National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO, USA
Joseph M. Luther is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, where he leads research for next-generation optoelectronics. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder (2005) and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Colorado School of Mines (2009).
Following his Ph.D., Luther joined the group of A. Paul Alivisatos at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, further expanding his expertise in nanomaterials. He returned to NREL as a staff scientist in 2009, where he has since become an internationally recognized leader in solution-processed and emerging photovoltaic technologies.
Luther’s research history spans nearly the full spectrum of PV platforms, from III-Vs and silicon to nanocrystal-based cadmium telluride, dye-sensitized, organic, and especially metal halide perovskite solar cells. He has established three world-record efficiency benchmarks on the Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart and has been named to the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list eight times.