Alumni
Peter Rudd
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Graduate Student, PhD thesis 2023
Yulan Fu
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Posdoctoral Scholar 2014-2018
Qian Dong
Graduate student, PhD thesis 2019
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Interfaces and Device Geometry of PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots (CQDs) Solar Cells
Huiyan Liu
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Graduate student who worked with Rene Lopez in Shanghaitech 2017
Yukihiro Hara
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Posdoctoral scholar 2013-2018
Timothy Garvey
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Graduate student, PhD thesis 2018
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Nanostructured Electrodes and Their Utility in Photoelectrochemical Cells
Shane Brogan
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Master thesis 2017
Leila Alibabaei
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Posdoctoral Scholar 2013-2017
Robert Call
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Graduate student, PhD thesis 2018
Eugene Donev
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Posdoctoral Scholar 2013-2014
Cary Tippets
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Graduate student, PhD thesis 2017
PHOTONIC STRUCTURES AND DEVICES MOLDED ON SOFT POLYMER MATERIALS
Abay Gadisa
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Posdoctoral scholar 2011-2016
Yingchi Liu
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Graduate student, PhD thesis 2013
Emily Ray
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Graduate Student, PhD thesis 2012
Enhancement of light via surface plasmon coupling in the visible
Rudresh Ghosh
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Graduate Student, PhD thesis 2012
Metal Oxide Thin Film Growth by Laser Ablation and Its Applications in High Surface Area Photoanodes
Kristen Alexander
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Graduate student, PhD thesis 2011
John Tumbleston
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Graduate student, PhD thesis 2011
Photonics and transport in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells