Materials and device engineering concepts for printed photovoltaics
Event details
| Date | 06.10.2016 |
| Hour | 14:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Stelios A. Choulis, Cyprus University of Technology |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The advantages of Solution Processed Photovoltaics, such as their light weight, mechanical flexibility in addition to the small energy demand, and low cost equipment requirements for roll-to-roll printing mass production, characterize them as a dominant candidate source for future electrical power. The Presentation aims in covering a range of engineering and underpinning scientific issues needed to bring printed (organic and perovskite) solar cells to commercial viability in terms of efficiency, lifetime and cost. A systematic understanding of the relationship between materials structure, processing, properties and device performance relevant to printed photovoltaics product development targets will be presented.
Bio : Professor Stelios A. Choulis is the Vice Departmental Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), the founder and Head of the Molecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit (http://www.cut.ac.cy/mep) at CUT (Cyprus, 2008- Present). He was the device research and development (R&D) group leader of Konarka Technologies (Germany, 2006-2008) and R & D Engineer of the Osram Opto-Semiconductors Inc, Organic Light Emitting Diode team at Silicon Valley (USA, 2004-2006). During his Ph.D. (University of Surrey, UK) and first Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Advanced Technology Institute (1999-2002, University of Surrey, UK) funded both by the British Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) he investigated the optical properties of quantum electronic materials and optoelectronic devices.
In 2002 he joined the center of electronic materials and devices (Imperial College London, UK) as Postdoctoral Research Associate funded by British Petrol (BP), and work on the opto-electronic properties of molecular semiconductor materials and devices (2002-2004). Stelios Choulis has authored and co-authored more than 80 refereed journal publications and over 11 patents families in the area of functional electronic materials, processing and devices. From web of science his work has been cited over 6000 times (h-index=30, average citations per paper=80). In 2015, Prof. Choulis was awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Bio : Professor Stelios A. Choulis is the Vice Departmental Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT), the founder and Head of the Molecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit (http://www.cut.ac.cy/mep) at CUT (Cyprus, 2008- Present). He was the device research and development (R&D) group leader of Konarka Technologies (Germany, 2006-2008) and R & D Engineer of the Osram Opto-Semiconductors Inc, Organic Light Emitting Diode team at Silicon Valley (USA, 2004-2006). During his Ph.D. (University of Surrey, UK) and first Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Advanced Technology Institute (1999-2002, University of Surrey, UK) funded both by the British Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) he investigated the optical properties of quantum electronic materials and optoelectronic devices.
In 2002 he joined the center of electronic materials and devices (Imperial College London, UK) as Postdoctoral Research Associate funded by British Petrol (BP), and work on the opto-electronic properties of molecular semiconductor materials and devices (2002-2004). Stelios Choulis has authored and co-authored more than 80 refereed journal publications and over 11 patents families in the area of functional electronic materials, processing and devices. From web of science his work has been cited over 6000 times (h-index=30, average citations per paper=80). In 2015, Prof. Choulis was awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Dean’s office EPFL - Faculté Science et Technique de l'Ingénieur
Contact
- Carole Loeffen Berthet, Dean’s office EPFL - Faculté Science et Technique de l'Ingénieur