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)