Portugal professors visit Yogi Vemana Unviersity

Kadapa: Dr V Venkatramu working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Yogi Vemana Unviersity (YVU) bagged a prestigious Indo-Portugal international collaborative project entitled “Development of rare-earth doped nanocrystalline quantum cutting luminescent materials for solar energy harvesting”.

This project is coordinated by Dr V Venkatramu as Principal Investigator while Prof C K Jayasankar, Department of Physics, Sri Venkateswara University (SVU) and Dr P Babu, Principal, SVCR Government Degree College,  Palamaner as co-investigators from Indian side.

Prof Dr Manuel Pedro Fernandes (MPF) Graça is the Principal Investigator from University of Aveiro, Portugal and Dr Antonio Jefferson Mangueira (AJM) Sales is the co-investigator from th Portugal side.

This project was sanctioned by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi under the India-Portugal Science and Technology co-operation in August 2017 and will continue up to 2020, Venkatramu informed. In this connection, MPF Graça and AJM Sales have visited YVU on and discussed with Venkatramu about the progress of the ongoing project and made road map to achieve the objectives of the project.

The scientists also met University Vice-Chancellor Prof Attipalli Ramachandra Reddy, Registrar Prof K Chandraiah, YVU College Principal Prof Gulam Tariq,  and faculty members of Department of Physics and research scholars, he said. Explaining the details of the project, Venkatramu said that the main aim of this project is to increase the the efficiency of solar cell by quantum cutting mechanism.