Nanoseminar in Chemistry & Materials

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Speaker:Prof. Udo Bach, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Monash University, Australia

Abstract: Lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have recently emerged as a new class of semiconductor materials with exceptional properties. In this talk I will summarise some of our work on single-crystalline LHP materials, their synthesis and application in x-ray detectors, Faraday rotators and electro-optical modulators. Single-crystalline LHPs can also be used to study photoinduced phase segregation in mixed-halide LHPs. Our work reveals that light, the very cause of phase segregation, can also be used as a tool to reverse it. In the second part of my talk I will focus more on photovoltaic applications of solution-processed LHP thin-films in devices with back-contact architecture and conclude my presentation with an outlook on our activity in the area of energy materials discovery via high-throughput combinatorial approaches.

Introductory talk 1: "A detailed study of an alternative material for earth abundant and recyclable solar cells." by Dr Maria Chiara Spadaro, Postdoctoral Researcher at Advanced Electron Nanoscopy group at ICN2. 

Introductory talk 2: " Stability in p-i-n low temperature carbon cells" by Dr Tino Lukas, Oxford University.