Principal Investigator
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
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Research areas: Crystal growth/epitaxy, electron microscopy of catalytic nanoparticles
Graduate Students
Joe Wofford
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Research Areas: Molecular beam epitaxy, Graphene
Douglas Detert
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Research Areas: Transparent Conductive Oxides
Grant Buchowicz
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Research Areas: Laser patterning, Graphene
Alejandro Levander
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Research Areas: Semiconductor thermoelectrics
Alex Luce
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Research Areas: Molecular beam epitaxy, Intermediate band solar cells
Rong-Shiuan (Renea) Chu
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Research Areas: Growth and Thermal Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes
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)

