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Louisville, Colorado, United States

Boulder, Co

Spinning up next generation of Silicon Carbide materials for power electronics.

Louisville, Colorado

Golden, Co

• Developed technical strategy, records of invention, and business model for mechanically stacked solar cell technology.• Worked on device physics and clean room fabrication of film silicon solar cells.• Studied the electrical transport properties of organic radical polymers films for next generation battery materials.• Built pulsed laser spectroscopy experiments for defect absorption measurements. • Designed defect-healing anneal treatments for amorphous silicon based devices.

Centennial, Colorado

• Integrated programmable logic control hardware and software for automation of multi-chamber thin film deposition reactors.• Developed and wrote Small Business Innovation and Research proposals for internal research, development and fundraising purposes.

Golden, Co

• R&D tech team in the development of film silicon solar cells. • Created and implemented foundational technology, proof points, and key milestones for project.• Planned specs, executed, and analyzed industry-style Design of Experiments for development of commercial-scale CVD deposition reactor prototype.• Performed in-depth failure-mode analysis on solar devices.• Led engineering team meetings for strategic planning and resource allocation.

Golden, Co

• Applied expertise in magnetic resonance methods to deepen the understanding of amorphous and nanocrystalline thin film silicon and also lead-chalcogen nanodot structures for photovoltaic applications.• Developed thorough skill-set in optical and x-ray techniques. Applied these skills to build optical experiments to study light induced degradation of amorphous silicon. • Proficiently used Labview programming to automate data collection and processing of several experimental set-ups, including: a mass spectrometer system, deposition reactors, optical experiments. • Learned deposition techniques for growth of silicon thin films. • Led a research effort between NREL and industry and established collaborations with academic partners under government-sponsored Solar America Initiative program. • Supported numerous cooperative research agreements through solar-cell-materials characterization using a wide variety of experimental techniques. • Presented work at numerous international conferences and in University style colloquia.

Salt Lake City, Ut

• Developed expertise in magnetic resonance methods, including X-band electron spin resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance, and quadrupole magnetic resonance of non-trivial nuclei. • Learned RF magnetron sputtering techniques for synthesis of Ge-Sb-Te compounds. • Developed simulation routines in Mathematica and implemented these codes to analyze complex nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. • Developed solid background in experimental techniques, including: photoluminescence, infrared and raman spectroscopy, solar cell characterization, basic wet-chemistry etching, conductivity and seebeck measurements.

Ph. D, Physics

Activities and Societies: Materials Research Society American Physical SocietyPh. D. topic: Atomic structure of phase change.

Masters Of Science, Physics

Activities and Societies: Materials Research Society American Physical SocietyCum Laude Topic: hydrogen bonding in and the atomic.

Bachelor Of Science, Physics And Mathematics

Magna Cum Laude