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  • 2017 - James Joule Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics for metal-halide perovskite solar cells
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Henry J. Snaith is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where their research focuses primarily on engineering and materials science. Their work concentrates on subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

Henry J. Snaith has a significant publication record, with frequent appearances in several scientific journals and conferences. Key venues where their research has been published include:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Laura M. Herz
  • Michael B. Johnston
  • Joel A. Smith
  • Harry C. Sansom
  • Robert D. J. Oliver

Recent notable papers authored by Henry J. Snaith are:

  • Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Ligand-engineered bandgap stability in mixed-halide perovskite LEDs, 2021, Nature
  • Buried interface molecular hybrid for inverted perovskite solar cells, 2024, Nature
  • A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells, 2020, Science
  • Revealing Charge Carrier Mobility and Defect Densities in Metal Halide Perovskites via Space-Charge-Limited Current Measurements, 2021, ACS Energy Letters

In recognition of their work, Henry J. Snaith has received several awards, including the James Joule Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics in 2017 for metal-halide perovskite solar cells. They were also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites

    Michael M. Lee;Joël Teuscher;Tsutomu Miyasaka;Takurou N. Murakami;Takurou N. Murakami

  • Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber

    Samuel Stranks;Giles Eperon;Giulia Grancini;Christopher Menelaou

  • Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition

    Mingzhen Liu;Michael B. Johnston;Henry J. Snaith

  • The emergence of perovskite solar cells

    Martin A. Green;Anita Ho-Baillie;Henry J. Snaith

  • Bright light-emitting diodes based on organometal halide perovskite

    Zhi-Kuang Tan;Reza Saberi Moghaddam;May Ling Lai;Pablo Docampo

  • Formamidinium lead trihalide: a broadly tunable perovskite for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells

    Giles E. Eperon;Samuel D. Stranks;Christopher Menelaou;Michael B. Johnston

  • Metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaic and light-emitting devices

    Samuel D. Stranks;Henry J. Snaith

  • High Charge Carrier Mobilities and Lifetimes in Organolead Trihalide Perovskites

    Christian Wehrenfennig;Giles E. Eperon;Michael B. Johnston;Henry J. Snaith

  • Perovskites: The Emergence of a New Era for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells

    Henry J. Snaith

  • A mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskite absorber for tandem solar cells

    David P. McMeekin;Golnaz Sadoughi;Waqaas Rehman;Giles E. Eperon

  • Lead-free organic–inorganic tin halide perovskites for photovoltaic applications

    Nakita K. Noel;Samuel D. Stranks;Antonio Abate;Christian Wehrenfennig

  • Anomalous hysteresis in perovskite solar cells

    Henry J. Snaith;Antonio Abate;James M. Ball;Giles E. Eperon

  • Impact of microstructure on local carrier lifetime in perovskite solar cells

    Dane W. deQuilettes;Sarah M. Vorpahl;Samuel D. Stranks;Hirokazu Nagaoka

  • Morphological control for high performance, solution-processed planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells

    Giles E. Eperon;Victor M. Burlakov;Pablo Docampo;Alain Goriely

  • Direct measurement of the exciton binding energy and effective masses for charge carriers in organic–inorganic tri-halide perovskites

    Atsuhiko Miyata;Anatolie Mitioglu;Paulina Plochocka;Oliver Portugall

  • Overcoming ultraviolet light instability of sensitized TiO 2 with meso-superstructured organometal tri-halide perovskite solar cells

    Tomas Leijtens;Giles E. Eperon;Sandeep Pathak;Antonio Abate

  • Low-temperature processed meso-superstructured to thin-film perovskite solar cells

    James M. Ball;Michael M. Lee;Andrew Hey;Henry J. Snaith

  • Excitons versus free charges in organo-lead tri-halide perovskites

    Valerio D’Innocenzo;Valerio D’Innocenzo;Giulia Grancini;Marcelo J. P. Alcocer;Marcelo J. P. Alcocer;Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada

  • High Photoluminescence Efficiency and Optically Pumped Lasing in Solution-Processed Mixed Halide Perovskite Semiconductors

    Felix Deschler;Michael Price;Sandeep Pathak;Lina E. Klintberg

  • Efficient organometal trihalide perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells on flexible polymer substrates

    Pablo Docampo;James M. Ball;Mariam Darwich;Giles E. Eperon

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Johnston
Michael B. Johnston University of Oxford
Laura M. Herz
Laura M. Herz University of Oxford
Giles E. Eperon
Giles E. Eperon Swift Solar
Samuel D. Stranks
Samuel D. Stranks University of Cambridge
Tomas Leijtens
Tomas Leijtens Swift Solar
Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Annamaria Petrozza
Annamaria Petrozza Italian Institute of Technology
Antonio Abate
Antonio Abate Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Pablo Docampo
Pablo Docampo University of Glasgow
James M. Ball
James M. Ball University of Oxford

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