Bio-sketch

Dr. Neeraj Goel received his B. Tech. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India in 2011, and M.Tech. Degree from IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, India, in 2015. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Nanoelectronics from IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, during 2015–2020. He worked as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Delhi from October 2020 to June 2021. Presently, he works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (formerly NSIT), New Delhi. His current area of research is 2D materials, photodetectors, gas-sensors, and mixed dimensional heterojunctions.
He has published more than 30 papers in reputed International Journals, and also published several national and international conferences. In 2018, his article was selected for the Emerging Leaders Award 2018 by Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. He is also a reviewer of many International Journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, ACS Nano etc.

Areas of Interest

Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics, VLSI, Fabrication of electronic devices, Gas sensors, Photodetectors, 2D materials, Heterojunctions.

Publications in International Journal

1.  Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, and Mahesh Kumar. "Enhanced Carrier Density in a MoS₂/Si Heterojunction-Based Photodetector by Inverse Auger Process." IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 65 (2018): 4149 - 4154.

2.  Aditya Kushwaha, Neetu Raj Bharti, Anuj Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Kedia, Govind Gupta, and Neeraj Goel. “Enhanced NO2 Gas Sensing in Nanocrystalline MoS2 via Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation: An Experimental and DFT Study.” ACS Sensors 9, 11 (2024): 5966–5975

3.  Aditya Kushwaha, and Neeraj Goel. "A DFT study of superior adsorbate–surface bonding at Pt-WSe2 vertically aligned heterostructures upon NO2, SO2, CO2, and H2 interactions." Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (2024): 15708.

4.  Neeraj Goel, Jayanta Bera, Rahul Kumar, Satyajit Sahu, Mahesh Kumar, "MoS2-PVP Nanocomposites Decorated ZnO Microsheets for Efficient Hydrogen Detection," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 8878-8885, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3054038.

5. Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Shubhendra Kumar Jain, Saravanan Rajamani, Basanta Roul, Govind Gupta, Mahesh Kumar, and S. B. Krupanidhi. "A high-performance hydrogen sensor based on a reverse-biased MoS2/GaN heterojunction." Nanotechnology 30, no. 31 (2019): 314001.

6.  Aditya Kushwaha, and Neeraj Goel. "Edge Enriched MoS2 Micro Flowered Structure for High Performance NO2 Sensor." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 393 (2023): 134190.

8.   Neeraj Goel, Utkarsha, Aditya Kushwaha, Monika Kwoka, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. "Mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures enabled gas sensors: Fundamental and Application." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 (2024): 5642-5667.

9.   Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "UV-activated MoS2 based fast and reversible NO₂ sensor at room temperature." ACS sensors 2, no. 11 (2017): 1744-1752.

10.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Monu Mishra, Govind Gupta, Mattia Fanetti, Matjaz Valant, and Mahesh Kumar. "Growth of MoS₂–MoO₃ hybrid microflowers via controlled vapor transport process for efficient gas sensing at room temperature." Advanced Materials Interfaces 5, no. 10 (2018): 1800071.

11. Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Zukhra C. Kadirova, and Mahesh Kumar. "Efficient NO 2 sensing performance of a low-cost nanostructured sensor derived from molybdenite concentrate." Green Chemistry 22, no. 20 (2020): 6981-6991.

12. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "High performance NO₂ sensor using MoS₂ nanowires network." Applied Physics Letters 112, no. 5 (2018): 053502.

13.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Pratim Biswas, and Mahesh Kumar. "High-performance photodetector based on hybrid of MoS₂ and reduced graphene oxide." Nanotechnology 29, no. 40 (2018): 404001.

14. Kanika Arora, Neeraj Goel, Mahesh Kumar, and Mukesh Kumar. "Ultrahigh performance of self-powered β-Ga₂O₃ thin film solar-blind photodetector grown on cost-effective Si substrate using high-temperature seed layer." ACS Photonics 5, no. 6 (2018): 2391-2401.

15. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Abhay Vivek Agrawal, Ramesh Raliya, Saravanan Rajamani, Govind Gupta, Pratim Biswas, Mukesh Kumar, Mahesh Kumar. "Boosting Sensing Performance of Vacancy-Containing Vertically Aligned MoS₂ using rGO Particles." IEEE Sensors, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2932106.

16. Adarsh Nigam, Neeraj Goel, Thirumaleshwara N. Bhat, Md Tawabur Rahman, Surani Bin Dolmanan, Qiquan Qiao, Sudhiranjan Tripathy, and Mahesh Kumar. "Real time detection of Hg2+ ions using MoS2 functionalized AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor for water quality monitoring." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 309 (2020): 127832.

17. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, and Mahesh Kumar. "Transition Metal Dichalcogenides-Based Flexible Gas Sensors." Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (2020): 111875.

18. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Govind Gupta, Pratim Biswas, Jun Zhang, and Mahesh Kumar. "Plasmonic Au nanoparticles sensitized MoS2 for bifunctional NO2 and light sensing." IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 4190-4197, 15 Feb.15, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3029036.

19.  Chengming Lou, Guanglu Lei, Xianghong Liu, Jiayue Xie, Zishuo Li, Wei Zheng, Neeraj Goel, Mahesh Kumar, and Jun Zhang. "Design and optimization strategies of metal oxide semiconductor nanostructures for advanced formaldehyde sensors." Coordination Chemistry Reviews 452 (2022): 214280.

20. Thara Seesaard, Neeraj Goel, Mahesh Kumar, Chatchawal Wongchoosuk. "Evolution of nanomaterial-based gas sensors in electronic nose’s application for supporting the agricultural cycle." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2022).

Publications in National Journal

 

Publications in National Conferences

1.  Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. "Enhanced sensing response with complete recovery of MoS₂ sensor under photoexcitation." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1942, no. 1, p. 050060. AIP Publishing, 2018.

2.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "NO2 sensing at room temperature using vertically aligned MoS₂ flakes network." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1942, no. 1, p. 060006. AIP Publishing, 2018

Publications in International Conferences

1.      Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Growth of Large-Scale α-MoO₃ on SiO₂ and Its Uses for Efficient Hydrogen Sensing Application.” In IEEE 5th I2CT 2019.

2.  Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Scalable Growth of High-Quality MoS₂ Film by Magnetron Sputtering: Application for NO₂ Gas Sensing.” In IEEE 5th I2CT 2019.

3.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. “Growth of different microstructure of MoS₂ through controlled processing parameters of chemical vapor deposition method.” In IEEE 5th I2CT 2019.

4. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. “Ultraviolet photodetector based on chemical vapor deposition grown MoO₃ microplates.” In IEEE IEMECON 2019.

5.    Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Pratim Biswas, and Mahesh Kumar. “High-performance ultraviolet detector employing out-of-plane rGO/MoS₂ PN heterostructure.” In IEEE ICEE 2018.

6.  Neeraj Goel and Mahesh Kumar “Multifunctional high-performance MoS2/GaN heterojunction: the futuristic optical and gas sensors.” In MRSI AGM 2019.

7.  Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Highly efficient photodetector based on vertically standing MoS2/Si heterojunction.” In ICONSAT 2020.

Books/Book Chapters

Heterojunction-Based Gas Sensors. Gas Sensors Manufacturing, Materials, and Technologies (2022) ISBN: 9781003278047, pp. 87-109. CRC Press.

Layered metal chalcogenides for gas sensors. Gas Sensors; Materials and Devices (2021): pp. 3-1. Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-7503-3993-3.

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Published International Journals

1.  Aditya Kushwaha, and Neeraj Goel. "Edge Enriched MoS2 Micro Flowered Structure for High Performance NO2 Sensor." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 393 (2023): 134190; impact factor: 8.0, Q1, Doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2023.134190.

2.      Aditya Kushwaha, Neetu Raj Bharti, Anuj Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Kedia, Govind Gupta, and Neeraj Goel. “Enhanced NO2 Gas Sensing in Nanocrystalline MoS2 via Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation: An Experimental and DFT Study.” ACS Sensors 9, 11 (2024): 5966–5975, impact factor: 8.2, Q1

3.   Aditya Kushwaha, and Neeraj Goel. "A DFT study of superior adsorbate–surface bonding at Pt-WSe2 vertically aligned heterostructures upon NO2, SO2, CO2, and H2 interactions." Scientific Reports 14, no. 1 (2024): 15708, impact factor: 3.8, Q1

4.  Vartika Tiwari, Aditya Kushwaha, and Neeraj Goel. "Modeling of MoS2/Si heterostructure to study charge transfer dynamics." Nano Express 5, no. 2 (2024): 025017, impact factor: 2.7, Q2.

5.   Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, and Mahesh Kumar. "Enhanced Carrier Density in a MoS₂/Si Heterojunction-Based Photodetector by Inverse Auger Process." IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 65 (2018): 4149 - 4154, impact factor: 2.9, Q2.

6.      Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Monu Mishra, Govind Gupta, and Mahesh Kumar. "Determination of band alignment at two-dimensional MoS₂/Si van der Waals heterojunction." Journal of Applied Physics 123, no. 22 (2018): 225301, impact factor: 2.7, Q2.

7.   Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Basanta Roul, Mahesh Kumar, and S. B. Krupanidhi. "Wafer-scale synthesis of a uniform film of few-layer MoS₂ on GaN for 2D heterojunction ultraviolet photodetector." Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 51, no. 37 (2018): 374003, impact factor: 3.1, Q2.

8.      Neeraj Goel, Jayanta Bera, Rahul Kumar, Satyajit Sahu, Mahesh Kumar, "MoS2-PVP Nanocomposites Decorated ZnO Microsheets for Efficient Hydrogen Detection," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 8878-8885, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3054038, impact factor: 4.3, Q2.

9. Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Shubhendra Kumar Jain, Saravanan Rajamani, Basanta Roul, Govind Gupta, Mahesh Kumar, and S. B. Krupanidhi. "A high-performance hydrogen sensor based on a reverse-biased MoS2/GaN heterojunction." Nanotechnology 30, no. 31 (2019): 314001, impact factor: 2.9, Q2.

10.  Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. "Visualization of band offsets at few-layer MoS2/Ge heterojunction." Nanotechnology 32 (2021): 375711, impact factor: 2.9, Q2.

11. Neeraj Goel, Utkarsha, Aditya Kushwaha, Monika Kwoka, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. "Mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures enabled gas sensors: Fundamental and Application." Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 (2024): 5642-5667, impact factor: 10.7, Q1.

12. Neeraj Goel, Aditya Kushwaha, Smridhi Agarwal, and Nitin Babu Shinde. “A critical review of recent advances, prospects, and challenges of MoS2/Si heterostructure based photodetectors.” Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2024): Accepted, impact factor: 5.8.

13.  Neeraj Goel, Aditya Kushwaha, Monika Kwoka, and Mahesh Kumar. "Strategic review of organic–inorganic perovskite photodetectors." physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid Research Letters (2024): DOI: 10.1002/pssr.202400110, impact factor: 2.5, Q3.

14.  Aditya Kushwaha, Rahul Kumar, and Neeraj Goel. "Chemiresistive gas sensors beyond metal oxides: Using ultrathin two-dimensional nanomaterials." FlatChem (2023): 100584, impact factor: 5.9, Q1.

15.  Neeraj Goel, Aditya Kushwaha, and Mahesh Kumar. "Two-dimensional MXenes: recent emerging applications." RSC advances 12, no. 39 (2022): 25172-25193, impact factor: 3.9, Q2.

16.  Neeraj Goel, Kishor Kunal, Aditya Kushwaha, and Mahesh Kumar. "Metal oxide semiconductors for gas sensing." Engineering Reports 5, no. 6 (2023): e12604, impact factor: 1.8, Q3.

17.  Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "Recent Advances in Ultrathin 2D Hexagonal Boron Nitride Based Gas Sensors." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9, 2021, 1537-1549, DOI: 10.1039/D0TC05855F, impact factor: 5.7, Q1.

18. Neeraj Goel and Mahesh Kumar. "2D Materials for Terahertz Application." Nano Express 2, no. 3 (2021), impact factor: 2.7, Q2.

19.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "UV-activated MoS2 based fast and reversible NO₂ sensor at room temperature." ACS sensors 2, no. 11 (2017): 1744-1752, impact factor: 8.2, Q1.

20.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Monu Mishra, Govind Gupta, Mattia Fanetti, Matjaz Valant, and Mahesh Kumar. "Growth of MoS₂–MoO₃ hybrid microflowers via controlled vapor transport process for efficient gas sensing at room temperature." Advanced Materials Interfaces 5, no. 10 (2018): 1800071, impact factor: 4.3, Q2.

21.  Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, Zukhra C. Kadirova, and Mahesh Kumar. "Efficient NO 2 sensing performance of a low-cost nanostructured sensor derived from molybdenite concentrate." Green Chemistry 22, no. 20 (2020): 6981-6991, impact factor: 9.3, Q1.

22.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "High performance NO₂ sensor using MoS₂ nanowires network." Applied Physics Letters 112, no. 5 (2018): 053502, impact factor: 3.5, Q2.

23.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Pratim Biswas, and Mahesh Kumar. "High-performance photodetector based on hybrid of MoS₂ and reduced graphene oxide." Nanotechnology 29, no. 40 (2018): 404001, impact factor: 2.9, Q2.

24. Kanika Arora, Neeraj Goel, Mahesh Kumar, and Mukesh Kumar. "Ultrahigh performance of self-powered β-Ga₂O₃ thin film solar-blind photodetector grown on cost-effective Si substrate using high-temperature seed layer." ACS Photonics 5, no. 6 (2018): 2391-2401, impact factor: 6.5, Q1.

25.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Abhay Vivek Agrawal, Ramesh Raliya, Saravanan Rajamani, Govind Gupta, Pratim Biswas, Mukesh Kumar, Mahesh Kumar. "Boosting Sensing Performance of Vacancy-Containing Vertically Aligned MoS₂ using rGO Particles." IEEE Sensors Journal 19, no. 22 (2019): 10214-10220, impact factor: 4.3, Q2.

26.  Adarsh Nigam, Neeraj Goel, Thirumaleshwara N. Bhat, Md Tawabur Rahman, Surani Bin Dolmanan, Qiquan Qiao, Sudhiranjan Tripathy, and Mahesh Kumar. "Real time detection of Hg2+ ions using MoS2 functionalized AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor for water quality monitoring." Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 309 (2020): 127832, impact factor: 8.0, Q1.

27.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Mirabbos Hojamberdiev, and Mahesh Kumar. "Transition Metal Dichalcogenides-Based Flexible Gas Sensors." Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (2020): 111875, impact factor: 4.1, Q1.

28. Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Govind Gupta, Pratim Biswas, Jun Zhang, and Mahesh Kumar. "Plasmonic Au nanoparticles sensitized MoS2 for bifunctional NO2 and light sensing." IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 4190-4197, 15 Feb.15, 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.3029036, impact factor: 4.3, Q2.

29.  Chengming Lou, Guanglu Lei, Xianghong Liu, Jiayue Xie, Zishuo Li, Wei Zheng, Neeraj Goel, Mahesh Kumar, and Jun Zhang. "Design and optimization strategies of metal oxide semiconductor nanostructures for advanced formaldehyde sensors." Coordination Chemistry Reviews 452 (2022): 214280, impact factor: 20.3, Q1.

30.  Thara Seesaard, Neeraj Goel, Mahesh Kumar, Chatchawal Wongchoosuk "Advances in gas sensors and electronic nose technologies for agricultural cycle applications." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 193 (2022): 106673., impact factor: 7.7, Q1.

31.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Deepak Kumar Jarwal, Yinhua Hu, Jun Zhang, and Mahesh Kumar. "Strategic review on chemical vapor deposition technology-derived 2D material nanostructures for room-temperature gas sensors." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 11, no. 3 (2023): 774-801, impact factor: 5.7, Q1.

 

Conferences

1.      Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. "Enhanced sensing response with complete recovery of MoS₂ sensor under photoexcitation." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1942, no. 1, p. 050060. AIP Publishing, 2018.

2.      Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Growth of Large-Scale α-MoO₃ on SiO₂ and Its Uses for Efficient Hydrogen Sensing Application.” In IEEE 5th I2CT 2019.

3.      Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Scalable Growth of High-Quality MoS₂ Film by Magnetron Sputtering: Application for NO₂ Gas Sensing.” In IEEE 5th I2CT 2019.

4.      Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Detection of NO2 Gas Molecules Physio-Adsorbed on Large-Area MoSe2 Surface” In 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE).

5.      Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. “Growth of different microstructure of MoS₂ through controlled processing parameters of chemical vapor deposition method.” In IEEE 5th I2CT 2019.

6.      Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. "NO2 sensing at room temperature using vertically aligned MoS₂ flakes network." In AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1942, no. 1, p. 060006. AIP Publishing, 2018.

7.  Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, and Mahesh Kumar. “Ultraviolet photodetector based on chemical vapor deposition grown MoO₃ microplates.” In IEEE IEMECON 2019.

8.      Rahul Kumar, Neeraj Goel, Ramesh Raliya, Pratim Biswas, and Mahesh Kumar. “High-performance ultraviolet detector employing out-of-plane rGO/MoS₂ PN heterostructure.” In IEEE ICEE 2018.

9.  Neeraj Goel and Mahesh Kumar “Multifunctional high-performance MoS2/GaN heterojunction: the futuristic optical and gas sensors.” In MRSI AGM 2019.

10.Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Highly efficient photodetector based on vertically standing MoS2/Si heterojunction.” In ICONSAT 2020.

11.  Neeraj Goel, Rahul Kumar, and Mahesh Kumar. “Multifunctional High-Performance MoS2/GaN Heterostructures: The Futuristic Optical and Gas Sensors” In IUMRS-ICA 2022.