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.

Fan's current research is in the areas of semiconductors and phase-change materials for electronics and photonics such as neuromorphic devices and tunable photonic devices; nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storages.

Goryll's areas of expertise include Si and SiGe Chemical Vapor Deposition, self-organization phenomena during semiconductor growth, surface and interface physics, strain in semiconductors, new materials in CMOS processing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tsiropoulou works on game theory and reinforcement learning for decision making in complex systems, with emphasis on network modeling and optimization, resource management, network economics, and Internet of Things.

Tao's research interests range from semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics to two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides and chemical vapor deposition.

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.