Recent Masters and PhD Thesis at IEC

1996 "Investigation of Surface Passivation Effects on Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Performance," Yibin Bai, PhD., Electrical Engineering.

1996 "Pigmented Materials for Light Trapping in Thin-Film Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells," Jeffrey Ellis Cotter, PhD., Electrical Engineering.

1996 "Processing, Structure and Diffusion in Copper Indium Gallium Selenide Thin Films for Solar Cells," Marudachalam Marudachalam, PhD., Materials Science and Engineering.

1996 "A New Design for Rapid Cooling of Thin Films During Processing," Gregory Norsworthy, Masters, Mechanical Engineering.

1996 "Analysis of Thin Film Polycrystalline Cadmium Telluride-Based Solar Cell Devices," Enze Joseph Shan, PhD., Physics and Astronomy.

1997 "Alloys in Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells," D. Garth Jensen, PhD., Physics and Astronomy.

1997 "Surface Recombination at the Interface of Silicon Grown on a Foreign Substrate by Liquid Phase Epitaxy," David Daniel Smith, PhD., Electrical Engineering.

1997 "The Study of Sulfur Diffusion into CdTe Using X-Ray Diffraction," Rajesh Venogopal, Masters, Materials Science and Engineering.

1998 "Design, Growth, and Fabrication of Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with No Front Grid Contacts," Daniel James Aiken, PhD., Electrical Engineering.

1999 "Quantitative Determination of the Incorporation of Sulfur in Copper Indium Diselenide Polycrystalline Thin Films," Michael Engelman, PhD., Physics and Astronomy.

1999 "Manufacture of Large-Area Copper Indium (Gallium) Diselenide Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications," Gregory M. Hanket PhD., Chemical Engineering.

1999 "Copper Indium Diselenide (CuInSe2) Based Solar Cells: Effect of CuInSe2 Films Preparation Conditions and Thickness on Performance," Julius Mwabora, PhD., Physics and Astronomy.

2000 "Analysis and Modeling of Hot Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon Films," Atul Pant, PhD., Chemical Engineering.

2002 "Thermal Modeling of an Evaporation Source Used for Physical Vapor Deposition of Cu(In-Ga) Se2 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications," Jeffrey Doody, Masters, Materials Science and Engineering.

2003 "Physical Vapor Deposition and Analysis of Copper Indium Aluminum Diselenide Thin Films for High Band Gap Solar Cells," Moses Warotua Haimbodi, PhD., Materials Science and Engineering.

2003 "Modeling and Control of a Continuous Thermo-Evaporation Process for Production of Thin-Film Photovoltaic Modules," S. Tobias Junker, PhD., Chemical Engineering. Toby's current home page

2004 "Surface Sulfurization of Copper Indium Diselenide for Application in Solar Cells," Jochen Titus, PhD., Materials Science and Engineering.

2004 "Growth and Characterization of Cu(Inx,GA1-x) (Sy,SE1-y)2 Films by Elemental Physical Vapor Deposition," Clifford Yapp, Masters, Materials Science and Engineering.

2005 "Deposition and Characterization of Silicon Thin-Films by Aluminum-Induced Crystallization," Ozgenc Ebil, PhD., Materials Science and Engineering.

2006 "Modeling Optical Properties of Thin Film Cu(In,Ga)SE2 Solar Cells using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry," Scott H. Stephens, Master of Science in Physics.

2006 "Growth and Characterization of MOS2, MOSE2, and MO(Sx,SE1-x)2 Formed between MO and CUIN(Sx, SE1-x)2," Sarah Rickman, Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering.

2006 "Electrical Characterization of Thin Film CdTe Solar Cells," Darshini Desai, PhD., Materials Science and Engineering.