Qualification

• Ph.D. (SVNIT, Surat)
• M.Tech. (IIT Bombay)
• B.E. (University of Pune)

Teaching & Research Experience

• More than 15 years

Research Interests

• Micro and Nano electronics
• Thin films
• Semiconductor devices and Material characterization
• Photovoltaics
• Graphene based absorber for biomedical application

Roles and Responsibilities

• Convener, Time table and Examination committee
• Member, Institute annual report committee
• Member, Student mentoring cell, IIIT Kota
• Member, Departmental undergraduate committee
• Programme Advisor, 4th year ECE, IIIT Kota

Funded Projects

1.  Study of opto-electrical characteristics of thin film silicon multilayer amorphous silicon and nanocrystalline silicon deposited using HWCVD
   • Role: Principal Investigator
   • Amount: Indian Nano Electronics Users Program (INUP) at IIT Bombay supported by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
   • Funded By: Completed
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2.  Growth parameters optimization of multilayer silicon structure for thin film solar cells
   • Role: Co-Principal Investigator
   • Amount: Indian NanoElectronics Users Program (INUP) at IIT Bombay supported by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
   • Funded By: Completed
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Publications

Journals

1. Ashok Kherodia, Ashish K Panchal, “Poole-Frenkel emission and defect density in a-Si:H/nc-Si:H multilayer films for "all silicon" third generation PV” Thin solid Films (Elsevier publication) 654 (2018) 16-22.
2. Ashok Kherodia, Vipul Kheraj, Ashish K Panchal, "Effects of hydrogen-dilution on opto-structural properties of hot-wire CVD grown a-Si:H/nc-Si:H multilayer for photovoltaics" Silicon (Springer publication) (2017) 1-11.
3. Ashok Kherodia, Ashish K Panchal, “Analysis of thickness-dependent optical parameters of a-Si:H/nc-Si:H multilayer thin films,” Material for Renewable and Sustainable Energy (Springer publication) (2017) 6:23.
4. Ashok Kumar Kherodia, Ashish K Panchal, “Estimation of Optical Properties of Multilayer Silicon Nano Films with Different Hydrogen Dilution” Energy Procedia, (Elsevier publication) 75, 2193-2197, 2015.

Conferences

1. Ashok Kherodia, Sanjay Kumar J. Patel, Vipul Kheraj, Ashish K Panchal, “Silicon Nano Thin Film Deposition using Hot Wire CVD & its Structural–Optical Characterization”, International Symposium on Semiconductor Materials and Devices (ISSMD-3), Anna University, 2-5 February 2015.
2. Ashok Kherodia, A.N. Chandorkar, “CMOS Mixer Design for Cable Modem RF Tuner”, IEEE International Conference ASICON 2009, Changsha, China, October 2009. (Paper Accepted)