Dr. Ashish Kulkarni

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• Hybrid (organic-inorganic) Semiconductor Materials
• Devices and their Spectroscopic Characterization
• Recycling of Solar Cells
• Synthesis of Organic and Inorganic Semiconductor Materials
• Light Emitting Diodes
• Photodetectors
• High Radiation Detectors
• Sensors and Memory Devices

Education

• 2009 to 2014 – 5 year Integrated Master of Science in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee
• 2014 to 2018 – Doctoral studies Supervisor: Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka (inventor of Perovskite Solar Cells) at Toin University of Yokohama, Japan
• 2018 to 2019 – JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Toin University of Yokohama, Japan Supervisor: Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka
• April 2019 to December 2019 – Visiting Researcher at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
• 2020 to 2023 – Postdoctoral Scientist at Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Juelich GmbH, Germany Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Kirchartz and Prof. Michael Saliba
• 2023 to 2024 – DAAD-PRIME Fellow at the University of Cologne, Germany and Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Spain Supervisor: Prof. Sanjay Mathur and Prof. Shahzada Ahmad

Latest Publications

• Ashish Kulkarni*, Ranjini Sarkar, Samah Akel, Maria Haeser, Benjamin Klingebiel, Matthias Wuttig, Sudip Chakraborty, Michael Saliba, Thomas Kirchartz, A Universal Strategy of Perovskite Ink-Substrate Interaction to Overcome the Poor Wettability of a Self-Assembled Monolayer for Reproducible Perovskite Solar Cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2305812 (*Corresponding author)
• Johanna Siekmann^#, Ashish Kulkarni*^#, Samah Akel, Benjamin Klingebiel, Michael Saliba, Uwe Rau, Thomas Kirchartz, Characterizing the Influence of Charge Extraction Layers on the Performance of Triple-Cation Perovskite Solar Cells, Advanced Energy Materials, 2023, 13, 2300448 (*Corresponding author; ^#Equal author)
• Kashimul Hossain^#, Ashish Kulkarni*^#, Urvashi Bothra, Benjamin Klingebiel, Thomas Kirchartz, Michael Saliba, Dinesh Kabra, Resolving the Hydrophobicity of the Me-4PACz Hole Transport Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency> 20%, ACS Energy Lett., 2023, 8, 3860 (*Corresponding author; ^#Equal author)
• Ashish Kulkarni*, Feray Ünlü, Namrata Pant, Jagjit Kaur, Christoph Bohr, Ajay Kumar Jena, Senol Öz, Masatoshi Yanagida, Yasuhiro Shirai, Masashi Ikegami, Kenjiro Miyano, Yasuhiro Tachibana, Sudip Chakraborty, Sanjay Mathur, Tsutomu Miyasaka, Concerted Ion Migration and Diffusion‐Induced Degradation in Lead‐Free Ag3BiI6 Rudorffite Solar Cells under Ambient Conditions, Solar RRL, 2021, 5, 2100077 (*Corresponding author)
• Ajay Kumar Jena, Ashish Kulkarni, Tsutomu Miyasaka, Halide perovskite photovoltaics: background, status, and future prospects, Chemical Reviews, 2019, 119, 5, 3036