Pauls Stradiņš Jr Explained
| Nationality: | American |
| Known For: | Pioneering work on silicon, photovoltaics, and renewable energy |
| Prizes: | foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; U.S. patents 8,239,165; 7,601,215; 8,389,422; 8,466,447; 8,569,708 |
Pauls Stradiņš Jr. (born 1963) is a physicist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.[1] [2] [3]
Currently he is the principal scientist and a project leader of the silicon photovoltaics group at NREL.[4] He leads a team that recently theorized that defects in photovoltaic cells could actually improve the performance of those cells.[5]
He is the grandson of Pauls Stradiņš (17 January 1896 – 14 August 1958), a Latvian professor and physician.[6]
See also
Notes and References
- https://www.nrel.gov/research/pauls-stradins.html NREL profile for Paul Stradins, NREL Principal Scientist
- http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2016/21617 NREL Theorizes Defects Could Improve Solar Cells: January 12, 2016
- http://inside.mines.edu/PH-pauls-stradins Paul Stradins profile page for Department of Physics at Colorado School of Mines
- Stradins, P., and Kondo, M., Staebler-Wronski Effect: Physics and Relevance to Devices, pp. 220-243 In Kolobov, A. V. Photo-Induced Metastability in Amorphous Semiconductors. Page xxiv shows mailing address of Stradins in List of Contributors
- http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2016/21617 NREL Theorizes Defects Could Improve Solar Cells: January 12, 2016
- Web site: Pauls Stradiņš . . 2009-12-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090526235430/http://www.stradini.lv/page/6 . 2009-05-26 .
