Dr. Jay Patel

Biography

Jay Patel is a lecturer in Functional Photonics at King's College London. His current work focuses on advancing multi-junction perovskite solar cells for high power-to-weight ratios. He conducts research at the National Thin Film Cluster Facility for Advanced Functional Materials, which is hosted by the University of Oxford and the London Centre of Nanotechnology at King’s College London. His work extends to the development of emerging semiconductors for energy applications and he has a keen interest in understanding thin-film growth processes via vapor deposition of novel materials. His research intersects chemistry, physics, and materials science. Jay received his Master of Chemistry (MChem) degree from the University of Warwick in 2014 and completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2019. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute, collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado Boulder from 2019 to 2022. He held the position of David Clarke EPSRC Fellow and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford in 2022-2023 before joining King's College London in 2023. His research group focuses on the development of applications of advanced photonic technologies and novel nanomaterials to address modern challenges in photonic quantum technologies and clean energy.

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