Prof. Dr. Ian D. Sharp
Academic Career and Research Areas
Prof. Sharp investigates advanced semiconductors, nanostructures, and interfaces for applications in renewable energy conversion, with emphases on solar photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis. His particular interests include explorations of the fundamentals of electronic structure and charge carrier dynamics in new and emerging semiconductors, the coupling of chemical transformations and physical properties of materials in complex environments, and new concepts in energy conversion via controlled synthesis of heterostructures and nanosystems.
Prof. Sharp (b. 1979) received a PhD from UC Berkeley, after which he became a research associate at the Walter Schottky Institute of TUM, first as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and later as a Fellow of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study. In 2011, he moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) as a Staff Scientist, working primarily at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis. In 2017, Prof. Sharp was appointed to the Chair for Experimental Semiconductor Physics at TUM.
Awards
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2020)
- Early Career Award, U.S. Department of Energy (2016)
- Outstanding Mentor, UC Berkeley New Experiences in Research and Diversity in Science Program (2013)
- Carl von Linde Junior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, TUM (2009)
- Alexander von Humboldt Junior Fellow (2007)
Key Publications (all publications)
E. Sirotti, L.I. Wagner, C.-M. Jiang, J. Eichhorn, F. Munnik, V. Streibel, M.J. Schilcher, B. März, F.S. Hegner, M. Kuhl, T. Höldrich, K. Müller-Caspary, D.A. Egger, I.D. Sharp, “Beyond Cation Disorder: Site Symmetry-Tuned Optoelectronic Properties of the Ternary Nitride Photoabsorber ZrTaN3“, Advanced Energy Materials 14, 2402540 (2024).
AbstractP. Ding, J. Kühne, S. Santra, R. Zell, P. Zellner, T. Rieth, J. Gao, J. Chen, G. Zhou, J. Dittloff, K. Müller-Caspary, I.D. Sharp, “Tailoring Microenvironments and In Situ Transformations of Cu Catalysts for Selective and Stable Electrosynthesis of Multicarbon Products“, Advanced Energy Materials 14, 2303936 (2024).
AbstractO. Bienek, B. Fuchs, M. Kuhl, T. Rieth, J. Kühne, L.I. Wagner, L.M. Todenhagen, L. Wolz, A. Henning, I.D. Sharp, “Engineering Defects and Interfaces of Atomic Layer-Deposited TiOx-Protective Coatings for Efficient III–V Semiconductor Photocathodes“, ACS Photonics 10, 3985 (2023).
AbstractT. Grünleitner, A. Henning, M. Bissolo, M. Zengerle, L. Gregoratti, M. Amati, P. Zeller, J. Eichhorn, A.V. Stier, A.W. Holleitner, J.J. Finley, I.D. Sharp, “Real-Time Investigation of Sulfur Vacancy Generation and Passivation in Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide via in situ X-ray Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy“, ACS Nano 16, 20364 (2022).
AbstractA. Henning, J.D. Bartl, A. Zeidler, S. Qian, O. Bienek, C.-M. Jiang, C. Paulus, B. Rieger, M. Stutzmann, I.D. Sharp, “Aluminum Oxide at the Monolayer Limit via Oxidant-Free Plasma-Assisted Atomic Layer Deposition on GaN“, Advanced Functional Materials 31, 2101441 (2021).
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