Assistant Professor, IIT Indore

Ranjith Kumar Poobalan

Department : Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Thin films and Multilayer coatings
Energy harvesting materials
Protective Coatings
Nanomaterials
Optical Materials

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT-Indore, 10 Oct – present
Postdoc, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Israel, Mar-Sept 2023
Research Associate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER), IISc, Jan-Feb 2023

Publications

Ramanathan, Ramarajan, Michael Zinigrad, Dhivyaprasath Kasinathan, and Ranjith Kumar Poobalan. “Zinc Stannate (Zn2SnO4)-Based Hybrid Composite Photoanode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Application.” ACS Applied Energy Materials 5, no. 9 (2022):11506-11516. doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01981.
Poobalan, Ranjith Kumar, Harish C. Barshilia, and Bikramjit Basu. “Recent trends and challenges in developing boride and carbide-based solar absorbers for concentrated solar power.” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 245 (2022): 111876. doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2022.111876.
Poobalan, Ranjith Kumar, Mahander Pratap Singh, and Bikramjit Basu. “Probing the spectrally selective property of NbB2‐based tandem absorber coating for concentrated solar power application.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society 105, no. 2 (2022): 1136-1148. doi.org/10.1111/jace.18143.
Kumar P, Ranjith, Basavaraju, U., Harish C. Barshilia, and Bikramjit Basu. “On the origin of spectrally selective high solar absorptance of TiB2-based tandem absorber with double layer antireflection coatings”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 220 (2021): 110839. doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110839.
Kumar P, Ranjith, Prasad, Neena, Fabien Veillon, and Wilfrid Prellier. “Raman spectroscopic and magnetic properties of Europium doped nickel oxide nanoparticles prepared by microwave-assisted hydrothermal method.” Journal of Alloys and Compounds 858 (2021): 157639. doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.157639.