Professional Preparation

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technogy (India)

Appointments

2000-present Robinson Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

June 2007-Present, and July 2001-June 2005 Director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CeNSE), University of Kentucky

2000-2007 Chairman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

1993-1999 Schellenger Chair Professor and Director, Electronic Devices Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Texas at El Paso

1990-1999 Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Texas at El Paso

1983- 1990 Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Texas at El Paso

1983-1985 President, Photon Energy Inc, El Paso, TX

1981-1983 Manager of Materials and Device Research, Photon Power Inc

1980-1981 Section Head of Device Development, Photon Power Inc

1976-1980 Research Engineer, Photon Power Inc

1974-1976 Associate Scientist, Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware

1970-1973 Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota

1968-1970 Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota

1990-1999 Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Texas at El Paso

Publications

1. “Copper indium diselenide nanowire arrays by electrodeposition in porous alumina templates”, Sovannary Phok, Suresh Rajaputra and Vijay P Singh, Nanotechnology 18 (2007) 475601
2. “Copper phthalocyanine-based Organic Solar Cells With High Open Circuit Voltage”, V.P. Singh, R. S. Singh, B. Parthasarathy, A. Aguilera, J. Anthony and M. Payne, Applied Physics Letters, 86, 082106 1-3, 21 Feb 2005.
3. “Characterization of High Photo voltage CuPc- Based Organic Solar Cell Structures”, V.P. Singh, B. Parthasarathy, R.S. Singh, A. Aguilera, John Anthony and M. Payne, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 90, pp. 798-812, 2006 .
4. “Copper phthalocyanine based Schottky diode solar cells”, Suresh Rajaputra, Subhash Vallurupalli, and Vijay P. Singh, J. of Materials Science : Materials in Electronics 18 (11): 1147-1150 Nov. 2007
5. “Porous alumina templates and nanostructured CdS for thin film solar cell applications”, Alberto Aguilera, Vivekanand Jayaraman, Srikalyan Sanagapalli, R. Suresh Singh, Visweswaran Jayaraman, Karen Sampson, and Vijay P. Singh, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 90, pp. 713-726, 2006.
6. “Multiwalled carbon nanotube arrays for gas sensing applications”, Suresh Rajaputra, Raghu Mangu, Patricia Clore, Dali Qian, Rodney Andrews and Vijay P. Singh, Nanotechnology 19 (2008) 345502.
7. “Templated Assembly of Magnetic Cobalt Nanowire Arrays”, A.K. Srivastava, R. S. Singh, K. E. Sampson, V. P. Singh and R. V. Ramanujan , Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, DOI: 10.1007/s 11661-007-9096-7, Vol. 38A, pp 717-724, April 2007.
8. .”An Analytical Model for Electron Transport and Luminance in SrS: Cu,Ag ACTFEL Display Devices,” Vijay P. Singh, Praveen Sivakumar, Alberto Aguilera, David C. Morton, and Eric Forsythe. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 51, #3 (March 2004), pp. 357-363.
9. “Analysis of Contact Degradation in CdS-CdTe Heterojunction Solar Cells,” V. P. Singh, O. M. Erickson and J.N. Chao, Journal of Applied Physics, vol.78, no.7, October 1995, pp. 4538-4542.
10. “Nanostructured CdTe, CdS and TiO2 for thin film solar cells applications,” R.S. Singh, V. K. Rangari, S. Sanagapalli, V. Jayaraman, S. Mahendra and V. P. Singh. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 82/1-2, pp. 315-330 (2004).