Yong Zhang

Dr. Yong Zhang Bissell Distinguished Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Optoelectronics Center Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Optical Science The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223

Research Interests:

Emerging and future generation materials and device architectures for energy and related applications (photovoltaics, solid-state-lighting, detector) Fundamental sciences in solid state physics and electrical engineering Optical spectroscopy and material growth Large scale first-principles and empirical electronic structure modeling Materials of interest: nanostructures, semiconductor superlattices and alloys, inorganic-organic hybrids

Professional Preparation:

Xiamen (Amoy) University, China, Physics, B.S., 1982 Xiamen (Amoy) University, China, Physics, M.S., 1985 Dartmouth College, Physics, Ph.D., 1994

Appointments:

Bissell Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UNC-Charlotte, 4/2009 – present. Faculty members for Optical Science and Engineering program and Nanoscale Science Ph.D. Program at UNC-Charlotte. Senior Scientist II, Materials and Computational Science Center, NREL, 2006 – 2009. Senior Scientist I, Center for Basic Sciences, NREL, 1997 – 2005. Postdoc, Center for Basic Sciences, NREL, 1994 – 1997. Visiting Researcher, Physics Department, Dartmouth College, 1/1989 – 1/1990. Researcher, Physics Department, Xiamen (Amoy) University, China, 1987 – 1989. Engineer, Xiamen United Development Co. Ltd., Xiamen, China, 1985 – 1987.

September 2013