Dr. Basudev Pradhan has been serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Energy Engineering and the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Green and Efficient Energy Technology (GEET) at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India, since 2012. Prior to his current position, he held the prestigious "Alexander von Humboldt" research fellowship at the University of Potsdam, Germany, from 2010 to 2012. Dr. Pradhan was honored with the esteemed "Ramanujan Fellowship" from the Department of Science & Technology for the period of 2013–2017 and received the SERC Fast Track research grant for Young Scientists. He was also awarded the Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Fellowship by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and worked at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, USA, from 2018 to 2019. He is an experimental device physicist with expertise in the fields of perovskite solar cells, neuromorphic computers and nanoelectronic devices.

• Ch-1. Introduction to perovskite.- Ch-2. Structural properties of perovskite.- Ch-3. Electronic and optical properties of perovskite semiconductor.- Ch-4. Synthesis and Characterization of Perovskite nanocrystals.- Ch-5. Theoretical insights/ challenges of designing perovskite materials for optoelectronic applications.- Ch-6. Perovskite solar cells: fundamental to commercialization.- Ch-7.All inorganic perovskite solar cells.- Ch-8. Lead –free perovskites solar cells.- Ch-9. Perovskite based Tandem and Multijunction Photovoltaics.- Ch-10. Perovskite-based light-emitting diodes.- Ch-11. Perovskite photodetector.- Ch-12. Perovskite based neuromorphic devices.- Ch-13. Perovskite X-ray Detectors.- Ch-14. Charge transport physics of perovskite field effect transistors.- Ch-15. Perovskite-based laser.- Ch-16. Two-dimensional (2D) perovskite and its applications.- Ch-17. Instabilities and degradation in perovskite materials and devices.- Index.