Henry Snaith

For Norman Henry Snaith, see Norman Snaith.
Henry Snaith

Henry Snaith in 2015
Born Henry James Snaith
1977/1978 (age 37–38)[1]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Polymer based photovoltaic diodes (2005)
Doctoral advisor Richard Friend[2][3]
Other academic advisors Michael Grätzel
Doctoral students
  • Priti Tiwana[4]
  • Michael Brown[5]
  • Pablo Docampo[6]
  • Andrew Hey[7]
  • Michael Lee[8]
  • Tomas Leijtens[9]
  • Varun Sivaram[10]
  • Michael Saliba[11]
  • Giles Eperon[12]
Notable awards

Website

Henry James Snaith FRS[13] is a Professor in Physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.[15][16][17][18][19][20]

Education

Snaith was educated at Gresham's School, in Norfolk from 1989 to 1996. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol, followed by postgraduate research at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 2005 for research on polymer solar cells supervised by Richard Friend.[2][3][21]

Career

Following his PhD, Snaith did two years of postdoctoral research with Michael Grätzel at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[2][22] He returned to the Cavendish Laboratory as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 2006. Following this, Snaith was appointed a Research Councils UK research fellow while at the University of Oxford, then promoted to Reader and Professor.

Research

According to a biography from the Materials Research Society (MRS):

“ His research has been focused on new materials and device architectures for future generation low-cost photovoltaic. Snaith's achievements include the first demonstration of “gyroid” structured titania for dye solar cells, the first demonstration of mesoporous single crystals of anataze TiO2 and the recent discovery of high efficiency solid-state organometal trihalide perovskite-based thin film and mesosuperstructured solar cells. In 2010, he founded Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd., which is commercializing perovskite solar cells for building integrated and utility scale photovoltaic applications.[23] ”

Snaith's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[24]

Awards and honours

Snaith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[25] His certificate of election reads:

“ Professor Henry Snaith has pioneered the development of hybrid materials for energy and photovoltaics through an interdisciplinary combination of materials synthesis, device development, advanced optoelectronic characterisations and theoretical studies. He has created new materials with advanced functionality and enhanced understanding of fundamental mechanisms. His recent discovery of extremely efficient thin-film solar cells manufactured from organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites has reset aspirations within the photovoltaics community. His work has started a new field of research, attracting both academic and industrial following, propelled by the prospect of delivering a higher efficiency photovoltaic technology at a much lower cost than existing silicon PV.[13] ”

In 2014, Snaith was awarded the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award.[14] He was awarded the Patterson Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2012, and named as one of Nature's ten people who mattered in 2013.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Anon (2013). "365 days: Nature's 10, Ten people who mattered this year". Nature 504 (7480): 357. doi:10.1038/504357a.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Prof Henry Snaith, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer". oxfordpv.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-22.
  3. 1 2 Snaith, H. J.; Arias, A. C.; Morteani, A. C.; Silva, C.; Friend, R. H. (2002). "Charge Generation Kinetics and Transport Mechanisms in Blended Polyfluorene Photovoltaic Devices". Nano Letters 2 (12): 1353. doi:10.1021/nl0257418.
  4. ↑ Tiwana, Priti (2013). Ultrafast charge dynamics in mesoporous materials used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  5. ↑ Brown, Michael David (2012). Light harvesting and photoconversion efficiency enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cells via molecular and photonic advancements (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  6. ↑ Docampo, Pablo (2012). Electronic properties of mesostructured metal oxides in dye-sensitized solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  7. ↑ Hey, Andrew Stuart (2013). Series interconnects and charge extraction interfaces for hybrid solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  8. ↑ Lee, Michael M. (2013). Organic-inorganic hybrid photovoltaics based on organometal halide perovskites (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  9. ↑ Leijtens, Tomas (2014). Charge transport in disordered semiconductors in solid state sensitized solar cells : influence on performance and stability (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  10. ↑ Sivaram, Varun (2014). Simulation, synthesis, sunlight : enhancing electronic transport in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  11. ↑ Saliba, Michael (2014). Plasmonic nanostructures and film crystallization in perovskite solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  12. ↑ Eperon, Giles (2015). Active layer control for high efficiency perovskite solar cells (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  13. 1 2 3 "Professor Henry Snaith FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.
  14. 1 2 Anon (2014). "Henry J. Snaith named 2014 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for perovskite hybrid solar cells" (PDF). MRS Bulletin (journals.cambridge.org) 39 (4): 375. doi:10.1557/mrs.2014.76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-05.
  15. ↑ Henry Snaith's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  16. ↑ Lee, M. M.; Teuscher, J.; Miyasaka, T.; Murakami, T. N.; Snaith, H. J. (2012). "Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites". Science 338 (6107): 643. doi:10.1126/science.1228604. PMID 23042296.
  17. ↑ Liu, M.; Johnston, M. B.; Snaith, H. J. (2013). "Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition". Nature 501 (7467): 395–8. doi:10.1038/nature12509. PMID 24025775.
  18. ↑ Stranks, S. D.; Eperon, G. E.; Grancini, G.; Menelaou, C.; Alcocer, M. J. P.; Leijtens, T.; Herz, L. M.; Petrozza, A.; Snaith, H. J. (2013). "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber". Science 342 (6156): 341–4. doi:10.1126/science.1243982. PMID 24136964.
  19. ↑ Hardin, B. E.; Snaith, H. J.; McGehee, M. D. (2012). "The renaissance of dye-sensitized solar cells". Nature Photonics 6 (3): 162. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2012.22.
  20. ↑ Presentation by Henry Snaith at the 3rd Oxford Energy Conference in 2014 on YouTube
  21. ↑ Snaith, Henry James (2005). Polymer based photovoltaic diodes (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 890157906.
  22. ↑ Snaith, H. J.; Moule, A. J.; Klein, C. D.; Meerholz, K.; Friend, R. H.; Grätzel, M. (2007). "Efficiency Enhancements in Solid-State Hybrid Solar Cells via Reduced Charge Recombination and Increased Light Capture". Nano Letters 7 (11): 3372. doi:10.1021/nl071656u.
  23. ↑ "Outstanding Young Investigator Award 2014". Materials Research Society. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03.
  24. ↑ "UK Government Research Grants awarded to Henry Snaith". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23.
  25. ↑ "Professor Henry Snaith FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)
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