This symposium welcomes submissions that explore methodologies for understanding and enhancing the performance and stability of organic photovoltaic devices (OPV). The symposium addresses recent progress and hurdles in low-complexity non-fullerene acceptors and donors for efficient, long lasting OPV. Insights on the fundamental understanding of the performance-stability-morphology interplay are also covered. Special attention is paid to material and processes that minimize losses during the scale-up from lab cells to large-area modules. Other relevant topics include the scale-up synthesis of photoactive, interlayer and electrode materials, machine learning and high throughput screening methodologies, advanced morphological and device characterization, module lifetime studies, as well as emerging applications of OPV.
Sponsored by:
- Efficiency-limiting processes in OPV
- Stability-limiting processes in OPV
- Material design strategies
- Small molecules and conjugated polymers
- Advanced manufacturing processes
- Machine learning and high throughput screening
- Imaging, advanced morphological and device characterization
- Device engineering, from cells to modules
- Operational stability of OPV, field studies
After graduating in 2008, Clément Cabanetos completed a PhD at the CEISAM laboratory (Nantes, France), focusing on the synthesis of novel crosslinkable polymers for nonlinear optical applications. He then joined KAUST (Saudi Arabia) as a postdoctoral fellow, working on π-conjugated macromolecular materials for organic photovoltaics. In 2013, he was appointed as a permanent CNRS researcher at the MOLTECH-Anjou laboratory (Angers) to developed innovative concepts in organic electronics. He earned his habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in 2018 and was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2019 for his scientific achievements. In 2021, he joined the international joint lab 2BFUEL at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea) to broaden his expertise and foster global collaborations, serving as Director from September 2022 to December 2023. In 2024, he returned to Angers as a CNRS Research Director and group leader (Kemtronix Research group). His current work focuses on the upcycling and design of novel π-conjugated materials for emerging applications including (antimicrobial) photodynamic therapy, green energy, optoelectronics, photocatalysis, and water remediation.
Eva Herzig’s research interest focuses on the possibilities and limitations in the characterization of nanostructures in functional materials as well as how such nanostructures form and change as functions of external parameters. The examined materials range from organic molecules to nanostructured hybrid and inorganic systems. We examine processing-property relationships and the influence of external fields to investigate how the fundamental self-assembly processes influence the final material performance. To this end we exploit various scattering techniques to observe and control structure and function relationships in the examined materials in-situ. Using grazing incidence x-ray scattering we are particularly sensitive to nanostructures on flat surfaces and within thin films.
He studied electrical engineering in Stuttgart and started working on Si solar cells in 2004 under the guidance of Uwe Rau at the Institute for Physical Electronics (ipe) in Stuttgart. After finishing his undergraduate studies in 2006, he continued working with Uwe Rau first in Stuttgart and later in Juelich on simulations and electroluminescence spectroscopy of solar cells. After finishing his PhD in 2009 and 1.5 years of postdoc work in Juelich, Thomas Kirchartz started a three year fellowship at Imperial College London working on recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells with Jenny Nelson. In 2013, he returned to Germany and accepted a position as head of a new activity on hybrid and organic solar cells in Juelich and simultaneously as Professor for Photovoltaics with Nanostructured Materials in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University Duisburg-Essen. Kirchartz has published >100 isi-listed papers, has co-edited one book on characterization of thin-film solar cells whose second edition was published in 2016 and currently has an h-index of 38.
Chang-Qi MaJie 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/.
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