Transparent and semi-transparent PV constitute a new paradigm in PV technologies that initiated in early 2000’s related to the need for increased and seamless PV building integration. Since then, relevant advances have been achieved including the development of innovative materials and strategies for high optical quality and aesthetic smart solar windows and glass-based façades involving emerging perovskites, DSSC, organic and chalcogenide/oxide inorganic technologies, and new relevant applications have also raised as Agrivoltaics (APV) and PV of things.
This symposium invites contributions on new materials and devices challenges to enhance the performance of Transparent PV solar cells, focusing on new device architectures aiming to cost-efficient, robust technologies with suitable optical quality for advanced PV integration applications.
- Inorganic technologies for UV-blue selective transparent devices
- New perovskite transparent device architectures
- Advanced DSSC device concepts
- Organic transparent devices
- IR-selective device approaches
- New materials for highly transparent solar windows, including LSC approaches
- Advances in materials and processes for high optical quality segmented devices
Aldo Di Carlo is Director of the Institute of Structure of Matter of the National Research Council and Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of ROme "Tor Vergata". His research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their analysis and their optimization. Di Carlo founded the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which nowadays involve more than40 researchers dealing with the development of III generation solar cells (DSC, OPV and Perovskite) and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. CHOSE has generated 6 spin-off companies and a public/private partnership. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 500 scientific publications in international journals, 13 patents and has been involved in several EU projects (three as EU coordinator)
Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez is Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Barcelona (UB). Since October 2009 he is ascribed to IREC as Head of the Solar Energy Materials and Systems (SEMS) Group. His research activities are centred in the development and advanced characterisation of cost-efficient thin film emerging inorganic technologies, using processes compatible with their industrial sustainable upscaling with very low environmental impact. Special emphasis in these activities is given to the exploitation of the technological flexibility of these technologies for advanced PV integration applications, including the development of flexible solar cells and innovative efficient transparent contacts for next generation semi-transparent devices specially suited for Building Integration and Agrivoltaics. He is co-author of 413 scientific publications, including 329 papers in SCI high IF journals, with an h-factor of 58 and 11322 citations (with a consolidated average of 802 citations/year during the last 6 years) (Scopus January 2025). He is co-author of 6 patents, including a patent that was under exploitation by the former company Smalle Technologies SL (spin-off of the UB) and 3 patents shared with NEXCIS (former spin-off of EDF in France).
Marcel PlacidiDr. Sascha Sadewasser is a Research Group Leader at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal. The group works on energy materials, specifically for photovoltaics, batteries, and catalysis, covering advanced solar cell materials and devices implementing nano- and microstructures, thin-film solid-state batteries, and 2D chalcogenide materials. Additionally, scanning probe microscopy methods are developed and applied for the characterization of the optoelectronic nanostructure of energy materials.
Sascha Sadewasser holds a Diploma (1995) in Physics from the RWTH Aachen, Germany and a PhD (1999) from the Washington University St. Louis, MO, USA. After 2 post-docs in Berlin (Hahn-Meitner Institute) and Barcelona (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica), he became group leader and later deputy department head at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany. After his Habilitation in Experimental Physics from the Free University of Berlin, Germany (2011) he joined INL in 2011, where he is currently co-Chair of the Research Board and member of the Executive Board. Sascha has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers (incl. Nature series, Advanced Materials series, and Phys. Rev. Lett.), with about 4100+ citations (h-index 37). He has published 5 book chapters and 2 books and has been granted 3 patents. He has participated in and coordinated several European and international projects and is a member of several scientific committees and evaluation boards.
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