Orals

Apr. 2024 Adam Goga passed his oral exam. With this, all four group members successfully passed their last exam at UC Davis. Congratulations to all!! A Burgers and Brew party commemorated this milestone.

SETO

Jan. 2024 We have received a new grant from the SETO of DOE to study the degradation of heterojunction and TOPCOn solar cells, in collaboration with NREL.

Adoption

Aug. 2023 Four major heterojunction cell makers, Trina, Longi, Meyer-Burger and Hanwa all came out with new cell designs which have three layer implementations of our “reverse silicon density gradient” architecture for the aSi layer of these cells, which...

SolDeg femto-giga paper

Apr. 2023 Our paper describing the degradation of heterojunction cells from femtoseconds to gigaseconds was just published in Nature Communications Materials.

Si-H GAP

Jun. 2022 Our paper on using Machine Learning to construct the Si-H interatomic potential for the study of solar cell degradation appeared.