Professional Background

• Reliability Technical Working Group Manager, US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, 2012-Present
• Post Doctorate Scientist, National Centre for Photovoltaics (NCPV), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO. 2008-2011

• Optional Practical Training, Post Doctorate; Material Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington 2007-2008

Professional Background

• M.S. and Ph.D. – Applied Physics. 2007 University of Texas at Arlington, TX, Research performed at National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Lab, Upton NY.

Responsibilities

Dr. Raji Sundaramoorthy coordinates and manages photovoltaic reliability efforts under the PVMC Reliability Technical Working Group for both internal member collaborative projects and consortium partner sponsored development activities. She conducts Technical Working Group meetings with members across the PV value chain to shortlist and prioritizes the projects relevant to industry, design project plans and work with consortium members to detail and implement the selected projects. Dr. Raji is also responsible for research into CIGS reliability physics at both the device and the package level to characterize failure modes and identify the failure mechanisms using a wide array of different characterization techniques available at PVMC and CNSE analytical laboratories.

Dr. Raji Sundaramoorthy's responsibilities include the generation and testing of physical failure models and testing protocols to ensure reliability in CIGS solar cells. She also manages a roof top testing facility for continuous monitoring and data analysis of 50kW c-Si, CIGS and CdTe panels in order to relate the observations to indoor testing. She utilizes the data under the reliability and outdoor testing programs to support PVMC cost and commercialization analysis models relating to market opportunities supporting the “bankable” large scale deployment of CIGS

Selected publications

J. Nicholas Alexander, R. Sundaramoorthy, D. Metacarpa, J. R. Lloyd and P. Haldar
Initial performance of roof top PV arrays of CIGS, CdTe and c-Si in the US Northeast climate
Proc. 39th IEEE PVSC, Tampa, Florida, June 16-21, 2013. 

R. Sundaramoorthy, F.J. Pern, G. Teeter, Jian V. Li, M. Young, D. Kuciauskas, N. Call, F. Yan, B. To, S. Johnston, R. Noufi and T. A. Gessert
Influence of damp-heat in electrical, optical and morphological properties of encapsulated CIGS devices
Proc. 37th IEEE PVSC, Seattle, Washington, June 19-24, 2011.

Steve Johnston, Thomas Unold, Ingrid Repins, R. Sundaramoorthy, Kim M. Jones, Bobby To, Nathan Call, and Richard Ahrenkiel
Imaging Characterization Techniques Applied to Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells
JVST A Jul/Aug 2010 AIP ID# 038004 JVA

J. D. Perkins, T. Gennett, J. E. Leisch, R. Sundaramoorthy, I. L. Repins, M.F.A.M. van Hest, M. I. Bertoni, K. R. Poepelmeier, T. O. Mason and D. S. Ginley
Amorphous Transparent Conductors for PV Applications
Proc. 35th IEEE PVSC, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 20-25, 2010

F. J. Pern, S. H. Glick, R. Sundaramoorthy, B. To, X. Li, C. DeHart, S. Glynn, T. Gennett, R. Noufi, and T. Gessert
Damp-Heat Instability and Mitigation of ZnO-Based Thin films for CuInGaSe2 Solar Cells
Proc. 35th IEEE PVSC, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 20-25, 2010

R. Sundaramoorthy, F.J. Pern, C. DeHart, T. Gennett, F.Y. Meng, M. Contreras, and T. Gessert
Stability of TCO Window Layers for Thin-Film CIGS Solar Cells upon Damp Heat Exposures–Part II
Proc. SPIE Conference on Reliability of Photovoltaic Cells, Modules, Components, and Systems, Aug. 2-6, 2009, San Diego, CA

R. Sundaramoorthy, I.L.Repins, F.J. Pern, D. Albin, J. Li, M. Contreras, T. Gessert, T. Gennet, J.Perkins, D. Ginley, and C. DeHart
Comparison of Polycrystalline ZnO:Al and Amorphous InZnO as a Conductive Layer for CIGS PV Solar Cells
Proc. 34th IEEE PVSC, Philadelphia, PA, June 7-12, 2009

R. Sundaramoorthy, Karan Agrawal, and Michael H.-C. Jin
Thermally Activated Sulfurization of In-Cu Bilayers for CuInS2 Solar Cells
Proc. 33rd IEEE PVSC, San Diego, CA, May 11-16, 2008 

R. Sundaramoorthy, A. H. Weiss, S. L. Hulbert and R.A. Bartynski
Anomalous Width and Energy Gain Observed in The Later Steps of Auger Cascades in A Solid
Phys. Rev. Letters, 101,127601(2008).

A.H. Weiss, R. Sundaramoorthy, S.L. Hulbert and R.A. Bartynski
Modeling of the Energy Spectra of Individual Steps of the L23→M2,3M2,3→M2,3VV→VVVV Cascade in MnO
The Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 161,(2007),160-163