Jason Baxter
jason.baxter@yale.edu
Education
Research and Interests
Present:
Nanotechnology and terahertz radiation
Previous:
Designed novel nanowire-based dye sensitized solar cell.
Investigated relationship between nanowire morphology and solar cell performance
Synthesized ZnO nanowires by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and chemical bath deposition
Characterized nanowire morphology, microstructure, optical properties, and epitaxy
Honors and Awards
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Alternative Energy Fellowship, 2005
- American Vacuum Society Hoffman Top Level Graduate Student Award, 2004
- Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award, 2003
- Southern California Chapter AVS--Second place, Best Student Paper, 2002
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2001
- Dean's Fellow, 2000
Publications
- J. B. Baxter, A. M. Walker, K. van Ommering, and E. S. Aydil, "Dye sensitized solar cells based on ZnO nanowires grown in solution at low temperature", in preparation.
- J. B. Baxter and E. S. Aydil, "Growth of ZnO nanowires from zinc acetylacetonate and oxygen", in preparation.
- J. B. Baxter and E. S. Aydil, "Dye sensitized solar cells based on semiconductor morphologies with ZnO nanowires",
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, accepted May 2005.
- J. B. Baxter and E. S. Aydil, "Nanowire based dye sensitized solar cells",
Applied Physics Letters, 86, 053114 (2005).
- C. A. Wolden, J. B. Baxter, T. M. Barnes and E. S. Aydil, "Infrared detection of hydrogen generated free carriers in polycrystalline ZnO thin films",
Journal of Applied Physics, 97, 043522 (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 (2005).
- J. B. Baxter, F. Wu, and E. S. Aydil, "Growth mechanism and characterization of zinc oxide hexagonal columns",
Applied Physics Letters, 83, 3797 (2003).
- J. B. Baxter, R. E. M. W. Bessems, and E. S. Aydil, "Growth and characterization of ZnO nanowires",
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 776, Q7.9.1 (2003).