Dr. Shubham Ajaykumar Rajput

Profile

Academic positionCurrently without academic position
Research fieldsSemiconductor Physics,Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
KeywordsThree-dimensional (3D), Halide Perovskites, Two-dimensional (2D), Optoelectronics, Blue Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Honours and awards

2024: Best Poster Presentation Award at the International Conference on Photophysics and Photochemistry (ICOPP) 2024, IIT Bombay.

2024: Institute Research (IR) Award In Recognition of Excellent Ph.D. Work in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras.

2024: Research Excellence Award at IIT Madras.

2023: IGCS Summer School Fellowship by DAAD Germany to attend Summer School at TU Berlin.

2021: Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) - May 2021 by the MOE, Govt. of India for Ph.D. at IIT Madras.

2016: Awarded three Gold Medals for securing 1st Rank overall at the Institute, Faculty, and Departmental levels during my B.E. in Chemical Engineering (2012-2016).

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityChennai
InstitutionIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
InstituteDepartment of Chemical Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Alexander UrbanFakultät für Physik und Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München

Programme(s)

2026Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs (Global Minds Initiative Germany)

Publications (partial selection)

2025AM, Aparna and Anand, Abhishek and Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: BaTeS3 Chalcogenide Perovskite-Based Photoanode for Photoelectrochemical Solar Water Oxidation. In: ChemPlusChem, 90, 2025, e202500293
2025Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Antharjanam, Sudhadevi and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: Blue emission in a fluorinated 2D (C 8 H 11 FN) 2 PbBr 4 perovskite with 11.17% photoluminescence quantum yield. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 13, 2025, 18856--18865
2025Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Antharjanam, Sudhadevi and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: Direction and Temperature-Dependent Properties of an Antimony-Based Two-Dimensional Halide Double Perovskite. In: Inorganic Chemistry, 64, 2025, 14000--14011
2025Raj, Vidya and Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: Leveraging the Anomalous Photovoltaic Effect in Halide Perovskite-Based Photovoltaics. In: Small, 21, 2025, 2503460
2025Pandurangappa, Govardhan and Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Chetty, Raghuram and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate on Lead-Free Cs3Sb2Cl9. In: ChemCatChem, 17, 2025, e202401903
2024Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Antharjanam, Sudhadevi and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: An above-room-temperature ferroelectric two-dimensional halide double perovskite with direction dependent properties. In: Chemical Communications, 60, 2024, 7898--7901
2024Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Antharjanam, Sudhadevi and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: Direction dependent ferroelectricity and conductivity in a single crystal 2D halide double perovskite. In: Small, 20, 2024, 2403239
2022Siwach, Puneet and Sikarwar, Poonam and Rajput, Shubham Ajaykumar and Antharjanam, Sudhadevi and Chandiran, Aravind Kumar: The effect of halogenated spacer cations on structural symmetry-breaking in 2D halide double perovskites. In: Chemical Communications, 58, 2022, 10504--10507