The department of electrical and electronic engineering of Independent University, Bangladesh has recently received the Best Paper Award in the Poster Paper Presentation category at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Photonics, Artificial Intelligence, and Networking.
Organised by the IEEE Photonics Society Bangladesh Chapter, the conference was concluded at the Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology at Saidpur on August 2, said a press release on Thursday.
The paper was authored by undergraduate students Hemal Sharma, Fardous Mahmud and Anika Bushra along with research scientist Tazrian Noor and Mustafa Habib Chowdhury, head of the EEE department and director of the IUB Photonics Simulation Laboratory.
Hemal Sharma, the lead presenter, and Fardous Mahmud represented the team at the conference. The paper will be indexed in SCOPUS and published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Chowdhury also served as technical programme committee co-chair and session chair of the Invited Talk Session at QPAIN 2025, which featured expert lectures on perovskite solar cell development and polymer-based optical waveguide device design.
The research, titled Effect of Plasmonic Metal Core 鈥� Tin(II) Fluoride Shell Nanoparticle Shape in Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells: A DFT and FDTD Study, addressed persistent challenges in lead-free perovskite solar cells, such as stability, limited light absorption, and lower power conversion efficiency compared to lead-based alternatives.
Over 165 posters competed in the offline poster session for this category. IUB was the sole winner in the Poster Presentation category, while Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology won in the Oral Presentation category.
There was representation from a total of 28 countries, including Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom.