Dr. Govind is engaged in the growth of semiconductor heterostructure for more than 15 years and mainly contributed on the fabrication of advanced optoelectronic devices. Currently, he is the Principal Scientist & Head, Thin Film Devices & Metrology Group, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi (NMI) and Associate Professor, at Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR). Previously, he worked as Scientist (2004-08) and Senior Scientist (2008-12) at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory and a Visiting Scientist at University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA (2007-08) and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2017).
Dr. Govind has made pioneering contributions in the field of semiconductor heterostructures for the fabrication of efficient optoelectronic devices which has strong impact in the field of space, military and biology as detectors & sensors. He has fabricated high responsive UV & NIR photodetectors using nitride semiconductors yielding very high photoresponsivity at very low optical power & display excellent stability/reliability with rapid switching. Further, he has contributed significantly to understand the surfaces/interfaces properties & electronic structure of III-nitride semiconductors, metallic/semiconductor heterostructures thin films, core shell nanoparticles & 2D-exotic materials such as Graphene, Graphene Oxide, MoS2 and their interfaces for fabrication of advanced optoelectronics & sensing devices. He has produced seminal work on the adsorbate induced nanoscale faceting on ultra clean metal surface and development of unprecedented self-assembly of metal atoms with controlled size exploring low-dimensional quantum properties in electronics and catalysis.
Dr. Govind has published more than 175 papers with citation 2100 and H factor = 23. Due to his great contribution to growth & fabrication of III-Nitride based devices, Surface/Interface analysis for exotic materials, he has won many awards including the prestigious MRSI medal by Material Research Society-India, Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award by National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), BOYSCAST Fellowship from Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt of India. He is also a recipient of Young Scientist Award from Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India under Fast Track Young Scientist Scheme and Outstanding Young Scientist of the Year (OYSY) Award from CSIR-NPL. Currently, Dr. Govind, lead the Thin Film Devices & Metrology group at CSIR-NPL (NMI) and also continues to further development of low cost and high performance photo sensors & solid state gas sensors which can benefit the industries involved in the development of these sensor technologies.