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- How a new solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation - Article in The Conversation by Sam (September 2020)
- Fast Nanoscale ‘Movies’ Shed Light on a Solar Cell Mystery - Article in WIRED about our article in Nature (April 2020)
- Shedding light on dark traps - Press Release from the University of Cambridge, with a more extensive version here
- 'Interview with Sam Stranks about Perovskite based technologies' - Interview with Sam as featured on the Amp Hour Electronics podcast
- 'Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost', Press release from the University of Cambridge on our Nature paper (March 2018). Highlighted by a number of news sources.
- 'A new type of solar cell is coming to market', Article in the Economist about the commercialisation of perovskites (February 2018)
- 'Revolutionizing solar power with perovskites', keynote talk at Hello Tomorrow Summit (October 2017)
- 'Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light', Press release on our article in Joule, also covered in other sources including Physics Today, the Huffington Post, Materials Today.
- '2017 could be the tipping point for super efficient solar panels', Article in WIRED World 2017 highlighting perovskites based on interview with Sam and his TED talk (January 2017)
- Our work on ‘Photo-induced halide redistribution in organic–inorganic perovskite films‘ was featured on the front page of the MIT and DOE websites, and highlighted by Nature as well as ScienceDaily, Phys.Org, ChemEurope.com and others (May 2016)
- An article on perovskites in Fast Company based on Sam's TED talk (March 2016)
- 'Uncovering a radical discovery in solar energy' TED Talk by Sam, TED conference Vancouver (February 2016)
- Press associated with Sam's selection as a 2016 TED Fellow (December 2015): https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/media/stranks-named-2016-ted-fellow and https://medium.com/ted-fellows/21-rising-stars-to-watch-in-2016-f56c11958963#.jwiik7vao.
- Perovskite Solar Cells Could Beat the Efficiency of Silicon (Scientific American, July 2015): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/perovskite-solar-cells-could-beat-the-efficiency-of-silicon/
- Press releases on our paper focusing on the microstructure optoelectronic properties of perovskites published in Science (May 2015): http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-05-01-flaw-clue-building-better-solar-cell, http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/04/30/engineering-a-better-solar-cell-uw-research-pinpoints-defects-in-popular-perovskites)
- Perovskites: The Future of PV? (CleanTechnica, June 2014): http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/11/perovskites-future-pv/
- Revolutionary solar cells double as lasers (Press release about our work led by Cambridge collaborators reporting the first perovskite lasers, March 2014): http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/revolutionary-solar-cells-double-as-lasers
- Perspective video. Perovskites: The Emergence of a New Era for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., December 2013): http://pubs.acs.org/page/jpclcd/snaith-video.html
- Creating simpler, cheaper solar cells (Oxford University Science blog about our diffusion paper in Science, November 2013): http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/creating-simpler-cheaper-solar-cells