RYNINGEN Birgit
Research scientist
Short Bio
Research scientist, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Sustainable Energy Technology
Education: PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of material science (2008), Thesis: Formation and growth of crystal defects in directionally solidified multicrystalline silicon for solar cells. Latest research activity covers growth of dislocation clusters during directional solidification of multicrystalline silicon ingots, High temperature annealing of bent multicrystalline silicon rods, the role of stacking faults on dislocation generation and dislocation cluster formation in multicrystalline silicon, characterization of near Sub-Grain Boundary Dislocations in Directionally Solidified Multicrystalline Silicon, Liquid Scintillation Spectroscopy of 227 Ac and daughters.