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  • 19 December 2023
    Congratulations to Jordi Frencken, Ediz Garip, Daniël Grosfeld, and Luuk Sander who all received their MSc diplomas today. The ceremony can be viewed again on YouTube
  • 15 December 2023
    The research of Hiroki Tomita and Clint van Hoesel on "Unravelling quantum mechanics for brighter OLEDs" is featured in latest ICMS Highlights Magazine
  • 15 December 2023
    Congratulations to Lars van Erp  for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Narrow-bandgap large-area Pb-Sn perovskite solar cells".
  • 14 December 2023
    NWO has granted our proposal Flowganic in the 2023 Take-off autumn round. A recent discovery of extremely stable and easy to synthesize organic redox-active molecules provides new perspectives to the development of organic redox flow batteries for energy storage. In this project, we aim to develop this discovery into a sustainable energy technology, create demonstrators, and identify first commercial products. Also covered by C2W in Chemisch onderzoek stijgt op.
  • 11 December 2023
    Congratulations to Wouter Vels who received his MSc diploma today.
  • 28 November 2023
    If you are interested (and understand Dutch) you can check the podcast De Technoloog of BNR Nieuwsradio and learn about "Zonnepanelen als belangrijkste wapen in de energietransitie"
  • 16 November 2023
    Junke Wang's paper Halide homogenization enables low energy loss in 2-eV-bandgap perovskites and increased efficiency in all-perovskite triple-junction solar cells was published in Nature Energy today. For a quick update check the Behind the Paper blog.
  • 15 October 2023
    A warm welcome to Thijs van Stralen  who started his work today as a researcher.
  • 19 September 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Bruno Pinto Branco  who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Solar–driven water electrolysis: new multijunction solar cells and electrolysis materials". Bruno was awarded with two diplomas: one from the University of Stuttgart and one from Eindhoven University of Technology.
  • 19 September 2023
    Congratulations to Nico van Rijswijk and Rens Cuijpers who received their MSc diplomas today.
  • 18 September 2023
    A warm welcome to Rens Cuijpers who started his PhD today.
  • 8 August 2023
    An ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to René Janssen for our group's research on multi-junction perovskite solar cells. For more information see the news item on the TU/e wbsite.
  • 13 July 2023
    Congratulations to Avalon Hayes  for successfully defending her MSc thesis "Copper-based inorganic hole transport layers for upscaled p-i-n perovskite solar cells".
  • 30 June 2023
    In the third round the National Growth Fund has partially approved the SolarNL "Circular integrated high-efficiency solar panels" propsal in which our group is involved. For more information see the news item on the TU/e website and the website of SolarNL.
  • 20 June 2023
    Congratulations to Pieter de Haij and Bruno Langers who received their MSc diplomas today.
  • 14 June 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Daub who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Towards a more sustainable world: New organic molecules for nonaqueous redox flow batteries".
  • 6 June 2023
    Congratulations to Dimitar Georgiev  for successfully defending his MSc thesis "New redox active organic molecules with deep reduction potential as anolytes for RFBs".
  • 30 May 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Ludovico Riccardi who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Molecular copper and ruthenium water oxidation electrocatalyst for light-driven water splitting". Ludovico was awarded with two diplomas, one from University of Uppsala and one from Eindhoven University of Technology.
  • 23 May 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Olivera Vuković who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Inorganic metal halide perovskite nanocrystals and thin films: photophysics, photovoltaics and environmental impact". Olivera was awarded with two diplomas, one from Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour and one from Eindhoven University of Technology.
  • 22 May 2023
    Congratulations to Thijs van Stralen for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Probing charge density oscillations in the cuprate superconductor Bi-2212 using electron energy loss spectroscopy"
  • 22 May 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Xiao Ma who successfully defended his PhD thesis "The origin of dark current and trap states in organic photodiodes".
  • 1 May 2023
    Alessandro Caiazzo received the prize for the best onsite student talk of the EL20 Symposium on Photo and Radiation Detection with Organic, Perovskite and Nano-crystalline Semiconductors at the recent MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco for his presenation on "Multidimensional Perovskites for High Detectivity Photodiodes"
  • 1 May 2023
    Congratulations to Ediz Garip for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Optimization and 2D/quasi-2D passivation of inverted FAPbI3-based perovskite solar cells"
  • 21 April 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Riccardo Ollearo who very successfully defended his PhD thesis cum laude : "Exploring perovskite photodiodes – device physics and applications".
  • 20 April 2023
    Congratulations to Rens Cuijpers  for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy on a Polar Molecular Crystal".
  • 14 April 2023
    Today the Dutch national newspaper NRC covered Riccarrdo Ollearo's work on perovskite photodiodes: Here in Eindhoven they make things that don't exist yet
  • 3 April 2023
    Congratulations to Dr. Bas van Gorkom  who successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Highly sensitive photocurrent spectroscopy on hybrid perovskite solar cells"
    For more info see the news item on the TU/e website
  • 28 March 2023
    Congratulations to Nico van Rijswijk  for successfully defending his MSc thesis "New redox active dicyano anolytes for high energy density and stable non-aqueous redox flow batteries".
  • 27 March 2023
    The recent paper of Kunal Datta and Alessandro Caiazzo on Light-Induced Halide Segregation in 2D and Quasi-2D Mixed-Halide Perovskites has been highlighted in an Energy Spotlight on New Advances in Metal Halide Perovskites. Please check it out here.
  • 23 March 2023
    Congratulations to Daniël Grosfeld for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Pure bromide perovskite solar cells".
  • 14 March 2023
    Congratulations to Stacey Fun who obtained her MSc diploma today.
  • 9 March 2023
    Congratulations to Luuk Sander  for successfully defending his MSc thesis "All-inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite material for multi-junction solar cell applications"
  • 1 March 2023
    A warm welcome to Laura Bellini who started her PhD today.
  • 17 February 2023
    Riccardo Ollearo's paper Vitality surveillance at distance using thin-film tandem-like narrowband near-infrared photodiodes with light-enhanced responsivity was published in Science Advances today. At the TU/e website you will find a news item on this paper .
  • 25 January 2023
    Congratulations to Wouter Vels for successfully defending his MSc thesis "Ideality factor determination in mixed halide triple cation perovskite solar cells"
  • 12 January 2023
    Wiley's journal Environmental Energy Materials organized a webinar on "Photovoltaics: present status and future perspectives" with contributions of Martin Green (UNSW), Henry Snaith (Oxford) and René Janssen (Eindhoven). A recording is available.
  • 3 January 2023
    A warm welcome to Nick Schipper who started his PhD today.
  • 2 January 2023
    A warm welcome to Christian McDonald  who started his PhD today.

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2018

  • 18 December 2018
    Congratulations to Pieter van Thiel for receiving his MSc diploma Chemical Engineering.
  • 10 December 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Dario Di Carlo Rasi for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Tandem, triple and quadruple junction polymer solar cells"
  • 26 November 2018
    A warm welcome to Olivera Vuković who started her PhD research in the eSCALED project today.
  • 22 November 2018
    A warm welcome to Dr. Miaomiao Li  who started her postdoc research in our group today.
  • 25 October 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Fallon Colberts for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Processing organic photovoltaic layers from and on water".
  • 11 October 2018
    Congratulations to Kunal Datta for winning the STOOR Education Award for the best tutor in 2nd year courses at the Applied Physics Department.
  • 26 September 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Vikas Negi for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Exploring the process-structure-property relationship of organic solar cells by high performance computer simulations".
  • 25 September 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Ameneh Najafi for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Emergent magnetism in intercalated epitaxial graphene by hydrogen and tungsten".
  • 17 September 2018
    Congratulations to Edward Imhof and Tom van der Pol for receiving their MSc diplomas Chemical Engineering
  • 15 September 2018
    A warm welcome to Tom van der Pol who started his PhD project today
  • 14 September 2018
    Congratulations to Yuze Li for receiving his MSc diploma Sustainable Energy Technology.
  • 12 September 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Ruurd Heuvel for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Conjugated polymers for organic solar cells with reduced photon energy loss
  • 1 September 2018
    A warm welcome to Xiao Ma who started his PhD project today.
  • 26 -29 August 2018
    We had the great pleasure to welcome all the participants and the lectures for the ORZEL Summer School on OPV.
  • 1 August 2018
    Welcome to Dr. Dong Zhang who started as post-doctoral researcher to strengthen our interactions with Solliance
  • 16 July 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Mengmeng Li who has been awarded a Veni Grant 2018 from NWO for research on "Polymer monolayer electronics". He is one of the eight Veni laureates at the TU/e this year.
  • 1 July 2018
    A warm welcome to Bas van Gorkom who started his PhD project today.
  • 28 June 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Bardo Bruijnaers for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Lead halide perovskite solar cells”.
  • 15 June 2018
    Today we paid our last respect to Rein Rumphorst who passed away on June 8 at the age of 92. We will remember Rein as a unique electronics expert and a man who extended a helping hand to anyone who wanted it. For an obituary see Cursor.
  • 14 June 2018
    Congratulations to Bas van Gorkom for receiving his MSc diploma Sustainable Energy Technology.
  • 31 May 2018
    Congratulations to Robin Willems for winning the Wiley Poster Prize at the HOPV 2018 conference in Benidorm for his poster “Accurate determination of HOMO energies in conjugated diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymers for predicting the open-circuit voltage of organic photovoltaic devices”
  • and to Junke Wang for winning the RSC Poster Prize at the HOPV 2018 in Benidorm conference for his poster “Surface modification of tin oxide transport layer with fullerenes for efficient perovskite solar cells”.
  • 24 May 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Alessia Senes for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Orientation of transition dipole moments in solution processed small molecular emitters”.
  • 14 March 2018
    Congratulations to Annelore Aarts for receiving her MSc diploma Chemical Engineering.
  • 10 January 2018
    Congratulations to Dr. Andrey Gorbunov for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Ferroelectric switching phenomena in organic dielectrics and semiconductors”.
  • 1 January 2018
    Welcome back to Dr. Koen Hendriks who started his Veni project “Ambipolar Molecules for Non-Aqueous Redox flow Batteries” with DIFFER.

2017

  • 13 December 2017
    Congratulations to Eric Schiepers for receiving his MSc diploma Chemical Engineering.
  • 12 December 2017
    Congratulations to Benjamin Feleki for winning the Poster Prize at the Meeting Materials Conference in Noordwijkerhout for his poster “Towards Lead‐free Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells for Steel Substrates”.
  • 16 October 2017
    A warm welcome to Kunal Datta who started his PhD project today.
  • 1 October 2017
    A warm welcome to Dr Haijun Bin who started as a postdoc today.
  • 1 October 2017
    A warm welcome to Matt Dyson who started as a researcher today.
  • 28 September 2017
    Congratulations to Dr. Qiang (Mike) Wang for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells”.
  • 15 September 2017
    Congratulations to Kunal Datta for receiving his MSc diploma Sustainable Energy Technology.
  • 23 June 2017
    Xander de Vries has won the Best Poster Award at the Optical Probes 2017 (OP2017) Conference in Quebec, Canada.
  • 1 July 2017
    A warm welcome to Dr. Anna Todinova who started as a postdoc today.
  • 24 May 2017
    Congratulations to Dr. Bardo Bruijnaers for winning the RSC Poster Prize at the HOPV 2017 conference in Lausanne for his poster “The impact of oxygen on charge carrier recombination in planar p-i-n perovskite solar cells”.
  • 6 April 2017
    Professor Peter Bobbert gave his inaugural lecture “Bij nader inzien: nano-elektronica onder de loep” at the University of Twente where he has been appointed as professor of Theory of Organic and Hybrid Nanoelectronics.
  • 20 March 2017
    A warm welcome to Niels de Vries who started his PhD project today.
  • 1 March 2017
    Congratulations to Dr. Mengmeng Li who has been awarded a “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship’ from the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 program. The grant is worth nearly 166,000 euros for two years.
  • 1 February 2017
    A warm welcome to Benjamin Feleki who started his PhD project today.
  • 12 January 2017
    Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Massé for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Multiscale modelling of charge transport in organic devices: from molecule to device”.