TED CISZEK

Ted Ciszek has worked 52 years in the areas of silicon crystal growth, characterization, defect and impurity studies, and materials research - most recently as a private consultant after retiring as Principal Scientist and group leader for the Silicon Materials Research Task at NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, Colorado. He joined NREL (then SERI) in 1978, after spending 6 years each with Dow Corning (at what is now HSC, the Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation) in Hemlock, Michigan and IBM in East Fishkill, NY. At Dow Corning, he researched dislocation-free float-zone (FZ) Si growth and electron-beam pedestal growth, and grew the first EFG Si ribbons. He holds over 180 technical papers and 26 patents on crystal growth, electronic and superconductor materials, and characterization. He is now consulting on silicon materials.