This symposium invites contributions on all aspects of organic solar cells (OPV) research. It will consider challenges in novel donor acceptor molecules, and explore pathways to high efficiency, long lifetime and low environmental impact at a low cost of synthesis and good scalability. It will also provide insights on the advanced machine learning concepts for optimization and upscaling of these devices, as well as on new OPV application areas, such as indoor light cells, agrivoltaics, windows, integrated IOT solutions, and more.
- non-fullerene acceptors
- degradation
- stability
- efficiency
- sustainability
- applications
Vida Engmann obtained her Dr. rer. nat in 2014 from the Ilmenau University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gobsch. In 2014 she joined the OPV group at Mads Clausen Institute of University of Southern Denmark as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017 she was appointed assistant professor and in 2020 as associate professor, with the focus on degradation and additive-assisted stabilization of organic solar cells. Her international research stays include Uppsala University, University of Colorado Boulder / NREL, and Russian Academy of Sciences Chernogolovka. In 2019 she received the Danish UNESCO-L'Oréal For Women in Science award and in 2020 the UNESCO L'Oréal International Rising Talent award.
Pascal is an early-career researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, UK. He holds an EPSRC postdoctoral and David Clarke fellowship, which allows him to conduct his own research independently. Pascal currently investigates All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells, processed from solution or in vacuum. He applies a range of optoelectronic and microstructural characterization techniques to understand and improve organic photovoltaics.
Mariano Campoy Quiles´s research is devoted to the understanding and development of solution processed semiconductors for energy and optoelectronic applications. He and his team have built substantial research efforts in two application areas, solar photovoltaic (light to electric) and thermoelectric (heat to electric) energy conversion based on organic and hybrid materials. He studied physics at the Univesity of Santiago de Compostela, obtained his PhD in experimental physics from Imperial College London, and since 2008 he leads his team at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona.
Bryon LarsonZhe LiLarry LueerWouter Maes got his PhD in Chemistry with Professor Wim Dehaen at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven (Belgium) in 2005. After post-doctoral stays at the KU Leuven (postdoc of the Research Foundation – Flanders, FWO; with Professor Wim Dehaen), the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (with Professor Eric Rose) and Oxford University (with Professor Harry Anderson), he became Assistant Professor at Hasselt University in 2009, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, Professor (Hoogleraar) in 2018, and Full Professor (Gewoon Hoogleraar) in 2021. His research activities deal with the design and synthesis of organic semiconducting materials (with an emphasis on conjugated polymers) and their application in organic electronic devices (organic solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, light-emitting diodes) and advanced healthcare, pursuing rational structure-property relations (see https://www.uhasselt.be/DSOS). These activities are generally combined with more in-depth materials and device physics studies within the framework of the Institute for Materials Research (imo-imomec) of Hasselt University.
Jie Min obtained his PhD degree from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg in 2015. After obtaining his PhD degree, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology, Erlangen, Germany (2016–2017). In 2017, he joined Wuhan University as a full professor. His current research interests relate to the reduction of the efficiency-stability-cost gap of organic photovoltaics. He also aimed to explore the emerging applications of building integrated photovoltaics. For more information, please see the lab website: http://jie min.whu.edu.cn/.
Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, with the aim of optimising the performance of plastic solar cells. She has published around 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells.
Alberto Privitera