Dr. James T. McLeskey Jr.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
E-mai: jtmcleskey@vcu.edu
Phone: (804) 827-7008
Fax: (804) 827-7030
Energy Conversion Systems Lab Web site

Address

401 W. Main Street, Room E3238
P.O. Box 843015
Richmond, Virginia 23284-3015

Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2003
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 1989
B.S. in Physics, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1986

Research topics

Photovoltaic materials and devices
Power generation
Energy conversion systems
Engineering education
Optical characterization of semiconductor materials

Current projects

Alignment of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Polymer Films – U.S.-Egypt Joint Research Board
Photovoltaics from Polymer/Quantum Dot Composites – VCU School of Engineering
Diagonal-Flow, Gap-Pickup Generator Rotor Heat Transfer Model – Alstom Power
The Experiential Engineering Library – NSF
Experimental Investigation of Nanoparticle Entrainment Processes – Philip Morris, USA

Classes taught

EGRM 204 Thermodynamics
ENGR 301 Fluid Mechanics
ENGR 591 Energy Conversion Systems

Journal publications

James T. McLeskey, Jr. and Qiquan Qiao, “Hybrid Solar Cells from Water-Soluble Polymers,” International Journal of Photoenergy, Vol. 2006, Article ID 20951, 6 pages, 2006.
James T. McLeskey, Jr., John E. Speich, Judy Richardson and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, “Evaluation of an Experiential Engineering Library,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22(2), pp. 247-256, 2006.
Qiquan Qiao, James Beck, Ryan Lumpkin, Jake Pretko, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “A Comparison of Fluorine Tin Oxide and Indium Tin Oxide as the Transparent Electrode for P3OT/TiO2 Solar Cells,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 90, pp. 1034-1040, 2006.
Qiquan Qiao, Lianyong Su, James Beck, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Characteristics of Water Soluble Polythiophene:TiO2 Composite and its Application in Photovoltaics,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, p. 094906, 2005.
Qiquan Qiao and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Water-soluble polythiophene /nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 86, p. 153501, 2005.
Jared A. Rud, Leah S. Lovell, Jeremy W. Senn, Qiquan Qiao, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Water soluble polymer/carbon nanotube bulk heterojunction solar cells,” Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 40(6), pp. 1455-1458, March 2005.
B. K. Nayak, B. Eaton, J. A. Anna Selvan, J. McLeskey, M. C. Gupta, R. Romero and G. Ganguly, “Semiconductor laser crystallization of a-Si:H on conducting tin oxide coated glass for solar cell and display applications”, Applied Physics A, 80 (5): 1077-1080 February 2005.
J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “The Femtosecond Energy Diffusion Sensor: A Non-contact Tool for Photovoltaic Characterization”ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 131-137, February 2005.
John E. Speich, James T. McLeskey, Jr., Judy Richardson and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, “The Experiential Engineering Library,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 20(6), 2004.
P.M. Norris, A.P. Caffrey, R. Stevens, J.M. Klopf, J.T. McLeskey, and A.N. Smith, “Femtosecond Pump-Probe Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials.” Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 74, pp. 400-406, 2003.
J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “Femtosecond Transmission Studies of N-type and P-type Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Pumped in the Exponential Band Tails.” Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Vol. 318, pp. 254-261, 2003.
J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “Femtosecond Transmission Studies of a-Si:H, a-SiGe:H and a-SiC:H Alloys Pumped in the Exponential Band Tails,” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 69(2), pp. 165-173, 2001.

Book chapters/sections

James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Turbo-generator Rotor Cooling Calculation” in Heat Transfer Calculations, ed. Myer Kutz, McGraw-Hill, Chap. 7, 2006.
J.T. McLeskey, Jr., “2D Vector Instruction Activity - The Shover and the Shovee,” in Reading to Learn in the Content Areas, by J.S. Richardson and R.F. Morgan, Wadsworth, pp. 393-396, 1999.

Conference proceedings

Qiquan Qiao and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Optimization of photovoltaic devices from layered PTEBS and nanocrystalline TiO2,” Proceedings of the Electro Chemical Society, Los Angeles, October 2005.
Qiquan Qiao, James Beck, and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Photovoltaic Devices from Self-doped Polymers,” Proceedings of the SPIE, San Diego, August 2005.
Qiquan Qiao and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “PTEBS applications in photovoltaic devices,” Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Quantum Solar Energy Conversion, Quantsol 2005, Rauris, Austria, March 14-18, 2005.
James T. McLeskey, Jr., John E. Speich, Judy Richardson and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, “The Creation of an Experiential Engineering Library,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, June, 2004.
Justin M. Costley and James T. McLeskey, Jr., “Diagonal-Flow, gap-pickup generator rotor heat transfer model,” Proceedings of IMECE'03: 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Washington, D.C., November 16-21, 2003.
B. K. Nayak, J. McLeskey, J. A. Anna Selvan, B. Eaton, M. C. Gupta, R. Romero and G. Ganguly, “Semiconductor laser crystallization of a-Si:H” Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 4977, 2003, p 377-380.
James T. McLeskey, Jr. and Donald A. Jordan, “Novel Methods of Increasing Student Interest in Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings of the National Educator’s Workshop, 2003.
J.T. McLeskey, Jr. and P.M. Norris, “Femtosecond Energy Diffusion Studies of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells,” Proceedings of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium 2000 Student Research Conference, pp. 177-181, 2000.
J.T. McLeskey, Jr., A. T-Laforet, D.R. Snow, and J.V. Matthews III, “Generator Rotor Replacement by a Third Party Manufacturer,” Conference Papers of Power-Gen Americas ’95, Anaheim, CA, Vol. 4, pp. 391-401, 1995.