VICTOR KAYDANOV

Victor Kaydanov Research Professor Meyer Hall Rm. 447 Phone: 273-3156 email: vkaydano@mines.edu

Research Interests

Solid state physics, electronic materials, defect structure of materials, photovoltaics

Victor Kaydanov is an expert in both experimental and theoretical solid state physics with more than thirty years in research and graduate education. His areas of expertise include band structure, impurity and defect electronic states, carrier scattering and transport phenomena in various semiconducting and superconducting compounds, including many II-VI compounds. As the senior scientist at Golden Photon Inc. he strongly contributed towards the 14.7% world record efficiency for small CdTe/CdS devices on soda lime glass. At Colorado School of Mines, he developed the use of admittance spectroscopy and the measurement of transients for detecting and studying electronic states related to point defects and grain boundaries. He developed the Four Coefficient method that is used to study basic electronic properties of transparent conducting oxide layers. He has proposed new ideas about the influence of grain boundaries on electron lifetime and transport that have since become mainstream ideas in the field of polycrystalline photovoltaics.

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