nanoGe International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics and Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO25) will take place from 9th to 10th of June 2025 in Sardinia, (Italy).
The NIPHO 25 conference will focus on recent advances in the field of hybrid perovskite based solar cells with a deeper look and particular emphasis into the current stability and upscaling issues, essential for the scaling up of this technology. Contributions are expected on topics such as ways to improve stability and durability of devices from material design to more efficient and versatile configurations, interface engineering and physics therein, intelligent optimization approaches aiming at reaching the efficiency limits and the development of lead free solutions. Emphasis will also be put on those advancements based on new ways to control stability through proper device interface engineering using organic and inorganic interlayer, perovskites with low dimensionality, as well as on the impact of those interface treatment on device stability and efficiency. Submissions are also encouraged on more fundamental aspects, such as the theoretical description of the electronic structure of perovskites, modelling of their optical and charge transport properties, or novel advanced characterization techniques.
Topics
2D/3D Interface Engineering
Stabilization of Bulk Perovskite phase
Engineering Tandem Perovskite/Perovskite solar cells
Development and Optimization of Tandem Perovskite/Si solar cells and new concepts
Fundamental understanding on interfacial losses
Engineering, properties and processes at device interfaces
Understanding of Hybrid Perovskite Interfaces from atomistic point of view
Physical deposition of halide perovskite
In-situ characterization and theory of perovskite crystallization
2D perovskite
Lead free and Perovskite inspired absorber
Thin film perovskite on large area
Invited Speakers
Tom Aernouts
IMEC, Belgium, BE
Tom Aernouts
IMEC, Belgium, BE
Dr Tom Aernouts is R&D leader of the Thin Film Photovoltaics group at imec. Over the last few years this activity has grown steadily with state-of-the-art work in organic solar cells and recently also perovskite-based photovoltaics, next to inorganic materials like Kesterites for future replacement of the currently strongly growing CIGS thin film solar cells. Also the lab environment was drastically improved with setting-up the O-line infrastructure in 2009 at imec, allowing the processing and characterization of thin film solar cells and modules with area up to 15 x 15 cm². A next upgrade in 2018 enabled to extend the device size to 35x35cm². Dr Aernouts earned his Master of Science and PhD degree in Physics (in 2006) at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Firstly, he worked on organic oligomer-based diode structures, afterwards continuing his research on organic photovoltaics at imec. There, his work focused on the processing and characterization of polymer-based organic solar cells and monolithic modules, introducing techniques like screen and inkjet printing. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal publications, book chapters and conference contributions. Also, his research group participates on a regular basis in a broad range of local and international projects, with the most recent example the coordination of the European H2020 project ESPResSo.
Dr Juliane Borchert is the head of the junior research group “Optoelectronic Thin Film Materials” at the University of Freiburg as well as the head of the research group “Perovskite Materials and Interfaces” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. She studied physics in Berlin, Groningen, and Halle (Saale). Her PhD research was conducted at the University of Oxford where she focused on co-evaporated perovskites for solar cells. She continued this research as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and AMOLF research institute in Amsterdam. Now she leads a team of researchers and technicians who are on a mission to develop the next generation of solar cells combining novel metal-halide perovskite semiconductors and established silicon technology into highly efficient tandem solar cells.
Annalisa Bruno
Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University, SG
Annalisa Bruno
Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University, SG
Dr. Annalisa Bruno is a Principal Scientist at the Energy ResearchInstitute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) coordinating a team working on perovskite high-efficiency solar cells and modules by thermal evaporation. Annalisa is also a tenured Scientist at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). Previously Annalisa was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London. Annalisa received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II. Her research interests include perovskite light-harvesting and charge generation properties and their implementation in solar cells and optoelectronic devices.
Elisa Carignani
CNR - ICCOM, Pisa, IT
Elisa Carignani
Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM)
Researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) Italian National Research Council (CNR), specialized in Solid State NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy, Low Field and Fast Field Cycling NMR relaxometry. PhD in Chemical Sciences at University of Pisa. Post doc research fellows at University of Southampton, University of Pisa, IPCF-CNR and ICCOM-CNR, and visiting scientist at University of Warwick (UK), University of Bayreuth (Germany), Institute of Nuclear Physics (Polish Academy of Science) Krakow (Poland).
My research activity is aimed at the development and application of SSNMR spectroscopy and relaxometry for the physico-chemical characterization of different kind of materials, especially for the energy and ecological transition. My current interests include the study of materials for renewable energies (inorganic and organic photovoltaics, especially perovskites and materials for membrane technologies) and materials for the circular economy (recycling and valorization of biomass and urban waste, innovative biochar for soil treatment), polymeric and composite materials of interest for new technologies.
Mónica Lira-Cantú
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), ES
Mónica Lira-Cantú
Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), ES
Prof. Mónica Lira-Cantú is Group Leader of the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (www.icn.cat located in Barcelona (Spain). She obtained a Bachelor in Chemistry at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, ITESM Mexico (1992), obtained a Master and PhD in Materials Science at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB) & Autonoma University of Barcelona (1995/1997) and completed a postdoctoral work under a contract with the company Schneider Electric/ICMAB (1998). From 1999 to 2001 she worked as Senior Staff Chemist at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (formerly Mobil Technology Co) in New Jersey (USA) initiating a laboratory on energy related applications (fuel cells and membranes). She moved back to ICMAB in Barcelona, Spain in 2002. She received different awards/fellowships as a visiting scientist to the following laboratories: University of Oslo, Norway (2003), Riso National Laboratory, Denmark (2004/2005) and the Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Japan (2006). In parallel to her duties as Group Leader at ICN2 (Spain), she is currently visiting scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, CH). Her research interests are the synthesis and application of nanostructured materials for Next-generation solar cells: Dye sensitized, hybrid, organic, all-oxide and perovskite solar cells. Monica Lira-Cantu has more than 85 published papers, 8 patents and 10 book chapters and 1 edited book (in preparation).
Maria Antonietta Loi
University of Groningen, The Netherlands, NL
Maria Antonietta Loi
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials
University of Groningen, The Netherlands, NL
Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received the PhD in 2001. In the same year she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a post doctoral fellow. Later she worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna Italy. In 2006 she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor in the same institution and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group. She has published more than 130 peer review articles in photophysics and optoelectronics of nanomaterials. In 2012 she has received an ERC starting grant.
Emilio Palomares
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ES
Emilio Palomares
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ES
Prof. Saverio Russo, Chair in Physics at the University of Exeter, is the Senior Academic Lead of the Quantum Systems and Nanomaterials Research Group working on experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum systems and academic manager of the Centre for Graphene Science clean-room facility. His pioneering work spans both fundamental and applied research on emerging quantum systems, advancing the understanding of quantum mechanical phenomena in device physics. Prof. Russo’s research has paved the way for transformative technologies in energy harvesting (e.g. triboelectricity), carbon emission reduction (e.g. sustainable materials for electronics and construction), self-powered electronics, and quantum sensors. Bridging disciplines such as physics, engineering, chemistry, and materials science, Prof. Russo addresses critical global challenges through innovative science. He has authored over 100 high-impact publications, many of which have been featured by prominent international media outlets, highlighting the global significance of his contributions. His scientific advancements have driven significant technological innovation, resulting in a portfolio of more than ten patents and spurring impactful commercialization efforts, including Concrene Ltd, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry through graphene-enhanced composites.
Sam Stranks is Professor of Energy Materials Optoelectronics in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology and the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He obtained his DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford in 2012. From 2012-2014, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College Oxford and from 2014-2016 a Marie Curie Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He established his research group in 2017, with a focus on the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors for low-cost electronics applications.
Sam received the 2016 IUPAP Young Scientist in Semiconductor Physics Prize, the 2017 Early Career Prize from the European Physical Society, the 2018 Henry Moseley Award and Medal from the Institute of Physics, the 2019 Marlow Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2021 IEEE Stuart Wenham Award and the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics. Sam is also a co-founder of Swift Solar, a startup developing lightweight perovskite PV panels, and an Associate Editor at Science Advances.
Shuxia Tao is a compuational materials scientist and she studies how photons, electrons and ions interact with each other and how such interactions determine the formation, function and degradation of materials. Currently, she leads the Computational Materials Physics group at the department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Tao's group focuses on multiscale modelling of energy and optoelectronic materials, studying the growth of nanomaterials and developing theory of light-matter interactions. The ultimate goal is perfecting the quality of these materials and maximizing their efficiency for converting and storing energy and information. Her recent contribution to PV materials focuses on halide perovskites, where she made important contribution in the understanding of the electronic structure, the defect chemistry/physics and the nucleation and growth of halide perovskites. Recently, she also expanded the research to the interactions of perovskites with other contact materials in devices and novel optoelectronic properties, such as optical chirality and chiral induced spin selevetivity.
Giulia is Associate Professor at Physical Chemistry Unit at University of Pavia, leading the PVsquared2 team, and running the European Grant ERCStG Project “HYNANO”aiming at the development of advanced hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to reveal the fundamental lightinduced dynamical processes underlying the operation of such advanced optoelectronic devices whose understanding is paramount for a smart device development and for contributing to the transition of a green economy.
Giulia received an MS in Physical Engineering in 2008 and obtained her PhD in Physics cum laude in 2012 at the Politecnico of Milan. Her experimental thesis focused on the realisation of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During her PhD, she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan. In 2015, she joined the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with a Co-Funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. From 2016 to 2019, she has been awarded by the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant providing a platform to lead her independent research group at EPFL focused on the developemnt of new generation hybrid perovskite solar cells.
She is author of 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 44 (>13’000 citations), focused on developement and understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of new generation solar cells.
Recently, she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe.
Daniela Marongiu is associate professor at the Department of Physics of University of Cagliari (Italy). She obtained a PhD in Nanostructure and Nanotechnology in 2011 from the University of Milano-Bicocca, then she moved to University of Sassari and later in 2013 to Cagliari where she has been an associate professor since 2021. She was visiting researcher at Northwestern University (USA) and Energy Research Institute at NTU (Singapore) in 2019 and 2023. She studied a variety of nanomaterial-related topics and now her main scientific interests involve the growth and characterization of hybrid and all-inorganic halide perovskites in the form of thin films and single crystal heterostructures for energy applications. Recently she also focused on the synthesis of inorganic double-perovskite micro and nanocrystals with a high photoluminescence quantum yield in the visible range including the doping with rare earths such as Yb and Er for highly efficient NIR emitters and stable phosphors.
Aldo Di Carlo
ISM-CNR and CHOSE - Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’, IT, IT
Aldo Di Carlo
ISM-CNR and CHOSE - Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’, IT, IT
Aldo Di Carlo is Director of the Institute of Structure of Matter of the National Research Council and Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of ROme "Tor Vergata". His research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their analysis and their optimization. Di Carlo founded the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which nowadays involve more than40 researchers dealing with the development of III generation solar cells (DSC, OPV and Perovskite) and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. CHOSE has generated 6 spin-off companies and a public/private partnership. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 500 scientific publications in international journals, 13 patents and has been involved in several EU projects (three as EU coordinator)
Technical Manager
Blanca Fonollosa
Conference Manager
Venue
The conference will take place in Sardinia, Italy, at the Facoltà di Architettura, University of Cagliari.
Address: Via Corte d'Appello 87 - 09124 Cagliari CA Telephone: +39 070 675 5009
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Important Dates
Early registration deadline: 11th April 2025
Abstracts submission deadline (oral): 11th April 2025
Abstracts submission deadline (poster): 9th May 2025
Scientific program: 23rd April 2025
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