
Nancy Haegel is director of the National Center for Photovoltaics.
Prior to her current role, she was center director of the Materials Science Center
in the Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science directorate at NREL. Before
joining NREL in 2014, she was a distinguished professor of physics at the Naval Postgraduate
School. Previously, she held faculty positions at Fairfield University and UCLA. Her
research interests are in electronic materials and materials physics, imaging of electronic
transport, high resistivity semiconductors, characterization of solar cells, and nuclear
radiation detectors. She contributed to the development of the infrared detectors
on the Spitzer Space Telescope. In addition to the U.S. Department of Energy, her
research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation, Research Corporation, NASA, the Office of Naval Research, and
the Department of Homeland Security.
As a professor, Haegel received the UCLA TRW Excellence in Teaching Award, the Alpha
Sigma Nu Teacher of the Year Award at Fairfield University, and the Naval Postgraduate
School's Schieffelin Award for Teaching Excellence. She received the 2004 APS Prize
to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution. Haegel was a Humboldt
Foundation Scholar, a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hebrew University, and a Kellogg
Foundation Fellow. She is the author of approximately 140 publications. She received
her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and her doctorate in materials
science and engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Featured Work
A New Era for Solar, Nature Photonics (2017)
Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics: Trajectories and Challenges, Science (2017)
Near-Field Transport Imaging Applied to Photovoltaic Materials, Solar Energy (2017)
Doping Dependence and Anisotropy of Minority Electron Mobility in Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown p-type GaInP, Appl. Phys. Lett. (2014)
Integrating Electron and Near-Field Optics: Dual Vision for the Nanoworld, Nanophotonics (2014)
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