¿Solution Processing of Thin-Film Solar Cells: Opportunities and Challenges"

David Mitzi, PhD, Visiting ProfessorMEMS Department David Mitzi received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1990. In 1990, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and initiated a program examining structure-property relationships, low-cost thin-film deposition techniques and device applications for a variety of electronic materials (e.g., oxides, halides, chalcogenides, organic-inorganic hybrids). Between 2009 and 2014 he managed the Photovoltaic Science and Technology group at IBM, with a focus on developing solution-processed high-performance inorganic semiconductors for thin-film PV devices, before moving to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University in July 2014. He holds a number of patents and has authored or coauthored more than 170 papers and book chapters.