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Myles Steiner

Myles Steiner

Senior Scientis

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. 

Positions

Senior Scientist (Chemistry and Nanoscience Center)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2019
Staff Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2008 - 2019
Post-doctoral scientist (Chemistry and Nanoscience Center)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2006 - 2008

Education

Ph.D. (Applied Physics)
Stanford University 2006
M.S. (Applied Physics)
Stanford University 2000
B.Sc. (Applied Science - Engineering Physics)
Queen's University 1998

Professional Affiliations

American Physical Society
American Physical Society
IEEE
IEEE

Publications

K. L. Schulte, J. F. Geisz, H. L. Guthrey, R. M. France, E. W. da Costa, and M. A. Steiner
Suppression of phase separation in AlGaInAs compositionally graded buffers for 1550 nm photovoltaic converters on GaAs
Journal of Applied Physics 137 (2025)
M. Habibi, S. C. Yelishala, Y. Zhu, E. J. Tervo, M. A. Steiner, and L. Cui
Enhanced power density in zero-vacuum-gap thermophotovoltaic devices
Energy & Environmental Science 18 1514-1523 (2025)
T. E. Saenz, D. Curry, A. Gray, R. Muzzio, J. W. Schall, and M. A. Steiner
Lithography-Free Mesa Isolation of III–V Solar Cells Through Laser Ablation
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 15 110-116 (2025)
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