Renewable energy, photovoltaics, photonics and optoelectronics faculty

Ayyanar’s research interests include power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices

Bertoni heads the DEfECT Lab at ASU, working to establish an efficient platform of energy technologies based on earth abundant and environmentally benign materials with the potential of achieving terawatt-level deployment.

Goodnick is the deputy director of ASU LightWorks. Some key research contributions: photovoltaics, global modeling of high frequency devices, fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices.

Hedman is a professor in the School of ECEE and is the director of PSERC. In 2017, Hedman received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), awarded by President Barack H. Obama.

Hihath is an expert in bioelectronics, biosensors and nanoelectronics. He is the director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors and a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering.

Holman’s research group at ASU focuses on new materials and device designs for high-efficiency silicon, CdTe, and silicon-based tandem solar cells.

Honsberg’s areas of expertise include ltra-high efficiency solar cells and silicon solar cells.

Research in Professor Richard King’s group includes technologies for one-sun, flat-plate multijunction cells, defect tolerance at grain boundaries and other defects in perovskites and wide-bandgap CIGS-related materials, physics of recombination-benign defects, low-cost polycrystalline III-V solar cells, dilute nitride Ga(In)NAs(Sb), and integration of compound semiconductors with high-efficiency silicon solar cells. Prior to joining Arizona State University’s School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, he was principal scientist and technical fellow at Spectrolab, Inc. His research on photovoltaics over the last 30 years has explored metamorphic III-V materials, high-lifetime back-contact silicon solar cells, dilute nitride GaInNAs(Sb), ordered and disordered (Al)GaInP, characterization of…

Dr. Ranjram received the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 2021. In 2022, he joined the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. His present research interests include system- and component-level techniques for miniaturizing power electronic converters, and the application of these techniques to enable the next generation of sustainable systems and devices. He has also previously worked on modular power electronic converters for high-voltage dc transmission and battery energy storage systems for dc microgrids. Dr. Ranjram is a recipient…

Nick’s research group focuses on developing next-generation renewable energy devices—with a focus on printable thin-film photovoltaics and batteries—using high-throughput processing and reliability-based characterization.

Prof. Dragica Vasileska research interests include semiclassical and quantum transport modeling and simulation of nanoscale devices and solar cells. She is an IEEE Fellow as of 2019.

Wang aims to bridge the nanoscience and biotechnology in research. His primary research interests have been in nanofabrication, 3D printing, nanophotonics, nanopores, and personalized infectious disease diagnostics.

Weng’s research interests include power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems and convex optimization.

Yao’s research has focused on various optoelectronic devices based on semiconductor heterostructures, nanophotonic structures, plasmonics and graphene.

Yong-Hang Zhang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Photonics Innovation at ASU. His primary research is on the growth, fabrication and characterization of novel optoelectronic materials and devices with focus on narrow-gap semiconductors, IR detectors, and solar cells. His recent work focuses on type-II superlattice and IR detectors and heterovalent semiconductor integration (such as II-VI, IV-VI, IV-IV and III-V) for lsaer, detector and solar cells applications. He did his thesis research at the Max Planck Institute for Solid States Research and received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1991….