Director

Christiana Honsberg (Bio)

Researchers

Stuart Bowden (Bio)

Director of Silicon Program

Stuart Bowden received his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1996 for work on static concentrators using silicon solar cells. The solar cell efficiency tester “DarkStar” that he developed during his PhD is still in use over 20 years later for detail characterization of solar cells. Following graduation, he transferred the buried contact solar cell technology from UNSW to Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology In 1998, he joined the Inter-University Micro Electronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium where he demonstrated rear surface passivation of multicrystalline silicon wafers using boron diffusions and inversion layers. In 2001, he joined Georgia Institute of Technology where he worked on molecular beam epitaxy and the characterization of interface states in a variety of oxide materials. From 2004 – 2008 he led the effort at the University of Delaware on advanced silicon solar cell structures with the first publication on interdigitated back contact heterostructure silicon solar cells. Dr Bowden worked with Sinton Consulting (now Sinton Instruments) from 2001 to 2008 on the development of quasi-steady state lifetime testers and Suns-VOC systems. The testers have become standard characterization tools in the majority of solar production and laboratories throughout the world. In 2005, was awarded an R&D 100 award for his contributions to the Quasi-steady-state photoconductance system that is manufactured by Sinton Instruments. He is the author of the www.pveducation.org that is used for photovoltaic education in industry and academia throughout the world. Dr Bowden is presently the co-Director of the Solar Power Laboratory at Arizona State University where he develops high efficiency solar cells for terawatt production.

Bill Dauksher

Research Lab Manager

Bill Dauksher earned a B.S. degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1988 and an M.S. degree, also in Materials Engineering, from North Carolina State University two years later. After serving nineteen years as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in Motorola Labs working on myriad aspects of semiconductor and cell phone research and development, he joined Arizona State University in 2009 as technical manager for the Solar Power Laboratory. Mr. Dauksher enjoys working on advanced silicon-based solar cell technology and holds 26 U.S. patents and two defensive publications. Additionally, he is author or co-author on over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers.

 

 

 

Som Dahal

Research Associate Scientist

        sdahal@asu.edu

• Silicon diffused junction solar cells, PERC cells, carrier-selective contact solar cells, Nanostructures and their integration with silicon
•  III-V Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Structures and their application in PV

André Augusto

 

• augusto@asu.edu
• Silicon heterojunction solar cells
• flexible and lightweight solar cells and modules, BIPV and PV deployment

Stanislau Herasimenka (Bio)

• Heterojunction silicon solar cells

Jongwon Lee

• Silicon nano-structured solar cells
• Multiple exciton generation (MEG) solar cells and structures.

Chaomin Zhang (Bio)

czhang86@asu.edu 

• III-V solar cells
• III-V on silicon (GaP on silicon)
• Maintainance and Operaton of Veeco Gen III  MBE
• Molecular beam expitaxy (MBE) growth of III-V nanostructures such as quantum dots
• MOCVD
• Levelized cost of PV electricity (LCOE)

Graduate Students

Antony Aguilar

• Undrgraduate Electrical Engineer
• antony.aguilar@asu.edu
• Solar cell module testing hardware

Mark Bailly

 

• Graduate Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student
• mbailly@asu.edu
• Selective laser ablation of thin film stacks on silicon

Pradeep Balaji

 

• Graduate Research Assistant
• pradeep.balaji@asu.edu
• Process development for diffused junction solar cells
• Flexible/lightweight silicon solar cells and modules
• Photoluminescence of silicon solar cells

JeaYoung Choi

• Silicon Quantum Dots
• Nanostructured Surfaces 

Harsh Jain

 

• Graduate Research Assistant
• hjain4@asu.edu
• Metal plating and PVD

Joe Karas

 

• Graduate Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student
• joseph.f.karas@asu.edu
• Google Scholar / LinkedIn
• Metal plating and crystalline silicon solar cell metalization

Sangpyeong Kim

 

• Graduate Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student
• skim85@asu.edu
• Enhanced light trapping for thin silicon solar cells

Aymeric Maros (Alumni)

• III-V solar cells

 

• Statistical Process Control

Tanmay Monga

• Crystalline silicon solar cells

Katherine Nelson

• PV instructional and curricular tool development
• Motivational Psychology and Engineering Education

Jaewon Oh

 

• Graduate Research Associate / Ph.D. Candidate
• jaewonoh@asu.edu
• Reliability and characterization of crystalline silicon solar cells/modules

Tim Reblitz

• Crystalline silicon solar cells
• eTraveller

Sabit Shudanov

Justin Smith

• III-V solar cells

Apoorva Srinivasa

 

• Graduate Research Associate
• apoorva.srinivasa@asu.edu
• Silicon diffused junction pilot line

Natasa Vulic

• High efficiency silicon solar cells
• Building integrated photovoltaics

Joshua Williams

• III-Nitride growth and characterization 

Shujian Xue

• Crystalline silicon solar cells

Yongjie Zou

• III-V solar cells
• Modeling and simulation of carrier transport in nanostructures

 

Undergraduate Students (FURI, Honors & Senior Design)

 

 

Zachary Kiefer

 

• Undergraduate Research Assistant
• zkiefer@asu.edu
• Mono- and multi-crystalline texturing research / student-led pilot line
• Outdoors and cycling enthusiast - bike commuter

 

Luc Reboulet

Adric Rukkila

 

• Undergraduate Software Engineer
• arukkila@asu.edu
• Solar cell module testing / website administration

 

 

Graduated Undergraduate Students

 

Matthew Buresh, Joe Carpenter, Alejandra Casillas, Billy Gardiner, Akash Khare, Derek Lam, Kevin LaRosa, Jacob Marshall, Michelle Martinez, Clay Ozaki-Train, John Wallstrom

 

Visiting Scholars (Past and Present)

Nicole Kotulak

Derek (Deming) Zhang

 

Alumni

Nikolai Faleev

• Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V Compounds, Quantum Wells and Quantum Dots Structures;
• Material Characterization of Epitaxial Structures, focused on High Resolution XRD, TEM and AFM;
• Crystalline Defects in Epitaxial Structures: types, density and spatial distribution, correlations with growth conditions. Effect of crystalline defects on physical properties of epitaxial structures. Prediction of crystal perfection; optimization of grown conditions and design of device structures.

Clarence Tracy

• Materials and processes for silicon solar cells
• Group IV nanowire devices and processing
• Silicon nanoelectronics

Michael A. Awaah (Visiting Scientist Summer 2011)

Adam Bailey

Keun-Yong Ban (Senior MOCVD scientist at New Jersey)

Bhumika Chhabra (Micron Technologies Solar Division)

Kunal Ghosh (IIT India)

Vivek Sharma (Intel Corporation)

Jeremy Wendte (Installing solar in Bangladesh)

Qun Yang (Freescale Semiconductor)

Anand Krishnan (PhD student at ASU)

Kevin Tyler (PhD student at ASU)

Joseph Schmidt

Edward Lebeau

James Brady

Abhishek Kumar

James Lebeau (L-3 communications)

Parth Mistry

Yeongho Kim (South Korea)

Aymeric Maros ( Solar Junction, San Jose, CA )

Harsh Jain (Diodes Incorporated, Kansas City, MO)

Affiliated Researchers

We work with many researchers nationally and internationally through the QESST ERC (www.qesst.org)