On July 2008, I’ve just finished my PhD degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yeungnam University at Gyeongsan, South Korea. I‘ve been living for 5.5 years in Korea and from last August 2006, I’ve been starting to live with my wife Intan Savittri (Intan) and my incredible-growing son Muhammad Amrurazan Wibowo (Razan). We are staying in a small studio house near the campus where my son always makes everything chaotically.
I got my B.S from Department of Metallurgy University of Indonesia in Aug. 2002 and M.S in Engineering degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering Yeungnam University (YU), South Korea in Feb. 2005.
My research interest spans from thin film technology to electrochemistry which I believe can offer many advantages in order to develop a thin film solar cell. I have big curiosities on the phenomena underlying the solar cell physics as a part of soli state physics, quantum mechanics as well as statistical mechanics.
I like reading, mostly physics and other popular sciences. I love specific topics of the relation between religion, philosophy, science and metaphysics. Blogging is my newest hobby, usually done when I have a spare time.
My activities are mostly done at laboratory. I am researching the alternative methods and materials with the purpose of preparing a smart solar absorber material which exhibit good physical and chemical characteristics to be applied as thin film solar cells.I did several projects related to display technology with LG-Philips Korea and I was a research leader on the development of alternative and low cost thin film solar cell based on quaternary semiconductor compounds under supervision of Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and supported by Korea Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE). Other collaboration for investigating novel materials for solar cell are also in collaboration with several Korean leading universities; KAIST and Korea University. This research project ended in December 2007.
Recently, I am a Post-doctoral fellow who work with a consortium of Korean solar cell leading research laboratories named Center for Inorganic Photovoltaic Materials (CIPM) which is jointly supported by Korean Government and Korean leading semiconductor industries to conduct an advanced research in inorganic materials for photovoltaic/solar cell application.
With this Blog, I try to collect and to publish as much as possible my thought concerned primarily about the solar energy and green energy concepts, discourses, ideas and scenarios as a part of a sustainable-renewable energy issue based on my knowledge, experiment as well as experience dealing with solar cell with a popular science-writing style.
Hope it will be useful for the readers, in particular for Indonesians whom I dedicated this blog to.
I believe that in the near future, the world’s energy security will depend strongly on the sustainable energy supply in order to maintain its economics activity and civilization.
And solar energy extracted by solar cell will be one of the right choice…
InsyaAllah.
Rachmat Adhi Wibowo
Nano & Thin Film Materials Laboratory
Materials Building Room 318
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Yeungnam University
214-1 Daedong, Gyeongsan
Gyeongbuk 712-749, Republic of Korea
http://www.yu.ac.kr
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Center for Inorganic Photovoltaic Materials (CIPM)
Engineering Research Center
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
http://www.cipm.kaist.ac.kr
