Education:
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, U. of Washington, 1986
Experience:
From 1994 to present Dr. Morgan has been at EDTEK. He has been principle investigator for three major thermophotovoltaic development programs. Most recently he has been principle investigator for a U. S. Department of Defense program to develop a lightweight, portable, diesel fueled TPV generator for battle field use. Earlier he was principle investigator of a Phase II SBIR project to establish pilot production capability of large area resonant micromesh TPV filters at EDTEK. This project included the design and construction of the ion accelerator lithography exposure system, the substrate step and repeat x-y motion control system, and the final filter reactive ion etch system. He has directed or conducted the fabrication of silicon membrane stencils at the University of Houston (UH) as well as participating in the particle beam exposures of samples in the UH experimental Masked Ion Beam Lithography (MIBL) system. He conducted the efforts at Cornell University to develop and etch the micromesh filter structures. He also directed the efforts for physically modeling the TPV filters and measuring their performance results. Additionally, Dr. Morgan was the principal designer for the EDTEK TPV power system utilizing a radioisotope blackbody heat source and the EDTEK infrared bandpass filter. Dr. Morgan served as the technical team leader for the EDTEK/Orbital Sciences “Optimization of Thermophotovoltaic Components” project which formed the staging work leading to the current proposal. His physical model of the TPV cavity was successfully verified by measurements of TPV electrical, thermal, and optical characteristics.
From 1986 to 1994 Dr. Morgan worked at the Boeing High Technology Center. He was Principle Investigator on a JPL/NASA contract to demonstrate radioisotope thermophotovoltaic (RTPV) energy conversion feasibility. He successfully modeled, designed, fabricated, and tested resonant inductive mesh filters. In addition, he has modeled the electrical, thermal, optical, and radiation performance of GaSb TPV systems. He has also conducted original research on the properties and application of candidate isotope systems for radioisotope thermophotovoltaic applications. He was the principle investigator on a solar photovoltaic concentrator spaceflight experiment which operated successfully on The Living Plume Shield-III (LIPS-III) satellite flown by the Naval Research Laboratory. Dr. Morgan has issued 27 publications and co-author of two TPV-related inventions.
Patents:
Dr. Morgan has co-authored two TPV-related inventions. Filter Array For Modifying Radiant Thermal Energy Mark Morgan and W. E. Horne, Patent No. 5,611,870, March 18, 1997. Method for Fabricating Resonant Micromesh IR Filters Mark Morgan and W. E. Horne, Patent No. 5,861,226, Jan. 19, 1999.
Publications:
Dr. Morgan has published many papers in his field. Some of the more relevant ones are presented below.
Application of optical filters fabricated by masked ion beam lithography, M. D. Morgan, et. al. J. Vac. Sci. Technology B 14(6), Nov/Dec 1996.
Fabrication of silicon stencil masks with vitreous carbon ion-absorbing coatings, M. D. Morgan et. al., J. Vac. Sci. Technology B 16(6), Nov/Dec 1998.
A 500 Watt Diesel Fueled TPV Portable Power Supply, M.D. Morgan, et. al., Proceedings Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity, Rome, Italy, 2002.