Dr. Gufran Ahmad

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering

Educational Qualification - PHD: IIT Kharagpur (2019), M.Tech: IIT BHU (2012) and B.E: RGTU (2009) in Electronics Engineering.

 
CONTACT DETAILS:
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Dayalbagh Educational Institute
Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005 (UP), India  
E-mail: gufranahmad[at]dei.ac.in
                                         Tel No.: +91-562-6548399
                                         Mobile No.: +91-9800826964
                                         
 
 
Work Experience: Pro. Scientist/Post-doc fellow: CARE, IIT Delhi (Jan’19-Dec’19)
 
Research
If you are passionate about exploring, researching and designing the Classical, Nano and Emerging semiconductor devices, then you have come to a right place. I am an Assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra and working in the area of Semiconductor device simulation and fabrication.

Research Interests

  • Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
  • Process optimization and fabrication of Thin Film Devices
  • Heterojunction & Multijunction Photovoltaic devices.
  • VLSI Design
Research Publications
  1. Dhyani, Veerendra, Gufran Ahmad, Neeraj Kumar, and Samaresh Das. "Size-Dependent Photoresponse of Germanium Nanocrystals-Metal Oxide Semiconductor Photodetector." IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices VOL. 67, NO. 2,: 2020.
  2. “Band offset reduction at defect-rich p/i interface through a wide bandgap a-SiO: H buffer layer”. Ahmad Gufran, Sourav Mandal, Asok Kumar Barua, Tarun K. Bhattacharya, and JatindraNath Roy. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 7, no. 2 (2017): 414-420.
  3. “Reduction of Hole Injection Barrier Height at TCO/P Interface Using a-SiO: H Interlayer”.Ahmad Gufran, SouravMandal, Asok Kumar Barua, TarunKanti Bhattacharyya, and JatindraNath Roy. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 8, no. 1 (2018): 8-15.
  4. “Parasitic loss mitigation and photocurrent enhancement in amorphous silicon solar cells by using phosphorous-doped fluorinated μc-SiO: H back reflector”. Ahmad Gufran, Sourav. Mandal, A. K. Barua, T. K. Bhattacharyya, and J. N. Roy. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2018): 1-13.
  5. “Mixed-Phase nc-SiOx:H interlayer to Improve Light Trapping and Shunt Quenching in aSi:H Solar Cell”. Ahmad Gufran, Sourav Mandal, Asok Kumar Barua, TarunKanti Bhattacharyya, andJatindraNath Roy. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 9.1 (2019): 18-25.
  6. “Modification of surface morphology of sputtered AZO films with the variation of the oxygen”.Bose, Sukanta, Rayer francis Arokiyadoss, P. Balaji Bhargav, Gufran Ahmad, SouravMandal, A. K. Barua, and Sumita Mukhopadhyay. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 79 (2018): 135-143.
  7. “Optimization of the Texturization of ZnO:Al Surface Using HCl +HNO3 for Application in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells.” Bose, Sukanta, Arokiyadoss Rayarfrancis, P. Balaji Bhargav, Gufran Ahmad, Sumita Mukhopadhyay, SouravMandal, and A. K. Barua. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 29, no. 4 (2017): 3210-218.
  8. “Blue and violet defect levels mediated absorption hot spots in tapered ZnO nanorods toward improved photocatalytic activity.” Bose, Sukanta, Debasish Dey, Sudarshana Banerjee, Gufran Ahmad, SouravMandal, Asok Kumar Barua, and Nillohit Mukherjee. Journal of Materials Science 52, no. 21 (2017): 12818-12825.
  9. “Performance and Stability Improvement of Single Junction a-Si:H solar Cell by Interface Engineering”. Ahmad Gufran, Gourab Das, and J. N. Roy. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2019): 1-10.
  10. “A Simulation Study of P-i-n Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Cell Using ZnO Nano Rods.” Ahmad Gufran, SouravMandal, T. K. Bhattacharya, and J. N. Roy. IEEE Explorer Proceedings on 2016 21st Century Energy Needs - Materials, Systems and Applications (ICTFCEN), 2016.
  11. "High performance multi threshold voltage level converter for multi-VDD systems." Ahmad Gufran, Yogesh Kumar, and Praveen Kumar Sahu. In Engineering and Systems (SCES), 2013 Students Conference on, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
  12. “Impact of Surface Trap States on 2-DEG and Barrier Layer Conduction Band in AlGaN/GaN HEMT”. Pragyey Kumar Kaushik, Gufran Ahmad, Ankur Gupta, and Ananjan Basu. IWPSD2019.
  13. “V2O5 Thin Film based FET for Toxic Gas Sensors at Room Temperature”. Sumit Sharma, Akshay Moudgil, Gufran Ahmad, Prashant Mishra, and Samaresh Das. IWPSD-2019
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