Essam H. Alruqobah

Education

Degree	Discipline	Institution	Year
Ph.D.	Chemical Engineering	Purdue University	Dec, 2020
M.Sc.	Chemical Engineering	Purdue University	Aug, 2017
B.Sc.	Chemical Engineering	Kuwait University	Dec, 2014

Functional nanoparticles, Solution-processed Solar Cells and Devices, Sintering and Grain Growth of Functional Materials.

CHE

324

Kinetics and Reactor Design (A)

CHE

343

Heat Transfer

CHE

428

Kinetics and Reactor Design (B)

CHE

445

Thin-Film Structure and Deposition

ENG

209

Engineering Economy

McLeod, S.; Alruqobah, E.; Agrawal, R. Liquid Assisted Grain Growth in Solution Processed
Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)2. Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2019, 195, 12–23.
Alruqobah, E. H.; Agrawal, R. Potassium Treatments for Solution-Processed Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)2 Solar Cells. Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3 (5), 4821–4830.
Ellis, R. G.; Turnley, J. W.; Rokke, D. J.; Fields, J. P.; Alruqobah, E. H.; Deshmukh, S. D.; Kisslinger, K.; Agrawal, R. Hybrid Ligand Exchange of Cu(In,Ga)S 2 Nanoparticles for Carbon Impurity Removal in Solution-Processed Photovoltaics. Chem. Mater. 2020, 32 (12), 5091–5103.
Ellis, R. G.; AlRuqobah, E. H.; Turnley, J. W.; Agrawal, R. Improving Solution Processed CIGSSe Devices Through Colloidal Nanoparticle Ligand Exchange. In 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC); IEEE, 2020; pp 1944–1946.
Suresh, S.; Rokke, D. J.; Drew, A.A.; Alruqobah, E. H. Agrawal, R.; Uhl, A. R. Extrinsic Doping of Ink-based Cu(In, Ga)(S, Se)2 Absorbers for Photovoltaics Applications. Adv. Energy Mater. 2022, 12, 2103961.

Academic Experience

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