Shibin Krishna, Ph.D.

Alumni and Former Staff

​​​Postdoctoral Fellow in Fatayer Group

Research Interests

Shibin's research focuses on the 2-dimensional (2D) material growth by molecular beam epitaxy and its in-situ characterization by scanning tunneling microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. He is also interested in studying surface detects, atomic reconstructions and manipulations of 2D materials. 

Selected Publications

  • Band alignment of orthorhombic Ga2O3 with GaN and AlN semiconductors
    Shibin Krishna, Yi Lu, Che-Hao Liao, Vishal Khandelwal, Xiaohang Li Applied Surface Science 599, 153901 (2022).
  • Ultrasensitive Flexible κ-phase Ga2O3 Solar-blind Photodetector
    Yi Lu, Shibin Krishna, Xiao Tang, Che-Hao Liao, Na Xiao, Xiaohang Li ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 34844 (2022).
  • Growth Dynamics of Epitaxial Gallium Nitride Films Grown on c-Sapphire Substrates
    Shibin Krishna, Neha Aggarwal, Lalit Goswami, Govind Gupta Book Chapter: Recent Advances in Thin Films, Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore 2020.
  • Correlation of Donor-Acceptor Pair Emission on the Performance of GaN-based UV Photodetector
    Shibin Krishna, Neha Aggarwal, Abhiram Gundimeda, Alka Sharma, Sudhir Husale, K. K. Maurya, Govind Gupta, Material Science in Semiconductor Processing 98, 59-64 (2019).
  • Ultrafast photo-response and enhanced photo-responsivity of Indium Nitride based broad band photodetector
    Shibin Krishna, Alka Sharma, Neha Aggarwal, Sudhir C. Husale and Govind Gupta, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 172, 376–383 (2017).
  • Enhanced current transport in GaN/AlN single and double barrier hetero-structure
    Shibin Krishna, Anurag G. Reddy, Neha Aggarwal, Mandeep Kaur, Dinesh Singh. Rajib Rakshit, K.K. Maurya and Govind Gupta, Solar Energy Material & Solar Cells 170, 160-166 (2017).
  • A Highly Responsive Self-Driven UV Photodetector Using GaN Nanoflowers
    Neha Aggarwal, Shibin Krishna, Alka Sharma, Lalit Goswami, Dinesh Kumar, Sudhir Husale, and Govind Gupta, Advanced Electronic Materials 1700036 (2017).
  • Fabrication of non-polar GaN-based highly responsive and fast UV photodetector
    Abhiram Gundimeda, Shibin Krishna, Neha Aggarwal, Alka Sharma, Nita Dilawar Sharma, KK Maurya, Sudhir Husale, Govind Gupta Applied Physics Letters 110, 103507 (2017).
  • Correlation of growth temperature with stress, defect states, and electronic structure in an epitaxial GaN film grown on c-sapphire via plasma MBE
    Shibin Krishna, Neha Aggarwal, Monu Mishra, K. K. Maurya, Sandeep Singh, Nita Dilawar, Subramaniyam Nagarajan, and Govind Gupta Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18, 8005 (2016).
  • Epitaxial growth of high In-content In0.41Ga0.59N/GaN heterostructure on (11-20) Al2O3 substrate
    Shibin Krishna, Neha Aggarwal, Monu Mishra, K. K. Maurya, Mandeep Kaur, Geetanjali Sehgal, Sukhveer Singh, Nita Dilawar, Bipin Kumar Gupta and Govind Gupta Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 658, 470–475 (2016).
  • Probing the correlation between structure, carrier dynamics, and defect states of epitaxial GaN film on (1120) sapphire grown by RF-molecular beam epitaxy
    Shibin Krishna, Neha Aggarwal, Anurag Reddy, Palak Dugar, Monu Mishra, Lalit Goswami, Nita Dilawar, Mahesh Kumar, K. K. Maurya, and Govind Gupta RSC Advances, 5, 73261 (2015).

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India, 2019
  • M.Sc. (Tech) in Photonics, National Institute Technology (NIT), Calicut, India, 2012
  • B.Sc. in Physics, Kannur University, India 2009 

Professional Profile

  • 2019- Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
  • 2018-2019: Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technolgy (IIT) Delhi, India

Awards

  • Best Poster Award in XIX International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD) organized by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi 2017
  • International Travel Grant (ITS) from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India, to attend in International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductor (IWN), Orlando, 2016
  • Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2014
  • Best Paper Award in 24th- National Conference on Crystal Growth (NSCG-24) 2012
  • CSIR UGC-NET All India rank-123, 2011
  • Summer Research Fellowship of Indian Academy of Science (IAS), 2011

KAUST Affiliations

  • ​KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
  • Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)

Research Interests Keywords

Molecular Beam Epitaxy Two Dimensional Materials X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction