Dr. Tao Chen is a full professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research centers on inorganic thin-film solar cells. His research group has established a hydrothermal deposition strategy to fabricate antimony selenosulfide (Sb2(S,Se)3) thin films for photovoltaic devices, breaking the longstanding 10% power conversion efficiency bottleneck.
Dr. Chen has authored more than 230 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals, including Nature Energy (3), Nature Photonics, Accounts of Chemical Research, Nature Communications (2), Advanced Materials (12), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2), and Energy & Environmental Science (7), among others. His cumulative citations exceed 11,000, and his H-index stands at 70. He served on the editorial boards of multiple journals such as Journal of Semiconductor (JoS) and Nano Research.
Over the past five years, Professor Chen has obtained research funding from major national funding schemes, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China and t