Educational background

• M.Sc. Physics, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur (2018)
• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad (2023)

Professional background

• Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Guwahati Technology Innovation and Development Foundation Guwahati (August 2023–January 2024)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (February 2024–August 2024)
• Assistant Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh (September 2024 onwards)

Main area of work

Laser and Photonics, Plasmonics, Perovskite Solar Cell, Photodetector, OLED, Nanomaterial, Luminescent materials, Upconversion nanomaterials

Significant recent publications

1. Performance enhancement of inorganic Cs2AgInBr6-based perovskite solar cell by numerical simulation /> Ram Gopal, V.L. Narayanan, Dheeraj Kumar Dhaked, Ankur Gupta
   Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 193 (2024) 112184
2. Development of SrWO4:Ho3+/Yb3+ green phosphor for optical thermometry application
   Ram Gopal, Chandni Kumari, J. Manam
   Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 25 (2023) 32184 - 32195
3. The photoluminescence and Judd-Ofelt investigations of UV, near-UV and blue excited highly pure red emitting BaWO4: Eu3+ phosphor for solid state lighting
   Ram Gopal, J. Manam
   Ceramics International 49 (2023) 28118 - 28129
4. A novel blue excited white light emitting SrWO4: Pr3+ phosphor for single phase white-LED applications
   Ram Gopal, J. Manam
   Ceramics International 48 (2022) 30724 - 30733
5. Study of the up/down conversion green luminescence of BaWO4: Er3+ phosphors for non-contact temperature sensing and solid state lighting applications
   Ram Gopal, J. Manam
   Applied Physics A Materials Science & Processing 128 (2022) 772
6. Enhanced photoluminescence and abnormal temperature dependent photoluminescence property of SrWO4:Dy3+ phosphor by the incorporation of Li+ ion
   Ram Gopal, Amalesh Kumar, J. Manam
   Materials Chemistry and Physics 272 (2021) 124960