Organic & Hybrid Electronics Device Laboratory (OHEDL)
Dr. Supravat Karak [Ph.D. (IIT Khragapur)]
Biosketch:
Dr. Supravat Karak received the M. Sc. and PhD degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. At Indian Institute of Technology, his research involved on organic electronics, specifically on organic photovoltaic devices. He then joined as an EFRC postdoctoral fellow at University of Massachusetts, USA working on the fabrication and characterization of organic single crystal, nano-structure and thin film based photovoltaic devices. He has also worked at Nagoya University as a JSPS fellow on organic and hybrid semiconductors for photovoltaic and photodetection applications. Since October 2016 he has been part of Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (DESE, IITD)
Awards/Honors/Recognition:
1.JSPS invitational fellow (2024-2025)
2.Visiting faculty, Nagoya University, Japan, (2020-2022)
3. National selection committee member for Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowships (STEM), (2021-2022)
4. Early Career Research Award, SERB-DST, (2017)
5. JSPS Foreign Researcher Award, JAPAN, (2015)
6. EFRC Foreign Research Fellowship, USA, (2012)
7. Gold medal for first class first (University Rank: 1st) in B.Sc, Vidyasagar University, (2005)
8. Gold medal in Physics in B.Sc, Vidyasagar University, (2005)
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Large area, highly efficient, low cost, flexible solar cells based on solution processable organic and perovskite hybrid semiconductors.
2007 - 2011
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Ph.D.
Polymer based self-assembled one dimensional single crystalline nanostructures for next generation opto-electronic devices such as OPV, OFET, memory, photodetectors etc.
Fundamental transient optoelectronic and charge carrier transport properties of organic and hybrid semiconductors for energy harvesting
2012 - 2014
University of Massachusetts, (UMass), USA
EFRC Post-doctoral Fellow
2014 - 2016
Nagoya University, Japan
JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow