This symposium brings together expert researchers from modelling, simulation and characterization with the main objective of demonstrating the latest developments on next generation of highly efficient and stable emerging OptoElectroIonic devices, from solar cells, LEDs, photodetectors, memristors, batteries, capacitors, fotoelectrodos, etc… with special focus on OptoElectroIonic perovskite solar cells.
From modelling and simulation, essential topics as drift-diffusion simulations, opto-electro-ionic modelling, machine learning, device optimization, device degradation and physical mechanisms at different time scales will be addressed.
From characterization, a special emphasis on general and advanced characterization techniques (including in-situ characterization) focused on device performance, stability (Lab-scale cells and modules) and reliability (industry modules).
- Numerical device modelling and simulation of OptoElectroIonic devices: perovskite solar cells, tandem devices, LEDs, memristors, detectors, batteries…
- Characterization techniques focused on device performance, stability (Lab-scale cells and modules) and reliability (industry modules)
- Protocols
- Degradation models – bayesians, machine learning methods
- In-situ characterization for stability assessment
- Machine learning for spectroscopy analysis
Urs Aeberhard received his PhD in theoretical solid state physics in 2008 from ETH Zurich, (Switzerland) for a thesis on a microscopic theory of quantum well solar cells, performed in the Condensed Matter Theory group at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). From 2009-2018, he was a postdoc, senior scientist and group leader at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Photovoltaics (IEK-5), Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), heading the activities in Theory & Multiscale Simulation. In 2013, he stayed as visiting research scholar at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. Since 2018, he is employed as a senior R&D scientist at Fluxim and as a Guest Lecturer for the simulation of photovoltaic devices at ETH Zurich. Dr. Aeberhard is the developer of pioneering quantum-mechanical simulation approaches for nanostructure-based solar cells and the author of numerous publications on this topic.
Dr. Osbel Almora completed his PhD (2020) at the Friedrich Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and currently holds a Ramon y Cajal Tenure Track Research Fellow position at Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona, Spain.
His research activities focus on characterization and modeling of semiconductor and energy devices, including, solar cells, X-ray detectors, light emitting diodes, and pseudocapacitors.
Petra Cameron is an associate professor in Chemistry at the University of Bath.
Alessio GagliardiHerman HeffnerDr. Evelyne Knapp is a research associate at the Institute of Computational Physics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. She holds a Diploma and Ph.D. degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich.
since Sept. 2017
Group leader Outdoor Performance, PVcomB
2014 - 2017
Test manager, responsible for diagnostics, function owner in advanced driver assistant system series development, Carmeq GmbH, Berlin (Volkswagen subsidiary)
2009-2014
Scientist in groups Solar Cell and Module Characterization und Device Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich
2012-2013
Visiting scientist in PV Module Reliability Test and Evaluation Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA (NREL)
2007-2009
Scientist in group Photovoltaics, Institute of Physical Electronics, University of Stuttgart
2005-2007
Scientist in group Soil Physics, Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg
Education
2011
Dissertation at RWTH Aachen, title of thesis: ‘Spectral and Directional Dependence of Light- Trapping in Solar Cells’, carried out at Forschungszentrum Jülich
2005
Diploma in Physics, diploma thesis at Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, ‘Monitoring Field Tracer Experiment with Ground Penetrating Radar and Time Domain Reflectometry’
2004
IASTE exchange in quantum electronics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001-2002
ERASMUS exchange, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
2001
Vordiplom in Physics, University of Freiburg
Miscellaneous
Systemic Coach, trained at German Society of Positive Psychology, Berlin
Trainer for Positive Psychology (both certified at DGPP)