Dylan ColvinAssistant Professor
Solar Energy Research
(321) 638-1472
dylan.colvin@ucf.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 2022
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 2019
Research Focus:
Dr. Dylan J. Colvin began working in photovoltaic (PV) module reliability and characterization in 2017. When he started at FSEC in 2018, he worked on providing characterization services for projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories in collaboration with local utilities, module manufacturers, and test equipment manufacturers. During this time, he was co-developing an electroluminescence (EL) analysis technique and a method to extract cell and polymer samples from PV modules. This EL analysis derives non-contact cell-level performance (dark current-voltage) using a series of EL images, removing the need for destructive testing, and has been used to study cell performance distributions on several technologies. Sample extraction has been used to develop a novel model for contact corrosion, as well as study contact corrosion in several systems, and polarization-type potential-induced (PID-p) in bifacial modules.
Currently, Dr. Colvin manages FSEC's PV Module Characterization Facility. His current research focuses on studying multi-modal root-cause analysis, ultraviolet fluorescence (UVF) image analysis, machine learning for image defect segmentation, PV data ontology development, PID-p degradation in bifacial PV modules, and thin-film module reliability.
Dr. Colvin is an active member of IEEE.