Papers and Articles in National and International Journals, Conferences and Magazines

1.      A Cost Effective Solution for Large Area TCO Coatings for Solar Cells, V. P. Joshi, M. G. Sreenivasan, K. Mohanachandran, P. Sakhamuri, Proceedings of  59^th Annual Technical Conference of Society of Vacuum Coaters, Indianapolis, USA, May 2016.

2.      Vertical In-Line Rotary Magnetron Sputtering System for Large Area AZO Coatings, Varun P. Joshi, M.G.Sreenivasan, Rajive Tomy. M, and K. Mohanachandran, International Conference on Smart Sensors and Systems (IC-SSS 2015), M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, December 21^st – 23^rd  2015.

3.      Vertical In-Line Rotary Magnetron Sputtering System for Large-Area TCO Coatings, Varun P. Joshi, M.G.Sreenivasan, Rajive Tomy. M, and K. Mohanachandran, Indian Vacuum Society National Symposium (IVSNS) 2015, TIFR Mumbai, November 18^th – 20^th 2015.

4.      Development of Rotary Magnetron Sputtering System for Large-Area TCO Coating for Solar Cells, Varun P. Joshi, M.G.Sreenivasan, Rajive Tomy. M, and K. Mohanachandran, International Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (IPSEC) 2015, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India, July 30^th – 1^st August 2015.

5.      Development of  rotary magnetron sputtering system for large-area TCO coatings for solar cells, Varun P. Joshi, M. G. Sreenivasan, Rajive Tomy. M, and K. Mohanachandran, International Conference on Energy Harvesting, Storage and Conversion (IC-EEE 2015), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India, February 5^th – 7^th 2015.

6.      Development of textured ZnO films for solar cells front contact applications, Varun P. Joshi, M. G. Sreenivasan, Rajive Tomy. M, and K. Mohanachandran, National Seminar on Facets of Physics, Providence Women’s College, Calicut, India, November 6^th – 7^th 2014.

7.      Development of oxide based window and buffer layer for single junction amorphous solar cell: Reduction of light induced degradation, Gourab Das, Sourav Mandal, M. Rajive Tomy, Chandan Banerjee, Sumita Mukhopadhyay, A.K.Barua, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing24(2014) 50–56.

8.      Development of n-µc-SiO:H as cost effective back reflector and its application to thin film amorphous silicon solar cells, C Banerjee, T Srikanth, U Basavaraju, R M Tomy, M G Sreenivasan, K Mohanchandran, S Mukhopadhyay, A K Barua, Solar Energy 97 (2013) 591–595.

9.      Development of n-µc-SiO:H as a back reflector and its application to Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells, T. Srikanth, U.  Basavaraju, Rajive Tomy M, M. G. Sreenivasan, Chandan Banerjee, K. Mohanchandran, Sumita Mukhopadhyay, A. K. Barua, Presented at 28^th European PVSEC (2013), Paris.

10.  Dependence of Plasmonic Properties of Silver Island Films on Nanoparticle Size and Substrate Coverage, M. G. Sreenivasan, Shweta Malik, Srikanth Thigulla, Bodh Raj Mehta, Journal of Nanomaterials 2013 (2013) 247045.

11.  ZnO thin films with blue emission grown using chemical spray pyrolysis, R. Jayakrishnan, K. Mohanachandran, R. Sreekumar, C. Sudha Kartha, K.P. Vijayakumar, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Volume 16, Issue 2 (2013), 326–331.

12.  Design, development and manufacturing of highly advanced and cost effective aluminium sputtering plant for large area telescopic mirrors, Rajeev. R. Pillai, Sanjith. K. K, K. Mohanachandran, Nagarjun Sakhamuri, Vishal Shukla, and Alok Gupta, Proceedings of SPIE 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2012.

13.  Testing of a-Si:H cells/modules with the method of Variable Illumination Measurements, Arvind V Shah, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud,  Zoltán J Berényi,  Omid Madani Ghahfarokhi , P. M. Ratheesh Kumar, Solar Energy Materials and Solar cells 95 (2011) 398.

14.  Realization of a cost effective production technology for single junction amorphous silicon solar modules, Chandan Banerjee, P. M. Ratheesh Kumar, K. Mohanchandran, S. Prasanth and A. K. Barua, 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, September 5^th – 9^th 2011, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 2348 - 2349. 

15.  Increasing Thin Film Efficiency: Cost Effective way to Grid Parity, Chandan Banerjee: Energetica India, November/December 2010, p. 40

16.  India’s first a-Si Photovoltaic solar module production Line,  P. M. Ratheesh Kumar, A. Suresh, K. Mohanachandran, Chandan Banerjee, M. Rajive Tomy, R. Giridhara Gopalan and S. Prasanth, International Symposium on Photovoltaic Science and Technology, IIT Kanpur, India, January 13^th – 14^th 2009.

17.  Large area amorphous silicon solar modules manufacturing line –system design and assembly, K. Mohanachandran, Ratheesh Kumar P M, Rajive Tomy M, National conference on the Emerging trends in the photovoltaic energy generation and utilization, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India, March 27^th – 29^th 2008.

18.  UV dichroic coatings on metallic reflectors, C. Raghunath, N. J. Babu and K. Mohanachandran, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 114, Number 1 (2008), 012032.

Patents

1.      Fabrication of fluorinated n-type silicon oxide films for intermediate and back reflector in thin film solar cells [File No.: 3947/CHE/2013]

2.      Fabrication of n-type microcrystalline silicon oxide films for use as back reflectors in silicon based thin film solar cells [File No.: 1347/CHE/2013]

3.      Inline plasma system to deposit amorphous silicon thin films for solar cell applications [File No.: 1162/CHE/2009]

4.      An improved RF electrode system for depositing large area uniform hydrogenated silicon film [Indian Patent No.: 239946]

5.      An improved double junction amorphous silicon cell and a method for preparing the same [Indian Patent No.: 235260]

6.      Enhancement of short circuit current and fill factor by using wide band gap p and n-layers in single junction p-i-n amorphous silicon photo-voltaic cells [File No. 1077/DEL/2002]