EDUCATION & RESEARCH BACKGROUND

2010.03, Ph.D, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2010.04-2011.11, JSPS Fellow, Tohoku University, Japan

2011.12-2016.07, ARENA Fellow, Australian National University, Australia

 2016.09-2020.07, Research Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia,

2020.11-present, Professor, College of Energy, Soochow University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 High efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: heterojunction, passivating contacts, surface passivation

 Next generation perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells: novel concepts, new materials, stability and large-scaling

 Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of functional films for electronic devices: metal oxides, metal nitrides, and ternary compounds

High quality transparent conductive oxides (TCOs)

AWAREDS

Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011)

Dongsheng Yan Excellent PhD Students Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009)

Jiaxi Lu Excellent PhD Students Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009)

Shanghai - Applied Materials^Excellent PhD Students Award, Shanghai (2008)

ACADEMIC PARTICIPATION

7^th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7), Section Chair, Hawaii, USA, 2018

Invited reviewer for Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project and Netherland Organization for Scientific

Research (NWO) Vernieuwingsimpuls Innovational Research Incentives Scheme

Invited reviewer for peer-reviewed photovoltaic journals, such as Joule, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy

Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics, ACS Nano, Nano Energy, and so on.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Xinbo Yang,* Y. Lin, J. Liu, W. Liu, Q. Bi, X. Song, J. Kang, F. Xu, L. Xu, M. Hedhili, D. Baran, X. Zhang, T. Anthopoulos, S. De Wolf，Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 2002608.

2. Y. Liu, Y. Li, Y. Wu, G. Yang, L. Mazzarella, P. Procel-Moya, A. Tamboli, K. Weber, M. Boccard, O. Isabella, Xinbo Yang,* B. Sun, Materials Science & Engineering R, 2020, 142, 100579.

3. W. Liu,^# L. Zhang,^# Xinbo Yang,^# J. Shi, L. Yan, L. Xu, Z. Wu, R. Chen, J. Peng, J. Kang, K. Wang, F. Meng, S. De Wolf, Z. Liu, Damp-Heat-Stable, High-Efficiency, Industrial-Size Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells, Joule, 2020, 4, 913-927. (# First author equally)

4. Xinbo Yang,* W. Liu, M Bastiani, T. Allen, J. Kang, H. Xu, E. Aydin, L. Xu, Q. Bi, E. AlHabshi, K. Kotsovos, A. AlSaggaf, I. Gereige, Y. Wan, J. Peng, C. Samundsett, A. Cuevas, S. De Wolf, Dual-function electron-conductive, hole-blocking titanium nitride contacts for efficient silicon solar cells, Joule, 2020, 3, 1314-1327.

5. Xinbo Yang,* E. Aydin, H. Xu, J. Kang, M. Hedhili, W. Liu, Y. Wan, J. Peng, C. Samundsett, A. Cuevas, S. De Wolf, Tantalum Nitride Electron‐Selective Contact for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells, Advanced Energy Materials, 2018, 8, 1800608.

6. T. Allen, J. Bullock, Xinbo Yang, A. Javey, S. De Wolf, Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells, Nature Energy, 2019, 4, 914-928.

7. Xinbo Yang,* Q. Bi, H. Ali, K. Davis, W. Schoenfeld, K. Weber, High-performance TiO₂-based electron-selective contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28, 5891-5897.

8. Xinbo Yang,* K. Weber, Z. Hameiri, S. De Wolf, Industrially feasible, dopant‐free, carrier‐selective contacts for high‐efficiency silicon solar cells, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 2017, 25, 896-904.

9. W. Ji, T. Allen, Xinbo Yang, G. Zeng, S. De Wolf, A. Javay. Polymeric electron-selective contact for crystalline silicon solar cells with an efficiency exceeding 19%, ACS Energy Lett. 5, 897-902 (2020).

10. E. Aydin, M. De Bastiani, Xinbo Yang, et al. Zr-doped indium oxide (IZRO) transparent electrodesfor perovskite-based tandem solar cells, Advanced Functional Materials 29: 1901741 (2019).