Dr. Monika Srivastava

About

Dr. Monika Srivastava is working as Assistant Professor in Department of Physics & Environmental Science, SSES, Sharda University. Her academic qualifications include Doctorate from Sharda University in the field of Perovskite solar cells, post graduation (M.Sc.-Physics) from Deendayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, M.Tech from IIT Kanpur. Dr. Srivastava has also qualified NET-JRF and GATE in physics. She has teaching and research experience of 10 years.

Experience

• 10 years in teaching and research

Qualification

• PhD: Sharda University, UGC-JRF, GATE, M.Tech form IIT Kanpur, M.Sc. from DDU Gorakhpur University

Award & Recognition

• Best Oral Presentation for ‘Effect of Hole transport materials on Perovskite Solar Cells at ICRTMD-2023, Amity University, Noida, U.P, held from 19-21 December, 2023.
• Academic Excellence Award at IIT Kanpur for year 2010-2011.

Research

Patents:

• Perovskite Solar Cells (PSC) and a Process for Fabrication of PSC using Nickel Oxide by .Monika Srivastava, Prof. PK Singh, Ram C. Singh and Vinay K. Verma, Patent No.: 476928.

Projects:

• Synthesis and optimization of electrical and optical properties of Cs3Bi2I9 and its application as a light absorber in PSC, Seed Fund, Sharda University
• Fabrication of Lead free perovskite solar cells, INUP-i2i, IIT Delhi, Funded for Characterization, Short term project of three months.

Research Guidance:

• Dissertation Guidance: M.Sc. (3 students)  and 1 community connect.

Publications:

• Singh, Himanshu, Monika Srivastava, Nora A. Salih, Pramod K. Singh, M. Z. A. Yahya, S. N. F. Yusuf, Markus Diantoro et al. "Carbon black-poly (ethyl methacrylate) nanocomposite polymer electrolytes for dual energy storage application." Ionics (2025): 1-9.
• Abdulkarim, A.S., Srivastava, M., Ngulezhu, T., Singh, D., Strzałkowski, K., Singh, R.C., Yahya, M.Z.A., Yusuf, S.N.F. and Diantoro, M., 2025. An Overview of Tin based Perovskite Solar Cells: Stability and Efficiency. Current Applied Physics.
• Srivastava, M., Yahya, M. Z. A., Noor, I. S. M., & Singh, R. C. (2024). Synthesis and scalable process for fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells using organic and inorganic hole transport materials. Zastita Materijala, 65(4), 690-702.
• Ngulezhu, T., Abdulkarim, A.S., Rawat, S., Singh, R.C., Singh, P.K., Singh, D., Strzałkowski, K. and Srivastava, M., 2024. Stable lead free perovskite solar cells based on bismuth doped perovskite materials. Chemical Physics Impact, 9, p.100689.
• Srivastava, M., Surana, K., Singh, P.K. and Singh, R.C. (2021) ‘Nickel Oxide embedded with Polymer Electrolyte as Efficient Hole Transport Material for Perovskite Solar Cell, Accepted in Engineered Science.
• Srivastava, M., Singh, P.K.and Singh, R.C. (2021) ‘Comparative Study of PSCs formed by One step and Sequential Deposition of CH3NH3PbI3 using PEDOT: PSS as HTM has been accepted for publication in Materials Today: Proceedings.
• Srivastava, M., Surana, K., Singh, S., Singh, P.K. and Singh, R.C. (2020) ‘Highly efficient sandwich structured Perovskite solar cell using PEDOT: PSS in room ambient conditions, Materials Today: Proceedings, doi: 10.1016/ j.matpr.2020.03. 329, 34, pp: 675-678.
• Srivastava, M., Singh, P.K., Gultekin, B. and Singh, R.C. (2020) ‘Fabrication of room ambient perovskite solar cell using nickel oxide HTM, Materials Today: Proceedings, doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.04.688, 34, pp: 748-751.
• Srivastava, M., S.N. Tripathi, D. Bhattu, et al., CCN closure results from Indian Continental Tropical Convergence Zone (CTCZ) aircraft experiment, Atmospheric Research, 132-133, 322-331, 2013.
• Srivastava, M., Alheity, M.A., Yahya, M.Z.A., Singh, R.C. and Gültekin, S.S., 2023. Conduction Mechanism and Photo-Electrochemical Performance of Copper Iodide Hole Transport Material-Based Perovskite Solar Cell. Journal of Electronic Materials, pp.1-8.
• Vishwkarma, A.K., Yadav, T., Shakerzadeh, E., Karmakar, I., Brahmachari, G., Kumar, A., Singh, P.K., Srivastava, M. and Pathak, A., 2023. Structural and vibrational spectroscopic signature of a bio-relevant molecule:(E)-3-(2-(4- methoxyphenyl) hydrazineylidene) chromane-2, 4-dione. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1229, p.114306.
• Kumar, S., Singh, D., Singh, A., Srivastava, M., Kumar, S., Singh, R., Yadav, T., Alheety, M.A. and Singh, P.K., 2024. Waste peanut shells derived activated carbon for dual electrochemical applications. Energy Storage, 6(1), p.e571.
• Negi, S.S., Rawat, S., Singh, P.K., Pandey, S.P., Yadav, T., Srivastava, M. and Singh, R.C., 2024, February. Influence of Carbon Black on Conductivity and Structure of Polyethylene Oxide Based Polymer Electrolyte Film. In Macromolecular Symposia (Vol. 413, No. 1, p. 2300104).

Book Chapters:        

• Srivastava, Monika, Sangeeta Rawal, and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay. "Physics of Deformation Behaviour in Nickel-Based Super Alloys." In Deformation and Fracture in Materials, pp. 273-295. CRC Press.
• Rawal,Sangeeta, Monika Srivastava, and Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay. "Deformation and Fracture of Polymeric Materials: Experimental Methods and Challenges." Deformation and Fracture in Materials (2025): 111-134.
• Srivastava Monika, Ram Chandra Singh, “Lead free Multiferroic materials for Perovskite based Solar Cells: Recent Advancements and Future insights”. Perovskite Solar Cells: Reshaping the future energy landscape (2025).

Certifications

FDP

• Member of organising committee of NEP 2020 orientation and sensitization programme under malviya mission teacher training programme of University Grant commission organised by GAD-MMTTC from 20^th may to 30^th may 2025.
• Participated in FDP on "Statistical Analysis with Excel"organised by Research Foundation of India from 01-06, MAY 2025.
• Participated in5-Days Online Hands-on-Training on Density Functional Theory Modelling of Materials: Nanoparticles, Thin Films, Unit Cells (DFT-M) from 12^th to 18^th November.
• Organised and attended FDP on “ Recent Advances in Physical, Bio- and Life-Sciences”, Feb 6-10, 2023 at Sharda University
• Attended an FDP titled ‘Recent Trends in Materials Science and technology organized by Department of physics, SBSR, Sharda University held on 25-31 May 2020.

Conferences:

• Paper Presentation for ‘Effect of Hole transport materials on Perovskite Solar Cells at ICRTMD-2023, Amity University, Noida, U.P, held from 19-21 December, 2023.
• Paper presented on ‘Fabrication of perovskite solar cell in ambient air using NiO as HTM in the International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Optoelectronic Devices (ICAFMOD-2020) held during June 13- 15, 2020.
• Paper presented on ‘Inverted Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cell in ambient air in the International Conference of Science and Engineering of Materials (ICSEM-2019) held during July 19-21, 2019.
• Paper presented on ‘Room ambient Perovskite Solar Cell (PSSC) using Solid Electrolyte and Reduced Graphene Oxide (r-GO) Electrode in the National Conference on Materials and Devices held on 31 July-1 August, 2018.
• Participated in the webinar on ‘Supercapacitors, Solar Cell Devices and Solar Thermal Energy by Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering And Management, Nagpur held on May 11-14, 2020.

Area of Interest

• Synthesis and fabrication of perovskite solar cells, Dye sensitized solar cells, Polymer electrolytes.