ASPIDE

Date of birth 28 October 1949

Current position Former Director Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg.
Professor emerit., for Physics and Solar Energy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
Member of the Freiburg Materials Research Center of the Albert-Ludwigs-University (since 12 /2006)
Professor emerit, Dept. of Materials Science, UC Berkeley.
Vice President, International Solar Energy Society ISES.

Fields of
research Defect Engineering in Silicon Solar Cells with high metal content ('dirty Si')
Nature and electronic properties of defects in III/V thin films
Solar Cells from Organic Materials

Education

1983 Habilitation and Venia Legendia in Physics, University of Cologne, Germany, Thesis: "Transition Metals in Silicon"

1976 Dr. rer. nat. University of Cologne, Germany Thesis: "Point Defects in Deformed Silicon"

1973 Diploma University of Cologne, Germany

Professional experience

1983 - 1991 Assistant, Associate Professor of Materials Science,
University of California, Berkeley

1990 Visiting Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

1991 - 2006 Professor of Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley

2000 Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

2004 - 2006 Chair, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group,
University of California, Berkeley

2006 - 2010 Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg

Memberships

2010 Member of acatech - the German Academy of Science and Engineering, Berlin.

2009 Honorary Member of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

2008 Member of the SEMI International Board of Directors

2003 Founding President, German Scholars Organization

2002 Fellow, American Physical Society

2001 President, Alexander von Humboldt Association of America

1996 Founding President, Berkeley Chapter of the Alexander von
Humboldt Association of America

Awards

2019 Visionary Influences Lifetime Achievement Award of the "Solar Future Today Foundation", Abu Dhabi

2009 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical
Society ECS

2006 Award of Merit ("Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande")

1994 Humboldt Senior US Scientist Award

Publications

T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber,
Engineering metal-impurity nanodefects for low-cost solar cells, Nature Materials 4, 676 (2005)

E.R. Weber, Understanding Defects in Semiconductors as Key to Advancing Device Technology,
Physica B340-342, 1 (2003). (Plenary opening talk of ICDS-22)

M.H. Huang, S. Mao, H. Feick, Haoquan Yan, Yiying Wu, H. Kind, E. Weber, R. Russo, and Peidong Yang,
Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers, Science, 292, 1897 (2001).

C.Flink, H.Feick, S.A.McHugo, W.Seifert, H.Hieslmair, T.Heiser, A.A.Istratov, and E.R.Weber,

Out-Diffusion and Precipitation of Copper in Silicon: an Electrostatic Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4900 (2000).

A.A.Istratov, C.Flink, H.Hieslmair, E.R.Weber, and T.Heiser,

Intrinsic Diffusion Coefficient of Interstitial Copper in Silicon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1243 (1998).

M. Van Schilfgaarde, E.R.Weber, and N. Newman, Pressure Dependence of III-V Schottky Barriers - A Critical Test of Theories for Fermi Level Pinning, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 581 (1994).

J.F. Zheng, X. Liu, N. Newman, E.R. Weber, D.F. Ogletree, and M. Salmeron,
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Si Donors in GaAs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1490 (1994).

D. Gilles, E.R. Weber, and S. Hahn, Mechanism of Internal Gettering of Interstitial Impurities in Czochralski-Grown Silicon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 196 (1990).

Magnetic Studies of Persistent Photoconductivity in n-AlGaAs, K.A. Khachaturyan, D.D. Awschalom, J.R. Rozen, and E.R. Weber, Phys. Rev. Lett 63, 1311 (1989).

E.R. Weber, Transition Metals in Silicon, Appl.Phys. A 30, 1 (1983).