M2N Research Group Eindhoven

• 17 January 2022
  Bas van Gorkom's paper Revealing defective interfaces in perovskite solar cells from highly sensitive sub-bandgap photocurrent spectroscopy using optical cavities was published  in Nature Communications today.
• 17 January 2022
  A warm welcome to  Clint van Hoesel who started his PhD today.
• 22  December 2021
  Congratulations to Simon Mathijssen, former PhD student of the M2N group, who has been appointed to ASML Fellow earlier this year. The ASML Fellowship Program is an honor program for employees who have made remarkable contributions to the success of ASML. Read here about how Simon and his colleagues ensure layers of microchips align with nanometer accuracy.
• 14  December 2021
  Riccardo Ollearo's paper Ultralow dark current in near-infrared perovskite photodiodes by reducing charge injection and interfacial charge generation
  was published  in Nature Communications today.
• 14  December 2021
  Dorothée Mader  received her MSc diploma. Congratulations!
• 3  December 2021
  As of January 1st, Peter Bobbert (M2N) has been appointed as scientific director of  CCER.
• 11 November 2021
  Alessandro Caiazzo's paper on the "Effect of Co-Solvents on the Crystallization and Phase Distribution of Mixed-Dimensional Perovskites" in Advanced Energy Materials was accompanied by a nice back cover.
• 10 November 2021
  Nature discussed our recent paper in Nature Electronics with Research Highlight on "Bendable mini-scanner records every loop of a fingerprint".
• 4 November 2021
  A News & Views "High-resolution image sensors get rolled up" by Ya Wang and Hang Zhou from the Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School in China discussed our paper in Nature Electronics.
• 1 November 2021
  Today our joint paper "A thin and flexible scanner for fingerprints and documents based on metal halide perovskites" with colleagues from TNO Holst Centre and TNO Solliance was published in Nature Electronics.
• 1 November 2021
  Congratulations to Dr. Qi Zhang, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "A computational approach for high-throughput virtual screening of organic electroactive compounds for aqueous redox flow batteries", supervisors were Dr. Süleyman Er (DIFFER) and Prof. René Janssen.
• 18 October 2021
  Solliance partners TNO and TU/e have further optimized the the wide-bandgap (1.69eV) perovskite cells with high near-infrared transparency for 4T tandem application. The perovskite cell has reached a stabilized efficiency of 17.8% during 5-min maximum-power-point tracking. In combination with the Panasonic silicon bottom cell, a new world-record 4T perovskite/Si tandem efficiency of 29.2% is realized. In combination with the Miasolé CIGS bottom cell a word-record efficiency of 27.1% is demonstrated for a flexible 4T perovskite/CIGS tandem. See Solliance website.
• 18 October 2021
  Brian Dirven, Tom Hagenaars, Lan Hu and Winston Schilp received his their MSc diplomas. Congratulations to all four!
• 8 October 2021
  The M2N retreat 2021 was a tandem bike tour of 46 km with a nice dinner as a reward in the evening.
• 21  September 2021
  Vincent Verhagen  received his MSc diploma. Congratulations!
• 20  September 2021
  Congratulations to Junke Wang! The China Scholarship Council has awarded Junke with the prestigious 2020 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. This prize is considered the highest award given by Chinese government to graduate students studying outside China who do not receive financial support from the Chinese government. Recipients are chosen worldwide each year for their outstanding accomplishments in academia. Currently, no more than 500 talents are awarded yearly.
• 3 September 2021
  Congratulations to Dr. Niels de Vries, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Topology and non-Fermi liquids in two-dimensional materials".
• 2 September 2021 Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Feleki, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Perovskite Solar Cells on Steel Substrates".
• 21 June 2021
  The research of Junke Wang and Kunal Datta Towards the next generation solar cells features in the newest edition of the ICMS Highlights magazine
• 15 June 2021
  Sietske de Louw, Stan Jaspars and Teun Nevels received their MSc diplomas. Congratulations to all three! The recordings of the ceremony can be found here.
• 11 May 2021
  Zehua Chen, Geert Brocks, Shuxia Tao, and Peter Bobbert, published their paper Unified theory for light-induced halide segregation in mixed halide perovskites, in Nature Communications. It was highlighted on the TU/e news site.
• 30 April 2021
  Congratulations to Dr. Subash Gireesan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Modeling Novel Thermal Transport Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanowires"
• 21 April 2021
  Solliance partners TNO, imec/EnergyVille and the Eindhoven University of Technology, realized a 18.6% efficient highly near infrared transparent perovskite solar cell. The latter, when combined in a four terminal tandem configuration with an efficient Panasonic crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell or with a Miasolé flexible CIGS cell, delivers new record power conversion efficiencies of 28.7% and 27.0%, respectively. Check this link for more information.
• 10 February 2021
  In a collaboration between USA based MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp and European Solliance Solar Research a power conversion efficiency of 26.5% on a tandem solar cell was established. The architecture combines two thin-film solar cell technologies: a top rigid semi-transparent perovskite solar cell with a bottom flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) cell. At Solliance TNO, imec, and TU/e contributed to realize this perovskite solar cell. Check this link for more details
• 15 January 2021
  Congratulations to Dr. Pieter Leenaers, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Controlling the optoelectronic properties and structural organization of diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers via specialized design motifs"
• 15 January 2021
  A warm welcome to Lois Fernández Míguez who started his PhD today.

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