Sam Stranks

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Sam Stranks
Born
Samuel David Stranks

29.05.1985
Alma mater
  • University of Adelaide (BSc, BSc (Hons))
  • University of Oxford (DPhil/PhD in Condensed Matter Physics)
Awards
  • University Medal, University of Adelaide (2007)
  • Rhodes Scholarship (2008)
  • Institute of Physics Roy Thesis Prize (2012)[1]
  • IUPAP Young Scientist in Semiconductor Physics Prize (2016) [2]
  • TED Fellow (2016)[3]
  • MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 Innovators Europe (2017) [4]
  • Early Career Prize, European Physical Society (2017)[5]
  • Henry Moseley Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (2018) [6]
  • Marlow Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)[7]
  • Stuart R. Wenham Young Professional in Photovoltaics Award, IEEE (2021)[8]
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics (2021)[9]
  • Energy and Environmental Science Lectureship (2021)[10]
  • Stanisław Lem European Research Prize (2022)[11]
Scientific career
Fields
  • Physics
  • Solar cells
  • Perovskite solar cells
  • Photovoltaics
  • Optoelectronics
  • Time-resolved spectroscopy
Institutions
  • University of Cambridge
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Adelaide
ThesisInvestigating carbon nanotube - polymer blends for organic solar cell applications (2012)
Doctoral advisorRobin Nicholas
Websitehttps://www.stranks.oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/

Samuel David Stranks (born 1985) is an award-winning British and Australian scientist. He is Professor of Optoelectronics in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge.

Stranks' research focuses on the development of halide perovskite materials for photovoltaic and light-emitting applications. He is known for first demonstrating the long charge carrier transport lengths in halide perovskites[12], enabling planar heterojunction solar cell device architectures (cited almost 10,000 times), and developing the first recombination models that are now standards in the field[13]. He has also developed multimodal microscopy approaches to understand local nanoscale material properties, drawing direct insights into performance[14], structure[15] and instabilities[16] in perovskite materials. He is commercialising the perovskite photovoltaic technology through the startup he co-founded in 2017, Swift Solar, based in San Carlos, developing high-performance perovskite solar cells.[17].

Stranks is an Associate Editor at the AAAS journal Science Advances, and sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the journals ACS Energy Letters and Advanced Energy Materials. He is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

Education

Stranks was educated at Scotch College in Adelaide, South Australia from 1998-2002. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide in 2007, majoring in Physics, Theoretical Physics and Chemistry (BSc) and Applied Mathematics and German Studies (BA). His Honours thesis focused on the aggregation of proteins in white wine[18], working with Professors John Carver and Lorenz von Smekal. Stranks was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship (South Australia, 2008) to undertake his DPhil (PhD) in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Oxford and St John’s College in 2008 under the supervision of Professors Robin Nicholas and Michael Johnston, which he completed in 2012. His thesis work investigated the wrapping of carbon nanotubes with light-absorbing organic polymers, and charge transfer between the polymer and nanotube to enable new device applications[19].

Career and research

Following his DPhil, Stranks completed two years of postdoctoral research with Professor Henry Snaith at the University of Oxford, whilst holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford. He then received a Marie Curie Fellowship which he held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Professor Vladimir Bulovic (2014-2016). In 2017, he took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge where he founded his research group, Strankslab[20]. Stranks was appointed an Assistant Professor (University Lecturer) in Energy in 2019 and promoted to Professor of Optoelectronics in 2022.

Stranks has co-authored over 210 publications[21]. He has been listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in two categories every year since 2019[22].

Stranks’ research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), European Research Council, the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust.

Awards and honours

In 2017, Stranks was awarded a European Physical Society Early Career Prize for his “seminal contributions to optical and electronic properties of hybrid perovskites, for their use in high-performance, low-cost photovoltaics and broader optoelectronic applications”[23].

In 2018, Stranks received the Institute of Physics Henry Moseley Medal and Prize for “For his work in pioneering the understanding of the photoexcited states in metal halide perovskite semiconductor materials as used in efficient solar cells, including their diffusion, collection and recombination”[24].

In 2019, Stranks was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Marlow award for “contributions to the development of hybrid perovskite semiconductor devices through fundamental understanding of the relationships between photophysical, chemical and material properties”[25].

In 2021, Stranks received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Stuart R. Wenham Young Professional award for being “a pioneer in halide perovskite photovoltaics”[26]. He was also awarded the Phillip Leverhulme Prize in Physics for “work on the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductor materials for transformative optoelectronic applications”[27], and received the 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Energy and Environmental Science Lectureship for his “pioneering contributions to the field of halide perovskite optoelectronics, including understanding carrier recombination, complex structure-function relationships and device performance”[28].

References

  1. ↑ "Staff | University of Oxford Department of Physics". www2.physics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "C8: News - IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics". IUPAP. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  3. ↑ "Meet the 2016 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows | TED Blog". TED Blog. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Sam Stranks | Innovators Under 35". www.innovatorsunder35.com. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "EPS announces the winners of the EPS Early Career Prize | e-EPS". www.epsnews.eu. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "Henry Moseley Medal and Prize recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "Faraday early career prize: Marlow Prize - previous winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "IEEE PVSC 48". ieee-pvsc.org. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  10. ↑ "Winner of the 2021 EES Lectureship: Samuel Stranks – EES Blog". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Cambridge scientist receives the Lem Prize 2022". pwr.edu.pl. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  12. ↑ Stranks, Samuel D.; Eperon, Giles E.; Grancini, Giulia; Menelaou, Christopher; Alcocer, Marcelo J. P.; Leijtens, Tomas; Herz, Laura M.; Petrozza, Annamaria; Snaith, Henry J. (18 October 2013). "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber". Science. 342 (6156): 341–344. doi:10.1126/science.1243982. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24136964.
  13. ↑ Stranks, Samuel D.; Burlakov, Victor M.; Leijtens, Tomas; Ball, James M.; Goriely, Alain; Snaith, Henry J. (11 September 2014). "Recombination Kinetics in Organic-Inorganic Perovskites: Excitons, Free Charge, and Subgap States". Physical Review Applied. 2 (3): 034007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.034007. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  14. ↑ Doherty, Tiarnan A. S.; Winchester, Andrew J.; Macpherson, Stuart; Johnstone, Duncan N.; Pareek, Vivek; Tennyson, Elizabeth M.; Kosar, Sofiia; Kosasih, Felix U.; Anaya, Miguel; Abdi-Jalebi, Mojtaba; Andaji-Garmaroudi, Zahra; Wong, E. Laine; Madéo, Julien; Chiang, Yu-Hsien; Park, Ji-Sang; Jung, Young-Kwang; Petoukhoff, Christopher E.; Divitini, Giorgio; Man, Michael K. L.; Ducati, Caterina; Walsh, Aron; Midgley, Paul A.; Dani, Keshav M.; Stranks, Samuel D. (April 2020). "Performance-limiting nanoscale trap clusters at grain junctions in halide perovskites". Nature. 580 (7803): 360–366. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2184-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32296189.
  15. ↑ Doherty, Tiarnan A. S.; Nagane, Satyawan; Kubicki, Dominik J.; Jung, Young-Kwang; Johnstone, Duncan N.; Iqbal, Affan N.; Guo, Dengyang; Frohna, Kyle; Danaie, Mohsen; Tennyson, Elizabeth M.; Macpherson, Stuart; Abfalterer, Anna; Anaya, Miguel; Chiang, Yu-Hsien; Crout, Phillip; Ruggeri, Francesco Simone; Collins, Sean; Grey, Clare P.; Walsh, Aron; Midgley, Paul A.; Stranks, Samuel D. (24 December 2021). "Stabilized tilted-octahedra halide perovskites inhibit local formation of performance-limiting phases". Science. 374 (6575): 1598–1605. doi:10.1126/science.abl4890. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 34941391.
  16. ↑ Macpherson, Stuart; Doherty, Tiarnan A. S.; Winchester, Andrew J.; Kosar, Sofiia; Johnstone, Duncan N.; Chiang, Yu-Hsien; Galkowski, Krzysztof; Anaya, Miguel; Frohna, Kyle; Iqbal, Affan N.; Nagane, Satyawan; Roose, Bart; Andaji-Garmaroudi, Zahra; Orr, Kieran W. P.; Parker, Julia E.; Midgley, Paul A.; Dani, Keshav M.; Stranks, Samuel D. (July 2022). "Local nanoscale phase impurities are degradation sites in halide perovskites". Nature. 607 (7918): 294–300. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04872-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 35609624.
  17. ↑ "Sustain Education". Sustain Education.
  18. ↑ Stranks, Samuel D.; Ecroyd, Heath; Van Sluyter, Steven; Waters, Elizabeth J.; Carver, John A.; von Smekal, Lorenz (9 November 2009). "Model for amorphous aggregation processes". Physical Review E. 80 (5): 051907. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051907. PMID 20365006.
  19. ↑ Stranks, Samuel D.; Weisspfennig, Christian; Parkinson, Patrick; Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M.; Nicholas, Robin J. (12 January 2011). "Ultrafast Charge Separation at a Polymer−Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Molecular Junction". Nano Letters. 11 (1): 66–72. doi:10.1021/nl1036484. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 21105722.
  20. ↑ "Strankslab". Strankslab. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  21. ↑ "Stranks- Google Scholar". Stranks- Google Scholar. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  22. ↑ "Highly Cited Researchers". Clarivate. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  23. ↑ Lee, David. "EPS announces the winners of the EPS Early Career Prize". European Physical Society. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  24. ↑ "Henry Moseley Medal and Prize recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  25. ↑ "Marlow Award Previous WInners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  26. ↑ "STUART R. WENHAM YOUNG PROFESSIONAL AWARD". IEEE. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  27. ↑ "2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners". Leverhulme Trust.
  28. ↑ Holmes, Sarah. "Winner of the 2021 EES Lectureship: Samuel Stranks". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 October 2023.

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