Organic photovoltaics has been going through a revolutionary phase the past few years with new power conversion efficiency records being set on a continuous basis. This progress, which is directly related to the introduction of new highly performing non-fullerene acceptors, has changed the field radically, making it a high performance technology and placing it side by side to both hybrid and inorganic thin-film photovoltaics technologies. In parallel to this, the organic photovoltaics industry has gained new momentum, emphasizing that the technology has entered a new era where the vast research and development efforts will push the technology further on the future energy market.
The Non-fullerene Electron acceptors Within Organic PhotoVoltaics (#NewOPV) symposium will encompass diverse topics such as new materials, focusing particularly on new nonfullerene acceptors and related interlayers, fundamental processes in organic photovoltaics such as charge generation, transport and extraction along with related recombination processes, device development and up-scaling using roll-to-roll coating and printing technology, as well as stability of materials and related organic photovoltaic devices.
- Non-fullerene acceptor materials
- Fundamental processes in OPV
- OPV device interlayers
- Non-fullerene acceptor based OPV devices
- OPV up-scaling from Roll-to-Roll technology
- OPV material and device stability
Vida Engmann obtained her Dr. rer. nat in 2014 from the Ilmenau University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gobsch. In 2014 she joined the OPV group at Mads Clausen Institute of University of Southern Denmark as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017 she was appointed assistant professor and in 2020 as associate professor, with the focus on degradation and additive-assisted stabilization of organic solar cells. Her international research stays include Uppsala University, University of Colorado Boulder / NREL, and Russian Academy of Sciences Chernogolovka. In 2019 she received the Danish UNESCO-L'Oréal For Women in Science award and in 2020 the UNESCO L'Oréal International Rising Talent award.
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
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.
Stelios A. Choulis is Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology (2008-present). He was the Organic Photovoltaic Device group leader of Konarka Technologies (2006-2008) and research and development (R&D) engineer of the Osram Opto-Semiconductors Inc, Organic Light Emitting Diode R&D team (2004-2006). During his PhD and first post-doc research associate (PDRA) position at Advanced Technology Institute (1999-2002, University of Surrey) he investigated the optical properties of quantum electronic materials and opto-electronic devices. In 2002 he joined the center of electronic materials and devices (Imperial College London, UK) as PDRA and work on the transport and recombination dynamics properties of molecular semiconductors (2002-2004). His current research interest focuses on the development of functional materials and devices for advanced optoelectronic applications.
James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London and Ser Cymru Solar Professor, University of Swansea. His research addresses the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis. It is based around employing transient optical and optoelectronic techniques to address materials function, and thereby elucidate design principles which enable technological development. His group is currently addressing the development and functional characterisation of organic and perovskite solar cells and photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. More widely, he leads Imperial's Centre for Processable Electronics, founded the UK�s Solar Fuels Network and led the Welsh government funded S�r Cymru Solar initiative. He has published over 500 research papers and 5 patents, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Martin Heeney is a Professor of Organic Materials Chemistry and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow at Imperial College London. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and received his PhD from the same institution in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Cook. Following eight years in industry, he joined the Materials Department at Queen Mary University of London as a senior lecturer in 2007 before moving to Imperial in 2009. His research interests include the design, synthesis and characterisation of solution processed materials for a variety of applications. He has published over 250 research papers, 5 book chapters and over 100 patents. In 2013 he was awarded the RSC Corday-Morgan Medal for most meritorious contributions to chemistry by a scientist under the age of 40. For the last five years, he has been named by Thomson Reuters as a HighlyCited researcher in the field of Materials Science.
Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, with the aim of optimising the performance of plastic solar cells. She has published around 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells.
Tao Wang is Professor of Materials Science in the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China. He received his B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering (2002) and M.Sc. in Materials Science (2005). He obtained his Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Surrey (UK) in Feb. 2009. Subsequently, he moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield (UK), where he worked with Prof. Richard Jones (FRS) and Prof. David Lidzey on organic solar cells. He became a professor in Wuhan University of Technology (China) in 2014. He is admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2019, and is an Editoral Board Member of Reports on Progress in Physics. His current research interests are organic and hybrid optoelectronic devices. He has published over 100 journal papers in Joule, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials and so on.
Yingping Zou is a full professor in Central South University (CSU). She received her Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008 with Prof.Yongfang Li, then performed her postdoctoral research at Laval University from 2008 to 2010 with Prof.Mario Leclerc. She was an assistant professor in 2008 and promoted to full professor in Feb, 2014 in CSU. She did her visiting research in Stanford University from 2012 to 2014, in Stanford University. Currently her researches focus on the organic small molecules/polymers for high performance optoelectronic devices. She has published more than 170 peer-review papers including Nature Photonics, Joule, Nature Communications, J.Am.Chem.Soc, Adv Mater, etc. with more than 6000 citations and H index is 42, and she also obtained more than 10 Chinese invention patents and 3 PCT patents. More than 40 invited/plenary/keynote talks have been delivered. Recently she developed a new molecular strategy, based on this strategy, she obtained word-record NREL efficiency in organic solar cells for several times.