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Dr. Yang received his PhD degree in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics from Wuhan University, China, in 2019. During his PhD studies, he worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from March 2017 to December 2018. From 2019 to 2023, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Physical Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, supervised by Prof. Jinsong Huang. Dr. Yang joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor in November 2023.

Dr. Yang has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, including several high-impact papers in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Energy, and Joule, etc. As of May 2024, Dr. Yang’s H-index is 41 with over 7900 citations (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OnfZfzsAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN). His current work focuses on the optoelectronic characteristics of perovskite materials and their applications in optoelectronics, such as high throughput fabrication of perovskite modules and perovskite-based tandem devices as well as device physics.

Our specific research topics are listed below:

1. Perovskite-based tandem solar cells (Perovskite-Silicon, All-Perovskite, Perovskite-OPV)

2. High-throughput scalable manufacturing of perovskite modules and tandem modules

3. Device physics in optoelectronic devices and their characterizations

4. Photovoltaic applications: Floating solar desalination and Solar hydrogen generation

Openings

We are recruiting self-motivated Ph.D. students, Research Assistants, and Postdoctoral Research Fellows with a strong background in material science, microelectronics, physics, and chemistry for research in the field of optoelectronics, perovskite solar modules, and printable tandem photovoltaics. If you are interested, please send your CV (transcript) to guang.yg.yang@polyu.edu.hk.

Selected Publications

1. Guang Yang, Zhenyi Ni, Zhengshan J Yu, Bryon W Larson, Zhenhua Yu, Bo Chen, Abdulwahab Alasfour, Xun Xiao, Joseph M Luther, Zachary C Holman, Jinsong Huang. Defect engineering in wide-bandgap perovskites for efficient perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells. Nature Photonics 2022, 16(8): 588-594
2. Guang Yang#, Zhiwei Ren#, Kuan Liu#, Minchao Qin, Wanyuan Deng, Hengkai Zhang, Haibing Wang, Jiwei Liang, Feihong Ye, Qiong Liang, Hang Yin, Yuxuan Chen, Yuanlin Zhuang, Siqi Li, Bowei Gao, Jianbo Wang, Tingting Shi, Xin Wang, Xinhui Lu, Hongbin Wu, Jianhui Hou, Dangyuan Lei, Shu Kong So, Yang Yang*, Guojia Fang* & Gang Li*. Stable and low-photovoltage-loss perovskite solar cells by multifunctional passivation. Nature Photonics 2021, 15(9): 681-689
3. Hangyu Gu, Chengbin Fei, Guang Yang, Bo Chen, Md Aslam Uddin, Hengkai Zhang, Zhenyi Ni, Haoyang Jiao, Wenzhan Xu, Zijie Yan, Jinsong Huang, Design Optimization of Bifacial Perovskite Minimodules for Improved Efficiency and Stability. Nature Energy 2023, 8, 675–684
4. Mengru Wang, Zhifang Shi, Chengbin Fei, Zhewen JD Deng, Guang Yang, Sean P Dunfield, David P Fenning, Jinsong Huang, Ammonium cations with high pKa in perovskite solar cells for improved high-temperature photostability. Nature Energy 2023, 1-11
5. Zhenyi Ni, Haoyang Jiao, Chengbin Fei, Hangyu Gu, Shuang Xu, Zhenhua Yu, Guang Yang, Yehao Deng, Qi Jiang, Ye Liu, Yanfa Yan, Jinsong Huang. Nature Energy 2022, 7, 65-73
6. Guang Yang#, Cong Chen#, Fang Yao, Qi Zhang, Xiaolu Zheng, Junjie Ma, Hongwei Lei, Pingli Qin, Liangbin Xiong, Weijun Ke, Gang Li*, Yanfa Yan*, Guojia Fang*, Effective Carrier Concentration Tuning of SnO2 Quantum Dot Electron Selective Layers for High-Performance Planar Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Materials 2018, 30(14)1706023
7. Zaiwei Wang, Lewei Zeng, Tong Zhu, Hao Chen, Bin Chen, Dominik J Kubicki, Adam Balvanz, Chongwen Li, Aidan Maxwell, Esma Ugur, Roberto Dos Reis, Matthew Cheng, Guang Yang, Biwas Subedi, Deying Luo, Juntao Hu, Junke Wang, Sam Teale, Suhas Mahesh, Sasa Wang, Shuangyan Hu, Euidae Jung, Mingyang Wei, So Min Park, Luke Grater, Erkan Aydin, Zhaoning Song, Nikolas J Podraza, Zheng-Hong Lu, Jinsong Huang, Vinayak P Dravid, Stefaan De Wolf, Yanfa Yan, Michael Grätzel, Mercouri Kanatzidis, Edward Sargent. Suppressed phase segregation for triple-junction perovskite solar cells. Nature, 2023, 618, 74–79
8. Guang Yang, Mengru Wang, Zhengshan J.Yu, Chengbin Fei, Hangyu Gu, Abdulwahab Alasfour, Zachary C Holman, Jinsong Huang, Recycling Silicon Bottom Cells from End-of-Life Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters, 2023, 8, 1639−1644
9. Guang Yang, Zhengshan J.Yu, Mengru Wang, Zhifang Shi, Zhenyi Ni, Haoyang Jiao, Chengbin Fei, Allen Wood, Abdulwahab Alasfour, Bo Chen, Zachary C Holman, Jinsong Huang, Shunt Mitigation toward efficient large-area perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. Cell Reports Physical Science 2023, 4, 101628
10. Guang Yang, Hengkai Zhang, Siqi Li, Zhiwei Ren, Guojia Fang, Dangyuan Lei, Gang Li Enhanced efficiency and stability of triple‐cation perovskite solar cells with CsPbIxBr3 − x QDs “surface patches” SmartMat, 2022, 3, 513.
11. Guang Yang, Hengkai Zhang, Gang Li*, Guojia Fang*. Stabilizer-assisted growth of formamdinium-based perovskites for highly efficient and stable planar solar cells with over 22% efficiency. Nano Energy, 2019, 63: 103835. 
12. Md Aslam Uddin, Prem Jyoti Singh Rana, Zhenyi Ni, Guang Yang, Mingze Li, Mengru Wang, Hangyu Gu, Hengkai Zhang, Benjia Dak Dou, Jinsong Huang. Iodide manipulation using zinc additives for efficient perovskite solar minimodules. Nat Commun 15, 1355 (2024).

• Doctor of Philosophy, Wuhan University