Dr. Jimmy Mangalam

Assistant Professor

 

Academic Background (Degrees, University Name & Year of Passing):

B.Tech. + M.Tech. Nanotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India, 2016

Ph.D. Technical Chemistry, Technical University Graz, Austria, 2019

 

Career Graph:

I received my Bachelors and Master’s degree from Amity University Uttar Pradesh in the year 2016. During this, I got to work at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala at their Solid State Physics lab under the guidance of Dr. Jinesh, K.B. for my Bachelor’s thesis. Later, for my Master’s project I worked at Technical University of Graz, Austria at their Solid State Physics lab under the guidance of Dr. Karin Zojer.

During this, I got recommended for Ph.D. position in Dr. Gregor Trimmel’s group at Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials at Technical University of Graz, Austria. Here I worked on Perovskite solar cells and was awarded Ph.D. in the year 2019.

 

Honours and Achievements:

Awards:

  • 3rd Prize Poster at Nanotechnology in Conventional and Alternate Energy – August 2013, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

 

Research:

Contribution Interest

Material Science, Nanoelectronics, Optoelectronics of thin film devices, Semiconducting materials, Photovoltaics, and Microcontrollers

 

Recent Publications:

  1. J. Mangalam, T. Rath, S. Weber et al., “Modification of NiOx hole transport layers with 4-bromobenzylphosphonic acid and its influence on the performance of lead halide perovskite solar cells”. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 30 (2019), 9602-9611. DOI: 10.1007/s10854-019-01294-0.

  2. J. Mangalam, M. Kumar, M. Sharma et al., “High adsorptivity and visible light assisted photocatalytic activity of silver/reduced graphene oxide (Ag/rGO) nanocomposite for water waste treatment”, Nano-Structure & Nano-Objects 17 (2019), 58-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoso.2018.11.003.

  3. S. Weber, T. Rath, J. Mangalam et al., “Investigation of NiOx-hole transport layers in triple cation perovskite solar cells”, J. Mater. Sci: Mater Electron 29 (2018), 1847-1855. DOI: 10.1007/s10854-017-8094-9.

  4. J. Mangalam, S. Agarwal, A. N. Resmi et al., “Resistive Switching in Polymethyl methacrylate thin films”, Organic Electronics 29 (2016), 33-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2015.11.017.

 

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Personal interests:

Badminton, Cricket, Hiking, Cooking, Learning about new businesses