The University of Toledo

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Recent Ph.D.'s in Materials Science/Condensed Matter Physics

Name	Ph.D. Received	Dissertation Title	Adviser	Employment (last updated 2011)
Nawarange, Amruta	2011	Optical emission spectroscopy during sputter deposition of CdTe solar cells and CuTe-based back contacts	A. D. Compaan	Research Scientist, NCPRE, IIT,  Bombay, India
Paudel, Naba Raj	2011	Stability Issues in Sputtered CdS/CdTe Solar Cells	A. D. Compaan	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy (PVIC), U. Toledo
Little, Scott	2011	Enhancement of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells and Materials via the Incorporation of Silver	S. Marsillac	Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Arkansas
Kryukov,Yevgen	2011	Island Nucleation and Growth in Epitaxial, Amorphous, and Nanoparticle Thin-Films	J.G. Amar	Lecturer, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, U. Toledo
Simon,Mark	2011	Second Phase Filamentation and Bulk Conduction in Amorphous Thin Films	V. Karpov	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, U. Toledo
Ranjan, Vikash	2011	Enhancement of the Deposition Processes of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and CdS Thin Films via In-situ and Ex-situ Measurements for Solar Cell Application	S. Marsillac	Pilkington, Toledo, OH
Nardone, Marco	2011	Theories of Charge Transport and Nucleation in Disordered Systems	V. Karpov	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Bowling Green State University
Chen, Jie	2010	Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies of II-VI Semiconductor Materials and Solar Cells	R. W. Collins	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Wright Center for PVIC, U. Toledo
Li, Jian	2010	Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies of Thin Film Materials and Structures for Photovoltaic Applications	R. W. Collins	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO
Khatri, Himal	2009	New Deposition Process of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films for Solar Cell Applications	S. X. Marsillac	PV Research Scientist, Ferro Corp., Vista, California
Vasko, Anthony	2009 August	Issues in the Development of All-Sputtered AZO/CdS/CdTe Flexible Solar Cells	A. D. Compaan	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and Wright Center for PVIC, U. Toledo
Nandipati, Giridhar	2009 August	Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of submonolayer and multilayer epitaxial growth over extended time- and length-scales	J. G. Amar	Postdoctoral Research Associate, U. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Plotnikov, Victor	2009 August	Fabrication of ultra-thin CdS/CdTe solar cells by magnetron sputtering	A. D. Compaan	PV Research Scientist, Xunlight 26 Solar
Liyanage, Chinthaka	2008 December	Specific property analysis of thin-film, semiconductors for effective optical logical operations	B. Ullrich (BGSU)	Assistant Professor of Physics, Lynchburg College (VA)
Attygalle, Dinesh	2008 December	Electrochemical deposition of transparent conducting oxides for photovoltaic applications	X. Deng	Postdoctoral Research Associate, U. Toledo
Borovikov, Valery	2008 August	Multi-scale Simulations of Thin-Film Metal Epitaxial Growth	J. G. Amar	Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Cao, Xinmin	2008 August	Development and Optimization of High-Efficiency Thin-Film Silicon Based Solar Cells Using VHF PECVD Techniques	X. Deng	Senior Engineer, Xunlight Corp., Toledo, OH
Shi, Feng	2008 August	Nucleation and growth in materials and on surfaces : kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and rate equation theory	J. G. Amar	Assistant Professor and Director of Solar Energy Program, Department of Computer and Engineering Technology, Northern New Mexico College
Attygalle, Lilani	2008 May	Theoretical Modeling of Polycrystalline Thin-Film Photovoltaics	V. Karpov	Instructor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Bowling Green State U. (OH)
Mitra, Mukut	2008 May	Electro-structural coupling in chalcogenide thin film devices: photovoltaics and phase change memory	V. Karpov	Post-doctoral Researcher, Materials Science and Engineering, U. of Pennsylvania
Podraza, Nikolas	2008 May	Real time spectroscopic ellipsometry of the growth and phase evolution of thin film Si1-xGex:H	R. W. Collins	Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Penn State
Yang, Xiesen	2007 December	Study of transparent conductive oxides and back reflectors and nano-crystalline silicon based thin film, solar cells	X. Deng	Research Scientist, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA
Parikh, Viral	2007 December	Studies of two-terminal and four-terminal polycrystalline thin film tandem solar cells based on II-VI materials	A. D. Compaan	Staff Scientist, First Solar, Perrysburg, OH
Liu, XiangXin	2005 December	Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) and Photoluminescence Studies of CdTe Material	A. D. Compaan	Research Assistant Prof., P&A Dept., of Pysics and Astronomy, U. of Toledo.
Drayton, Jennifer	2005 December	Studies of rf sputtered ZnTe:N and CdS for photovoltaic applications	A. D. Compaan	Last at:  Primestar Solar, Longmont CO
Du, Wenhui	2005 December	Study of p-Type and Intrinsic Materials for Amorphous Silicon Based Solar Cells	X. Deng	Research Scientist, Xunlight Corp., Toledo, OH
Chen, Yu-Sheng	2004 May	Transferability of Electronic Structure of Four Energetic Materials by using Single Crystal and High Resolution X-ray Diffraction Experiments	A. Pinkerton (UT, Chem.)	Research Associate, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.
Povolny, Henry	2003 May	Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Devices Deposited by Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition	X. Deng	Lam Research, Fremont CA
Yu, Jianguo	2003 August	Multiscale Simulations of Thin-Film Growth	J. G. Amar	Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory
Shvydka, Diana	2002 May	Physical Characterization of CdTe/CdS Photovoltaics: Defects, Fields, and Micrononuniformities	A. D. Compaan	Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Toledo (Health Sciences Campus)
Matulionis, Ilvydas	2002 May	Superstrate and Substrate Type CdTe Solar Cells and Monolithic Integration of Photovoltaic Modules	A. D. Compaan	MVSystems / Colorado School of Mines
Grecu, Dan	1999 August	Photoluminescence Study of Cu-doped CdTe and Related Stability Issues for CdS/CdTe Solar-Cell Devices	A. D. Compaan	Vice President, Wachovia