Dr Jon Major
Senior Lecturer Physics
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- Work email Jon.Major@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
Research Overview
I am an experimental Physicist working within the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy focusing on materials science and device physics for thin film solar cells. I also have ongoing research into solar fuels, semiconductor defects and transparent conductive oxides.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
Bandgap manipulation for improved antimony chalcogenide solar cells
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2022 - October 2025
Nanoscale Interfacial Engineering of Antimony-based Absorber Materials for PV Applications
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2020 - March 2021
EPSRC Capital Award emphasising support for ECRS
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2018 - March 2020
Advanced electrical Characterisation of thin film PV structures
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2015 - March 2016
Capacitance spectroscopy led process innovations to improve VOC in CdTe thin film solar cells
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2016 - December 2022