Vinay Budhraja, Ph.D.

Education 

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (2012)
• M.S. Tech in Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (2007)
• B.S. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur, India (2004) 

Research Interests

• Fabrication and characterization of semiconductor devices
• BioFETS and Biosensors
• Printed electronics for designing of electronic structures
• Thin film structures: fabrication and characterization
• Silicon solar cells 

Honors and Awards

• Technology Excellence Award, Smiths Interconnect, July 2019.
• Runner up of the scientific competition at Smiths Interconnect Global called “Moonshot” March 2019.
• Graduate Student Award at 37^th IEEE PVSC, Seattle, June 2011.
• Runner-up, Best Poster Award at 34^th IEEE PVSC, Philadelphia, June 2009. 

Selected Publications

• Banothu, A.N., Budhraja, V., Sundaravadivel, P., Fletcher, R., Reddy, R., 2024, Design and Characterization of Printed Flexible Humidity Sensor, ECS Transactions, 113: 13, 27.
• Riam, S.Z., Islam, M.N., Sarker, T., Budhraja, V., Tabassum, S., 2024, Flexible Organic Electrochemical Transistor Based on Conjugated Conducting Polymers, ECS Transactions, 113: 6, 7.
• Budhraja, V., Devayajanam, S., Basnayat, P., 2017, Simulation results: Optimization of Contact Ratio for Interdigitated Back-Contact Solar Cells, International Journal of Photoenergy, 2017: 7818914.
• Seal, S., Budhraja, V., Varadan, V.V., 2015, Enhanced Light Trapping in Thin Film Solar Cells Using a Plasmonic Fishnet Structure, International Journal of Photoenergy, 2015: 910619.
• Budhraja, V., Sopori, B., Ravindra, N.M., Misra, D., 2013, An Improved Dislocation Model of Silicon Solar Cell with the Effect of Front and Back Surface Recombination Velocity, Progress in Photovoltaics Research & Application,10:1002.2412.
• Budhraja, V., Misra, D., Ravindra, N.M., 2012, Simulation of Device Parameters of High Efficiency Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells, Emerging Materials Research, 1: 25-32.
• Budhraja, V., Wang, X., Misra, D., 2010, MOS Capacitors with Metal Gate/High-k Dielectrics on GaAs Bulk Substrate, 2010, Journal of Material. Science: Mater Electron, 21:12.1322-1326.
• Sopori, B., Rupnowski, P., Mehta, V., Budhraja, V., Johnston, S., Call, N., Mountinho, H., Jassim, M.Al., Shaikh, A., Seacrist, M., Carlson, D., 2009, Performance Limitations of Mc-Si Solar Cells Caused by Defect Clusters, ECS Transactions 18:1.1049-1058.

Work Experience

• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Tyler (Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)
• Senior Electrical Engineer and R&D manager at Mize and Company, Kansas (March 2023 – Aug. 2023)
• Senior Electrical Engineer and Materials Scientist at Far UV Technologies (Oct. 2020 – Feb. 2023)
• Adjunct Professor at University of Missouri at Kansas City (Aug. 2017 – June 2022)
• Senior Electrical Scientist at Smiths Interconnect, Kansas (Jan. 2018 – June 2020)
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Alto University Finland (Aug. 2016 – May 2017)
• Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani and NCU India (Jan. 2015 – July 2016)
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Sandia National Labs, New Mexico (Nov. 2013 – Aug. 2014)
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (Jan. 2012 – Aug. 2013)
• Project Assistant at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO (July 2008 – Dec. 2011)