Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is an expert in solar energy, optoelectronics, and semi-conductors.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Associate Professor and Goizueta Early Career Faculty Chair

School of Materials Science and Engineering College of Engineering

His work focuses on understanding the relationship between chemistry, crystallographic structure, and properties of emerging semiconducting materials for the development of optoelectronic devices.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena’s research focuses on the electronic nanoscale dynamics of low-cost semiconductors used for optoelectronic applications. Correa-Baena’s group works on advanced deposition techniques, with emphasis on low-cost and high throughput, as well as advanced characterization methods that include synchrotron-based mapping and imaging approaches with nanoscale resolution. His research program at Georgia Tech has attracted funding from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, which funds cutting-edge research on new materials for solar energy conversion. His work has been cited over 28,000 times, making him a top cited researcher as recognized by the Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researchers (2019-21) and the Nature Index’s leading early career researchers in materials science (2019).

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Researchers Build Stable Solar Panel Without Silicon

By adding titanium to perovskite crystals, researchers have made solar cells more durable.

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Georgia Tech Faculty Members Earn Presidential Awards

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena and Josiah Hester are among this year’s winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena Receives $1M NSF Grant to Study Recycling of Perovskite Solar Cells

When the National Science Foundation (NSF) put out an interdisciplinary challenge for clean energy, Dr. Correa-Baena, Dr. Naomi Deneke, and Dr. Ilke Celik partnered to write a proposal to tackle recycling of perovskite solar cells.

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Correa-Baena Tapped for Sloan Fellowship

The MSE researcher was selected for his work to understand the chemical interactions in harvesting solar energy.

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'It is a gold rush': Georgia positioned for solar manufacturing surge

Atlanta Business Chronicle

"This is a huge deal for high tech manufacturing in the U.S.," said Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech who is working to develop new types of solar cells. "We are starting to emulate what has been happening in Asia. It's going to be crucial for the future.

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2023/01/17/qcells-georgia-expansion-so…

Organometallic boost pushes perovskite solar cells to new record for efficiency and stability

Chemistry World

‘What they describe here is something that a lot of groups, including mine, have been doing for the past four or five years – that is putting an organic material on top of the perovskite to stand between it and the electron-selective contact … but the result is quite spectacular,’ says materials scientist Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, who works on p-i-n solar cells.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/organometallic-boost-pushes-perovskite-sola…

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