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Associate Professor

Aswani Yella

Email: aswani[dot]yella[at]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in

Phone: (+91) (022) 2576 7619

Education: 

  • Ph.D. ­ Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2010 
  • M.Sc­ University of Hyderabad­2005
Teaching

Courses taught are 

UG courses: Thermodynamics of materials 

PG courses: Semiconductor photo electrochemistry and photocatalysis, Electrical and magnetic materials

Research profile

The group of optoelectronic materials and devices are interested in developing semiconductor materials for optoelectronic devices, in particular halide perovskite materials. Halide perovskites have many interesting properties like high absorption coefficient, large charge carrier diffusion lengths, ease of synthesis, etc. However their real life applications are hindered due to the moisture instability and the lead toxicity. The group found zero­ dimensional perovskites to transform to 3D perovskites in the presence of moisture and remain to be stable under moist conditions, which lead to the stable perovskite solar cells. Since the transformation takes place in the presence of humidity, these were found to be useful in making self powered humidity sensors. To address the lead toxicity, the group is focussed on developing lead free perovskites and found that Cs2AgInCl6 doped with Bi3+ to be emitting a broad range with white light emission, making it a single source white light emitter.

Research interest
  • Semiconductor Devices, 
  • Low cost photovoltaic devices, 
  • Photoelectrochemical cells

Zero dimensional perovskites to 3D perovskite transformation in the presence of moisture

Single source white light emitting Bismuth doped Cs2AgInCl6

Moisture to electricity conversion using halide perovskites

References
  1. Moisture­Induced Ionovoltaic Electricity Generation by Manipulating Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Halide Perovskites Sumit Kumar Sharma, Monika Salesh, Mohanraj Subramaniam, Burhanuddin Attarwala, Aswani Yella ACS Energy Letters, 2023, 8,2259­2266 
  2. High performance acidic water electrooxidation catalysed by manganese–antimony oxides promoted by secondary metals Sibimol Luke, Manjunath Chatti, Douglas Mc Farlane, Aswani Yella, Rosalie Hocking, Alexandr Simonov EES Catalysis, 2023, 1, 730­741 
  3. Lead­Free Potassium Alloyed Cs2AgBiBr6: Tunable Optoelectronic Properties and Carrier­Lattice Interaction Vipinraj Sugathan, Jiban Kangsabnik, Aftab Alam, Aswani Yella Energy & Fuels, 2022, 36, 11100­ 11107