The sun’s energy is enormous and the earth receives about 3x1024 Joules of it per year in the form of electromagnetic radiation across a wide spectral range (mostly...
Author - Laveena D’Souza
Dr. Laveena Precilla D’Souza has a Ph.D degree in Chemistry and completed her doctoral research on the "Study of Nano Scale-Semiconductor Crystals as Energy Materials" from the Center for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Bangalore. She has fabricated a bifunctional titania float for water purification and constructed a Neodymium doped TiO2-CdSe quantum dot sensitized solar cell. She has also worked on dye sensitized solar cells (DDSC) and hybrid solar cells. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of Post Graduate Studies in Chemistry at St. Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore from 2008 to 2012. Her research interests include nanomaterials, photo catalysis, water purification and solar cells.