guest speaker series 2014 spring

Bio about the speaker: Jeroen van Duren has 15 years of experience in thin-film solar cells. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. During his PhD he worked on polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells. After his PhD he moved to Silicon Valley to join solar startup Nanosolar. He worked at Nanosolar for 7 years where he became the Director of Research. At Nanosolar he worked on CIGS solar cells, printing CIGS-precursor inks, and growing CIGS films, and roll-to-roll manufacturing, which resulted in the world-record in printed CIGS. Today he is Director of Advanced Battery at Intermolecular, a Silicon Valley company with its focus on combinatorial R&D for various thin-film device applications. At Intermolecular he has been working on thin-film solar cells based on CIGS and CdTe, thin-film metal oxide transistors for low-power, high-resolution displays, and most recently on solid-state batteries. He has authored 40 papers, and over 100 patents and patent applications.