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Dr. Dawen Li
Professor
Contact
- 2005 NERC
- phone (205) 348-9930
- fax (205) 348-6959
- Faculty Website
Research Areas
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
- B.S., Chemical Machinery and Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Dr. Dawen Li is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006. During his Ph.D. study, Dr. Li had intern experience at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. From 2006 to 2008 he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Li joined the University of Alabama in 2008. He is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Dr. Li’s current research focuses on organic and perovskite-based photovoltaics (including tandem solar cells), advanced manufacturing of perovskite solar modules through blade and slot-die coating with integration of rapid photonic annealing, and physics-informed machine learning/embodied AI with edge computing.
Affiliated Areas
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polymers and Soft Materials Research Center, Alabama Materials Institute, Alabama Water Institute
Selected Publications
- Mohsen Ameri, Zhongliang Ouyang, Jarod Beights, Jacob Breakfield, Qiaoli Liang, Seid Yimer Abate, So Yeon Park, Qilin Dai, Kai Zhu, and Dawen Li*, “Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells Achieved via Rapid photonic Annealing of All Stacking Layers: Unveiling the Crystallization Energy Window”, Small, 21, 2501825, (2025)
- Pei Tang, Mohsen Ameri, Qiaoli Liang, Peter I. Udenze, Zhongliang Ouyang, Megan Brown, Logan Smith, Igor Fedin, Dawen Li*, “Interface Modulation by Macromolecules for Enhancing Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 17, 21, 31614–31626, (2025)
- Peter I. Udenze, Jiaqi Gong, Shohreh Soltani, Dawen Li*, “A deep neural network with two-step decomposition technique for predicting ultra-short-term solar power and electrical load”, Applied Energy, 382, 125212, (2025)
- Zhongliang Ouyang, Henry Abrams, Robert Bergstone, Quantao Li, Feng Zhu, and Dawen Li*, “Rapid layer-specific annealing enabled by ultraviolet LED with estimation of crystallization energy for high performance perovskite solar cells”, Advanced Energy Materials, 10, 1902898 (2020). Highlighted as inside front cover.
- Zhongliang Ouyang, Mengjin Yang, James B. Whitaker, Dawen Li* and Maikel F. A. M. van Hest*, “Towards scalable perovskite solar modules using blade-coating and rapid thermal processing”, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3, 3714-3720 (2020)
Awards and Honors
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2012
- First prize in Faculty Innovation Pitch Competition at the University of Alabama (UA), 2022
- First place in UA Crimson Technology Innovation Contest, 2017
Dr. Li's Impact
Igniting Innovation: 5 Inventions that Started at UA
May is National Inventors’ Month. To celebrate, we took a moment to applaud innovation at The University of Alabama, which is designated one of the Top 100 U.S. Universities in 2024 by...
UA students develop flexible solar cell
A start-up technology company run by University of Alabama students and an associate professor is developing a thin, flexible solar cell with the goal of helping the military meet goals...