Email from Dr. Mike Scarpulla:

I am a prof in the ECE and MSE departments and I have been working on accurately computing the concentrations of point defects in crystalline semiconductors. My work is tied to sustainable energy through photovoltaics and efficient power conversion devices.

I’m interested in recruiting one or more undergrads or MS students for the work with brief descriptions below:

Deriving expressions for concentrations of defects in degenerate limit with constraints (fixed number of certain atoms, fixed number of unit cells, complexes of defects..) This boils down to combinatorics and statistical mechanics of particles.
Working on calculation code. We have written a sophisticated calculation program in Matlab with some unique features. There are improvements to be made, and it is of interest to implement it in python for general release to researchers.
Goals for these projects are research experiences for the students and for scholarly publication.

Interested students please contact me directly . Please send a cv/resume and unofficial transcript.

Mike Scarpulla: mike.scarpulla@utah.edu