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Jun Peng Professor

Dr. Peng received his PhD from The Australian National University (ANU) in 2018. He was then employed as a postdoc by the ANU solar group; and in 2020, he was awarded a 2-year Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) fellowship to continue his research at ANU as a research fellow. In 2022, Dr. Peng joined the Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) of Soochow University as a principal investigator.

Research Interests

Dr. Peng focuses on the development of high-performance perovskite solar cells, perovskite-silicon tandems and silicon solar cells. He achieved three certified steady-state efficiency records for perovskite solar cells with an active area of more than 1cm2, including:
1. Achieved two certified steady-state efficiencies of 21.6% and 22.6% [by CSIRO] for 1cm2 perovskite solar cells in 2019 [note that these two certified efficiencies were recorded in the Solar Cell Efficiency Tables (Versions 55-59)];
2. Collaborated with EPFL and achieved a steady-state efficiency of 21.52% [aperture area ~26.02 cm2, certified by NPVM] for perovskite cell mini modules in 2022.

Research Experience and Accomplishments

He published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers (received a total citation of more than 4100 times, h-index 33, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bLq6CN8AAAAJ&hl=en) in Nature (1#, first-author), Science (1#, first-author), Nature Energy, Nature Electronics, Science Advances, Joule, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials etc. Besides, he has one Chinese patent and applied for one Australian patent and one PCT patent.

Selected Publications

1.  Jun Peng, F. Kremer, D. Walter, Y. Wu, Y. Ji, W. Liu, J. Xiang, T. Duong, H. Shen, T. Lu, F. Brink, D. Zhong, L. Li, O. L. C. Lem, Y. Liu, K. J. Weber, T. P. White, K. R. Catchpole, Centimetre-scale perovskite solar cells with fill factors of more than 86 per cent, Nature, 601, 573 (2022).


2.  Jun Peng, D. Walter, Y. Ren, M. Tebyetekerwa, Y. Wu, T. Duong, Q. Lin, J. Li, T. Lu, M. A. Mahmud, O .L. C. Lem, S. Zhao, W. Liu, Y. Liu, H. Shen, L. Li, F. Kremer, H. T. Nguyen, D. Choi, K. J. Weber, K. R. Catchpole, T. P. White, Nanoscale localized contacts for high fill factors in polymer-passivated perovskite solar cells, Science, 371, 390 (2021) .


3.  Jun Peng, Y. Wu, W. Ye, D. A. Jacobs, H. Shen, X. Fu, Y. Wan, N. Wu, C. Barrugkin, H. Nguyen, D. Zhong, J. Li, T. Lu, Y. Liu, M. N. Lockrey, K. Weber, K. R. Catchpole, T. P. White, Interface passivation using ultrathin polymer–fullerene films for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with negligible hysteresis, Energy & Environmental Science, 10, 1792 (2017).


4.  Jun Peng, J. I. Khan, W. Liu, E. Ugur, T. Duong, Y. Wu, H. Shen, K. Wang, H. Dang, E. Aydin, X. Yang, Y. Wan, K. Weber, K. R. Catchpole, F. Laquai, S. De Wolf, T. P. White, A universal double-side passivation for high open-circuit volatge in perovskite solar cells: role of carbonyl groups in poly (methyl methacrylate), Advanced Energy Materials, 8, 1801208 (2018).


5.  Jun Peng, T. Duong, X. Zhou, H. Shen, Y. Wu, H. K. Mulmudi, Y. Wan, D. Zhong, J. Li, T. Tsuzuki, K. Weber, K. R. Catchpole, T. P. White, Efficient indium-doped TiOx electron transport layers for high-performance perovskite solar cells and perovskite-silicon tandems, Advanced Energy Materials, 7, 1601768 (2017).