Wladyslaw Walukiewicz
LBNL Senior Staff Scientist
w_walukiewicz@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-5329
Education
M.S., Physics, Warsaw University
Ph.D., Solid State Physics, Inst. of Physics, Polish Academy
of Sciences
Doctor Habilitate Solid State Physics, Inst. Of Physics Polish
Academy of Sciences
Major Awards
2006 APS Fellow
2006 R&D 100 Award for the most promising new technology
General Research Interests 
My research interests focus on studying electronic and structural
properties of semiconductor materials with special emphasis
on new materials for energy conversion and conservation. The
research is performed in the Solar Materials Research Group,
a team of 15 researchers, post-docs and graduate students working
on materials synthesis, materials characterization and device
design. The group has extensive collaborations with scientists
from LBNL, UC Berkeley and from other universities and national
laboratories. The main areas of interest include group
III-nitrides and recently discovered highly mismatched alloys. The
research on nitride semiconductors concentrates on applications
of these materials for multijunction solar cells and photoelectrochemical
cells for solar water splitting. The studies of highly
mismatched alloys focus on synthesis of new materials with
the electronic structure suitable for intermediate band and
hot electron solar cells.
