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Crystal Sonic wins $8,500 at ASU Business Plan Competition
Pablo Guimera Coll succeeded in the ASU Venture Devils competition bringing home the first funding into the newly formed Crystal Sonic.
Defect Lab Wins Runner-Up in Safety Innovation Challenge
Defect Lab won a second place prize for the first annual Laboratory Safety Innovation Award, sponsored by ASU’s Laboratory Safety Committee in conjunction with Environmental Health and…
Defect Lab is a 2x Perfect Pitch Winner!
Sebastian took home the gold for the 2017 NSF-ERC Perfect Pitch Contest! This is the second time a Defect Lab member has won the contest, the first being Pablo Coll in 2015. In the contest,…
Nick Presents on His FURI Project Titled "Development of ZnSnN2 and ZnSnO:N Solar Thin Films"
Nick attended the fall FURI poster session to present his work on the “Development of ZnSnN2 and ZnSnO:N Solar Thin Films”. His research focused on growing novel thin films by sputtering. In the…
Prof. Bertoni speaks at the National Academy of Engineering 2017 US Frontiers in Engineering
Dr. Bertoni gave an invited talk titled “Across Dimensions and Scales: How Imaging and Machine Learning Will Help Design Tomorrow’s Energy Conversion Devices” at the 2017 NAE Frontiers in…
Brad Wins Best Student Presentation Award in the Characterization Area at 2017 IEEE PVSC
Details about his talk “How ‘Big Data’ Techniques can Benefit Thin Film Solar Cell Characterization” will be published in the proceedings of the 44th IEEE PVSC, Washington DC.
Lab Receives 2 DoE Awards
6 contributions from the DefectLab at the MRS spring meeting in Phoenix
The following work was presented:
Orals:
In Situ Nano Elemental Mapping to Visualize the Growth of Cu(In,Ga)Se2Thin Films
B. West , M. Stuckelberger , R. Lovelett , S…
Anna Mathew won prize at the Science and Engineering Experience Fair, again!
April 20th high school student Anna Mathew, mentored by DefectLab postdoc Tine Uberg Naerland, won the second prize at the Arizona Science and Engineering Fair (AzSEF) on her work…
Check out Defectlab'er Jacob Clenney's senior design project – a solar hover craft
Jacob’s group designed a drone capable of providing emergency supplies and perhaps evacuation in flooding situations. Their Solar Powered Amphibious Transport (SPAT) designed by our own Jacob…