Dr. Mahesh Kumar

About

Senior Principal Scientist at Innovation Management Directorate- CSIR & Professor at AcSIR

Current research interests include Ultrafast spectroscopy, Plasmonics, Terahertz spectroscopy & imaging, Semiconductors, Surface Science, Carbon capture Hydrogen Technologies and Batteries

Employment

• Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research Associate Professor
  2013 - Present
• National Physical Laboratory CSIR Principal Scientist & Associate Prof. AcSIR
  2006 - Present

Education

• University of Delhi Doctorate
  2003 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (224)

• Bandgap engineering and carrier dynamics in MoSSe alloys: A comparative analysis with MoS2 and MoSe2
  Optical Materials 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2026.118015
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• Multi-interface engineered PtSe2/ZnSe/TiO2 nanotubes photoanode for solar-assisted water oxidation
  Journal of Materials Science 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s10853-026-12493-6
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• Temperature-dependent ultrafast carrier and lattice dynamics in Dirac semimetals NiTe2 and PdTe2
  Physical Review B 2025 DOI: 10.1103/g2lh-1nb6
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• Excited state photophysics of lead and lead-free perovskite nanocrystals: A temporal spectroscopic analysis
  Optical Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2025.116753
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• Exploring substrate and Structure-Induced ultrafast phonon dynamics in Bi2Te3 thin films
  Applied Surface Science 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.162069
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• Ultrafast Dynamics and Tunable Coherent Optical Phonons via Hybridization and Gold Layering in Hybrid Topological Bi2Se1.5Te1.5
  Materials Today Quantum 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtquan.2025.100035
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• Unveiling Optoelectronic Properties and Charge Carrier Dynamic Mechanisms in Bi2Se3-Based vdW Heterostructures
  ACS Applied Optical Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.4c00510
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• Bandgap Engineering and Carrier Dynamics in MoSSe Alloys: A Comparative Analysis with MoS2 and MoSe2
  Ssrn 2025 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5895245
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• Dual Probe Optical and Electrical Investigation of Ultrafast Electron-Phonon Interaction in Bi2Se3/ZnSe Heterostructures
  ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.5c00567
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• FePS3-MoS2p-n junctions for broadband optoelectronics
  Npj 2d Materials and Applications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41699-025-00541-9
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