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    SHORT-FORM ARTICLES AND OPEDS

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    How U.S. Tariffs Will Hurt America’s Solar Industry,New York Times, January 25, 2018, Print (Page A27)

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    “Clean energy technology investors need fresh support after VC losses” (with Ben Gaddy), Financial Times, July 26, 2016, Print (Page 2).

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    “Solar Energy Is At Risk,” Washington Post, April 16, 2018.

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    “Interview with Gaddy and Sivaram: Why Venture Capitalists Abandoned Clean Energy,” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2016.

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    LONG-FORM ESSAYS AND REPORTS

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    "Outshining Silicon: How Perovskite Solar Cells Could Deliver Superior Efficiency,” Scientific American, July 2015, Print.

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    “How India’s Audacious Solar Ambitions Could Make or Break Its Climate Commitments,” Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, December 2015.

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    “The Dark Side of Solar,” Brookings Institution, April 2018.

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    “The Clean Energy Revolution: Fighting Climate Change with Innovation,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2016.

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    “Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Clean Energy Innovation,” MIT Energy Institute, July 2016.

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    ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

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    “Unlocking Energy: Avoiding Technology Lock-In,” Issues in Science and Technology, 2017.

    “The Need for Continued Innovation in Solar, Wind, and Energy Storage,” Joule 2 (9), 2018.

    “Solar Power Needs a More Ambitious Cost Target,” Nature Energy 1, 2016.

    “Critique of charge collection efficiencies calculated through small perturbation measurements of dye sensitized solar cells,” Journal of Applied Physics 113, 2013.

    “Mesoporous TiO2 single crystals delivering enhanced mobility and optoelectronic device performance,” Nature 495, 2013.

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