{"id":103,"date":"2020-02-07T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:31:39","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/teds-web\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ted Ciszek has worked 52 years in the areas of silicon crystal growth, characterization, defect and impurity studies, and materials research – most recently as a private consultant after retiring as Principal Scientist and group leader for the Silicon Materials Research Task at NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, Colorado.\u00a0\u00a0He joined NREL (then SERI) in 1978, after spending 6 years each with\u00a0 Dow Corning (at what is now HSC, the Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation) in Hemlock, Michigan and IBM in East Fishkill, NY.\u00a0 At Dow Corning, he researched dislocation-free float-zone (FZ) Si growth and electron-beam pedestal growth,\u00a0 and grew the first EFG Si ribbons.\u00a0 He holds over 180 technical papers and 26 patents on crystal growth, electronic and\u00a0superconductor materials, and characterization.\u00a0 He is now consulting on silicon materials.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0\u00a0 B.S. Physics (1964) Case Institute of Technology; M.S. Physics (1966) Iowa State University.\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
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AACG (held posts as VP, Executive Committee member, meeting chairman); APS; ECS (Electronics Div. editor, J. Electrochem. Cos. to 1989).\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3 NASA Certificates of Recognition for PV materials work; IBM Invention Achievement Award; SERI 1981 Outstanding Achievement Award; 1990 DOE Peer Review Award; NREL 2002 Hubbard Award for “exceptional leadership and sustained, world-class research contributions in the successful development of silicon crystal growth”; Member Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi; Technical Advisory Committee member for several major EPRI\/DOE-funded research projects.\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1967-72 Dow Corning Corporation<\/u><\/span><\/span>:\u00a0 Developed Perfx process for dislocation-free float-zoned silicon crystals.\u00a0 Introduced [115] growth orientation for low surface-state charge density applications.\u00a0 Invented silicon pedestal growth process with electron-beam heating.\u00a0 Grew the first reported EFG silicon ribbons using a graphite capillary die. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1972-78 IBM<\/u><\/span><\/span>:\u00a0 Developed the EFG\/CAST technique for Si ribbon growth.\u00a0 Invented shaped crystal growth from wettable projections.\u00a0 Achieved in-situ melting and crack-free directional solidification of silicon in graphite crucibles.\u00a0 Grew the first reported EFG silicon tubes.\u00a0 Invented contiguous capillary coating technique for silicon sheet growth (early version of later S-web growth process).\u00a0 Established a float-zone Si crystal growth laboratory. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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1978-2003 SERI\/NREL<\/u><\/span><\/span>:\u00a0 Invented edge-supported pulling method for Si sheet growth (string ribbon).\u00a0 Established laboratory facilities for silicon, compound semiconductor, and superconductor crystal growth, sheet\u00a0 growth, and characterization (including x-ray topography and carrier lifetime).\u00a0 Conducted silicon crystal growth for high-efficiency photovoltaics and achieved minority charge-carrier lifetimes >20 milliseconds.\u00a0 Conducted numerous Si defect and impurity studies using FZ.\u00a0 Grew thin-layer silicon LPE from metal solutions.\u00a0 Invented semicontinuous electromagnetic casting EMC technique for silicon.\u00a0 Devised new methods for CuInSe2 crystal growth and CuAgInGaSe solid solution crystal growth.\u00a0\u00a0 Grew single crystals, sheets, rods, and wires of the YBCO and BiSCCO high Tc superconductors.\u00a0 Researched several new PV Si feedstock methods.\u00a0 Served as Principal Investigator for NREL’s small, in-house crystalline silicon R&D program.\u00a0 For details, see:<\/span><\/span> Patents and Publications<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background Ted Ciszek has worked 52 years in the areas of silicon crystal growth, characterization, defect and impurity studies, and materials research – most recently as a private consultant after retiring as Principal Scientist and group leader for the Silicon Materials Research Task at NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, Colorado.\u00a0\u00a0He joined NREL… Read More »Background<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"parent":84,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"contained","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted-ciszek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}