| Key Professors |
Title |
Dept |
Keywords |
Centers, Initiative and Programs |
Area of Focus |
Facilities |
| Prof. Suresh Advani |
Associate Director, Center for Composite Materials |
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Fuel Cells, wind energy, hydrogen storage |
Center for Composite Materials (Center of excellence for composites research and education) |
Use of sustainable resources in composite manufacturing , wind turbine blade fabrication, improving fuel cell performance |
Chemical characterization & surface analysis, composites manufacturing , mechanical testing, nondestructive evaluation, on-line sensing, and computational modeling and simulation |
| Prof. Allen Barnett |
|
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
High-Efficiency Solar Cells |
High Efficiency Solar Power Program |
Design, fabrication and characterization of very high performance solar
cells. Design, assembly, test and integration of high performance solar
power modules and systems |
Solar cell fabrication equipment; including photolithography, evaporation,
sputtering, diffusion, MBE, and LPE. Test and characterization equipment;
including efficiency, minority carrier lifetime, quantum efficiency &
calibrated outdoor tests |
| Dr. Mark Barteau |
Senior Vice-Provost - Research & Strategic Initiatives |
UD Research Office and Dept. of Chemical Engineering |
Catalysis, energy science |
|
Catalysis and reaction engineering for biofuels and renewables |
|
| Prof. Thomas Beebe, Jr. |
|
Department of Materials Science & Engineering |
Fuel Cells, Surface Science |
Surface Analysis Facility |
Surface chemistry, surface biology, and surface physics of systems including those related to fuel cells |
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS or ESCA), time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), Auger electron spectroscopy, and scanning probe techniques |
| Dr. Robert Birkmire |
Director |
Institute of Energy Conversion |
Solar PV |
Institute of Energy Conversion (US Dept. of Energy University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education) |
Thin film photovoltaic technologies |
Thin film and solar cell device characterization ( including SEM with EDS, AFM, XRD, variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometer, UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer with integrating sphere, XPS, atomic absorption spectrometer and optical microscope with Nomarski optics) and thin film deposition systems (including sputtering, electron-beam evaporation, thermal evaporation, electrodeposition, and vapor transport deposition) |
| Prof. John Byrne |
Director |
Center for Energy & Environmental Policy |
Energy policy |
|
Sustainable energy systems, climate change, and implications of changes in world energy systems |
|
| Prof. Jingguang Chen |
Interim Director |
UD Energy Institute and Dept. of Chemical Eng. |
Catalysis |
|
Design of carbide and bimetallic catalysts for energy applications |
|
| Prof. Matthew Doty |
|
Department of Materials Science & Engineering |
Quantum dots, PV solar cells |
|
Nanosturctured materials including quantum dots, applications of quantum dots in photovoltaic devices |
|
| Prof. George Hadjipanayis |
Chair |
Department of Physics & Astronomy and Consortium for Advanced Magnets |
Magnets, capacitors, spintonics |
Consortium for Advanced Magnets |
Development of novel materials (including nanocomposites) to create high energy and power density permanent magnets |
Modern state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction facility, scanning tunneling microscopy with AFM and MFM capabilities, and modern fabrication facilities for nanoscale structures.
|
| Prof. Willett Kempton |
Director |
Center for Carbon-free Power Integration and College of Marine & Earth Sciences |
V2G, wind energy |
Center for Carbon-free Power Integration |
Vehicle-to-grid engineering and integration, off-shore wind energy |
|
| Prof. Michael Mackay |
|
Department of Materials Science & Engineering |
Solar Cells, nanoparticles |
|
Self assembly of nanoparticles onto thin films to make organic-based solar cells |
Atomic force microscopy, X-ray and neutron scattering and reflectivity, dynamic and static light scattering, solar cell characterization, rheological and mechanical property characterization and surface energy characterization |
| Dr. Chaoying Ni |
|
Department of Materials Science & Engineering |
Electron microscopy |
Keck Electron Microscopy |
Electron microscopy applications in a wide range of materials research |
Field-emission gun transmission electron microscope JEM-2010F FasTEM, conventional LaB6 transmission electron microscope JEM-2000FX, Tecnai-G2-12 Twin transmission electron microscope, and two scanning electron microscopes |
| Terry Papoutsakis |
|
Department of Chemical Engineering. |
Biofuels esp. butanol, genomics |
|
Genetic and metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum and other bacteria to develop new and superior organisms for efficient bioprocessing to produce butanol and other biofuels, H2 and chemicals from cellulosic material |
|
| Prof. Ajay Prasad |
Director |
UD Center for Fuel Cell Research and Dept. Mechanical Eng. |
Fuel Cells |
|
Design and characterization of novel fuel cell components |
Fuel cell laboratory with test stations and fuel cell characterization equipment |
| Prof. S. Ismat Shah |
|
Department of Materials Science & Engineering & Physics & Astronomy |
PV solar cells, hydrogen generation |
|
Photovoltaics and nanocomposites, photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation, next generation thin film |
Single & 3-magnetron gun PVD system, MOCVD and plasma assisted CVD systems, commonwealth scientific ion beam deposition and resistive evaporation systems, laser ablation inert gas condensation system for nanoparticle synthesis, Omicron dual anode XPS and Ion Scattering System,
Rigaku D-Max B thin film & high-T x-ray diffractometers, complete Spectral analyzer |
| Prof. Dion Vlachos |
Director |
Center for Catalytic Science & Technology and Dept. of Chem. Eng. |
Catalysis |
|
Hydrogen production from alternative, high density fuels, catalysis & reaction engineering fro biofuels and renewables |
State-of-the-art methods for materials characterization including chemisorption; Atomic adsorption, advanced (Scanning) transmission electron microscopy (TEM/STEM), powder X-ray and neutron diffraction, Rietveld Analysis; laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), and IR/FTIR; SAXS and SANS of catalyst nanoparticles
|
| Prof Bingqing Wei |
|
Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Nanomaterials and nanotechnolo-gies |
|
Study of macrostructures of carbon nanotubes and their applications in energy storage and conversion, in particular for supercapacitor and lithium battery |
|
| Prof. Joshua Zide |
|
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
High-Efficiency Solar |
|
Work on III-V semiconductors and novel nanocomposites for high-efficiency energy conversion |
Growth of high-quality materials via Molecular Beam Epitaxy and also capabilities for high-temperature electrical characterization of materials and devices |
