Debjit Ghoshal is a postdoctoral researcher working in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at NREL under the mentorship of Elisa Miller and Jao van de Lagemaat. His research focuses on growth of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) for applications in photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, plasmonics, and optoelectronics. In particular, he is interested in synthesis and manipulation of optoelectronic properties of 2D TMDCs by defect engineering, doping, strain engineering, and coupling with plasmons for making them ideal candidates for various energy harvesting applications.

Debjit completed his bachelor’s degree from West Bengal University of Technology and master’s degree from the  Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Debjit’s interest in renewable energy led him to pursue his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he investigated approaches to control the morphology of 2D-layered materials for specific applications in solar energy harvesting and optoelectronics. Prior to joining NREL, Debjit was a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he was investigating the growth of graphene on complementary metal–oxide semiconductor compatible substrates like germanium.

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Research Interests

2D material growth 

Optoelectronics

Epitaxial thin films 

Catalysis 

Education

Ph.D., Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

M.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 

B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, West Bengal University of Technology 

Associations and Memberships

Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

Member, American Vacuum Society

Featured Work

Orientation-Controlled Large-Area Epitaxial PbI2 Thin Films with Tunable Optical Properties, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2021)

Graphene’s Partial Transparency to van der Waals and Electrostatic Interactions, Langmuir (2019)

Catalyst-Free and Morphology-Controlled Growth of 2D Perovskite Nanowires for Polarized Light Detection, Advanced Optical Materials (2019)

Theoretical and Experimental Insight into the Mechanism for Spontaneous Vertical Growth of ReS2 Nanosheets, Advanced Functional Materials (2018)

A Carbon Science Perspective in 2018: Current Achievements and Future Challenges, Carbon (2018)

Hexagonal Boron Nitride: The Thinnest Insulating Barrier to Microbial Corrosion, ACS Nano (2018)

Awards and Honors

Graduate Student Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Session on Electronic and Photonic Materials (Area 8E) (2019) 

Howard P. Isermann Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2015–2016) 

MHRD Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2013–2015)