Motivated by the opportunity to address the challenges of toxicity and instability affecting lead-halide perovskites, researchers have been turning their attention to the development of new inorganic solar absorbers. With advances in the fields of metal halides, chalcogenides, and chalcohalides, a plethora of promising photovoltaic absorbers has been discovered, and their properties have been increasingly well understood. This exciting class of materials includes double perovskites (A2BB’X6), ABZ2 semiconductors, rudorffites, chalcogenide perovskites (ABS3), heavy pnictogen chalcogenides, and chalcohalides.
Our symposium aims to facilitate a comprehensive discussion among experts in the fabrication, simulation, and characterization of this emerging class of semiconducting materials. By bringing together a range of different perspectives and skill sets, we hope to promote a deeper understanding of these new solar absorbers and to accelerate their development.
We invite contributions that cover a broad range of topics, including fabrication methods (such as solution processing and thermal evaporation), characterization and the development of structure-properties relations, and photophysical studies.
- Synthesis and material development of emerging inorganic photoabsorbers
- Dry and wet thin-film processing techniques of emerging inorganic photoabsorbers
- Structural characterization and development of structure-properties relations
- Theoretical predictions of novel inorganic materials
- Charge-carrier dynamics and transport in novel inorganic materials
Thomas Bein received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) in 1984. He continued his studies as Visiting Scientist at the DuPont Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington, DE (USA). From 1986 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (USA). In 1991 he joined Purdue University (Indiana) as Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU), where he also served as Director of the Department of Chemistry.
He has recently won an ERC Advanced Grant entitled “Electroactive Donor-Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks”. Presently he is LMU-Coordinator of the newly funded Excellence Cluster “e-conversion”. Bibliographic data: Over 500 publications, over 38.000 citations, h=115. Since 2018, Thomas Bein is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate).
His current research interests cover the synthesis and physical properties of functional nanostructures, with an emphasis on porous materials for targeted drug delivery and nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion.
URL: http://bein.cup.uni-muenchen.de/
Dr. Sudip Chakraborty is leading Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging (MATES Lab) group in India’s premier theoretical research Institute Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad (Prayagraj), Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India. After completing his Ph.D. in collaboration between Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and University of Pune, India, he moved to Max Planck Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany in March, 2011 as a Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow. In February, 2013, he joined Materials Theory Division, Uppsala University, Sweden as a Førskare (Senior Researcher). Since March, 2019, he started leading his group firstly in Department of Physics of IIT Indore and later on in HRI from May, 2021 onwards. He has been awarded the Rising Stars by ACS Materials Au 2021, among 300+ nominations worldwide, while he is the sole recipient from India. He is in the Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C (ACS), Energy Advances (RSC), Electronic Structure (IOP), Chemistry of Inorganic Materials (Elsevier) and Graphene & 2D Materials (Springer). His works are appeared in Nature Materials, PNAS, Materials Today, ACS Energy Letters, JACS, ACS Nano, ACS Catalysis, AngewChemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chem.Mat. etc. He has 174 International publications with total 6500 citations and 45 h-index (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ybAcs3kAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)
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