Professional / Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor Sr. Grade 1, School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. [May 2024 - December 2024]
• Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc), Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh India. [Jun 2023 – May 2024]

Key Research Publications:

Journals 
1. Ahna Sharan and Jitendra Kumar, “Impact of effective capture cross-section on device performance of InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell,” Optical and Quantum Electronics. vol. 54, Article no. 543, pp. 1-12, Sep. 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11082-022-03855-w.

2. Ahna Sharan and Jitendra Kumar, “Effect of position-dependent doping on intermediate band generation-recombination rate in InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 21, pp. 151-157, Mar. 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2022.3157057.

3. Ahna Sharan and Jitendra Kumar, "Effect of absorptivity on device performance of ratchet-type intermediate band solar cells", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 189-194, Jan. 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TED.2021.3123592.

Conferences
1. Ahna Sharan and Jitendra Kumar, "Analysis of quasi-Fermi level split in ratchet- type intermediate band solar cells", 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 2022, pp. 1-2, DOI: 10.1109/WRAP54064.2022.9758193.

2. Ahna Sharan and Jitendra Kumar, "Impact of effective capture cross section on  generation-recombination rate in InAs/GaAs quantum dot solar cell", 2021 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2021, pp. 59-60, DOI: 10.1109/NUSOD52207.2021.9541495.