Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UMN, 2005-present
Professor and Vice Chairman, Chemical Engineering Dept., UC Santa Barbara, 2001-2005
Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Dept., UC Santa Barbara, 1998-2001
Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Dept., UC Santa Barbara, 1993-1998

Selected Publications

K. S. Leschkies, R. Divakar, J. Basu, E. Enache-Pommer, J. E. Boercker, C. B. Carter, U. R. Kortshagen, D. J. Norris, and E. S. Aydil, "Photosensitization of ZnO nanowires with CdSe quantum dots for photovoltaic devices," Nano Letters 7, 1793-1798 (2007)

J. B. Baxter, A. M. Walker, K. van Ommering, and E. S. Aydil, "Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO Nanowires and their Integration into Dye Sensitized Solar Cells," Nanotechnology 17, S304-S312 (2006)

J. B. Baxter and E. S. Aydil, "Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Semiconductor Morphologies with ZnO Nanowires," Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 90, 607-622 (2006)

J. B. Baxter and E. S. Aydil, "Nanowire-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells," Appl. Phys. Lett., 86, 053114 (2005)

J. B. Baxter and E. S. Aydil, "Epitaxial Growth of ZnO Nanowires on a- and c-plane Sapphire," Journal of Crystal Growth 274, 407-411 (2005). S. Sriraman, M. S. Valipa, E. S. Aydil, and D. Maroudas, "Hydrogen-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon thin films. I. Simulation and analysis of film postgrowth treatment with H2 plasmas," J. Appl. Phys. 100, Art. No. 053514 (2006)

M. S. Valipa, S. Sriraman, E. S. Aydil, and D. Maroudas, "Hydrogen-induced crystallization of amorphous Si thin films. II. Mechanisms and energetics of hydrogen insertion into Si-Si bonds," J. Appl. Phys. 100, Art. No. 053515 (2006)

M. S. Valipa, T. Bakos, E. S. Aydil, and D. Maroudas, "Surface Smoothening Mechanism of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216102 (2005)

S. Sriraman, S. Agarwal, E. S. Aydil, and D. Maroudas, "Mechanism of Hydrogen Induced Crystallization of Amorphous Silicon," Nature 418, 62-65 (2002)

D. Y. Takamoto, E. S. Aydil, J. A. Zasadzinski, A. T. Ivanova, D. K. Schwartz, T. Yang, and P. S. Cremer, "Nanoscale Reorganization in Langmuir Blodgett Films," Science 293, 1292-1295 (2001)