David Berney Needleman
Senior R&D Leader | Advanced Materials & Semiconductor Devices | Innovating for Clean Energy & Next-Gen Electronics
- Role
- Founder at Leap Photovoltaics
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Berney Needleman
I am a senior R&D leader, hands-on innovator, and technical team builder with 15+ years\'…
Experience
Founder
Jan 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
We are developing a revolutionary process to manufacture crystalline silicon solar cells without wafers. Our additive manufacturing approach can achieve the same performance and reliability as traditional solar cells at half the cost using entirely local supply chains. This unique combination leaps the barriers of thin margins and supply chain disruptions that are holding back the explosive growth in solar manufacturing that we need to achieve our decarbonization goals.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2014 — 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science (M.S.)
2012 — 2014
Newton North High School
High School Diploma
1998 — 2002
University of Oregon
Bachelor of Science
2002 — 2007
Skills
- Characterization
- Solar Cell Device Modeling
- Electroluminescence Imaging
- Wet Chemistry
- Silicon
- Solar Cells
- I-V Analysis
- Lock-in Thermography
- Renewable Energy
- Analysis
- Admittance Spectroscopy
- Materials
- Experimentation
- Scaps-1d
- Suns-Voc
- Quasi-Steady State Photoconductance
- Photoluminescence Imaging
- Energy
- Photovoltaics
- Solar Energy
- Research
- Simulations
- Screen Printing
- Pocl Diffusion
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