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Dr. Benjamin Victor Odari Ombwayo

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Department of Physics

School of Natural Sciences (MMUST)

P.O. Box 190-50100

Kakamega, KENYA

Office no. SPD Block B Room 306

Kakamega-Webuye Road

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-7826

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Dr. Benjamin Victor Odari Ombwayo

Dr. Benjamin Victor Odari is a senior lecturer in Materials Science in the Department of Physics, School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. He graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Education in Science (Physics and Mathematics) in 2009 and Master of Science in Physics in 2013 both from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. He obtained his PhD in Renewable Energy in September 2019 at University of Nairobi, Kenya. Part of his PhD research work was done at the Institute of Energy and Climate Change (IEK5), in Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany with support from DAAD scholarship. Dr. Odari is involved in research infrastructure development and capacity building in the area of Materials Science. He is a member of the African Network for Solar Energy (ANSOLE)  https://www.ansole.org/ & the country representative for Kenya and a number of other scientific networks in the area of energy in Kenya. Dr Odari is also a co-founder and treasurer of Materials Research Society of Kenya (MRS-K)  https://mrsk.or.ke/ . His current research focuses on characterization of materials and devices for solar energy conversion and it involves both experimental and computational studies of materials through modelling and simulations using Quantum Espresso and SIESTA codes & SCAPS and OghmaNano softwares. Dr. Odari is also the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) champion for Kenya, promoting knowledge, understanding and applications of crystallography in Kenya and a reviewer for a number of scientific journals.

Some of his key published works include: -

  1. Nancy Obare, Wycliffe Isoe, Amos Nalianya, Maxwell Mageto,Victor Odari. Numerical study of copper antimony sulphide (CuSbS2) solar cell by SCAPS-1D.Published in Heliyon on 22nd February 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26896
  2. Kipkorir Kirui Pius, Nicholas O. Ongwen, Maxwell Mageto, Victor Odari,and Francis Magiri Gaitho. Mechanical Properties of Al–Mg–Si Alloys (6xxx Series): A DFT-Based Study. Published on 13th September 2023 in Alloy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/alloys2030015
  3. Emmanuel Akoto, Victor Isahi, Victor Odari, Christopher Maghanga and Francis Nyongesa, Monolith Cs1-XRbXSnI3 Perovskite ‒ Silicon 2T Tandem Solar Cell Using SCAPS-1D, Results in Optics, Volume 12, 2023, 100470, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rio.2023.100470.
  4. Victor Odari, Robinson Musembi and Julius Mwabora, Enhanced Performance of Sb2S3 Mesoscopic Sentitized Solar Cells Employing TiO2:Nb Compact Layer, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 2018; 29(19):16359–16368 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-9726-4
  5. Celline Awino, Victor Odari and Thomas Sakwa, Investigation of Structural and Electronic Properties of CH3NH3PbI3 Stabilized by Varying Concentrations of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) (PMMA), Coatings, 2017; 7(8): 115 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings7080115
  6. Benjamin Victor Odari, Robinson Juma Musembi, Maxwell Joel Mageto, Herick Othieno, Francis Gaitho, Mwamburi Mghendi and Valentine Muramba, Optoelectronic properties of F-co-doped PTO thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis, American Journal of Materials Science 2013, 3(4): 91-99 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5923/j.materials.20130304.05.
  7. Wycliffe Isoe, Maxwell Mageto, Christopher Maghanga, Maurice Mwamburi, Victor Odari, and Celline Awino, Thickness Dependence of Window Layer on CH3NH3PbI3-XClX Perovskite Solar Cell, International Journal of Photoenergy, 2020;DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8877744.
  8. Brian Owino, Francis Nyongesa, Alex Ogacho, Bernard Aduda and Victor Odari, Effect of TiO2 Blocking Layer on Photovoltaic Characteristics of TiO2/Nb2O5 Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, MRS Advances, 2020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2020.16
  9. Celline Awino, Godfrey Barasa and Victor Odari, Light Induced Degradation of the Transport Length of CH3NH3PbI3 studied by Modulated Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy after Goodman, Organic Electronics, 2019;DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2019.105503.
  10. Patrick Mwathe, Robinson Musembi, Mathew Munji, Francis Nyongesa, Benjamin Odari, Walter Njoroge, Bernard Aduda and Boniface Muthoka, Effect of Annealing and Surface Passivation on doped SnO2 thin films Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Technique, Advances in Materials, 2015; 4(3): 51-58  Available in http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/am DOI: https://doi.org/10.11648/j.am.20150403.12.
  11. Patrick Mwathe, Robinson Musembi, Mathew Munji, Victor Odari, Lawrence Munguti, Alex Ntilakigwa, John Nguu and Boniface Muthoka, Effect of Surface Passivation on Electrical Properties of Pd-F:SnO2 thin Films Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Technique, Coatings, 2014; 4: 747-755  Available in mdpi.com/journal/coatings.DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings4040747.
  12. Patrick Mwathe, Robinson Musembi, Mathew Munji, Benjamin Odari, Lawrence Munguti, Alex Alfred Ntilakigwa, Julius Mwabora, Walter Njoroge, Bernard Aduda and Boniface Muthoka, Surface passivation effect on CO2 sensitivity of spray pyrolysis deposited Pd-F: SnO2 thin film gas sensor, Advances in Materials, 2014; 3(5): 38-44. Available in http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/am DOI: https://doi.org/10.11648/j.am.20140305.12
  13. Patrick Mwathe, Robinson Musembi, Mathew Munji, Benjamin Odari, Lawrence Munguti, Alex Alfred Ntilakigwa, John Nguu, Bernard Aduda and Boniface Muthoka, Influence of surface passivation on optical properties of spray pyrolysis deposited Pd-F:SnO2, International Journal of Materials Science and Applications,  2014; 3(5): 137-142. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmsa.20140305.11. Available in http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ijmsa.
  14. Benjamin Victor Odari, Robinson Juma Musembi, Maxwell Joel Mageto, Herick Othieno, Francis Gaitho, Mwamburi Mghendi and Valentine Muramba, Optoelectronic properties of F-co-doped PTO thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis, American Journal of Materials Science 2013, 3(4): 91-99 DOI: 10.5923/j.materials.20130304.05 Available in http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.materials.20130304.05.html.
  15. Milimo Amos Nalianya, Celline Awino, Henry Barasa, Victor Odari, Milimo Amos Nalianya , Celline Awino, Henry Barasa, Victor Odari,Francis Gaitho, Benard Omogo, Maxwell Mageto. Numerical study of lead free CsSn0.5Ge0.5I3 perovskite solar cell byNumerical study of lead free CsSn0.5Ge0.5I3 perovskite solar cell bySCAPS-1D. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.168060

Research and innovation Projects

  1. Exploring Biophysics Diversity for Sustainable Industrial and Economic Development.
  2. Density Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics Workshop, Computational and Theoretical Research Group
  3. The Department Of Physics Trains Natural Scientists On How To Use An X-Ray Diffractometer Equipment

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