Harry Efstathiadis

Harry Efstathiadis Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany – State University of New York (SUNY). Over the past 15+ years Dr. Efstathiadis’ research has focused on science and technology of photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, thin film development, nanostructures, and devices. He is experienced in characterization of thin film surfaces, interfaces, and optical, electrical, and chemical properties of materials by optical-, electron-, ion-, and x-ray spectroscopies and electrical measurements. The last 10+ years, he has worked and interacted with several industrial partners. His work objectives were to enable technology and commercialization acceleration through research, development, integration, deployment of emerging nanoscale innovations in renewable energy related applications. Dr Efstathiadis worked with the industrial partners funded this work to scale up the developed research activities and to transfer part of these R&D activities to from university laboratories into the market place through the development of commercial products by the industrial partners. Dr. Efstathiadis research is focused in thin film process development of nc-Si, a-Si:H, poly-Si, and Cu(In, Ga)Se2 using vacuum and non-vacuum deposition methods, vacuum deposition system design, chemical bath deposition of ZnS and CdS, and deposition of metal contacts, multilayer structures, antireflective and barrier layers such as oxides and nitrides on glass and flexible metal substrates. His expertise includes CIGS- and Si-based PV device fabrication and testing.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Solar Energy Systems and Technologies
Handbook of Research on Solar Energy Systems and Technologies
Sohail Anwar, Harry Efstathiadis, Salahuddin Qazi. © 2013. 614 pages.
The last ten years have seen rapid advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology, allowing unprecedented manipulation of nanoscale structures controlling solar capture, conversion...