Battery Research Interest Areas:

• Synthesis, electro-chemical analysis and testing of lithium ion and sodiun ion battery technologies.

• Lithium sulfur batteries for long range electric vehicles (EVs). Limiting polysulfide formation, increasing conductivity and cycle life by solid state synthesis.

• Doping and structural analysis of lithium and sodium ion batteries for higher ionic conductivity.

• Electro-chemical modeling of batteries using finite-element method.

• Electrical modeling, state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation of batteries.

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High-Efficiency Solar Cell Research:

• Design and modeling of high-efficiency III-V multijunction solar cells.

• Quantum efficiency optimization to achieve current matching between different subcell layers.

• Optimization of semiconductor parameters such as thicknesses of emitter and base layers, doping concentrations, minority carrier lifetimes and surface recombination velocities to achieve highest efficiency.

• Perovskite material based solar cell fabrication and modeling.

• Maximum power point tracking algorithms for efficient PV integration.