We're two Ph.D. students who got bored talking about our work all the time and wanted to hear about others. Support comes from the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) Engineering Research Center, funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Sebastian Husein speaks with Abhishek Iyer from the University of Delaware and co-founder of solar energy startup SHIO, winner of the 2018 LaunchR clean technology innovation competition.De către QESST ERC
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Sebastian Husein talks to David Needell at the California Institute of Technology about tiny, luminscent balls for solar cells, the 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion held in Hawaii this summer, and how David might be inadvertently causing volcanoes to erupt all over the globe.De către QESST ERC
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Sebastian Husein and Joe Karas talk to Professor Alex Freundlich from the University of Houston about moon solar cells, cutting chickens with sunlight, and why flies in your vacuum deposition chambers can make your results a little buggy.De către QESST ERC
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Joe and Sebastian interview Simone Bernardini, Ph.D. candidate at Arizona State University. They discuss electron lifetimes in silicon for solar cell applications, the process of publishing in academic journals, and Simone's enjoyment of sun.The work discussed can, in part, be found at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8288645/…
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Joe and Sebastian get to chat with April Jeffries, a PhD candidate in Materials Science at Arizona State University, and Chief Technical Officer of start-up company Reactive Inks, LLC. In this episode, they discuss her work in metal contact innovations for solar cells, getting outside of her comfort zone to do customer discovery in the NSF iCorps p…
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