Prof. Ru Zhou

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Academic Visitor
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
zhouru@hfut.edu.cn

Home Institution: Hefei University of Technology, China (Associate Professor

Bio: Ru completed his PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China in the department of Physics (2009-2014). He also visited the Department of Materials Science and Technology at the University of Washington (2011-2012) during his pursuit of PhD. Then he joined the department of Electrical and Electronic Technology at the Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) as an assistant professor (2014-2016), and became an associate professor at HFUT from 2017 until now. His research focuses on next-generation low-cost, high-performance photovoltaic devices, including antimony selenosulfide solar cells, perovskite solar cells, quantum dot-sensitized solar cells, etc. Ru started his visit to the Hoye group at the University of Oxford from Feb. 2023, mainly working on antimony sulfide based light absorbers for indoor photovoltaic application.

Location: Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QR

Publications with group:

X. Chen, X. Shu, J. Zhou, L. Wan, P. Xiao, Y. Fu, J. Ye, Y.-T. Huang, B. Yan, D. Xue, T. Chen, J. Chen,* R. L. Z. Hoye,* R. Zhou.* Additive engineering for Sb2S3 indoor photovoltaics with efficiency exceeding 17%. Light: Science & Applications, 2024, 13, 281.

X. Liu, Z. Cai, L. Wan, P. Xiao, B. Che, J. Yang, H. Niu, H. Wang, J. Zhu, Y.-T. Huang, H. Zhu, S. J. Zelewski, T. Chen,* R. L. Z. Hoye,* R. Zhou.* Grain Engineering of Sb2S3 Thin Films to Enable Efficient Planar Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage. Advanced Materials, 2023, 36(1), 2305841.

C. Wang, D. Li, X. Mao, L. Wan, Z. Cheng, J. Zhu, R. L. Z. Hoye, and R. Zhou.* Interfacial defect healing of In2S3/Sb2(S,Se)3 heterojunction solar cells with a novel wide-bandgap InOCl passivator. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023, 11, 19914–19924.