Dr. Stefan Omelchenko
Alumni - Industry and Private Sector
Stefan received his PhD in Materials Science in 2018. His research interests include solar photovoltaics and solar fuels. He has investigated the fundamental charge transport in emerging photovoltaic materials and his current research focuses on developing high efficiency, earth-abundant tandem solar cells. He received a B.S. in Engineering Science and a B.S. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University. He is currently working for Apple.
Selected Publications
IMPACT OF SEMICONDUCTOR BAND TAILS AND BAND FILLING ON PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFICIENCY LIMITS
Joeson Wong, Stefan T. Omelchenko, and Harry A. Atwater
ACS Energy Lett. 2021, 6, 52−57 (2020) (2020)
FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED TWO-PHOTON PHOTOEMISSION STUDIES OF ULTRAFAST CARRIER RELAXATION IN CU2O PHOTOELECTRODES
Mario Borgwardt, Stefan T. Omelchenko, Marco Favaro, Paul Plate, Christian Höhn, Daniel Abou-Ras, Klaus Schwarzburg, Roel van de Krol, Harry A. Atwater, Nathan S. Lewis, Rainer Eichberger and Dennis Friedrich
(2019)
POLYCRYSTALLINE CU2O PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES INCORPORATING ZN(O,S) WINDOW LAYERS
Yulia Tolstova, Stefan T. Omelchenko, Raymond E. Blackwell, Amanda M. Shing, Harry A. Atwater
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (2016)
HETEROEPITAXIAL GROWTH OF PT AND AU THIN FILMS ON MGO SINGLE CRYSTALS BY BIAS-ASSISTED SPUTTERING
Yulia Tolstova, Stefan T. Omelchenko, Amanda M. Shing & Harry A. Atwater
Scientific Reports (2016)