Priscilla Antunez

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate
Bldg. 460, Room 109
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-6186
(626) 789-4100
pantunez@bnl.gov

Expertise | Education | Publications | Video

Expertise

Previously, Dr. Antunez served as an Assistant Director for Strategic Partnerships at CFN/Brookhaven Lab (2024) and a Business Development Executive in the Tech Transfer team (2018) at Argonne National Lab (another DOE Lab) helping researchers protect their IP and develop strategies to maximize the impact of their work (with special emphasis on partnerships). Before joining Argonne Lab, Priscilla worked at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where she also volunteered to help  postdocs and staff with their invention disclosures, a writing group, and other Early Career Group activities (in addition to publishing 9 papers and obtaining 7 patents for her work on solar cell devices).

• Strategy development and execution for maximum impact
• Business development for research organizations
• Project management
• New materials development and process optimization for solar cell devices

Education

• Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Southern California. Researched materials for solar cells: "Solution-phase synthesis and deposition of earth-abundant metal chalcogenide semiconductors."
• B.S. Chemistry, Cal Poly Pomona
• B.S. Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, Universidad de Sonora

Selected Publications

• Antunez PD, Li S, Bishop DM, Farmer DB, Gershon TS, Baxter JB, Haight R (2018) Passivation and thickness control of highly efficient kesterite solar cells. Applied Physics Letters 113:033903. doi: 10.1063/1.5037093
• Farmer DB, Antunez PD, Hopstaken M, Gunawan O, Han S-J (2018) Patching of Lattice Defects in Two-Dimensional Diffusion Barriers. ACS Applied Nano Materials 1:3068–3074. doi: 10.1021/acsanm.8b00619
• Antunez PD, Bishop DM, Luo Y, Haight R (2017) Efficient kesterite solar cells with high open-circuit voltage for applications in powering distributed devices. Nature Energy 2:884–890. doi: 10.1038/s41560-017-0028-5
• Antunez PD, Bishop DM, Lee YS, Gokmen T, Gunawan O, Gershon TS, Todorov TK, Singh S, Haight R (2017) Back Contact Engineering for Increased Performance in Kesterite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials 7:1602585. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201602585
• Gershon T, Lee YS, Antunez P, Mankad R, Singh S, Bishop D, Gunawan O, Hopstaken M, Haight R (2016) Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Based on the Alloyed Kesterite Absorber (AgxCu1-x)2ZnSnSe4. Advanced Energy Materials 6:1502468. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201502468
• Antunez PD, Torelli DA, Yang F, Rabuffetti FA, Lewis NS, Brutchey RL (2014) Low Temperature Solution-Phase Deposition of SnS Thin Films. Chemistry of Materials 26:5444–5446. doi: 10.1021/cm503124u
• Antunez PD, Webber DH, Brutchey RL (2013) Solution-Phase Synthesis of Highly Conductive Tungsten Diselenide Nanosheets. Chemistry of Materials 25:2385–2387. https://doi.org/10.1021/cm400790z
• Antunez PD, Buckley JJ, Brutchey RL (2011) Tin and germanium monochalcogenide IV–VI semiconductor nanocrystals for use in solar cells. Nanoscale 3:2399. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1nr10084j

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