The international conference PEROPTO19 dedicated to halide perovskite photonics and optoelectronics will be
held in Jerusalem. The conference will focus on the recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes,
lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and
light-matter coupling. The meeting will offer the opportunity for the development of national and international
collaborations between academic and private research partners.
- Perovskite light emitting diodes
- Stimulated emission and Lasing structures
- Optical properties of perovskite single nanoparticles, and single photon emission
- Photophysics and spectroscopy
- Quantum confinement and heterostructures
- Nonlinear optical properties, excitonic and many-body effects
- Optical modulators and other optical devices
- Perovskite photodetectors
- Optical cavities, polaritons, photon recycling
- Simulation of optical properties
Lioz Etgar obtained his Ph.D. (2009) at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral research with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL, Switzerland. In his post-doctoral research, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and won the Wolf Prize for young scientists. Since 2012, he has been a senior lecturer in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. On 2017 he received an Associate Professor position. Prof. Etgar was the first to demonstrate the possibility to work with the perovskite as light harvester and hole conductor in the solar cell which result in one of the pioneer publication in this field. Recently Prof. Etgar won the prestigious Krill prize by the Wolf foundation. Etgar’s research group focuses on the development of innovative solar cells. Prof. Etgar is researching new excitonic solar cells structures/architectures while designing and controlling the inorganic light harvester structure and properties to improve the photovoltaic parameters.
Professor Meredith is the Sêr Cymru Research Chair in Sustainable Advanced Materials at Swansea University Department of Physics in the United Kingdom where he also leads the newly established Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, and formerly an Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award Fellow. He was educated in the UK at Swansea, Heriot-Watt and Cambridge Universities, and also spent six years as a senior scientist at Proctor and Gamble. His current research involves the development of new high-tech materials for applications such as optoelectronics and bioelectronics. He has particular interests and expertise in next generation semiconductors, functional surface coatings, solar energy systems, sensing and photodetection. Professor Meredith has published >250 papers and 29 patents and is co-founder of several start-up companies including XeroCoat and Brisbane Materials Technology. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Premier of Queensland’s Sustainability Award (2013), is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is widely recognised for his contributions to innovation and the promotion of renewable energy. He has served on several advisory bodies and boards including the Queensland Renewable Energy Target Public Enquiry Expert Panel and the ARENA Solar R&D Program Technical Advisory Board. In 2020 he received an OBE for services to materials research and innovation and was also appointed to the EPSRC’s Strategic Advisory Network in 2021.
Prashant V. Kamat is a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Senior Scientist at Radiation Laboratory, and Concurrent Professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame. He earned his doctoral degree (1979) in Physical Chemistry from the Bombay University, and postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and University of Texas at Austin (1981-1983). He joined Notre Dame in 1983 and initiated the project on utilizing semiconductor nanostructures for light energy conversion. His major research interests are in three areas : (1) catalytic reactions using semiconductor and metal nanoparticles, nanostructures and nanocomposites, (2) develop advanced materials such as inorganic-organic hybrid assemblies for energy conversion, and (3) environmental remediation using advanced oxidation processes and chemical sensors. He is currently serving as a Deputy Editor of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and A/B/C and a member of the advisory board of scientific journals, Langmuir, Research on Chemical Intermediates, Electrochemistry and Solid State Letters, and Interface. He has written more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers, review articles and book chapters with more than 40000 citations and carries an h-index of 109. He has edited two books in the area of nanoscale materials. He was a fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science during 1997 and 2003 and was awarded Honda-Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japanese Photochemical Society in 2006 and Langmuir Lectureship Award in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, American Chemical Society and AAAS.
Maksym Kovalenko has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich since July 2011 and Associate professor from January 2017. His group is also partially hosted by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) to support his highly interdisciplinary research program. He completed graduate studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria, 2004-2007, with Prof. Wolfgang Heiss), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008-2011, with Prof. Dmitri Talapin). His present scientific focus is on the development of new synthesis methods for inorganic nanomaterials, their surface chemistry engineering, and assembly into macroscopically large solids. His ultimate, practical goal is to provide novel inorganic materials for optoelectronics, rechargeable Li-ion batteries, post-Li-battery materials, and catalysis. He is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018, ERC Starting Grant 2012, Ruzicka Preis 2013 and Werner Prize 2016. He is also a Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (by Clarivate Analytics).
Hernán Míguez (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971) is Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in the Institute of Materials Science of Seville. He studied Physics in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and did his PhD in the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Ozin, he returned to Spain and joined the CSIC in 2004. He leads the group of Multifunctional Optical Materials, whose activities are devoted to the development, characterization and modeling of new photonic architectures for applications in different fields, among them solar energy conversion and light emission. He has received an ERC starting grant (2012, Consolidator Modality) and the “Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA 2017” Prize in the modality of “Physics, Innovation and Technology”.
Sanford Ruhman is a full professor of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. His work concentrates on applications of femtosecond spectroscopy in condensed phases. As a pioneer in the field of femtosecond photochemistry his group was the first to report conservation of coherence from reactants to dissociation products in solutions, and to utilize impulsive Raman probing of photoproducts. His current interests include fundamental ultrafast excitonics in nanocrystals and photovoltaic materials, ultrafast photobiology, and applications of impulsive vibrational spectroscopy to probe light induced dynamics in liquids and solids. Over the years he has served as the Director of the Farkas Minerva center for light induced processes at the Hebrew University, and as the head of the Institute of Chemistry there.