Advanced Nanostructured Solar Cells (Printed Electronics & Photovoltaics USA 2010)

Dr Erik Garnett, Postdoctoral Scholar - Materials Science dept
Stanford University
United States
 
Dec 02, 2010.

Presentation Summary

  • Nanostructures provide extreme light trapping
  • Radial junctions allow for short minority carrier diffusion lengths and thus lower quality (cheaper) materials to be used
  • Surface passivation provides a significant challenge for implementing nanostructures in photovoltaics
  • Nanostructured inorganic/organic hybrid tandem solar cells are promising for low-cost, high-efficiency devices

Speaker Biography (Erik Garnett)

Erik Garnett received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2004 and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Materials Science department at Stanford University working jointly for Professors Mark Brongersma, Yi Cui, and Mike McGehee to develop advanced nanostructured solar cells.

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