Arizona State University continues its ascent in the national research rankings, rising to No. 7 in total research expenditures for universities without a medical school, according to the latest National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development rankings. For fiscal year 2018, ASU reported a total of $617.7 million in research expenditures, a record level….

(Best Paper Award Ceremony at the 29th PVSEC; Fourth from the left: Jia Ding) Professor Zhang gave a keynote as Jia Ding received the best student paper award for his take entitled “Comparison study of 1.7-eV MgCdTe solar cells and applications for tandem cells” at the 29th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC) in…

Congratulations to Cheng-Ying Tsai and Tyler McCarthy for their successful presentations, entitled “Vertical Hole Transport in InAs/InAs1-xSbx Type-II Superlattices” and “Structural and Optical Properties of PbTe/CdTe/InSb Heterostructures Grown using Molecular Beam Epitaxy” at the 35th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2019), Ketchum, Idaho. Thanks to CY and Tyler for their great contribution.

Tyler McCarthy joined First Solar Inc. in California for the 2019 summer intern. We are looking forward to having more collaborations with First Solar, and wishing Tyler has a wonderful experience.

Congratulations to Jia Ding for his successful presentation, entitled “Study of open-circuit voltage in CdTe/MgCdTe double-heterostructure solar cells with different hole contacts” at the 46th IEEE photovoltaic specialists conference(PVSC 46) in Chicago, IL.  Thanks to Jia for his contribution.

Professor Yong-Hang Zhang received MURI(Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) Award to investigate fundamental materials properties for better infrared imaging technology, which will involve silicon-germanium-tin (SiGeSn) alloys for use in the next generation of lighter, faster and more energy efficient infrared imaging. Professor Zhang and his collaborator Professor Andrew Chizmeshya will receive approximately $2 million of a…

Material Research Society 2019 MRS Spring Meeting was successfully held in Phoenix, AZ. Professor Yong-Hang Zhang delivered an invited talk entitled “Semiconductor Heterovalent Interfaces and Integration”.

Dr. Maxwell Lassise will join Solar Junction Corporation as an epitaxy scientist. He will be conducting research and development on optoelectronic and other semiconductor devices. The group would like to gratefully thank Max for his many contributions in the past years. We wish him continued success in his future scientific work with Solar Junction.

(Max is defending his dissertation thesis) Congratulations to Dr. Calli Campbell and Dr. Maxwell Lassise on their successful PhD defenses entitled “Monolithic Heterovalent Integration of Compound Semiconductors and Their Applications” and “Molecular Beam Epitaxial growth of monocrystalline MgxCd1-xTe/MgyCd1-yTe (x<y) double heterostructures and solar cells”, respectively. Congratulate Calli and Max on their advancement, and wish them…

We are excited to announce that MBE Optoelecrtronics Lab Ph.D. student, Tyler McCarthy, has been named a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship from Ira. Fulton School of Engineering. This award is for exceptional graduate students who exhibit the potential to make substantial contributions within their field of study and who bring a strong passion for conducting…