Link to Photoconversion Materials Group is here
Upcoming Meetings
Focus Session Organic Electroncs, APS Spring Meeting 2018, March 5 - 9, 2018, Los Angeles, USA
Organic electronics and photonics (DPOLY/DMP)
Info coming soon...
Organizers: Elizabeth von Hauff (VU Amsterdam), Dean DeLongchamp (NIST)
....Past meetings listed here
Networks
Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance in doped semiconductor nanocrystals - SONAR
Doped semiconductor nanocrystals are exciting emerging materials. Very high carrier densities lead to localized surface plasmon resonances in the near infrared. Examples are copper chalcogenides, where doping occurs via vacancy formation, and metal oxides (MOs) that show plasmonic response due to impurity doping. Excitingly, both materials display post synthetic carrier density and LSPR tunability over a broad spectral range. Combined with layered two dimensional materials exciting manipulation options appear where the plasmon-exciton coupling or ‘hot’ carrier extraction enables local photo luminescence manipulation or tracking of local currents in a graphene based nano device. This active control over the LSPR allows active switching of the strength of coupling, useful also for the study of exciton-plasmon, plasmon-plasmon coupling, or plasmon induced ‘hot’ carrier extraction in nano-heterostructures. Ultralow doping allows the study of quantum plasmonics. Ultrafast photodoping, optical switching, active light manipulation or tunable NIR photon detection are additional exciting applications. While fundamental questions regarding the structure-properties relationship remain open to date the library of materials with such properties is enormous and not yet exhausted.
Stable next generation photovoltaics: Unraveling Degradation Mechanisms of Organic Solar Cells by Complementary Characterization Techniques
The Action StableNextSol aims to create a highly interdisciplinary network of academic and industry researchers to study the degradation mechanisms occurring in state-of-the-art OPVs, based on the use of complementary analytical techniques. The Action seeks to integrate and generate fundamental knowledge and expertise to foster disruptive innovations targeted to mitigate device failure, and aims to develop new concepts for OPVs that are more stable and reach lifetimes longer than 20 years. The reason for the action is the crucial need to advance in the commercialization of OPVs and to strength the industrial European OPV sector such that this technology can fulfill its potential and supply clean electricity on a global scale.
African Network for Solar Energy (ANSOLE)
ANSOLE is a platform of exchange among various stakeholders who are all devoted to promote in a concerted way the use of various renewable energy forms to address the acute energy problem in Africa while preserving and protecting the environment.