Uwe Richard Kortshagen
Graduate Faculty (Mechanical Engineering)
625-2048, email korts001 @ umn.eduHe was awarded the Habilitation in Experimental Physics at the University of Bochum in 1995. In 1996, he joined the University of Minnesota as Assistant Professor, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999, and to Full Professor in 2003. He was awarded the 2005 Institute of Technology-George Taylor Award for Distinguished Research, and was named Distinguished McKnight University Professor in 2007. He was elected President of the International Plasma Chemistry Society with term from 2008-2009.
Board of Directors, International Plasma Chemistry Society, 2003-2011. Vice President, International Plasma Chemistry Society, 2006-2007. President, 2008-2009; Director, NSF-IGERT project for “Nanoparticle Science and Engineering” involving 30 faculty members and 35 graduate students from five science and engineering departments at the University of Minnesota; Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering and the Minor program in “Nanoparticle Science and Engineering”; Member of Editorial Board for Plasma Sources Science and Technology and Advisory Board for Contributions to Plasma Physics; Program Leader, “Nanoparticle-based materials” initiative of the University of Minnesota Materials Research Science and Engineering Center; Program Leader, Nanoparticle Technology Program, Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME, http://www.iprime.umn.edu ); Executive committee (2001-2003) and Organizer of 55th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference of the American Physical Society held in Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2002; Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science, 2008; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Low-Temperature Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany, (Federal Institute with 100+ employees) 2001-2008; Director and Organizer of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Electron Kinetics and Applications of Glow Discharges,” held May 19-23,1997, in St. Petersburg, Russia; Editor of the NATO ASI Series volume “Electron Kinetics and Applications of Glow Discharges,” Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, 1998.
Research Areas
Physics of nonthermal plasmas, kinetic theory of nonthermal plasmas, physics of dusty plasmas. Nanocrystal growth in plasmas, photophysical properties of nanocrystals, nanomaterials synthesis, photovoltaic materials.Selected Publications
Milan Sykora, Lorenzo Mangolini, Richard D. Schaller, Uwe Kortshagen, David Jurbergs, and Victor I. Klimov, “Size-dependent intrinsic radiative decay rates of silicon nanocrystals at large confinement energies,”, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2008)
David Jurbergs, Elena Rogojina, Lorenzo Mangolini, and Uwe Kortshagen,, “Silicon Nanocrystals with Ensemble Quantum Yields exceeding 60%,”, Appl. Phys. Lett. (2006)
K. Leschkies, R. Divakar, J. Basu, C. B. Carter, U. Kortshagen, E Aydil, and D. Norris,, “Photosensitization of ZnO Nanowires with CdSe Quantum Dots for Photovoltaic Devices,”, Nano Letters (2007)
Patrizio Cernetti, Ryan Gresback, Stephen A. Campbell, and Uwe Kortshagen,, “Nonthermal plasma synthesis of faceted Germanium nanocrystals,”, Chemical Vapor Deposition (2007)
X. D. Pi, R. Liptak, S. A. Campbell, U. Kortshagen, “In-flight dry etching of plasma-synthesized silicon nanocrystals,”, Appl. Phys. Lett. (2007)
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