Mukul Kumar Das

About

Mukul Kumar Das received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Radio Physics and Electronics from University of Calcutta, respectively in 1998, 2000. He served as faculty in different Engineering colleges in West Bengal, India during 2000-2004. He completed his Ph.D (Tech.) degree from Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta in 2008 as faculty fellow. He worked as full time faculty in the A. K. Choudhry School of Information Technology, under the same University during his Ph.D. He also worked as Internship Research Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique, France during June 2008 to August 2008.
Dr. Das joined at IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India in September 2008 and is currently serving as Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering. He is also the Head & Project Coordinator of a project, Centre of Excellence in Renewable Energy, under FAST, MHRD, Govt. of India. His research fields include design and development of solar photovoltaic devices, modeling of Gr-IV based optoelectronic devices, Growth and study on metal oxide semiconductor based thin films by physical vapor deposition technique etc. He has published more than 25 research papers in SCI International Journals and guided 7 Ph.D.s till date.
Dr. Das is recipient of Young Scientist award by International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in its General Assembly held in Chicago, USA in 2008. He is also recipient of National Scholarship for B.Sc. (Hons.) and was awarded by Indian Association of Physics Teachers for qualifying Part A and Part B of National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) in 1995. He became senior member of IEEE in 2010.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Professor
  2008 - Present

Education

• Ecole Polytechnique France &University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India Ph.D. (Tech.)

Projects & Funding

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Publications (96)

• Grain boundary orientation-dependent performance of polycrystalline thin-film solar cells
  Solar Energy 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2026.114350
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• Temperature-dependent characterization of RF-Sputtered ZnO thin films for optoelectronic applications
  Applied Physics A 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00339-025-09258-4
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• Modeling and simulation of ZnO-based TFTs by dielectric engineering and temperature analysis for enhanced performance
  Scientific Reports 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-31375-6
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• Design and Analysis of Passivated n-Si Solar Cell Employing SiC Window Layer
  Silicon 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s12633-025-03252-4
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• Investigation of ZnMgO/µc-Si thin-film solar cell using two-dimensional numerical simulation
  Scientific Reports 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-23415-y
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• Strategic approaches to enhance efficiency and commercial feasibility of copper-based surface plasmon resonance sensing
  Next Materials 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.nxmate.2024.100377
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• Influence of the configuration of metal sensing layers on the performance of a bimetallic (Ag–Cu) surface plasmon resonance biosensor
  Nanotechnology 2024 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad4ee8
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• Enhanced Efficiency in Thin Film Solar Cells: Optimized Design With Front Nanotextured and Rear Nanowire-Based Light Trapping Structure
  IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2024.3408253
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• Development of Theoretical Model for Effective Carrier Lifetime in Polycrystalline Semiconductors
  IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 2023 DOI: 10.1109/TED.2023.3300654
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• An Efficient Light Trapping Method to Enhance the Efficiency of Thin Film Solar Cell
  IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 2023 DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2023.3262367
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