Seul-Gi Kim joined NREL in 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center. In the past, he worked in Professor Nam-Gyu Park’s group and received his doctoral's degree in chemical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He has conducted research for developing the highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cell. Seul-Gi have been interested in interface engineering and synthesis of perovskite materials for various applications.

Research Interests

Perovskite photovoltaics, and optoelectronic materials

Interface engineering

Synthesis of organic/inorganic materials  

Education

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University 

Featured Work

Effect of Fluorine Substitution in a Hole Dopant on the Photovoltaic Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Energy Letters (2022) 

Hysteresis of I – V Performance: Its Origin and Engineering for Elimination, Perovskite Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications, Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (2022) 

Effect of Chemical Bonding Nature of Post-Treatment Materials on Photovoltaic Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Energy Letters (2021) 

How Antisolvent Miscibility Affects Perovskite Film Wrinkling and Photovoltaic Properties, Nature Communications (2021)

Capturing Mobile Lithium Ions in a Molecular Hole Transporter Enhances the Thermal Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells, Advanced Materials (2021) 

Potassium Ions as a Kinetic Controller in Ionic Double Layers for Hysteresis-Free Perovskite Solar Cells, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2019) 

Bifacial Stamping for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells, Energy & Environmental Science (2019) 

Rear-Surface Passivation by Melaminium Iodide Additive for Stable and Hysteresis-less Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2018)

Universal Approach Toward Hysteresis-Free Perovskite Solar Cell via Defect Engineering, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2018)

The Interplay Between Trap Density and Hysteresis in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells, Nano Letters (2017)