Mr. Soumyaranjan Routray

Mr. Soumyaranjan Routray 

Assistant Professor 
Email id:soumyaranjan.s@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in
Area: Photovoltaic and Photonic Devices
Affiliation: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kattankulathur Campus, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University).

Education

Other Details:

Courses

• Electronics Devices
• Fundamentals of MEMS

Research Interests

• Photovoltaic Devices
• III-Nitride Nanowire Solar cells
• III-V Multi-junction Solar cells
• Quantum well/dot based Solar cells
• Photonic Devices (Nanowire based light emitting diodes (LED))

Selected Publications

• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, "Polarization Charges in High Performance GaN/InGaN Core/Shell Multiple Quantum Well Nanowire for Solar Energy Harvesting" IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, June 2018, DOI:  10.1109/TNANO.2018.2848287 (UGC Journal No. 30003)
• S. R. Routray, B. Shougaijam, T. R. Lenka, “Exploiting Polarization Charge for High Performance (000-1) facet GaN/InxGa1-xN Based Triangular Nanowire Solar Cell,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 53, no. 5, July 2017.  DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2017.2734078 (UGC Journal No. 29856)
• S. R. Routray and T. R. Lenka,” Spontaneous and piezo-phototronics Effect on Geometrical Shape of III-Nitride Wurtzite Nanowires for High Efficiency Photovoltaic Applications”, IET  Micro & Nano  Letters,  June 2017, DOI:  10.1049/mnl.2017.0403  (UGC Journal No. 31132)
• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, “Performance Analysis of Nanodisk and Core/Shell/Shell-Nanowire Type III-Nitride Heterojunction Solar Cell for Efficient Energy Harvesting,” Superlattices and Microstructures (Elsevier), vol.111, July 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spmi.2017.07.038 (UGC Journal No. 22204) 
• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, “Effect of Metal-fingers/doped-ZnO Transparent Electrode on Performance of GaN/InGaN Solar Cell,” Journal of Semiconductors (IOP Science), vol. 38, no. 9, March 2017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4926/38/9/092001  (UGC Journal No. 20413)
• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, “InGaN-based Solar Cell: A Wide Solar Spectrum Harvesting Technology for 21st Century” CSI Transactions on ICT (Springer), October 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s40012-017-0181-9 (UGC Journal No. 47089) 

Papers Presented

• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, “Effects of Stress and Strain Distribution on Performance Analysis of GaN/InGaN/GaN Core/Shell/Shell Radial Nanowires for Solar Energy Harvesting,”Joint International EUROSOI Workshop and International Conference on Ultimate Integration on Silicon, March 19–21, 2018, Spain. DOI: 10.1109/ULIS.2018.8354746
• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, "Design and Simulation of GaN/InGaN Core/Shell/Shell Radial Nanowires for Solar Energy Harvesting" IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC), Oct 02-04, 2017, Singapore.DOI: 10.1109/NMDC.2017.8350486
• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, "Polarization Charges in High Performance GaN/InGaN/GaN Core/Shell/Shell Nanowire for Solar Energy Harvesting" IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC), Oct 02-04, 2017, Singapore. DOI: 10.1109/NMDC.2017.8350484
• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, “Numerical Study of the Influence of Polarization Charges on the Performance of GaN/InGaN Nanowire Solar Cells,” International Conference on Solar Energy and Photovoltaics (ICSEP), Dec 20-21, 2016, Bhubaneswar, India.
• S. R. Routray, G.S Sahoo, G.P Mishra, "Effect of Intrinsic layer on the performance of InGaP/GaAs dual junction solar cell," In Proc. of the IET International Conference (MFIIS), Dec 12-13, 2015, Bhubaneswar, India. DOI:  10.1049/cp.2015.1655.
• A. Samal, S. K. K. Dash, S. R. Routray, “Dielectric Loaded Fractal Monopole Antenna for Multiband Operation” IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN-2016), February 11-12, 2016, Noida, India. 

Working Papers

• S. R. Routray, T. R. Lenka, “Modeling and Analysis of Polarization Charges in GaN/InGaN/GaN Hexagonal and Triangular Nanowire Solar Cells” Solid-State Electronics, June 2018 (Under Review)

Work in Progress

• Quantum Well based White Light Emitting Diodes (LED) for Photonic Communications
• Quantum well/dot solar cells

Other Professional Experience

Positions

• Chairman, IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter (December 2016 to March 2018)
• Associate Chair, IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter (August 2015 to December 2016)

Reviewer

• Microelectronics Reliability
• Superlattice and Microstructure

Professional Activities Organized

• IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) on " Research Methodology in Nanoscience" on 20th Dec 2017 at NIT Silchar organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter. Speaker: Prof. Vijay Ku. Arora, Wilkes University, Pennsylvania, USA
• IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) on " Compact Modeling of GaN HEMTs for High Frequency and High Power Applications" on 8th Nov 2017 at NIT Silchar organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter. Speaker: Dr. Yogesh S. Chauhan, IIT Kanpur
• IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) on "Nanoelectronics challenges for IoTs" on 9th January 2017 at NIT Silchar organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter  (Published in IEEE EDS Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 3, July 2017).  Speaker: Prof. Durga Misra, Professor at NJIT, USA and Member of BOG, IEEE, USA
• Student Interaction cum Hands-on-Training session on IEEE-EDS-ETC Kits on October 21, 2016 at Saint Capitanio School, Silchar, Assam organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter  (Published in IEEE EDS Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 2, April 2017
• IEEE EDS NITS SBC sponsored STTP on "Emerging Devices and VLSI Physical Design" from October 25-27, 2016 at Dept. of ECE, NIT Silchar. (Published in IEEE EDS Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 2, April 2017)
• Student Interaction cum Hands-on-Training session on IEEE-EDS-ETC Kits on August 12 and 16, 2016 at Kendriya Vidyalaya, NIT Silchar organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter  (Published in IEEE EDS Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan 2017)
• IEEE-EDS Mini Colloquium (MQ) on "Nanoelectronics and VLSI Design" on April 14-15,   2016 at NIT Silchar organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter. Speakers:
  • Prof. M. K. Radhakrishnan, VP, Regions, and Chapters, IEEE
  • Prof. A. K. Panda, DL, IEEE
  • Prof. S. Sarkar, DL, IEEE
  • Prof. G. N. Dash, DL, IEEE
• One-week self-financed STTP on "Microelectronics and VLSI Design" during March 21-26, 2016 organized by IEEE NITS student branch chapter and Dept. of ECE NIT Silchar. (Published in IEEE EDS Newsletter, vol. 23, no. 3, July 2016)
• IEEE-EDS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) on "VLSI- The Soul of Engineering Evolution in Electronics" on 15 Sept 2015 at NIT Silchar organized by IEEE NIT Silchar Student Branch Chapter  (Published in IEEE EDS Newsletter, vol. 23, no.1, Jan 2016). Speaker: Prof. M. K. Radhakrishnan, VP, Regions, and Chapters, IEEE
• Coordinated as TA in GIAN course on "Nanoelectronics Challenges for Internet of Things" organized by Dr. T. R. Lenka (Host Faculty), Dept. of ECE, NIT Silchar and MHRD, Govt. of India from 5th to 9th January 2017 (Speaker: Prof. Durga Misra, NJIT, USA).
• Coordinated as TA in GIAN course on "Mapping Algorithms to VLSI Architectures" during August 1-5, 2016 organized by Dr. T. R. Lenka (Host Faculty), Dept. of ECE and MHRD, Govt. of India. (Speaker: Prof. P. K. Meher, NTU, Singapore).

Achievements and Awards

• Doctoral Fellowship under Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India.
• DST Young Scientist Grant under International Travel Support (ITS) scheme, Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India to attend IEEE NMDC 2017 at Singapore from 02-04 October, 2017.
• Travel Grant to present Research paper in Visvesvaraya Research Workshop at IISc., Bangalore during 20-21 February, 2017 (Selected within best 20 abstracts)

Membership

• Member, IEEE, EDS (M'18)- March, 2018- Present (Membership No. 92861840)
• Student Member, IEEE, EDS (S'15): 2015-2018
• Student Member, Solar Energy Society of India (SESI): 2017- Present (Membership No. SM/4507/2017)