Zachary Holman PhD

Zak Holman joined the ASU faculty in 2013 after two years of postdoctoral research at the EPFL Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from the University of Minnesota for his work on silicon and germanium nanoparticles, and a B.A. in Physics in 2005 from Reed College.

His research seeks to develop and understand new and inexpensive nanomaterials, devices designs, and fabrications techniques to bring silicon solar cells to grid parity.