Rate My Professor Jeffrey Dyck

Jeffrey Dyck, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at John Carroll University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University in 2000, focusing his dissertation on low pressure plasma synthesis and optical characterization of wide-band-gap III-nitride semiconductors. Earlier, he earned a B.A. in Physics from Goshen College. Between 1999 and 2003, Dyck served as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Michigan, where he specialized in electrical and thermal transport property measurements of thermoelectric and spintronic materials and acquired teaching experience. In 2003, he joined the Physics Department at John Carroll University, which later became the Department of Physics and Engineering.

Dyck's research lies in condensed matter physics, materials science, and solid state physics, with a focus on experimental studies of novel semiconductor materials for green energy applications. Key areas include thermoelectric materials, photovoltaic (solar cell) materials, diluted magnetic semiconductors (spintronics), and electrical and thermal transport properties and measurements. His projects have been funded by the Research Corporation and the National Science Foundation. Prominent publications are "Thermal Conductivity of CH3NH3PbI3 and CsPbI3: Measuring the Effect of the Methylammonium Ion on Phonon Scattering," J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 3228-3233 (2017); "Toward high-performance nanostructured thermoelectric materials: The progress of bottom-up solution chemistry approaches" (2011); "Defect structure of Sb2−xCrxTe3 single crystals" (2008); "Significant suppression of ferromagnetism by hydrostatic pressure in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Sb2-xVxTe3 with x ≲ 0.03" (2007); "Structure inhomogeneities, shallow defects, and charge transport in the series of thermoelectric materials K2Bi8−xSbxSe13" (2006); "Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of Ternary Nanocrystals through Adjusting Carrier Concentration" (2010); and "Seebeck Coefficient Measurements on Micron-Size Single-Crystal Zinc Germanium Nitride Rods" (2016). He instructs courses including Physics I & II with labs, Modern Physics, Experimental Methods of Engineering Physics, Thermodynamics, and Quantum Physics.