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Investigators in Solar

Harry A. Atwater	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Projects:	Plasmonic Photovoltaics Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water

Alan Aspuru-Guzik	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
GCEP Project:	Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells

Zhenan Bao	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Organic electronic materials and flexible electronics, self-assembly, carbon nanotube based flexible electronics, organic solar cells
GCEP Projects:	Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells

Stacey Bent	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Semiconductor Processing and Reactivity, Surface Science, Materials Chemistry
GCEP Project:	Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD

Paul Braun	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Material Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry
Secondary Affiliation:	Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
GCEP Project:	Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter

Mark Brongersma	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Optical properties of metallic and semiconductor nanostructures
GCEP Projects:	Plasmonic Photovoltaics Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells

Gavin Conibeer	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Centre of Excellence for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaic and Photonics, University of New South Wales
Area of Study:	Third Generation or Advanced Photovoltaics
GCEP Projects:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells

Yi Cui	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Nanowires and Nanocrystals for Energy Science, Nanoelectornics and Biosensing
GCEP Projects:	Safe, Inexpensive, and Very High Power Batteries For Use To Reduce Short Term Transients on the Electric Grid Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Battery Electrodes with Nanowire Architectures Exploratory Project - Nanowire-Nanocrystal Multiexciton Solar Cells Exploratory Project - Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials

Jennifer Dionne	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Plasmonic and nanocrystalline metamaterials for nanoscale optical manipulation, imaging, computation, and solar-energy conversion
GCEP Project:	Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion

Shanhui Fan	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
GCEP Projects:	Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells

Harry B. Gray	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project:	Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water

Martin Green	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, University of New South Wales
Secondary Affiliation:	Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering
Area of Study:	Photovoltaics, Semiconductors, Physics of Energy Conversion
GCEP Projects:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells

Arthur Grossman	Email \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Carnegie Institution of Science, Department of Plant Biology
Secondary Affiliation:	Biology Department, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Genetics and Genomics of Acclimation in Photosynthetic Organisms
GCEP Project:	Photosynthetic Bioelectricity

Jean-Francois Guillemoles	Email
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter

James Harris	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering - Solid State Photonics Laboratory, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Nanofabrication, Optoelectronics, Non-linear Optics, Single Electron Devices, Quantum Computing
GCEP Project:	Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD

Nathan Lewis	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
GCEP Project:	Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water

Antonio Luque	Email \| Bio
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter

Antonio Marti	Email
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter

Michael D. McGehee	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Electrical and Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors.
GCEP Projects:	Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Exploratory Project - Nanotube Networks as Transparent Electrodes for Solar Cells Exploratory Project - Spectroscopic Characterization of Multi-Exciton Generation Efficiency in Nano-Structured Materials

Nick Melosh	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering
Secondary Affiliation:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
GCEP Project:	Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems

Yoshio Nishi	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Material Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Resistance Change Memory, Vertical MOS devices, Bio FETs, and Solar cells and dye sensitization
GCEP Project:	Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells

Peter Peumans
Department Affiliation:	Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Organic and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Devices for Energy Conversion
GCEP Projects:	Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells

Albert Polman	Email \| Bio
Department Affiliation:	Debye Institute, Surfaces, Interfaces and Devices
GCEP Project:	Plasmonic Photovoltaics

Fritz Prinz	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Secondary Affiliation:	Materials Sciences and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	Fuel Cells and Bio-sensing
GCEP Projects:	Battery Electrodes with Nanowire Architectures Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Ceramic Materials for Fuel Cells Exploratory Project - Feasibility of a Novel Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion Device Micro- and Nano-Scale Electrochemistry Applied to Fuel Cells Monitoring Bioconversion Processes Exploratory Project - Carbon-ion Conducting Thin Film Membranes Towards Efficient CO₂ Separation

Alberto Salleo	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Area of Study:	GCEP Exploratory Effort: Nanostructured ZnO as a Solution-Processable Transparent Electrode Material for Low Cost Photovoltaics
GCEP Projects:	Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Exploratory Project - Nanostructured ZnO as a Solution-Processable Transparent Electrode Material for Low Cost Photovoltaics

Timothy Schmidt	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
GCEP Project:	Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter

Alan Sellinger	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
GCEP Project:	Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV)

Zhi-Xun Shen	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM)
Secondary Affiliation:	Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Area of Study:	Applied Physics
GCEP Project:	Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems

Michael Toney	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	Stanford Synchrotron Lightsource (SSRL), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
GCEP Project:	Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design: A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells

H.-S. Philip Wong	Email \| Bio \| Lab
Department Affiliation:	The Stanford Nanotechnology/Nanoelectronics group
GCEP Project:	Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells