Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) is a promising emerging technology in photovoltaics, which requires only very little energy and thus CO2 emission for their fabrication, resulting in an extremely short energy payback time. Further, it does not contain any heavy metal elements and can be processed from green solvents. Additionally, thanks to the appearance of the so-called non-fullerene acceptors ( NFA) power conversion efficiencies in OPV have been raised to over 18% under simulated sun light and to over 26% under indoor lighting making OPV very most promising in the field of indoor applications.
This symposium will focus on characterization and modeling of state of the art devices to address the exciting questions about the working principles of organic solar cells and also to identify further optimization potentials. Rational material design for the photoactive layer as well as for interfacial layers will be discussed. Furthermore one focus will be on large scale processing based on new or improved printing techniques. Regarding the objective to integrate OPV into scalable commercial applications another focus will be on the long term stability. A special focus on new materials, device optimization and new industrial application in the field of indoor PV will be set.
- Working principles of organic solar cells accessed through advanced characterization and modeling
- New materials for high efficiency OPV
- Advances in experimental techniques to study organic semiconductors and polymer blends at the nanoscale
- Required material and device properties for sufficient long term stability under different stress conditions
- Material strategies and printing concepts for eco-friendly organic solar cells
- Indoor applications of OPV
Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a Professor of Emerging Electronics at the University of Manchester in the UK. Following the award of his BEng and PhD degrees, he spent two years at the University of St. Andrews (UK), where he worked on organic semiconductors for application in light-emitting diodes before joining Philips Research Laboratories in The Netherlands to focus on printable microelectronics. From 2006 to 2017, he held faculty positions at Imperial College London (UK), first as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and later as a Reader and full Professor of Experimental Physics. From 2017 to 2023, he was a Professor of Material Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
Christoph J. Brabec is holding the chair “materials for electronics and energy technology (i-MEET)” at the materials science of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Further, he is the scientific director of the Erlangen division of the Bavarian research institute for renewable energy (ZAE Bayern, Erlangen).
He received his PhD (1995) in physical chemistry from Linz university, joined the group of Prof Alan Heeger at UCSB for a sabbatical, and continued to work on all aspects of organic semiconductor spectroscopy as assistant professor at Linz university with Prof. Serdar Sariciftci. He joined the SIEMENS research labs as project leader for organic semiconductor devices in 2001 and joined Konarka in 2004, where he was holding the position of the CTO before joining university.
He is author and co-author of more than 150 papers and 200 patents and patent applications, and finished his habilitation in physical chemistry in 2003.
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.
Dr. Qun LUO received her Bachelor degree in Material Science and Engineering in 2006 from Zhengzhou University, and Ph. D degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry in 2011 from Zhejiang University in China. She had a research experience in the field of photoluminescence properties of rare earth materials. During Jan, 2011 to July, 2011, she did research work in Rennes-1 University of France as a joint Ph.D student in the field of photoelectrochemical properties of sulfide. From Nov. 2011, she started research work of printable electronic inks and printing organic and perovskite solar cells as a post-doctor in Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From May, 2015, she jointed Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor. Now, her research interests are printable metal oxides semiconductor inks & printing thin films photovoltaics. She has published more than 60 papers on organic/perovskite photovoltaics and photovoltaic interface engineering.
Morten 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
Alessandro Mattoni, received a master degree in physics at the University of Perugia and a PhD in solid state physics at the University of Padova. He is staff researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and in charge of the unit of Cagliari of the Istituto Officina dei Materiali, where he coordinates the theory group on the multiscale modeling of nanomaterials. A. Mattoni is author of more than 100 papers on international journals and coordinator of several projects on hybrid materials for photovoltaics and energy; he has been the principal investigator of several high-performance computing projects. A.M. developed the first interatomic force-field for classical molecular dynamics of hybrid perovskites.
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational methods for atomistic and multi-scale modeling of functional hybrid nanomaterials. Classical molecular dynamics, electronic structure methods including semi-empiricial tight binding and ab initio methods.