Mike Scarpulla
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Scarpulla Group Web Page
Contact
Address
University of Utah
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 3280
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9206
Phone: (801) 585-1231
Fax: (801) 581-5281
Office: MEB 3124
E-mail: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
Background
Postdoctoral Scholar - 2006-2008 in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Topic: Epitaxial Integration of Rare Earth Pnictides and III-V Semiconductors Using MBE
PhD - 2006 in Materials Science and Engineering in the Dubon Group at the University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: III-Mn-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductors Synthesized by Ion Implantation and Pulsed-Laser Melting
MS - 2003 in Materials Science and Engineering in the Dubon Group at the University of California, Berkeley
Suppemental Researcher - 2000-2001 in the Head/Disk Interface Group at the IBM Almaden Research Center
ScB - 2000 in Materials Science and Engineering at Brown University
Teaching
Fall 2009 - MSE 1800: Contemporary Materials Science and Engineering
Fall 2009 - MSE 5050/6050: Photovoltaic Materials and Solar Cells
Spring 2009 - ECE 3200: Introduction to Semiconductor Device Physics
Fall 2008 - MSE 1800: Contemporary Materials Science and Engineering
Fall 2007 - MATS 288P: Materials and Devices for Alternative Energy (at UCSB)
Personal Interests
I like many outdoor sports such as climbing, backpacking, camping, mountain biking, cycling, telemark skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and running as well as photography.
Awards
Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, 2006
Ross N. Tucker Memorial Scholarship at the Electronic Materials Symposium, 2005
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, 2001-2004
Dimitri N. Vedensky Scholarship, 2003,2005
UC Berkeley Materials Science Department Fellowship, 2001
Outstanding Materials Engineering Senior Award, 2000
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 1999
Tau Beta Pi, 1998
Research at Brown Grant, 1998
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), San Jose State University / IBM Almaden, 1998
Research Interests
My research interests are in compound semicondcutors, dilute semiconductor alloys, transparent condutors, and novel materials for thin film photovoltaics. I use a variety of epitaxial growth methods such as ion implantation and pulsed laser melting (II-PLM), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), and organometallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE / MOCVD) to synthesize thin semicondcutor films. My research at the University of Utah focuses on novel semiconductor materials that are environmentally-benign and abundanat for use in thin film photovoltaics.