Joseph J. Berry

Joseph J. Berry is an American scientist who is Principal Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He leads the United States Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology Office program on perovskite solar cells, and is Director of the U.S. Manufacturing of Advance Perovskites consortium.

Early life and education
Berry was an undergraduate student in physics at Goshen College. For his doctoral studies, Berry studied spin transport in semiconductor heterostructures at Pennsylvania State University. He was particularly interested in coherent spin transport across interfaces and spin polarized transport in two-dimensional electron gasses. He moved to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for his postdoctoral studies, where he developed narrow band spectroscopy for III-V quantum dots.

Research and career
Berry is a Principal Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he develops photovoltaics and semiconductor materials. He concentrates on interfacial engineering as a strategy to improve device efficiency. Berry has focused on hybrid photovoltaic materials, including perovskite solar cells. He was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 2014.

Berry leads the United States Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology Office program on perovskite solar cells, is Director of the U.S. Manufacturing of Advance Perovskites consortium, and is Principal Investigator on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy Energy Frontier Research Center. In 2020 he coordinated an effort to boost the production of perovskite solar cells. In 2022, NREL demonstrated a 24% efficient perovskite solar cell that remained functional for over 2,400 hours.