Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Distinguished McKnight University Professor, UMN, 2007-present
Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 2006-present
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 2003-present
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 1999-2003
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 1996-1999
Privatdozent, Faculty of Physics, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany, 1996
Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Physics, 1995-1996
"Wissenschaftlicher Assistent," Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1992-1996

Selected Publications

"Photosensitization of ZnO Nanowires with CdSe Quantum Dots for Photovoltaic Devices," K. Leschkies, R. Divakar, J. Basu, C. B. Carter, U. Kortshagen, E Aydil, and D. Norris, Nano Letters 7, 1793 (2007).

"Plasma-assisted synthesis of silicon nanocrsytal inks," L. Mangolini and U. Kortshagen, Advanced Materials, (2007), available online.

"High-Yield Synthesis of Lumi-nescent Silicon Nanocrystals," L. Mangolini, E. Thimsen, U. Kortshagen, NanoLetters 5(4) 655-659, 2005, DOI: 10.1021/nl050066y.

"Silicon nanocrystals with ensemble quantum yields ex-ceeding 60%," David Jurbergs, Elena Rogojina, Lorenzo Mangolini and Uwe Kortshagen, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 233116 (2006).

"Synthesis of highly oriented, single-crystal silicon nanoparti-cles in a low-pressure, inductively coupled plasma," Ameya Bapat, Christopher R. Perrey, Ste-phen A. Campbell, C. Barry Carter, and Uwe Kortshagen, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 1969 (2003).

"Plasma synthesis of single crystal silicon nanoparticles for novel electronic device applications," Ameya Bapat, Curtis Anderson, Christopher R. Perrey, C. Barry Carter, Stephen A. Campbell, and Uwe Kortshagen, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 46, B97-B109 (2004).

"Modeling gas-phase nucleation in inductively-coupled silane-oxygen plasmas," S.-M. Suh, S. L. Girshick, U. R. Kortshagen and M. R. Zachariah, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 21, 251-264 (2003).

"Numerical study of the effect of gas temperature on the time for onset of particle nucleation in argon-silane low-pressure plasmas," Upendra Bhandarkar, Uwe Kort-shagen and Steven L Girshick, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 36, 1399-1408 (2003).

"Modeling of particulate coagulation in low pressure plasmas," U. Kortshagen and U. Bhandarkar, Phys. Rev. E 60, 887 (1999).

"Modeling of silicon hydride clustering in low-pressure silane plasma," U. V. Bhandarkar, M. T. Swihart, S. L. Girshick, and U. R. Kortshagen, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 33, 2731 (2000).