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Dr. Winston V. Schoenfeld<\/strong>\u00a0is vice president for Research and Innovation and professor of Optics, MSE and ECE at the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½. He received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ in 2004, Schoenfeld served as device manager at Uniroyal Optoelectronics, working in the area of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and later in 2003 founded Medical Lighting Solutions, Inc., a supplier of specialty LED lighting solutions for the medical and biomedical industries. From 2011-2017, he served at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ as director of the c-Si Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, establishing the first industry-led U.S. c-Si PV consortium and overseeing more than $10 million in collaborative research projects between consortium members.<\/p>\n

At Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½, he has secured more than $25 million in research funding and authored or co-authored more than 145 refereed journal publications in the areas of photovoltaics, the epitaxial growth and properties of oxide semiconductors, oxide and nitride-semiconductor light-emitting diodes, self-assembled quantum dots, e-beam nano-lithography, quantum information\/networks, comprehensive modeling of nanowire devices and solid-state nuclear material detection. Schoenfeld is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics and a senior\/life member of Optica, a leading society in optics and photonics.<\/p>\n

Visit the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Office of Research website<\/a>
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