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Erik Menke

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Title: Associate Professor
Phone: (209) 228-4187
Office: S&E 1, 358
Location: S&E 1, 361
  • Ph.D., 2006 — University of California, Irvine
  • B.S., 2000 — Colorado State University
Research Interests:

Professor Menke addresses to broad questions through his research:

  • How does one prepare solar cells that are both cheap and efficient?
  • How does one use these solar cells to create chemical fuels?

To address these questions, he uses electrodeposition to prepare a variety of nanostructures to understand how the various properties, such as material, size, shape, and crystallinity, affect either their photovoltaic or catalytic properties.