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Dr. Zin<\/strong> has extensive experience in managing technical and business elements of research in distributed collaborative teams. Dr. Zin received multiple grant awards from DOE, NSF, Rutgers Office for Research, Florida Office of Energy, ARENA Australia and SERIS Singapore) with the total award value of $1.8M to date, employing postdocs and supervising grad and undergrad students. Dr. Zin held a Research Assistant Professorship at the University of Central Florida (UCF), prior to becoming a director of NCF and a graduate faculty of ECE, Rutgers, where Dr. Zin leads NCF operations and research activities. During the time with UCF, Dr. Zin led the team for developing solar cell device fabrication capabilities, advancing characterization and analysis, and development of industrially applicable high efficiency silicon solar cells. Before UCF career, he was with ANU as a Research Fellow until 2016. Dr. Zin has many years of demonstrated track record in developing >24% IBC silicon solar cells and managing collaboration projects with industry partners including Trina Solar, GCL System Integration, SolarTech Universal, Tempress, Oxford Instruments, Roth & Rau, International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research ICAMR, Semilab SDI, NAURA-Akrion, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore SERIS and ESA Renewables. Notably, through partnership Trina Solar has successfully commercialized large-area IBC silicon solar cells with efficiency of 24.13%[1]<\/sup><\/a> (2nd<\/sup> highest after SunPower) based on the technologies that Dr. Zin and colleagues developed at the Australian National University.<\/p>\n

RESEARCH FUNDING\/PROJECTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1) 2022 Core Facility Equipment Grant ($80,000)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: Office of Research, Rutgers
\nRole: Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 1 year (2022)<\/p>\n

2) A Commercialization Path of DI-O3 Based Passivated Contact Solar Cells by Silicon PV Frontiers ($3,000)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: NSF I-Corp Northeast Regional Program
\nRole: Technical Lead and Co-Entrepreneur Lead<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: < 1 year (2022)<\/p>\n

3) Characterization of DI-O3 oxides for PV applications and Beyond ($380,000)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: Department of Energy, Solar Energy Technology Office
\nRole: Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 2 years (2021-2023)<\/p>\n

4) Preeminent Postdoctoral Program P3 (Match Funding for the Externally Awarded Grant to Hire a PostDoc) ($50,000)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: University of Central Florida
\nRole: Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 1 year (2018-2019)<\/p>\n

5) Unlocking the High Efficiency Potential of Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells by Advanced but Simplified Techniques ($762,681)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: Florida Office of Energy, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
\nRole: Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 2 years (2017-2019)<\/p>\n

6) Enabling Efficiencies >22.5% with Transitional Metal Oxide (TMO) Using Low-Cost In-Line Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: Department of Energy, Solar Energy Technology Office
\nRole: Project Collaborator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 3 years (2016-2019)<\/p>\n

7) Optical Characterization of Passivated Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells<\/strong> ($70,666)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, ACAP
\nRole: Co-<\/em><\/strong>Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 1 year (2017-2018)<\/p>\n

8) Advanced Light Trapping for High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells ($50,000<\/strong>)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, ACAP
\nRole: Co-<\/em><\/strong>Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 1 year (2016-2017)<\/p>\n

9) Development of IBC Si Solar Cells based on Simplified Fabrication Techniques ($415,969<\/strong>)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: (1) Australian Renewable Energy Agency, ARENA and (2) Trina Solar
\nRole: Principal Investigator<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 3 years (2013-2016)<\/p>\n

10) Development of All-Back-Contacted Si Solar Cells<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: (1) Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, SERIS and (2) Trina Solar
\nRole: Project Lead<\/em><\/strong>
\nDuration: 3 years (2011-2013)<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Book Chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n