Accelerated Discovery of Earth-Abundant Zintl-Compound Semiconductors for High-Voltage, High-Radiative-Efficiency Solar Cells with >30% Efficiency
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Accelerated Discovery of Earth-Abundant Zintl-Compound Semiconductors for High-Voltage, High-Radiative-Efficiency Solar Cells with >30% Efficiency
PI: Harry Atwater
Research Team: Mina Mandic and Amelyn Phang
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Sunlight to Everything Initiative
2025 Explorer grant
We propose an accelerated discovery program to synthesize and characterize a new class of solar energy materials, Zintl-compound semiconductors, for high-efficiency photovoltaic applications through combinatorial thin-film synthesis, and closed-loop characterization, targeting high radiative efficiency and tunable bandgaps for single- and tandem-junction solar cell applications.