Institute: Rudjer Bošković
Institute, Division ofMaterials
Physics, Bijenička 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Email: capan at irb.hr
http://www.irb.hr/users/capan
Education:
02/2001:B.Sc. in
Physics, University of Zagreb, Thesis: Influence
of structural defects on oxygen and carbon complexes in silicon.
09/2004: M.Sc. in Physics, UoZ, Thesis: Temperature-Dependent
Defect Production in g-irradiated Silicon.
11/2006: Ph.D. in
Physics, UoZ, Thesis: Electrically active
defects in silicon and germanium induced by radiation, Thesis supervisors:
dr.BrankoPivac and prof. Anthony R. Peaker (This work has been
done at Rudjer Boskovic Institute & The
University of Manchester).
Career:
April 2001 - November 2006: Research
Assistant at RudjerBoškovićInstitute;
2002 - 2003: Research Visitor at Centre
for Electronic Materials, UMIST, Manchester,
UK;
December 2006 - July 2008: Senior Research
Assistant at RBI;
July 2008 – May 2012: Research Associate at
RBI;
May 2012 – July 2021: Senior Research
Associate at RBI;
2018 - : Head of Laboratory for
Semiconductors at RBI;
July 2021 - : Senior Scientist at RBI;
Achievements:
1999: Rector’s award for the best student
scientific work
2002-2003: Scholarship of the British
Scholarship Trust
2006: National Science Award for Junior
Researchers
Research projects:
·Atom probe tomography and electrical characterization of doping in Germanium
(COGITO Croatian-French bilateral project 2009-2010) - principal
investigator
·Silicon
nanocrystals solar cells ... Properties and characterization (Unity Through
Knowledge Fund – Young Researchers Program; 01.10.2009 - 30.09.2011) –
principal investigator
·COST Action MP 0901: Designing Materials
for Nanodevices – from Theory to Practice (NanoTP,
2011-2014)– MC member
·Doping
semiconductor nanocrystals by neutron transmutation method (Croatian-Slovenian
bilateral project 2012-2013) – principal investigator
·Comparison
between electrical and structural properties of doped germanium nanocrystals
(Croatian-German bilateral project 2012-2013) – principal investigator
·Hybrid
solar cells based on polymers and 1D TiO2 nanostructures (Croatian-Slovenian
bilateral project 2014-2016) – principal investigator