Badri Vishal

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Al-Kindi Building 5, Level 3, Office 3254-WS21

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Dr. Badri Vishal 

Postdoctoral Researcher,

Office 3254-WS14, B5-L3, KPV-LAB,

Center for Renewable Energy

and Storage Technologies (CREST)

4700 King Abdullah University of Science                                                          

and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, KSA.                                                                                                                  

Phone: +91 8105651277 (M), +966545350597 (O)
Email: badri.vishal@kaust.edu.sa; bvjaiswal91@gmail.com

 

Biography

Dr. Badri Vishal received his Ph.D. from JNCASR, Banglore India in 2020 in materials science after finishing his M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India (IIT-Delhi). His research focused on advanced high-end Transmission Electron Microscopy (low-dose TEM, EELS, iDPC, HR-S/TEM) of ultra-electron-beam-irradiation-sensitive soft energy materials, including applications in photovoltaics, perovskite SC, Graphene, 2D vdW materials & heterostructures, metastable wurtzite-BN, Thermoelectrics, magnetic shape-memory Heusler alloys for RT refrigeration, quantum materials, and sustainable energy technologies. His work also integrates Density Functional Theory (DFT) with TEM imaging and EELS spectroscopy.

Research Interests

  • Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
  • Density Functional Theory (DFT)

Selected Publications

  1. B Vishal*, A Reguig, , M.Bahabri, P M F J Costa. Graphene nanowalls formation investigated by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. Scientific Reports, 14, 1658 (2024).
  2. B Vishal, U Bhat, H Sharona, A Mukherjee, S Roy, S C Peter, R Datta, Microstructural and magnetic properties of Ni50Mn37/35Sn13/15 Heusler alloy thin film grown by pulsed laser deposition,  Journal of Crystal Growth 546, 125772 (2020).
  3. B Vishal†, H Sharona, U Bhat, A Paul, MB Sreedhara, V Rajaji, S C Sarma, C Narayana, S C Peter, R Datta Growth of epitaxial ReS2 thin film by pulsed laser deposition, Thin Solid Films 685, 81–87 (2019).
  4. B Vishal, R Singh, A Chaturvedi, A Sharma, MB Sreedhara, R Sahu, U Bhat, U Ramamurty, R Datta, Chemically stabilized epitaxial wurtzite-BN thin film, Superlattices and Microstructures 115, 197-203 (2018).
  5. B Vishal, R Sahu, U Bhat, R Datta, Investigation of microstructural details in low thermal conducting thermoelectric Sn1-xSbxTe alloy, Journal of Applied Physics, 122 (5), 055102 (2017).
  6. R. Azmi, D. S. Utomo, B Vishal, …, S. De Wolf et al, Double-side 2D/3D heterojunctions for inverted perovskite solar cells, Nature 628, 93–98 (2024)
  7. E. Aydin, E. Ugur, B. K. Yildirim, T. G. Allen, P. Dally, A. Razzaq, F. Cao, L. Xu, B Vishal,  …., S. De Wolf et al. Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. Nature 623, 732–738 (2023).
  8. C. Liu, Y. Yang, H. Chen, I. Spanopoulos, A. S. R. Bati, I. W. Gilley, J. Chen, A. Maxwell, B Vishal, …, E. H. Sargent, M. G. Kanatzidis et al, Two-dimensional perovskitoids enhance stability in perovskite solar cells, Nature 633, 359–364 (2024)

Education

April 2022- Postdoctoral Researcher.
P.I.: Prof. Stefaan De Wolf
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
May 2021- April 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher.
P.I.: Prof. Pedro Da Costa
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
Dec 2019- Aug 2020 Research Associate (P).
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Adv.Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India.
Aug 2014- Aug 2020 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Adv. Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India.
2012-2014 M.Sc. Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India (IIT-Delhi).
2009-2012 B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. (BHU).

Scientific and Professional Membership

  1. Material Research Society (MRS)- Student member
  2. Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI) – Life member

Awards

  1. Ramanujan Fellowship, ANRF (2025): Selected for prestigious early-career research grant.
  2. Institute travel grant to attend “2018 MRS Fall Meeting” at Boston, Massachusetts USA.
  3. Merit-cum-Means Scholarship | 2012 – 2014|Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi)
  4. CSIR-NET-Junior Research Fellowship All India Rank-55 [Jun 2014]
  5. CSIR-NET-Junior Research Fellowship All India Rank -117 [Dec 2014]

KAUST Affiliations

Center for Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies (CREST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC)​, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Non-KAUST Affiliations

Research Interests Keywords

Density functional theory