Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi - Regents'
Professor
School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
30332-0250
Email: ajeet.rohatgi@ee.gatech.edu
Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi is a Regents’ Professor and a Georgia Power
Distinguished Professor in the School
of Electrical Engineering. He is the founding director of the University
Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education at Georgia Tech.
He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, in 1971, the M.S. degree
in Materials Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, VA
in 1973, and the Ph.D. degree in Metallurgy and Material Science from Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, in 1977.
Before joining the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1985, he
was a Westinghouse Fellow at the Research and Development
Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
His current research interests include the understanding of impurity effects in
silicon solar cells, gettering and passivation of defects in solar grade silicon,
rapid thermal processing of solar cells, design and fabrication of high
efficiency cells on low-cost crystalline silicon materials, and design,
performance and reliability of photovoltaic systems. As part of the 1996
Olympics in Atlanta, Dr. Rohatgi and his group
designed and installed the world’s largest grid-connected, roof-top PV system
on the Georgia Tech Aquatic
Center built for the
Olympics.
Dr. Rohatgi is an IEEE Fellow. He has
published over two hundred and seventy technical papers in this field and has
been awarded eleven patents. He is on the editorial board of several PV
publications and served as general chair for the 28th IEEE Photovoltaic
Specialists Conference in Alaska
in 2000. Dr. Rohatgi received the Westinghouse Engineering Achievement
Award in 1985 and the Georgia Tech
Distinguished Professor Award in 1996 for his research on high efficiency solar
cells. In 2003 he received the IEEE PVSC William Cherry Award and the NREL/DOE
Rappaport Award for his contributions to Photovoltaics.
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