Research interests • Front and back reflectors to enable high efficiency photovoltaic converters • External radiative efficiency measurements • Time-resolved spectroscopic characterization for high efficiency solar cells

Research interests • Understanding the structure and properties of grain boundaries in polycrystalline thin-film compound semiconductors for solar cells • Defect state density and recombination at semiconductor interfaces

Research interests • Thermophotovoltaic cells with very high back surface reflectance • III-V solar cell processing and growth • Carrier selective contacts for effective charge separation in PV • Low-cost tandem solar

Research interests • Thermodynamic limits of photovoltaic energy conversion • Reduced contact coverage back surface reflectors to enhance photon recycling in PV cells

Research interests • CdTe-based solar cells and low-cost II-VI/Si tandem cells • Recombination, defect state density, and other carrier transport properties of interfaces and grain boundaries

(Co-advised with Prof. C. Honsberg) Research interests • Physics of carrier selective contacts • Light trapping and angle-selective filters

Research interests • I am currently interested in low-cost tandem solar cells such as II-VI/Si cells, properties of materials related to solar power, as well as digital design.

Research interests • Automation system for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) • Remote sensor array for hazardous environments • Embedded programming • Control theory • Automation • Robotics

Graduated: May 2017 Dissertation: Modeling, Growth, and Characterization of III-V and Dilute Nitride Antimonide Materials and Solar Cells

Graduated: Sep. 2017 Dissertation: Gallium Phosphide Integrated with Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Graduated: May 2019