You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Advances in Semiconductors and Catalysts for Photo electrochemical Fuel Production (SolarFuel16), to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 5-6 September 2016.
This conference focuses on the photo-electrochemical(PEC) and photo-catalytic conversion of cheap and abundant resources, such as water and CO2, to chemical fuels. Although much progress has been made in recent years, several bottlenecks remain to be solved before practical and scalable PEC solar fuel converters become a reality. The challenges range from developing new light absorbers and catalysts with high efficiency and stability to the design, modeling, and optimization of (photo-)electrochemical reactors and devices. A key aspect is the understanding and optimization semiconductor/catalyst and catalyst/electrolyte interfaces, where advanced characterization method sand theoretical modeling offer new insights into the chemical structure and the electronic charge transfer processes in these systems.
- Electrocatalysts for water splitting and CO2 reduction
- Novel light absorbers
- Semiconductor/catalyst/electrolyte interfaces
- New materials, methods, devices
- Advanced characterization and theoretical modeling
- Chemical engineering of photoelectrochemical systems
You are invited to participate in the International Conference of Fundamental Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals (FQDots16), that will take place from 5 to 6 September 2016 in Berlin,Germany.
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystalsexhibit electronic quantum-confinement in one-, two- or three dimensions, leading to unique physical and chemical properties. After two-decade long research, these properties can be rationally engineered through mature synthesis methods. Of tremendous interests are optical properties and charge transport in nanocrystal solids. Questions also arise as to actual competitiveness of semiconductor nanocrystals in novel optoelectronic devices and in life sciences. Another pressing challenge is to extend all exciting findings obtained with toxic cadmium, lead, and mercury based nanocrystals to environmentally friendly materials. ThenanoGe meeting will bring together speakers that will discuss challenging problems in chemistry and physics of semiconductor nanocrystals.
- Rational design of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: modelling and in-situ insights into nucleation and growth, doping, shape control, hetero- and hybrid-structures, environmentally benign materials
- Selected physical phenomena: photonics, magnetism, plasmonics, energy transfer and charge transport
- Theory and computational studies on electronic structure, surface effects and charge transport
- Advanced concepts for optoelectronic, photonic and biomedical applications of semiconductor nanocrystals
Maksym Kovalenko has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich since July 2011 and Associate professor from January 2017. His group is also partially hosted by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) to support his highly interdisciplinary research program. He completed graduate studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria, 2004-2007, with Prof. Wolfgang Heiss), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008-2011, with Prof. Dmitri Talapin). His present scientific focus is on the development of new synthesis methods for inorganic nanomaterials, their surface chemistry engineering, and assembly into macroscopically large solids. His ultimate, practical goal is to provide novel inorganic materials for rechargeable Li-ion batteries, photovoltaics, and optoelectronics. He is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2012, Ruzicka Preis 2013 and Werner Prize 2016
You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Solution Processed Innovative Solar Cells (SPINS16), which will be held from 8 to 9 September 2016, in Berlin, Germany.
The conference has been established as a major forum for a variety of exciting topics regarding fundamentals, applications, and experimental methods in solution processed photovoltaics. The SPINS16 conference this year aims to sum on world renowned experts in the fields of solution processed inorganic and hybrid thin film solar cells. This year's conference content will make a balanced presentation in the progress of thin film solar cells with focus on solution-based and other routes to address the efficiency, stability and scalability challenges that stand on the way to future terawatt-scale photovoltaics. Some examples include Perovskite, Quantum Dot, emerging earth-abundant absorbers, nano-crystalline semiconductor solar cells and novel tandem/multijunction architectures. The aim of this conference is to bring together scientists working in thin film photovoltaics (inorganic/organic), device physics, materials science, and theoretical physics to discuss those novel material platforms, exchange knowledge, communicate challenges and potentially identify synergies.
- Novel tandem/multijunction solar cells
- Chalcopyrite/Kesterite solar cells
- Emerging earth-abundant, inorganic semiconductors for solar cells
- Quantum Dots and nanocrystalline semiconductor solar cells
- Perovskite solar cells
- Progress towards photovoltaic technologies with potential for high efficiency, stability, component availability and scalable solution-based processing
- Characterization methods and fundamental understanding of underlying working mechanisms
You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Solution-based Two-dimensional Nanomaterials (Sol2D16), to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 8-9 September 2016.
Ultrathin 2-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials (nanosheets) are attracting increasing research efforts due to their extraordinary electronic, phononic, optical and mechanical properties, which makes them promising materials for a myriad of applications (spintronic devices, field-effect transistors, nanoscale sensors, batteries, photodetectors, LEDs). Well-known examples are graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides. Nanosheets are typically obtained by exfoliation of bulk materials or grown on substrates by MBE or CVD. These methods are however not suitable to produce large amounts of free-standing 2D nanosheets and lack control over their shape and lateral dimensions. Solution-based "bottom-up" colloidal chemical methods offer an appealing alternative, and are emerging as promising routes to free-standing solution-processable 2D nanosheets and nanoribbons of a variety of materials, including graphene and inorganic semiconductors. This conference intends to bring together the multidisciplinary scientific community working on this nascent field, and will address not only the bottom-up solution synthesis of 2D nanomaterials, but also their chemistry, physics and applications in devices.
- Solution-based bottom-up synthesis of 2D nanomaterials (colloidal methods, directed organic synthesis, metal-organic frameworks)
- Physical properties of solution-based 2D nanomaterials (e.g., electronic, optical, thermal, electron and spin transport, etc.)
- Chemical properties of solution-based 2D nanomaterials (e.g. photocatalytic properties)
- Self-organization of 2D nanomaterials into superstructures
- Devices based on solution 2D nanomaterials
Laurens Siebbeles (1963) is leader of the Opto-Electronic Materials Section and deputy head of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. His research involves studies of the motion of electrons in novel nanostructured materials that have potential applications in e.g. solar cells, light-emitting diodes and nanoelectronics. Materials of interest include organic nanostructured materials, semiconductor quantum dots, nanorods and two-dimensional materials. Studies on charge and exciton dynamics are carried out using ultrafast time-resolved laser techniques and high-energy electron pulses in combination with quantum theoretical modeling.
Celso de Mello Donega is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His expertise is in the field of synthesis and optical spectroscopy of luminescent materials. His research is focused on the chemistry and optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on colloidal nanocrystals and heteronanocrystals.
You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Charge Carrier Dynamics at the Nanoscale (CCDNano16), to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 12-13 September 2016.
Unraveling the nature of charge carrier dynamics taking place at the nanoscale is of pivotal interest for many different scientific disciplines. Furthermore, from a practical point of view, tuning charge transfer, recombination and transport in organic and inorganic nanocomposites and bulk materials represents a the key aspect for the further optimization of novel nanostructured-based applications (e.g. solar cells, batteries, sensors, molecular electronics, catalysts...). The CCDNano meeting will bring together experts from different scientific fields in order to trigger interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations. We expect this conference to serve as a platform in order to share, advance and potentially unify methodologies and theories from different research sub-fields. Ultimately, the aim of the conference is to break the boundaries between chemistry, physics, biology and engineering concerning the nature of charge transfer, recombination and transport processes taking place at the nanoscale.
- Molecular electronics
- Interfacial charge transfer and transport in nanocomposites
- Defects and recombination in organic and inorganic nanocomposites and bulk semiconductors
- Exciton, charge transfer state and polaron dynamics in donor:acceptor systems
- Theory of charge transport and recombination in organic and inorganic nanocomposites
- Energy transfer in organic and inorganicnanocomposites
- Technological implications and perspectives for novel nanostructured-based devices (e.g. solar cells, batteries, sensors, electronics, catalysts,...)
Enrique Cánovas graduated on Applied Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2002). After that, he realized a two-years Master of Advanced Studies at Universidad de Valladolid working on the spectroscopic characterization of native and operation-induced defects in high power laser diodes. From 2004 to 2006 he made a second Master of Advanced Studies at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Institute of Solar Energy, IES); training focus was on the fabrication, characterization and optimization of solid state solar cells. In 2006 he joined the group of Prof. Martí and Prof. Luque at IES, where he completed PhD studies on the spectroscopic characterization of novel nanostructures aiming ultra-high-efficiency solar cells. His PhD studies included two placements (covering 9 months in total) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA - with Prof. W. Walukiewicz) and Glasgow University (Scotland - with Prof. Colin Stanley). Between 2010 and 2012 he worked as a postdoc at FOM Institute AMOLF (Amsterdam - The Netherlands, Prof. M. Bonn) on the characterization of carrier dynamics in sensitized solar cell architectures. Between 2012 to 2018 he lead the Nanostructured Photovoltaics Group at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany). Since April 2018, Enrique Canovas works at IMDEA Nanoscience where he was appointed Assistant Research Proffesor (tenure-track). His research interests cover all aspects of photovoltaics, nanotechnology and charge carrier dynamics.
He studied electrical engineering in Stuttgart and started working on Si solar cells in 2004 under the guidance of Uwe Rau at the Institute for Physical Electronics (ipe) in Stuttgart. After finishing his undergraduate studies in 2006, he continued working with Uwe Rau first in Stuttgart and later in Juelich on simulations and electroluminescence spectroscopy of solar cells. After finishing his PhD in 2009 and 1.5 years of postdoc work in Juelich, Thomas Kirchartz started a three year fellowship at Imperial College London working on recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells with Jenny Nelson. In 2013, he returned to Germany and accepted a position as head of a new activity on hybrid and organic solar cells in Juelich and simultaneously as Professor for Photovoltaics with Nanostructured Materials in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University Duisburg-Essen. Kirchartz has published >100 isi-listed papers, has co-edited one book on characterization of thin-film solar cells whose second edition was published in 2016 and currently has an h-index of 38.
You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Semiconductor Ferroelectrics and Photoferroelectrics (SEFERR16), to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 12-13 September 2016.
Non-conventional photovoltaic and photoelectric properties of non-centrosymmetric materials are nowadays seeing a revival in the interest in the scientific community. Currently both oxide and non-oxide perovskites with ferroelectric and semiconductor properties have produced important and encouraging results, however the mechanisms of FerroicPhotovoltaics are poorly understood yet. This workshop is the second monographic meeting on this exciting topic and will unite a number of outstanding experts. The format of the meeting encourages discussion in order to promote a public analysis of the physical mechanisms and materials properties of ferroelectric semiconductors for PV applications.
- Ferroelectric oxides for PV applications
- Hybrid and non/oxide ferroelectric PV perovskites
- Novel self-polarised materials for photocatalysts
- Advanced materials and devices
- Physical characterization
- Fundamental PV mechanisms