Matthew C. Beard is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Director of the Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE) an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the Office of Science within the US. Department of Energy CHOISE鈥檚 mission is to form a cohesive center-wide effort to accelerate discovery and elucidate design principles for unprecedented control over emergent properties involving spin, charge, and light-matter interactions, leading to new energy-efficient advanced technologies. His research interest includes hot-carrier utilization strategies (e.g., slowed hot-carrier cooling in metal-halide perovskite systems and multiple exciton generation in quantum dots) in reach the ultimate thermodynamic limits of solar energy conversion.听 Interest also include controlling the optical and electrical properties of QDs, QD arrays, and other reduced dimensional systems for solar energy transduction including photochemical energy conversion.听 Finally, he is also developing ultrafast spectroscopic probes of interfacial carrier dynamics important for energy conversion architectures.
Matt's Recent RASEI Activities
Room-temperature spin injection across a chiral perovskite/III鈥揤 interface
NATURE, 2024, 10.1038/s41586-024-07560-4 Read more
Controlling Exciton/Exciton Recombination in 2-D Perovskite Using Exciton-Polariton Coupling
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2024, 15, 6, 1748-1754 Read more
Electronic Impurity Doping of a 2D Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskite by Bi and Sn
PRX ENERGY, 2023, 2, 2, 023010 Read more
Compositional texture engineering for highly stable wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells
Science, 2022, 378, 6626, 1295-1300 Read more
Five RASEI Fellows included in the 2022 Clarivate Highly Cited Author List
Congratulations to Matt Beard, Joe Berry, Joey Luther, Mike McGehee, and Mike Toney Read more
RASEI Secures Funding to Pursue Collaborative Team Science Programs to Address Climate Change Challenges
Thirteen members of RASEI secured funding from the Department of Energy to participate in inter-disciplinary team science to address a range of challenges associated with combating climate change. Read more