Renewable energy and photovoltaics

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Renewable energy and photovoltaics faculty

Raja Ayyanar

Raja Ayyanar
Professor

Research Interests
Power electronics, DC-DC converters, power management, power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices and applications

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(480) 727-7307
Tempe Campus, ERC 587

Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni
Hopkins Professor
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Defect engineering of solar cell materials, transparent conducting oxides, defects in semiconductors, synthesis, growth and deposition of semiconductors, electrical and optical characterization, X-ray microscopy and spectroscopys

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(480) 727-0755
Tempe Campus, ERC 173

Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick
David and Darleen Ferry Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests
Solid state device physics, transport in nanostructures, nanoelectronic devices and circuits, computational electronics, RF and microwave devices, optoelectronic, energy conversion devices

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(480) 965-9572
Tempe Campus, ERC 552

Michael Goryll

Michael Goryll
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Surface and interface physics, new materials in CMOS processing, fabrication of nanoscale semiconductor devices, transport phenomena in nanopores, integration of biomineralized structures with silicon MEMS, electrophysiological properties of cell membrane ion channels, low-noise analog amplifier design, electronic instrumentation for biophysical measurements

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(480) 965-9517
Tempe Campus, ERC 255

Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman
Professor
Director, PSERC
Advanced Energy Technology Endowed Chair

Research Interests
Power and energy systems, operations research, renewable energy, power system economics, operations and planning, transmission engineering, mathematical programming, stochastic optimization, market design, energy economics, financial engineering

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(480) 965-1276
Tempe Campus, ERC 579

Christiana Honsberg

Christiana Honsberg
Professor

Research Interests
Ultra-high efficiency solar cells, silicon solar cells

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(480) 965-2831
Tempe Campus, ERC 179

Richard R. King


Richard R. King

Professor

Research Interests
High-efficiency silicon and III-V photovoltaics, solid-state device physics, recombination at semiconductor defects and interfaces, multijunction solar cells, thin-film compound semiconductor growth and characterization.

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(480) 727-3698

Mike Ranjram

Mike Ranjram
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Power Electronics

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Nick Rolston

Nick Rolston
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Renewable energy harvesting and storage materials, photovoltaics

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Meng Tao

Meng Tao
Professor

Research Interests
Semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics; chemical vapor deposition; electrochemistry in solar photovoltaics; solar photovoltaic systems and applications; and two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides.

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(480) 965-9845
Tempe Campus, ERC 157

Dragica Vasileska

Dragica Vasileska
Professor

Research Interests
Semiconductor device physics, semiconductor transport, 1-D to 3-D device modeling, quantum field theory and its application to real nanoscale device structures, heating effects in nano-scale devices, current collapse in GaN HEMTs, optoelectronics including modeling of solar cells and photodetectors

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(480) 965-6651
Tempe Campus, ERC 555

Meng Wu

Meng Wu
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Electric power systems, data analytics for power system planning and operations, modelling and stability assessment for renewable energy integration, optimization methods for smart grids and electricity markets.

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(480) 965-8706

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Zhengshan Yu
Assistant Research Professor

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Yong-Hang Zhang

Yong-Hang Zhang
Professor

Research Interests
Optoelectronic materials and devices such as solar cells, laser diodes and photodetectors

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(480) 965-2562
Tempe Campus, ERC 161