CENTRE FOR NANO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

CORE FACULTY

Aditya Sadhanala

Aditya Sadhanala

Assistant Professor

Room No: TF 12
Email: sadhanala@iisc.ac.in
Phone: +91 80 2293 3250
Group Webpage: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=3aENCGEAAAAJ&hl=en

Education
• Ph.D. Physics, 2015, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• MSc. Nanoelectronics, 2011, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• B.E. Electronics, 2009, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

Experience
• Assistant Professor, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE),  Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, 2019 – Present
• PostDoctoral Research Assistant, Clarendon Laboratory (Department of Physics), University of Oxford, 2018 – 2019
• Winton Cambridge-Berkeley Fellow, KAVLI Energy and Nanoscience Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
• PostDoctoral Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics), University of Cambridge, 2015 – 2018
• Inplant Trainee, Industrial Solutions (IS) Division, Siemens Ltd., Mumbai 2008 – 2009
• Information Analyst, Novintel Department, Cheers Interactive (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, 2010

Research Area

Nanofabrication, nano-structured materials, optoelectronics, spectroscopy, device engineering, automation

Recent Publications

  • Mohammad, T., Alam, F., Sadhanala, A., Upadhyaya, H. M., & Dutta, V. (2022). Tin sulfide (SnS) films deposited by an electric field-assisted continuous spray pyrolysis technique with application as counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS omega, 7(44), 39690-39696.
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c03454
  • Kagatikar, S., Sunil, D., Kekuda, D., Satyanarayana, M. N., Kulkarni, S. D., Sudhakar, Y. N., … & Sadhanala, A. (2023). Pyrene-based chalcones as functional materials for organic electronics application. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 293, 126839. 
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126839
  • Rahaman, S., Kanakala, M. B., Waldiya, M., Sadhanala, A., Yelamaggad, C. V., & Pandey, K. (2023). Scalable novel lanthanide-ligand complex for robust flexible micro-supercapacitors. Journal of Power Sources, 564, 232801.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.232801
  • Crawford, M. L., Sadighian, J. C., Hassan, Y., Sadhanala, A., Nawab, L., & Wong, C. Y. (2023). Formation of Iodide-Rich Domains During Halide Segregation in Lead-Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(40), 8962-8969.
    https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02068

Key Publications (*from outside CeNSE):

  • Sadhanala, A., Deschler, F., Thomas, T. H., Dutton, S. E., Goedel, K. C., Hanusch, F. C., … & Friend, R. H. (2014). Preparation of single-phase films of CH3NH3Pb (I1–x Br x) 3 with sharp optical band edges. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5(15), 2501-2505.  
    https://doi.org/10.1021/jz501332v *
  • Venkateshvaran, D., Nikolka, M., Sadhanala, A., Lemaur, V., Zelazny, M., Kepa, M., … & Sirringhaus, H. (2014). Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers. Nature, 515(7527), 384-388.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13854*
  • Hassan, Y., Park, J. H., Crawford, M. L., Sadhanala, A., Lee, J., Sadighian, J. C., … & Snaith, H. J. (2021). Ligand-engineered bandgap stability in mixed-halide perovskite LEDs. Nature, 591(7848), 72-77.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03217-8*

Patents
• Electroluminescent Device – 29th April 2015, PCT/EP2015/059419
• Enhancing Perovskite Semiconductor Quality – 19th August 2016, 201611028206
• Interfacial Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cell – 2019