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Welcome to the new home of the Pearce Research Group at Michigan Tech in Open Sustainability Technology housed within the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering. This research group focuses on open and applied sustainability, which is the application of science and innovation to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems. Specifically we are interested in exploring the way solar energy can be used to provide clean sustainable electricity through photovoltaic devices.

Fundamental Research Areas

Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Device Physics of Solar Photovoltaic Cells:

• Gallium nitride (GaN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN)
• Hydrogenated amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon (a-Si:H, nc-Si:H)

Applied Sustainability and Green Engineering:

• Solar energy
• Sustainable development

For a full list of our recent publications organized by category go here.

Current Research Projects

• MBE protocol:MOST

Effects of Spectral Albedo on Photovoltaic Devices--Mpwyzlic 18:16, 8 September 2011 (PDT)

Open Access Policy

The group makes its best effort to open source its literature reviews and protocols as the research is taking place and provides direct access to our research protocols, experimental designs, and equipment. In addition, the group publishes in open access journals as much as possible and posts its pre-prints in open access databases. To browse pre-prints from some of Dr. Pearce's past work go here. Normally these pre-prints/final drafts are released under CC-BY-SA as soon as we are able. You can also read more details about completed projects here.

Safety

Help with Wiki Markup

The following are a few links that are helpful in writing in the wiki langauge.

Every page that you make should have {{MOST}} at the top and be placed in the appropriate categories.

• The Appropedia Help Page
• How to add an image tutorial
• Wikipedia's help page
• Math Equation Help in Wiki

Useful stuff for grad students

• MOST tasks

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• Full list of present and past MOST members
• MOST literature reviews
• MOST methods
• MOST paper writing
• MOST completed projects and publications
• MOST library
• MOST guide to graduation
• MOST courses
• MOST group tips
• MOST last day

I am published - now what?

As you know getting a paper in the peer reviewed literature does not guarantee it will be widely read. In the group we then take the following steps:

1. Write up a summary page in Appropedia of your article and place it in this category - it should link back to your literature review and any protocols you used. It should also have key findings and enhanced figures. It must have the full citation for your paper with a link both to the article at the journal via DOI and a link to your preprint. Finally, you should hyperlink all keywords within Appropedia and drop it in appropriate categories (e.g. photovoltaic).
2. Format the summary appropriately and also place it on your Scitopics page - make sure to invite all co-authors to contribute to that page.
3. Format the pre-print for with a header showing the full citation. Include all figures and tables - make it as readable as possible and send to Dr. Pearce to post MTU's pre-prints (coming soon), https://arxive.org or Qspace.
4. For highly scientific work we will begin to post at MyExperiment - Dr. Pearce's page there.
5. Write up a short summary from your appropedia summary for the MTU sustainability blog
6. Finally if your work is newsworthy we will write a summary and send it to the University Press Office to release.

MTU Travel and Account Reimbursement

• budget [1]

Poster Printing

Student Grants and Jobs

• Entry into the Pearce Research Group at Michigan Tech in Open Sustainability Technology is extremely competitive, but we are always looking for outstanding applicants. Research assistantships are generally available for graduate students at the PhD level. For more information see http://www.mse.mtu.edu/~pearce/Index.html
• For Job searching after graduation see: Employment
• THE LINK FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FELLOWSHIPS IN THE ENERGY FIELD

In an effort to foster education and innovation in the area of societal production and utilization of energy, the Link Foundation invites fellowship applications.

Students working toward a Ph.D. degree in energy-related fields at universities located in the U.S. or Canada. Fellowships are offered with a duration of 2 years and will be paid in two installments of $25,000. It is anticipated that two or three Link Energy Fellowships will be awarded in 2012. In recent years, about 100 applications have been received. $21,500 is to be used for the Fellow's stipend, $2,500 is to be used for expenses associated with the Fellow's research, and $1,000 is to be used for attending one or more technical meetings and/or publication expenses. Applications are due December 1.

The Link Foundation provides funds for direct costs, but does NOT support student tuition, institutional overhead or pooled costs.

Additional information. Application materials, a description of evaluation criteria, and other information pertaining to Link Foundation fellowships in the energy area may be found at www.linkenergy.org.

Other Link Foundation Programs The Link Foundation also offers fellowships in the area of simulation and training (www.ist.ucf.edu/link_foundation.htm) and fellowships in the area of ocean engineering (http://www.fit.edu/AcadRes/dmes/link/).

The Link Foundation provides equal opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, handicap, sexual orientation and national or ethnic origin and complies with all nondiscrimination laws.

Contact

Joshua 18:28, 27 July 2011 (PDT)