Waseem Raja

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow 2020- 2023 ASML Netherland

Alumni

Location:

B5/L3 (seaside)

Biography

Waseem Raja is currently a postdoctoral fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he is involved in light-induced charge transport in modern technological applications, such as solar cells, artificial photosynthesis, and optical detectors. He has a strong background in numerical analysis and computational modeling based on the finite element method, density functional theory, finite difference time domain method and finite difference the method used for estimating the performance next-generation solar cell, plasmonic nanostructure-based photocatalysis devices, and LEDs. In addition, he was also a principal investigator for a project named “Photon Enhanced Thermionic Solar Cell” funded by European Space Agency (www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/nrg/projects/pete.html).

Research Interests

  • Design strategies to enhance conversion efficiency for thin film and multijunction solar cell technology.
  • Computational modeling of photonic and plasmonic functional devices.
  • Enhanced light-harvesting, bio-detection based on plasmonic nanostructures and graphene.
  • Nonlinear Optical Devices such as LED, Photodiodes, and Amplifiers (SOA, EDFA).

Selected Publications

  • B. Biswas, K. Ahmed, K. Ramanujam, B. K.Paul, I. Amiri, W. Raja “Performance analysis of circularly photonic crystal fibre for orbital angular momentum mode generation”, Optical  Engineering, 58, 8, (2019).
  • G.Yin, M. Song, W.Raja, P.Andrae, M.Schmid, “Experimental Identification of unique angular dependent scattering behavior of nanoparticles”, Journal of European Optical Society,13,38-42 (2018).
  • W. Raja, M. Schmid, A. Toma, H. Wang, A. Alabastri, R. Proietti Zaccaria, “Perovskite nanopillar array-based tandem solar cells”, ACS Photonics,4,2025-2035, (2017).
  • W. Raja, A. Bozzola, P. Zilio, S. Panaro, A. Alabastri, H. Wang, A. Toma, F. De Angelis, R. Proietti Zaccaria, “Broadband absorption enhancement in plasmonic nanoshells-based ultrathin microcrystalline-Si solar cells”, Scientific Reports, 6,24539 (2016).
  • I. Angeloni, W. Raja, R. Brescia, A. Polovitsyn, D.D. Donato, M. Canepa, G. Bertoni, R. Proietti Zaccaria, I. Moreels, “Disentangling the Role of Shape, Ligands and Dielectric Constants in the Optical Properties of Colloidal CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals”, ACS Photonics 3, 58-67 (2016).

Education

  • Ph.D., Nanosciences, Italian Institute of Technology/University of Genova, Italy, 2016
  • M.Sc., Photonic Communication, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2009
  • B.Tech., Electronics Engineering, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India, 2007​

Awards

  • Doctoral fellowship from school on “Electrical and Humanoid Technologies” XXVIII Cycle, at the Italian Institute of Technology & University of Genova, Italy, from January 2013 to December 2015.
  • Developing Solution Scholarship funded by The University of Nottingham, the United Kingdom for pursuing post-graduate studies from September 2008-December 2009.

KAUST Affiliations

KAUST Solar Center

Research Interests Keywords

Computational modelling