Professor Dyck received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University
in 2000 where he studied the low pressure plasma synthesis and
optical characterization of wide-band-gap III-nitride semiconductors.
After his doctoral work, Dr. Dyck was a postdoctoral fellow at
the University of Michigan where he worked on the transport and
magnetic properties of novel thermoelectric and diluted magnetic
semiconductor materials. He joined the faculty of John Carroll
University in August 2003 as Assistant Professor. At JCU, Prof.
Dyck’s experimental condensed matter research lab is centered
on measurements of low temperature electrical and thermal transport
properties of materials, with an aim to reveal underlying electron
and phonon conduction mechanisms in order to optimize their properties
for potential applications. Prof. Dyck maintains active collaborations
with chemists from University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, and
locally at CWRU; as well as with physicists at University of Michigan
to help support his interdisciplinary research program. In the
past four years, eight JCU undergraduate students have been presenters
at local, regional and national scientific conferences and symposia,
and five students have been co-authors on journal publications.
Prof. Dyck has received funding for his research from Research
Corporation. Further, he serves as a reviewer for numerous journals,
is treasurer of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical
Society, and is faculty advisor to the JCU chapter of the Society
of Physics Students.
