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Mike publishes book chapter on capacitance characterization techniques for thin film solar cells

February 23rd, 2021

After many years of making measurements and modelling the results in the group, Mike wrote a book ch[...]

Prof. Scarpulla and Akira Nagaoka pioneer Cd-flux THM of Group-V doped CdTe

February 4th, 2021

While Dr. Nagaoka was a visiting postdoc (he is now an assistant professor at University of Miyazaki[...]

Prof. Scarpulla looking for PhD students

February 4th, 2021

Feb 1, 2021 - Prof. Scarpulla is looking to recruit 1-2 outstanding PhD students to work on electron[...]

Congratulations Dennis, Sudhajit, and Mashad!

February 4th, 2021

Belated congratulations to Dennis, Sudhajit, and Mashad who all graduated with their PhDs in 2018-20[...]

Scarpulla Leads AFOSR MURI on Ga2O3

February 4th, 2021

Prof. Scarpulla is the PI for a large multi-institution project on Ga2O3.  The AFOSR selected the gr[...]

Sudhajit and Mike Publish SPIE Newsroom article on Laser Annealing

October 19th, 2016

Mike & Sudhajit were invited to write a summary of the group's work on laser annealing of chalco[...]

Congratulations to Josh Winger

October 5th, 2016

Josh received a small grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program to let him build h[...]

Welcome, Rujun Sun!

September 22nd, 2016

Rujun Sun, a 4th year PhD student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, has arrived.  Rujun is doing he[...]

Prof. Scarpulla featured for new theory in news

September 2nd, 2016

University of Utah U Newshttp://www.asminternational.org/web/edfas/news/-/journal_content/56/10180/2[...]

Dr. Scarpulla develops theory linking excess carriers to point defects

September 2nd, 2016

Prof. Scarpulla and colleague Dr. Kirstin Alberi at NREL have developed the rigorous theory for calc[...]

Mike chosen as Area 2 Chair for the 2017 PVSC

September 2nd, 2016

Mike will chair the section on chalcogenide thin film photovoltaics at the 2017 IEEE Photovoltaic Sp[...]

Dr. Scarpulla & group featured in College of Engineering 2016 Research report

September 2nd, 2016

Dr. Scarpulla and the group's research was featured in the 2016 COE research report.https://www.coe.[...]

Dr. Jeff Aguiar (NREL) Talk

February 10th, 2015

Dr. Jeff Aguiar from NREL visited today to give a talk on analytical TEM microscopy of thin film PV [...]