We are happy to have a new PhD student, Yu-Lin Hsu! Welcome on board.
Author: HPY
2020 06 Submission for Journal Publication (Yang’s paper)
Yang and her collaborator’s work on the Micropillar Arrays (Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching) has been submitted for Journal Publications. We thank Yang for her hard work, particularly on photoluminescence microscopy.
2020 06 Attending Virtual EMC Conference
Yang and Kaden’s papers were presented at the EMC (Electronic Materials Conference) meeting. Thank you David for assisting Yang on the presentation.
https://www.mrs.org/62nd-emc/virtual-emc-2020
2020 05 Patent application
David and Dr. Yoon has filed a patent about the novel lift-off process of CdTe thin-films (16/881,500 ). Thank you for the support by the TVC at the U.
2020 05 Commencement (David, Yang, and Dinorah)
We congratulate our graduates, particularly our team members.
David Magginetti: Ph.D.
Yang Qian: M.S.
Dinorah Segovia: B.S.
Thank you so much working with us. We wish you the very best for your next step. Please come back in 2021 for in-person Commencement.
(Picture: Online Commencement on May 1st)
2020 04 Dinorah wins Outstanding Student Research Award.
Congratulations, Dinorah! She is one of the Outstanding Student Researcher Award Winner in Electrical Engineering.
2020 04 In-Person to Online, we continue our study.
Regardless of this challenging situation, we continue our study. Undergrad students in the ECE 3200 (Introduction to Semiconductor Device Physics) are so much dedicated to their study, even online lectures and exams. Thank you so much!
(Left: Dr. Yoon’s lecture note; Rigth: Zoom online meeting, working on exam problems).
2020 04 Yoon wins her second DOE grant (Perovskite Solar Cells)
Dr. Yoon won her second DOE grant. This project team will develop ways to measure the electronic properties of features in perovskite absorbers while the device is exposed to high temperature, bright light, and other potential causes of damage. These features include the surface of the solar cell; the bulk of the grains, or tiny perovskite crystals, in the solar cell; and the grain boundaries, or the spaces between the grains in the cell.
We are so excited about two DOE projects.
2020 04 Dr. Yoon wins a DOE Grant (Nanoscale Characterizations of CdTe Devices)
This DOE SIPS project aims to develop a cadmium telluride (CdTe) passivated emitter rear contact (PERC) solar cell that comprises a patterned aluminum oxide layer and small metal contacts defined on individual grains for greater cell efficiency and power output. PERC cells are designed to capture more light on the back surface of the cell. The team will use current generated by a concentrated stream of electrons to detect any defects in the PERC design and quantify changes in physical parameters, such as the components’ efficiency, using 2- and 3-D numerical models.
