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Sam Stranks
Born
Samuel David Stranks

1985
Alma mater
Awards
  • Henry Moseley Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics (2018).[1]
  • Marlow Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)[2]
  • Energy and Environmental Science Lectureship (2021)[3]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
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 is a Professor of Optoelectronics in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge[4] and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

He is a co-founder of Swift Solar, a startup based in San Carlos which is developing high-performance perovskite solar cells. He is also a co-founder of Sustain Education, a non-profit developing educational materials for school-age children around climate change solutions.[5]

Education

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Stranks completed his undergraduate studies in Physics, Theoretical Physics and Chemistry, Applied Mathematics and German Studies at the University of Adelaide in 2007.

He undertook his DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics at St John’s College at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Robin Nicholas and Michael Johnston. His doctoral thesis was titled "Investigating carbon nanotube-polymer blends for organic solar cell applications".[6]

Career and research

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Stranks undertook two years of postdoctoral research with Henry Snaith as a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He then undertook two further years of optoelectronics research with Vladimir Bulovic as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This research focused on demonstrating long charge carrier transport lengths in halide perovskites,[7] enabling planar heterojunction solar cell device architectures, and developing recombination models.[8] It used multimodal microscopy approaches to study local nanoscale material properties, performance,[9] structure[10] and instabilities[11] in perovskite materials.

In 2017 he founded the Optoelectronic Materials and Device Spectroscopy Group[12] Strankslab at the University of Cambridge to research "the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors for low-cost, transformative electronics applications including light-harvesting (e.g. photovoltaic) and light-emission (eg LED) devices."[13]

Stranks is an Associate Editor at the AAAS journal Science Advances, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for the journals ACS Energy Letters and Advanced Energy Materials.

Awards and honours

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In 2018, Stranks received the Institute of Physics Henry Moseley Medal and Prize.[14] In 2019, Stranks was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Marlow award.[15]

In 2021, Stranks received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Stuart R. Wenham Young Professional award.[16] He was also awarded the Phillip Leverhulme Prize in Physics [17] and received the 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Energy and Environmental Science Lectureship for his “contributions to the field of halide perovskite optoelectronics, including understanding carrier recombination, complex structure-function relationships and device performance”[18]

In 2022, he was awarded the Stanisław Lem European Research Prize.[19]

References

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  1. ^ "Henry Moseley Medal and Prize recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Faraday early career prize: Marlow Prize - previous winners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Winner of the 2021 EES Lectureship: Samuel Stranks – EES Blog". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Professor Sam Stranks". www.ceb.cam.ac.uk. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Sustain Education". Sustain Education.
  6. ^ Stranks, Samuel (2012). "Investigating carbon nanotube - polymer blends for organic solar cell applications". Oxford University Research Archive.
  7. ^ 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. Bibcode:2013Sci...342..341S. doi:10.1126/science.1243982. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24136964. S2CID 10314803.
  8. ^ 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. Bibcode:2014PhRvP...2c4007S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.034007. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  9. ^ 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. Bibcode:2020Natur.580..360D. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2184-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32296189. S2CID 215775389.
  10. ^ 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. Bibcode:2021Sci...374.1598D. doi:10.1126/science.abl4890. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 34941391. S2CID 245445747.
  11. ^ 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. Bibcode:2022Natur.607..294M. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04872-1. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 35609624. S2CID 249044114.
  12. ^ "Strankslab". Strankslab. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  13. ^ Stranks, Samuel. "Optoelectronic Materials and Device Spectroscopy Group (StranksLab)". Optoelectronic Materials and Device Spectroscopy Group (StranksLab). Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  14. ^ "Henry Moseley Medal and Prize recipients". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  15. ^ "Marlow Award Previous WInners". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  16. ^ "Stuart R. Wenham Young Professional Award". IEEE. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  17. ^ "2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners". Leverhulme Trust.
  18. ^ Holmes, Sarah. "Winner of the 2021 EES Lectureship: Samuel Stranks". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  19. ^ "Cambridge scientist receives the Lem Prize 2022". Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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