CMSP Seminar @ICTP Stasi Seminar Rm: FEDERICO ROSEI - MONDAY 6 MARCH AT 11:30

[Condensed Matter Section]

ICTP Condensed Matter  Seminar

MONDAY 6 MARCH at 11:30 a.m.

Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, first floor, ICTP Leonardo building
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Speaker:  Federico ROSEI
(Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications,
INRS, Varennes, Quebec, Canada)

Title: Multifunctional Materials for Solar Technologies

Abstract: As the age of fossil fuels is coming to an end, now more than 
ever there is
the need for more efficient and sustainable renewable energy 
technologies. This presentation
will give an overview on recent developments in solar technologies that 
may address,
in part the energy challenge. In particular, nanostructured materials 
synthesized
via the bottom-up approach present an opportunity for future generation low
cost manufacturing of devices [1]. We demonstrate various strategies to 
control
nanostructure assembly, to design and synthesize functional materials 
that will
help address the energy challenge. We study, in particular, 
multifunctional materials,
namely materials that exhibit more than one functionality, and 
structure/property
relationships in such systems, including for example: (i) control of 
size and luminescence
properties of semiconductor nanostructures, synthesized by reactive 
laser ablation
[2]; (ii) we devised new strategies for synthesizing multifunctional 
nanoscale materials
to be used for applications electronics and photovoltaics [3-26].


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