The development, understanding and design of materials with efficient pathways for conversion of sunlight into other useful forms of energy is a grand challenge. Experimental and theoretical spectroscopic techniques are essential for probing light-matter interactions fundamental to energy conversion phenomena, and can drive the development of new routes towards tuning optoelectronic properties of energy materials. Moreover, physical and chemical intuition gained from spectroscopy provides a roadmap towards the design of bespoke materials for specific applications, such as photovoltaics, photocatalysis, electronics and energy storage.
This symposium proposes to bring together theorists and experimentalists to showcase recent progress in spectroscopic methods and understanding of light-matter interactions and excited states phenomena in complex energy materials. Topics will range from method development and novel spectroscopic techniques to excited states phenomena and materials design, covering a wide range of complex energy materials.
- Light-matter interactions
- Excited states phenomena
- Materials design
- Ultrafast spectroscopy
- Novel spectroscopic methods
- Energy materials
Timothy BerkelbachLaura Herz is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and was a Research Fellow at St John's College Cambridge from 2001 - 2003 after which she moved to Oxford. Her research interests lie in the area of organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors including aspects such as self-assembly, nano-scale effects, energy-transfer and light-harvesting for solar energy conversion.
Stephan KümmelPaulina Plochocka, Directrice de recherché de 2e classe (DR2) in Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI), CNRS in Toulouse.
P. Plochocka obtained her PhD cum-laude in 2004 at the University of Warsaw working on the dynamics of many-body interactions between carriers in doped semi-magnetic quantum wells (QW). During her first post doc at Weizmann Institute of science, she started working on the electronic properties of a high mobility 2D electron gas in the fractional and integer quantum Hall Effect regime. She continued this topic during second post doc in LNCMI Grenoble, where she was holding individual Marie Curie scholarship. At the same time, she enlarged her interest of 2D materials towards graphene and other layered materials as TMDCs or black phosphorus. In 2012 she obtained permanent position in LNCMI Toulouse, where she created the Quantum Electronics group, which investigates the electronic and optical properties of emerging materials under extreme conditions of high magnetic field and low temperatures. Examples include semiconducting layer materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides, GaAs/AlAs core shell nanowires and organic inorganic hybrid perovskites.
Archana Raja