Physics and Electrical Engineering Department
Recent research activity
- Photothermionics: thermionic emission as a probe for solar cell performance improvement
- New designs of High Efficiency Solar Cells (HESCs)
- Physics of high efficiency solar cells
- Amorphous Silicon p/i/n Solar Cells with a SiGe superlattice in the intrinsic region
- Photo-current calculations for a new High Efficiency MQW p-i-n AlAs-GaAs (2.0 eV)//GaAs - Ge (1.0 eV)//GaAs (1.42 eV) Solar Cell
- Entropy Production During Thermionic Emission in III-V Nanostructures,
- Thermal Effects on the Two-Dimensional Density of States for III-V Nano-Heterostructures
- Modeling and characterization of superconducting solid state devices
- Embedded superlattices for higher efficiency solar cells
- AFM studies of thin films
- Gallium arsenide/germanium solar cells
- Thermodynamics of small systems
- Quantum Photovoltaics (PV)
- Josephson-like N-I-S-I-S YBCO Junctions via Scanning Tunneling Measurements
- Ab-initio calculations of supercurrents in NIS Heterojunctions: a device approach
- AC Varonides and RA Spalletta, “I-V Characteristics of a Josephson-type N-I-S-I-S YBCO Junction via Scanning Tunneling Measurements”, in progress
- AC Varonides and RA Spalletta, “AFM Topography of Thin HTS S-I-S/N-I-S Films”
New courses – special topics
- ENGR 484: Foundations of Applied Superconductivity. Special Topic, A senior-level course, designed for Phys/EE majors
- Quantum mechanics for electrical engineers
- “Differential Equations with Applications in Physics” notes-supplement/independent study material for the students of the Phys/EE Dept. (Spring 1997)
- AC Varonides “Lectures on Quantum Mechanics”, Course notes designed for independent studies, and for senior students of Physics and Electrical Engineering (University of Scranton, Spring 1997)
- A. C. Varonides “Lecture Notes on the Green’s Functions for Electrical Engineers”, An Introductory supplement for Engineering 350
- Physics 101 “The Solar System”. One semester (with no prerequisites) course that concentrates on the Solar System (GE)
- Physics 102 “Stellar Evolution”. Part II of Phys 101: qualitative study of the stars, their birth, evolution and death (GE)
- Physics 109 “The Conscious Universe”. On modern cosmology and philosophy of science (GE)
- Physics 105 “Man and the Universe”. The history of the development of Astronomy
- Physics 114 “Solar Electricity”. On solar energy and solar cells (GE)
- 200-level “Elements of Solar System Dynamics” (science majors: under development).
- Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes (Special Topic, senior course: 300/400-level Phys/ECE course, under development).
- Thermodynamics of small systems
- Nanotechnology: A course for Phys and all science majors (Phys 255)
- Antenna theory and techniques (special topic)
- Electromagnetics in the Special Theory context
- Spintronics