Myles Steiner is a senior scientist working primarily on III-V multijunction solar cells for photovoltaic and thermophotovoltaic applications and for hydrogen and other solar fuels production via photoelectrochemical water splitting. He has worked on enhanced photon recycling and luminescent coupling in multijunction cells, growth and ordering of lattice-mismatched GaInP and GaInAs solar cells, mechanical stacking and lateral spectrum splitting multijunction designs, and the design and measurement of solar cells at elevated operating temperatures. He completed a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, followed by a master’s degree and doctorate in applied physics at Stanford University, where he studied superconductor-insulator phase transitions in homogenously disordered superconductors.
Senior Scientist (Chemistry and Nanoscience Center)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2019
Staff Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2008
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2019
Post-doctoral scientist (Chemistry and Nanoscience Center)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2006
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2008
Ph.D. (Applied Physics)
Stanford University
2006
M.S. (Applied Physics)
Stanford University
2000
B.Sc. (Applied Science - Engineering Physics)
Queen's University
1998
American Physical Society
American Physical Society
IEEE
IEEE
Suppression of phase separation in AlGaInAs compositionally graded buffers for 1550 nm photovoltaic converters on GaAs
Journal of Applied Physics
137
(2025)
Enhanced power density in zero-vacuum-gap thermophotovoltaic devices
Energy & Environmental Science
18
1514-1523
(2025)
Lithography-Free Mesa Isolation of III–V Solar Cells Through Laser Ablation
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
15
110-116
(2025)