Principal Investigator

Oscar Dubon

Oscar Dubon, Jr.

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Oscar Dubon, Jr. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at U.C. Berkeley and Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received a B.S. from UCLA (1989) and M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) from U.C. Berkeley. After postdoctoral positions at U.C. Berkeley and Harvard University, he joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty in 2000. He is recipient of the 2000 Robert Lansing Hardy Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, a 2004 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Research Engineers

Petra Specht

Petra Specht

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Research areas: Crystal growth/epitaxy, electron microscopy of catalytic nanoparticles

Graduate Students

Joe Wofford

Joe Wofford

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Research Areas: Molecular beam epitaxy, Graphene

Douglas Detert

Douglas Detert

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Research Areas: Transparent Conductive Oxides

Grant Buchowicz

Grant Buchowicz

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Research Areas: Laser patterning, Graphene

Alejandro Levander

Alejandro Levander

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Research Areas: Semiconductor thermoelectrics

Alex Luce

Alex Luce

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Research Areas: Molecular beam epitaxy, Intermediate band solar cells

Rong-Shiuan (Renea) Chu

Rong-Shiuan (Renea) Chu

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Research Areas: Growth and Thermal Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes

Jose Fonseca Vega

Jose Fonseca Vega

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Research Areas: GaSe

Previous Students

  • Peter Stone (PhD, 2010)
  • Rajesh Chopdekar (Postdoctoral Fellow)
  • Cesario Julaton III (Undergraduate)
  • Rouin Farshchi (PhD, 2009)
  • Amanda Velazquez (MS, 2008)
  • Kirstin Alberi (PhD, 2008)
  • Jeremy Robinson (PhD, 2007)
  • David Issacson (MS, 2002)
  • Michael Scarpulla (MS, 2003, PhD 2006)
  • Umair Daud (Undergraduate, Graduated 2004)
  • Rob Petroski (Undergraduate, Currently in Nuclear Engineering)
  • Jay Wu (Undergraduate, Graduated 2005)
  • Yifan Cao (Undergraduate, Graduated 2007)
  • Daniel M Estrada (Undergraduate, Cornell)