Current Projects

Present Research & Interests

  • Manipulation and Characterization of Doping and Defects in b-Ga2O3 (AFOSR MURI)
  • Simulation of defects in semiconductor devices
  • MBE Growth of Cd3As2
  • Using Spread Spectrum Time Domain Reflectometry to Monitor PV Arrays (DOE EERE)
  • Electrical characterization of gamma and neutron radiation induced effects in GaN (DTRA)
  • Group-V doping in CdTe & bulk compound semiconductor crystal growth
  • Grain Boundaries and back contacts in thin film CdTe solar cells (NSF ECCS)

 

Past Research at Utah

  • Laser annealing in CdTe thin film solar cell fabrication (Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium)
  • Laser annealing of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGSe) thin film solar cells  (NSF Materials World Network)
  • Defects and Interfaces in CZTSSe Industrially-Available thin film PV (DOE BES)
  • Dielectric nanoparticle light scattering to increase thin film PV efficiency

 

Past Affiliations

  • Epitaxial integration of ErAs with GaAs and GdN with GaN (UCSB Postdoc 2006-2008)
  • Ion Implantation and Pulsed Laser Melting of highly-mismatched alloys and III-Mn-V ferromagnetic semiconductors GaMnAs and GaMnP (UC Berkeley PhD 2001-2006)
  • Hard drive disk protective coatings and lubricants (IBM Almaden 1998-2001) 

 

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