Jason Baxter

jason.baxter@yale.edu

Education

• B.S., magna cum laude, University of Delaware, May 2000
  Major: Chemical Engineering
  Minors: Mathematics, Philosophy
• Ph.D., University of California--Santa Barbara, June 2005
  Thesis Title: "Growth and Characterization of ZnO Nanowires and Their Use in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells"
  Advisor: Professor Eray S. Aydil
• Yale University, Dept. of Chemistry,
  July 2005-Present
  Postdoctoral Assistant

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).