Dr. M. Nilgun Ozer 

MEP Director 

Education 

Positions Held 

• 1976-85 - Instructor, Faculty of Art and Sciences, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1985-89 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1989-90 - Visiting Professor: Fulbright Scholar, Department of Materials Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• 1990-93 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1993-96 - Visiting Professor, Energy & Environment Division, Lawrance Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
• 1996-98 - Professor, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1998-2001 - Visiting Research Professor, MSME Dept, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• 2001-Present - MEP Director, School of Enginnering & Computer Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

• Guess Editor for the Special Issue on Sol-Gel Processing of  Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 2001
• Scientific Commitee Member for the 2001 SPIE Annual Meeting on Switching Materials San Diego, CA
• Scientific Commitee Member for the 1999 44^th Annual Meeting of the SPIE, Denver, CO
• Editorial Board Member- Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 1996-Present

Research Interests 

Fabrication of metaloxide coatings by using sol-gel process;

Sol-gel synthesis of Piezoelectric thin films;

Preparation of electrochromic devices and displays;

Studying the film property, microstructure relationship, and optical properties of the sol-gel deposited films.

Selected Publications 

• "Structural and Optical Properties of Sol-Gel Deposited Proton Contucting Tantalum Oxide Films", N. Ozer and C. M. Lampert, J. Sol-Gel Science ad Technology, (1997) 703. 
• "Optical Properties of Dip Coated Ta2O5 Films" F. Tepehan, F. Ghodsi, N. Ozer, and G. Tepehan, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 46 (1997) 311. 
• "Optical and Electrochemical Characteristics of Sol-Gel Deposited Tungsten Oxide Films: A Comparison", N. Ozer, Thin Solid Films, 304 (1997) 310. 
• "Electrochemical Properties of Sol-Gel Deposited Vanadium Pentoxide Films", N. Ozer, Thin Solid Films, 305 (1997) 80. 
• "Analysis of Binary Electrochromic Tungsten Oxides with Effective Medium Theory", N. Von Rottkay, N. Ozer, M.D. Rubin, and T. Richardson, Thin Solid Films, 308-309 (1997) 50. 
• "Electrochromic Characterization of Co(OH)2 Thin Film Prepared by Sol-Gel Process", N. Ozer, D. G. Chen, T. Buyuklimanli, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 52 (1998) 223. 
• "Electrochromic Characterization of Sol-Gel Deposited Coatings", N. Ozer and C. M. Lampert, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 54 (1998) 147. 
• "Optical Indices of Lithiated Electrochromic Oxides", M. D. Rubin, K. Von Rottkay, S. J. Wen and N. Ozer, and J. Slack, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 54(1998) 4. 
• "Electrochromic Properties of Sol-Gel Deposited Ti Doped Vanadium Oxide Films", N. Ozer, S. Sabuncu and J. Cronin, Thin Solid Films, 338 (1999) 141. 
• "Electrochromic Performance of Sol-Gel Deposited Iron Oxide Films", N. Ozer and F. Tepehan, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 56 (1999) 141. 
• "Electrochromic Performance of Sol-Gel Deposited WO3-V2O5 Films", N. Ozer and C. M. Lampert, Thin Solid Films, 349 (1999) 205. 
• "Optical Properties of Sol-Gel Dip Coated Ta2O5 Films for EC applications," F. Tepehan, F. Ghodsi, N. Ozer, ad G. Tepehan, Solar Energy Materials  Solar Cells, 59 (1999) 265.
• "Optical Properties of Sol-Gel Deposited Al2O3 Films," N. Ozer, J. Cronin and J. Yaho and A. P. Tomsia, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 59 (1999) 355.
• "Electrochromic Performance of Sol-Gel Deposited CeO2 Films," N. Ozer, J. Cronin and S. Akyuz, SPIE Vol. 3788 (1999) 14.
• "Preparation of Amorphous Al2O3 Films by the Sol-Gel Process," N. Ozer, J.P. Cronin and A.P. Tomsia, SPIE Vol. 3787 (1999) 31.
• "Preparation and Optical Characterization of Sol-Gel deposited PZT Films," J. Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 19 (2000) 157.
• "FT-IR Spectroscopic Investigations of Benzidine and Bipyridyls Adsorbed on Diatomite from Anatolia,"Sevim Akyuz, T. Akyuz and M.N. Ozer/J. Molecular Structure, Vol: 565-566 (2001) 493.
• "Optical Properties and Electrochromic Characterization of Sol-Gel Deposited Ceria Films," N. Ozer, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 68 (2001) 391.
• "Optical Properties of PbTiO3 Films Deposited by Sol-Gel Process and Pulsed Laser Deposition: A Comparison," N. Ozer, L. Tsakalakos, S. Akyuz and T. Sands, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4458 (2001) 211.
• "In-situ Spectroscopic Studies of Electrochromic Tungsten Oxide Films," N.Ozer, M. Demirbas and S. Ozyurt, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4458 (2001) 169.