Dr. Fadong Yan is presently working as Senior Research Scientist in U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 2010 from University of Massachusetts Lowell. He worked at Konarka Technologies, Inc before he joined US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) at SUNY CNSE. He coordinates and manages the back end of line (BEOL) process and hardware development activities for CIGS solar cell/module manufacturing at the PVMC Manufacturing Development Facility (MDF) located at the CNSE Solar Energy Development Center in Halfmoon, NY. He is responsible for coordination and execution of consortium and proprietary process and equipment development BEOL activities. The MDF processes include MW scale systems such as grid application, thermal anneal, interconnection, lamination and module testing equipment.
Dr. Fadong Yan has publications on his name and he is also serving as reviewer of journals of Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Organic Electronics, Applied Physics Letter, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics, Journal of Nanophotonics, ChemSusChem, Journal of Photonics for Energy, Journal of Materials Sciences & Technology.
