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Prof. D Paul Joseph

PhD (University of Madras)

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

Room No: PH315   +91-870-2462573
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Research Areas

 Dye-sensitized solar cells 

 Magnetic materials & Diluted magnetic semiconductors 

 Photocatalytic Activity using nanodimensional materials 

 Proximity effect of Superconductors & Halfmetallic Magnets 

 Swift Heavy-Ion-Beam Irradiation Effects on Materials 

 Transparent conducting Oxide and Metallic thin films 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Materials Science(PH5102)
  • Solar Energy Systems(PH6213)
  • Network Analysis Laboratory(PH16009)
  • Solar Energy Systems(PH18025)
  • Optical Physics Laboratory(PH16007)
  • Thin Films and Vacuum Techniques(PH17032)
  • Basic Photovoltaic Devices and Applications(PHI363)
  • Thin Films and Vacuum Techniques(PH5266)
  • Solid State Physics Laboratory(PH16012)
  • Physics for Chemical Engineering(PH185)
  • Advanced Physics Laboratory(PHI351)
  • Solid State Physics Laboratory(PH4155)
  • Network Analysis Laboratory(PH4105)
  • Electronic Devices and Circuits Lab(PH4156)
  • ORC ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4552-4196
  • Google Scholar ID: http://surl.li/rqjzp


  • Defect-mediated time-efficient photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue and ciprofloxacin using tungsten-incorporated ternary perovskite BaSnO3 nanoparticles, By Yuvashree Jayavelu, Gouranga Maharana, Gone Rajender, R. Muniramaiah, S. Divyadharshini, Benjamin Hudson Baby, M. Kovendhan, Jean Maria Fernandes, D. Paul Joseph, Elsevier, Chemosphere, vol.351, pp.141128, 2024
  • Anionic Fluorine and Cationic Niobium Codoped Tin Oxide Thin Films as Transparent Conducting Electrodes for Optoelectronic Applications, By R. Muniramaiah, N. Purushotham Reddy, R. Santhosh, Gouranga Maharana, Jean Maria Fernandes, P. Dilli Babu, M. Kovendhan, V. Ganapathy, G. Laxminarayana, Murali Banavoth, and D. Paul Joseph, Springer, Physics Status Solidi A, vol.220, pp.2200703 (1-14), 2023
  • Sputter-deposited highly flexible noble metal multi-layer electrode viable for energy and luminescent devices, By R. Muniramaiah, Gouranga Maharana, Jean Maria Fernandes, M. Manivel Raja, P. Dilli Babu, P. Supraja, M. Rakshita, N. Purushotham Reddy, M. Kovendhan, G. Laxminarayana, R. Rakesh Kumar, D. Haranath, D. Paul Joseph, Elsevier, Surfaces and Interfaces , vol.39, pp.102949, 2023
  • Mechanically stable ultrathin flexible metallic Au/Pt/Au tri-layer as an alternative transparent conducting electrode for optoelectronic device applications , By R. Muniramaiah, Jean Maria Fernandes, M. Manivel Raja, P. Dilli Babu, P. Supraja, M. Rakshita, N. Purushotham Reddy, Gouranga Maharana, M. Kovendhan, V. Ganapathy, G. Laxminarayana, R. Rakesh Kumar, D. Haranath, D. Paul Joseph, Elsevier, Vacuum, vol.206, pp.111487, 2022
  • Cost-effective Sb-doped SnO2 films as stable and efficient alternative transparent conducting electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells, By N. Purushotham Reddy, R. Muniramaiah, R. Santhosh, Jean Maria Fernandes, P. Dilli Babu, Gouranga Maharana, M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph and Banavoth Murali, Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol.10, pp.7997, 2022
  • Nanostructured ternary perovskite oxides as photoconversion efficiency enhancers for DSSC, By N. Purushotham Reddy, R. Santhosh, Suresh Thogiti, R. Muniramaiah, D. Paul Joseph and Banavoth Murali, Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol.10, pp.1403, 2022
  • Oxygen vacancies enable excellent electrochemical kinetics of carbon coated mesoporous SnO2 nanoparticles in lithium ion batteries, By B. Venugopal, P. M. Pratheeksha, Khasim Saheb Bayikadi, Pavan Srinivas Veluri, M. Rama Krishna, Bulusu Venkata Sarada, Tata Narasinga Rao, D. Paul Joseph and Srinivasan Anandan, Royal Society of Chemistry, Materials Advances, vol.3, pp.1617, 2022
  • Development of a novel carbon-coating strategy for producing core–shell structured carbon coated LiFePO4 for an improved Li-ion battery performance, By P. M. Pratheeksha, E. Hari Mohan, B. Venkata Sarada, M. Ramakrishna, Kalyan Hembram, P. V. V. Srinivas, D. Paul Joseph, Tata Narasinga Rao and S. Anandan , Royal Society of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol.19(1), pp.175-188, 2017
  • Tungsten and fluorine co-doping induced morphology change and textured growth of spray-pyrolyzed SnO2 thin films viable for photocatalytic application, By Gouranga Maharana, R. Muniramaiah, J. Yuvashre, Diptendu Mandal, Supravat Mondal, M. Kovendha, Jean Mari a Fernandes, G. Laxminarayan, D. Paul Joseph, Elsevier, Surfaces and Interfaces , vol.42 Part A, pp.103413, 2023
  • Stray field enhanced vortex dissipation in YBCO/LSMO/YBCO hetero-epitaxial tri-layer, By D. Paul Joseph, Daniel Hsu and Jauyn Grace Lin, American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, vol.103, pp.012601, 2013

3D hybrid nanotetrapods based future sustainable optoelectronic technologies

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type SPARC Project
  • Sponsor Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration
  • Duration 21 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 42
  • Status Completed

Investigation of Proximity Effect between Mixed ortho-ferrites and YBCO Hetero-structures

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Under Collaborative Research Scheme TEQIP-III with Jabalpur
  • Duration 19 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 17.48
  • Status Completed

Nanostructured La doped BaSnO3 Electrodes for high efficiency Dye-Sensitized solar cells

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST-SERB
  • Duration 50 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 26.16
  • Status Completed

Development of Working Models to Demonstrate Real Time Diamagnetic Levitation Using YBCO and Bismuth

  • Role Principal Developer
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Teaching Learning Centre, NITW under PMMMNMTT
  • Duration 16 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 1.75
  • Status Completed

Establishment of Basic Facilities for Preparing Nanocrystalline Thin Films of Optically Transparent conductors for Dye-Sensitized solar cell

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Research Seed Grant of NIT Warangal
  • Duration 18 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 5
  • Status Completed


Gouranga Maharana

  • Area of Research: Alternative transparent conducting oxide thin films

Kora Sujatha

  • Area of Research: Nanomaterials

M. Maheshwara Reddy

  • Area of Research: Advanced Optics Manufacturing

Reddicari Muniramaiah

  • Area of Research: Metallic and oxide alternative transparent conductors

Yuvashree Jayavelu

  • Area of Research: Nanostructured Materials for Photocatalytic activity
  • 04 X-Ray Database Standard invited for ICDD
  • Best Poster Award
  • Best Poster Award
  • Young Scientist Award
  • ERP Coordinator, Department of Physics (Continuing from April, 2023)
  • SMILE Dept. Coordinator (September, 2022 - March, 2024)
  • Time Table In charge for the Dept. (September, 2022 - March, 2024)
  • Faculty in charge Photography Club (September, 2019 - August, 2022)