniques [Theory] Spring, 2010
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Instructor: Prof. Ajay Chakraborty.
• EMI/EMC Techniques [Laboratory] Spring, 2010
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Instructor: Prof. Ajay Chakraborty.
• Engineering Electromagnetics Fall 2013; Spring, 2015
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Instructor: Dr. Kushal Shah.
• Engineering Electromagnetics Fall 2014
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Instructor: Dr. Uday Khankhoje.
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