Andy Ritenour
Senior Solar Cell Scientist for Project Kuiper at Amazon
- Role
- Senior Solar Cell Scientist, Project Kuiper at Amazon
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Andy Ritenour
Photovoltaics, space, strategic sourcing, project management, chemistry, materials science
Experience
Senior Solar Cell Scientist, Project Kuiper
Jan 2020 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Project Kuiper is a long-term initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.• Trade options for solar cell technology and solutions, and provide detailed input on cell selection for current and future satellite designs.• Create and maintain solar cell performance models to understand and predict impact of radiation, temperature and other significant space-environment factors.• Own test campaigns to validate solar cell and array performance, both for design verification and production scenarios.
Education
University of Oregon
PhD
2009 — 2015
Skills
- Design of Experiments
- Chemistry
- Metallization
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- R&D
- Product Development
- Physics
- Solar Cells
- Nanomaterials
- Lithography
- Powder X-Ray Diffraction
- Nanotechnology
- Uv/Vis Spectroscopy
- Thin Films
- Materials
- Mass Spectrometry
- Science
- Optics
- Characterization
- Spectroscopy
- Semiconductors
- Materials Science
- Nmr Spectroscopy
- Sims
- Electron Microscopy
- Solar Energy
- Electrochemistry
- Compound Semiconductors
- Research
- Simulations
- Uv/Vis
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