Dr. Rahul Kumar
Assistant Professor, PDEU Gandhinagar
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About me :
Dr. Rahul Kumar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Prior to joining PDEU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in CeNSE at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India). He received his Ph.D. in Microelectronics from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (India). He received Gold Medal for his Ph.D. thesis research work in 2D materials-based sensors. His research interests include device fabrication, 2D materials, sensors, thin-film technology, and nanoelectronics.
Experience and Education
Assistant Professor
Electronics and Communication Engineering, PDEU Gandhinagar, INDIA
April 2022Â - Present
SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellow
CeNSE, IISc Bangalore, INDIA
Feb. 2022 - March 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher
CeNSE, IISc Bangalore, INDIA
Oct. 2020 - Jan. 2022
Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur, INDIA
Dec. 2015 - Oct. 2020
M. Tech
Material Science and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, INDIA
June 2012 - June 2014
Selected Journals
1. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "UV-activated MoS2 based fast and reversible NO2 sensor at room temperature." ACS Sensors 2, no. 11 (2017): 1744-1752 (IF~7.7).
2. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "High-performance NO2 sensor using MoS2 nanowires network." Applied Physics Letters 112, no. 5 (2018): 053502 (listed in most viewed and most cited articles on device physics in 2019) (IF~3.79).
3. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Monu Mishra, Govind Gupta, Mattia Fanetti, Matjaz Valant, and Mahesh Kumar. "Growth of MoS2–MoO3 hybrid micro flowers via controlled vapor transport process for efficient gas sensing at room temperature." Advanced Materials Interfaces 5, no. 10 (2018): 1800071 (IF~6.1).
4. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Pratim Biswas, and Mahesh Kumar. "High-performance photodetector based on hybrid of MoS2 and reduced graphene oxide." Nanotechnology 29, no. 40 (2018): 404001 (IF~3.8).
5. Rahul Kumar, Xianghong Liu, Jun Zhang, and Mahesh Kumar. “Room-Temperature Gas Sensors under Photoactivation: From Metal Oxides to 2D Materials." Nano-Micro Letters, 12, 164 (2020) (IF~16.4).
6. Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, and Mahesh Kumar. "Enhanced Carrier Density in a MoSâ‚‚/Si Heterojunction-Based Photodetector by Inverse Auger Process." IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 99 (2018): 1-6 (IF~2.9).
7. AV Agrawal, Rahul Kumar, S Venkatesan, A Zakhidov, Z Zhu, Jiming Bao, Mahesh Kumar, Mukesh Kumar. “Fast detection and low power hydrogen sensor using edge-oriented vertically aligned 3-D network of MoS2 flakes at room temperature" Applied Physics Letters 111, no. 9 (2017): 093102 (IF~3.7).
8. Deepu Kumar, Vivek Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Pradeep Kumar."Electron-phonon coupling, thermal expansion coefficient, resonance effect, and phonon dynamics in high-quality CVD-grown monolayer and bilayer MoSe2 " Physical Review B 105, 8 (2022):085419 (IF~ 4.03)
9. Surajit Das, Rahul Kumar, Jitendra Singh, and Mahesh Kumar. "Fabrication of micro-sensor for detection of low concentration formaldehyde gas in formalin- treated fish" IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 67, 12 (2020): 5710-5716 (IF~2.9).
10. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Govind Gupta,Pratim Biswas, Jun Zhang and Mahesh Kumar. “Plasmonic Au nanoparticles sensitized MoS2 for bifunctional NO2 and light sensing." IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(4) (2020):4191-4197 (IF~3.3)
11. Xianghong Liu, Wei Zheng, Rahul Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, and Jun Zhang. “Conducting polymer-based nanostructures for gas sensors." Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 462,(2022): 214517 (IF ~ 22.31).
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