Rohit V. Deshpande - Graduate Student

Education

University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, M.S. in Chemical Engineering.

K.E.S. Engineering College, University of Mumbai, India, B.S. in Chemical Engineering.

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and doing full-time research at NREL.

Synthesizing a variety of nanostructured materials and thin-film coatings for various applications.
Synthesizing nanorods and nanoparticles of transition metal oxides using the hot-wire CVD technique.
Evaluating the performance of the thin films made of nanostructured tungsten oxide and molybdenum oxide for application in electrochromics and lithium-ion batteries, respectively.
Direct deposition of carbon nanotube coatings using hot-wire CVD on pyroelectric detectors to improve on gold black coatings for an application involving the accurate measurements of laser powers.
Continuous synthesis of carbon nanotubes, using hot-wire CVD, for an application involving hydrogen storage for fuel cells.
Thin-film deposition of binary/ternary compound semiconductors and carbon nitride using the rf-plasma and hot-wire CVD technique, respectively.

A.C. Dillon, A.H. Mahan, R. Deshpande, J.L. Alleman, J. Blackburn, P.A. Parilla, M.J. Heben, C. Engtrakul, K.E. H. Gilbert, K.M. Jones, R. To, S-H. Lee, J.H. Lehman, “Hot-wire Chemical Vapor Synthesis for a Variety of Nano-materials with Novel Applications,” Thin Solid Films 2005 (in press).
J.H. Lehman, R. Deshpande, P. Rice, B. To, A.C. Dillon, “Carbon Multi-walled Nanotubes Grown by HWCVD on a Pyroelectric Detector,” Infrared Phys. Technol. 2005 (in press).
S. Mitra, R. Deshpande, T. Hanrath, J. Hartman, “Hot-Wire Growth of Multi-Phase Carbon Nitride Films,” Thin Solid Films 430, 300 (2003).