Title: Toward new perovskites solar cells and minimodules

Abstract

Metal-halide perovskites are one of the most promising active materials for optoelectronics applications such as photovoltaic, light-emitting technologies, and X-ray detectors, thanks to their excellent optoelectronic properties and thin films fabrication versatility. In the photovoltaic domain, in less than 10 years, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.5% and an increasingly growing operational stability. The rapid progress has triggered the interest in transferring the existing technology from the typical laboratory small area perovskite solar cells into large area solar modules necessary for their industrial applications and building-integrated photovoltaics. In this talk, we will give an overview of the recent research activities on halide perovskite materials, from the synthesis to their optical and electrical properties and finally to their integration in solar cells. We will present also different technologies explored to scale them up over large areas.

Biography

Annalisa Bruno received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Physics and Applied Physics from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she also worked as a post-doc in the Physics and Chemical Engineering Departments. After, she joined the Chemistry Department of Imperial College London, first as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, studying organic and hybrid materials for optoelectronic applications. In 2011 she became a tenured Senior Staff Scientist at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). In 2014 she also joined the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) as a Senior Scientist. Since 2017 she is leading the Thermally Evaporated and Tandem Solar Cells team in ERI@N. We aim at developing highly efficient large-area solar cells.