Mr. Siva Uthayaraj

Lecturer (Unconfirmed)

MPhil. in Physics (Jaffna)
B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics (University of Jaffna)

E-mail -: uthayarajs@esn.ac.lk

Academic RecordAdmin RolesExperiencesTeachingPublicationAwards
  • Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) in Physics (Jaffna)
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics (University of Jaffna)
  • Secretary, Annual Research Conference 2023 (ARC-2023)
  • Coordinator, Program Review (SER) for the Department of Physical Science, Faculty of Applied Science, Trincomalee Campus
  • Student Counsellor, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Trincomalee Campus
  • Member, Faculty Board, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Trincomalee Campus
  • Member, Faculty Research Committee, FAS, TC, EUSL
  • Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Department of Physical Science, Faculty of Applied Science, Trincomalee Campus
  • Member, Editorial Committee – 5th International Research Conference, (Trinco-2022)
  • Member, A special project under the National Youth Platform in parallel to the 75th National Independence Day celebration
  • Research Assistant, Clean Energy Research Laboratory (CERL), Department of Physics, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
  • Research Assistant, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway
  • Demonstrator, Department of Physics, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
  • Research Trainee, National Institute of Fundamental Studies (NIFS), Kandy, Sri Lanka
  • Research Trainee, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India
  • PH 2123 : Elementary Quantum Mechanics
  • PH 2221 : Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • PH 3122 : Industrial Materials
  • PH 3224 : Physics of Energy
  • PH 3225 : Laboratory Physics VI
  • NCC 2020 : Basic Science
Journal Articles
  • Uthayaraj, S; Karunarathne, D; Kumara, G; Murugathas, T; Rasalingam, S; Rajapakse, R; Ravirajan, P; Velauthapillai, D. (2019). Powder Pressed Cuprous Iodide (CuI) as A Hole Transporting Material for Perovskite Solar Cells. Materials, 12, 2037.
  • Uthayaraj, S.; Murugathas, T.; Yohi, S.; Natarajan, M.; Velauthapillai, D.; Ravirajan, P.; (2020). Single walled carbon nanotube incorporated Titanium dioxide and Poly(3-hexylthiophene) as electron and hole transport materials for perovskite solar cells. Materials Letters 276, 128174.
Abstracts
  • Uthayaraj.S, Shivatharsiny.R, Dhayalan.V, and Ravirajan.P, Air-stable organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite material for solar cells, International Conference on Solar Energy Materials, Solar Cells and Solar Energy Applications (SOLAR ASIA – 2018), Kandy, Sri Lanka, January 4-6, 2018.
  • S.Uthayaraj, R. Shivatharsiny, P. Selvakumar, G. R. A. Kumara, G. Rajapakse , Dhayalan Velauthappillai, P. Ravirajan, Effect of Hole Transporting Materials on the performance of Perovskite solar cells in air, Proceeding of Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and Health Applications (AMCEHA-2019), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, P30.
  • S.Tharmalingam, S.Uthayaraj, A.Pirashanthan, S.Rasalingam, Dhayalan Velauthapillai and P.Ravirajan, Optimizing the performance of perovskite solar cells by varying active layer thickness, Proceeding of Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and Health Applications (AMCEHA-2019), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, P48.
  • S.Pitchaya, M.Natarajan, A.Santhanam, V.Asokan, V.M.Ramakrishnan, P.Palanichamy, B.Rangasamy, S.Sundaram, S.Uthayaraj and Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the extract of Invasive Species of Agaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for cost-effective Carbon based Perovskite Solar Cells, Proceeding of Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and Health Applications (AMCEHA-2019), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, P24.
  • A.Pirashanthan, S.Uthayaraj, T.Rajaramanan, T.Thivakarasharma, M.Thanikaichelvan, S.Yohi, M.Senthilnanthan, N.Robetson, V.Dhayalan and P.Ravirajan, Enhancing the performance of hybrid nanocrystalline metal oxides/polymer solar cells using Dye as interface modifier, Proceedings of the 4th international research symposium on pure and applied sciences (IRSPRS-2019), 25th October 2019 – Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
  • V. Gurunanthanan, T. Rajaramanan, S.Uthayaraj, D.Velauthapillai, P.Ravirajan and M.Senthilnanthanan, A simple solvothermal approach to synthesize Zn-doped TiO2 nanomaterials for dye sensitized solar cells, Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied and Pure Sciences, (ICAPS – 2020) – Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, P58.
  • R.Risendiralingam, S.Uthayaraj, S.Yohi, M.Thanihaichelvan, D.Velauthapillai and P.Ravirajan, Effect of Nickel doping in P3HT hole transporting material on the performance of perovskite solar cells, Proceedings of the Physics Society (URS-2021), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, P23.
  • Uthayaraj Siva, Shivatharsiny Yohi, Thanihaichelvan Murugathas, Muthukumarasamy Natarajan, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, Ravirajan Punniamoorthy, (2021) The effect of incorporating carbon nanotubes in device structures of perovskite solar cells, Proceedings of Technological Advances in Science, Medicine and Engineering Conference (TASME-2021), July 3-4, 2021.
  • First Place Award – Oral presentation at the Technological Advances in Science, Medicine and Engineering (TASME-2021) Conference.