Dr. Aldrin received his M.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He was a post-doctoral fellow at ENEA, Italy and Research Scientist at the Grup d’ Energia Solar of the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was a senior scientist at IIT Bombay from 2012 o 2019. Dr. Aldrin has received international postdoctoral fellowships by ICS-UNIDO, ICTP-UNESCO. He was the distinguished ‘National Solar Science Fellow’ of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India. Dr. Aldrin has over 20 years of research experience in material science and works extensively in state-of-the-art solar cell fabrication. He has supervised 4 Ph.D. theses and published over 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has 5 patents to his credit. He is also a consultant to different equipment manufacturing companies for product design, fabrication and process development. He is also the Honorary Director of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials at CUSAT.

biosensors, 2D materials, low-cost Si heterojunction solar cells, Memristors, Si photovoltaics

Fabrication and characterisation of memristor device using sputtered hafnium oxide, J Mater Science: Mater Electronics, Springer Vol. 34, 2023

Resistive switching in ZnO/MoOx bilayer for non- volatile memory applications, J Mater Science: Mater Electronics, Springer Vol. 34, 2023

Achieving Low Contact Resistivity In PEDOT:PSS/n-Si Solar Cells, Physica Scripta, IOP Science Vol. 98, 2023

Mixed tin-lead perovskite nanorod-based resistive memory device, Thin Solid Films, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2022.139437 Vol. 758, 2022

Optoelectronic synaptic plasticity mimicked in a ZnO-based artificial synapse for neuromorphic image sensing application, Materials Today Communications, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.104232 2022

Emulating Synaptic Plasticity in Ionic Liquid-gated Zinc Tin Oxide Neuromorphic Transistor, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08817-2 2022

Exploring the surface enhanced Raman scattering on electrospun TiO2/Ag hybrid structure for pesticide detection, Plasmonics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.104232 2022

A critical study on different hydrogen plasma treatment methods of a-Si: H/ c-Si interface for enhanced defect passivation, Applied Surface Science, Vol. 553, 2021

Studies on the efficacy of alkaline and acidic etching in Aluminium Induced Texturing of glass for solar cell application, Surface and Interfaces, Vol. 24, 2021

Material- and Process-Tolerant High-Efficiency Solar Cells With Dynamic Recovery of Performance, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 68, 2021

Effect of Different Annealing Methods on the Performance Parameters of PEDOT:PSS/n-Si Solar Cells, 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE) 2020, 2022

P-type Transparent Cu2O:B Hole Selective Thin Layer for c-Si Solar Cell, 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) 2020, 2021

Enhancement of electron selectivity of Si/TiO2 heterojunction via oxygen vacancies for carrier selective solar cell application, AIP Conference Proceedings 2265, 030276 (2020), 2020

Fabrication of asymmetric heterojunction carrier selective c-Si solar cell, AIP Conference Proceedings 2265, 030641 (2020), 2020

Dr. ALDRIN ANTONY, M. K. Jayaraj, Aldrin Antony, P. P. Subha, Energy Harvesting and Storage, Springer Singapore, 2022 , ISBN : 2199-8582

MNRE National Solar Science Fellow from Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, in the year 2012

ICTP-UNESCO postdoctoral Fellowship from ICTP-UNESCO, in the year 2005

ICS-UNIDO Fellowship from ICS-UNIDO, in the year 2004

Common wealth Science Council Travel fellowship from Common wealth science council UK, in the year 2003

RESEARCH PROJECTS

"Fabrication of interdigitated dopant free carrier Selective c-Si solar cell by scalable process with open circuit voltage above 700 mV" (SERB- 2020 -2023 , Total outlay Rs.3542264)

"Ultrafast laser beamlines for Multidisciplinary, Multitasking Research Programmes" (Chancellors Award Project- -0001 --0001 , Total outlay Rs.40000000)

"2D heterojunction Solar Cells, " (Seed Money Research Initiative- -0001 --0001 , Total outlay Rs.250000)

"Laser Assisted Fabrication of Inter- Digitated Dopant free Carrier Selective Silicon Hetero-junction Solar Cells" (ANERT- 2023 -2026 , Total outlay Rs.4701900)

PATENT

Selectively Modulated Aesthetic Reflector Technology (SMART) coatings for colored aesthetic photovoltaic modules - Granted,2015

Solar Module with Selective Coloured Coating - Granted,0000

Thin film solar cells having combined textures - Granted,0000

Method for forming passivation and electron transporting layer for silicon using titanium dioxide - Published,0000

Gated Solar Cell for managing back-surface and method for fabrication thereof - Published,0000