Kazuki Morita
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Kazuki Morita took bachelor degree in 1983, master degree in 1985, and Doctor of Engineering in 1988 from the University of Tokyo at the Department of Metallurgy. He has his expertise in physical chemistry on high temperature materials processing mostly related to iron- and steelmaking, silicon refining, and materials recycling as a professor at the Department of Materials Engineering in the University of Tokyo. His reported thermodynamic data on impurities in molten silicon has clarified the validity of new metallurgical processes for solar grade silicon refining. In addition, he and his students pursued innovative processes for more effective silicon refining via new principle, one of which is widely known as a solvent refining process with a possibility of higher refining efficiency and lower processing temperature.