Position : Director of MRC and Thomas Whitney Professor in Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Office: 235 ASC I
Phone: (515) 294-7732
E-mail: vdalal@iastate.edu
Vikram Dalal
Dr. Vikram Dalal, Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State, received his B.E.(Elec.Engr.) degree from University of Bombay, India in 1964 and his Ph.D. in EE from Princeton in 1969. He has an extensive research record in worked in both industry and academia, and has been at Iowa State since 1988. He has graduated 25 Ph.D. students and over 30 M.S. students. His primary research interests are in photovoltaic energy conversion materials and devices and semiconductor processing. He has published ~160 papers and is a fellow of IEEE, American Physical Society and AAAS. He has been Director of MRC since 1999.
Dr. Vik Dalal's group 2012
U.S. Patents
PAT.
NO.
Title
4,692,558
Counteraction
of semiconductor impurity effects
4,604,636
Microcrystalline semiconductor method and devices
4,485,128
Bandgap control in amorphous semiconductors
4,478,654
Amorphous silicon carbide method
4,477,688
Photovoltaic cells employing zinc phosphide
4,465,706
Bandgap control in amorphous semiconductors
4,387,265
Tandem junction amorphous semiconductor photovoltaic cell
4,377,723
High efficiency thin-film multiple-gap photovoltaic device
4,253,882
Multiple gap photovoltaic device
4,251,287
Amorphous semiconductor solar cell
3,988,167 Solar cell device having improved efficiency
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