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Kai Zhu is a senior scientist in NREL's Chemistry and Nanoscience Center. He joined NREL in 2004 as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Arthur J. Frank on fundamental charge-carrier transport and recombination in photoelectrochemical cells, especially dye-sensitized solar cells. Prior to NREL, Zhu studied the electrical and optical properties and the device physics of solar cells based on amorphous-silicon thin films and dye-sensitized mesoporous TiO2 films. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Kansas State University, where he worked on III-nitride wide-bandgap semiconductors for high-power blue and ultraviolet light-emitting diodes.

Research Interests

Current research interests are both basic and applied research on perovskite solar cells, including perovskite material development, device fabrication and characterization, and basic understanding of charge-carrier dynamics in these cells.

Research interests have also included hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical cells and nanostructured electrodes for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.

Education/Academic Qualification

PhD, Physics, Syracuse University

Master, Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

Bachelor, Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

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