Prabir Basu

Being an alumni from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata, India Dr. Prabir Kanti Basu qualified National Entrance Test (NET, Dec-1989, placed among the top 11) for research in Physics, India. He received his Ph.D degree in 1997 from BITS, Pilani, in the field of crystalline silicon solar cells while working at NPL, New Delhi, India.

In 1995, he joined semiconductor industry in India where he was involved in process optimization of zener diodes, power diodes, switching diodes, power transistors and solar cells and received training at Germany. In 1998, he became the Head, Solar cell division and was responsible for the fabrication facilities of crystalline silicon wafer solar cell, module and system mostly based on indigenous equipments and fabrication techniques. From 2003 he is at teaching (earlier at Lingaya's Institute/University)and later till November, 2010 he was teaching at Echelon Institute of Technology, Faridabad, India as Professor and HOD, Physics. Besides teaching during 2003-2010, in 2004 he worked at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea on a project of advanced solar cell fabrication. From 2006-2010, he was also associated with UPV Solar, Coimbatore as a visiting consultant for setting up their silicon solar cell plant. Since 2010, he has been working with Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Senior Research Scientist with main responsibility of wet chemical processing.

His main research interest is to develop cost-effective processes to improve efficiency of industrial solar cell with key achievements of 18.7% Al-BSF and >19% Al-LBSF (PERC) inline-diffused screen-printed cells till date. He has published several research papers (>60) in reputed international journals and presented research works in conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Semiconductor Science and Technology, Renewable Energy, Materials Science letters, Solar energy Materials and Solar Cells, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic International, etc. He has several patents in his credit. His works on the development of ‘SERIS-etch’, ‘new selective emitter technology’ and 'single-side texturing for multi' create lots of possibility to put forward low-cost technology like inline-diffusion in the fore-front of the market.

He has authored five books on Engineering Physics and Electromagnetic Theory, and his book on “Solid State Engineering Physics” has been published by the CRC Press, USA. Key areas: silicon wafer solar cell fabrication, advanced surface treatments, inline-diffusion, consultancy, teaching of physics and electronics

Education

• Master of Science (MS), Ph.D National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (1990 — 1995)
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) University of Kalyani (1986 — 1989)
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (1982 — 1985)
• maddhyamik new barrackpore colony boys high school (1975 — 1980)

Companies

• Sr. Vice-President, New Energy Reliance Industries Limited (2021)
• Senior Research Scientist (Fellow) and Head, Front End R&D Support Team, Si Materials & Cells, SERIS National University of Singapore (2018 — 2021)
• Senior Project Executive Officer (Scientist), NCPRE Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2016 — 2018)
• Professor - Physics, School of Engineering and Technology BML Munjal University (2015 — 2016)
• Senior Research Scientist ( Fellow) and Head, Multicrystalline Silicon Wafer Solar Cell Group National University of Singapore (2010 — 2015)
• Professor (Physics and Electronics) Echelon Institute of Technology, Faridabad, India (2009 — 2010)
• Professor (Physics and Electronics) Lingayas University, Faridabad (2003 — 2009)
• Research Professor (Asst), Sungkyunkwan University (2004 — 2004)
• Dy. manager Continental Devices of India Limited (2002 — 2003)