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Raghu Bhattacharya is a Senior Scientist/Team Leader at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. degree from IIT, Kharagpur, India in the field of Electronic Materials in 1982. Before joining NREL, Dr. Bhattacharya held several research positions at The Weizmann Institute of Technology, The University of Texas at Arlington and Brooklyn College of CUNY and developed wet chemical processes for the deposition of a variety of thin film semiconductors that are important for energy conversion, storage and transportation. At NREL, Dr. Bhattacharya contributed to the research and development of the highest efficiency CIGS solar cells in the world and was the leader of an effort to develop a low cost CIGS electrodeposition technology. His current research interests include, in addition to the development of CIGS thin film solar cells, electrodeposition of thin films for superconductor applications and wet deposition methods for growing buffer layers for YBCO superconductors. He has published over one hundred and fifty technical papers in the field of processing PV materials and superconductors and has been awarded fourteen patents. He is the author of a book chapter. Dr. Bhattacharya served on various committees of technical conferences and delieved numerous invited lectures at international meetings. | 