This symposium invites contributions on organic photovoltaics with a specific focus on new materials, efficiency, and photophysics. This technology stands out due to significant progress in polymer technology, positioning it as a promising alternative to conventional solar modules. Despite promising efficiency achievements over the last decade, this technology is still lacking compared to other solar technologies.
To that end, it is pivotal to unravel challenges in material design, optimization, yet also tracking the efficiency-limiting processes. Considerable efforts on examining these factors while enhancing techniques for better characterization, such as ultrafast spectroscopy, are used to track the complex processes like exciton generation, charge generation and recombination, and charge transfer. Related topics are nonfullerene acceptors, time-resolved spectroscopy, charge generation and recombination, stability, and upscaling of organic solar cells
- Organic Solar Cells (OSC) and Applications
- Photophysics
- Nonfullerene acceptors
- Bilayer organic solar cells
- Stability of organic solar cells
Safakath Karuthedath is an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, where he leads the Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Device Physics (USDP) Laboratory. His research focuses on fundamental photophysical phenomena in organic, hybrid, and emerging photovoltaic materials, with the goal of advancing solar-energy conversion efficiencies. He has extensive expertise in ultrafast spectroscopy, charge-carrier dynamics, and structure–property relationships in functional materials. At Tsinghua, he supervises a multidisciplinary team of doctoral, master’s, and postdoctoral researchers, working at the interface of spectroscopy, device physics, and materials science.
Dr. Harald Hoppe has received his diploma degree in physics in the year 2000 and his PhD in physical chemistry in 2004. He completed his habilitation in 2015. His experience stretches from silicon solar cells over polymer physics and the study of detailed donor-acceptor morphology in polymer-based organic solar cells over fundamental structure-property-relationships and details of the underlying energy landscape up to ageing and imaging studies of thin-film solar cells and modules.
Xinhui LuMorten Madsen, Professor wsr at the University of Southern Denmark, SDU NanoSYD.
My field of expertise is thin-film growth, integration and devices for energy conversion and storage applications. In 2010-2011, I worked with high performance transistors from III-V nanoscale membranes at the Javey research lab, UC Berkeley, California. In 2011, I established the OPV group at SDU NanoSYD, where we work on improving the performance and stability of organic and hybrid solar cells, including thin film synthesis, metal oxide interlayers and interfaces, organic and hybrid active layers as well as film and device degradation. Since 2016, we also have a focus on device up-scaling through Roll-to-Roll (R2R) printing technology at the SDU R2R facility. Vist out site for more details:
https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/c_nanosyd/forskningsomrader/organic+solar+cells
Chen SunMan Chung Tang