News about the group
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04/05/2020
Two good news this week. Firstly, we warmly welcome our new PhD student Anjala Jayaraj. She will be working on the fabrication of Sn-based perovskites and their characterizations. Secondly, we can finally go back to our labs and continue our measurements where we left them off !
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15/04/2020
Our new paper on the passivation of the CuInSe2 surface via cadmium pre-electrolyte treatment is out in Physics Review Materials. Congratulations to Christian and everyone involveld. You can access it via: https://journals.aps.org/prmaterials/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.045405
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16/03/2020
Starting today and because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we will be working from home to preserve our group members' safety. We have a lot of data to analyse, papers to read and papers to write. All measurements are on hold and we hope to come back soon in our labs.
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11/03/2020
If EMRS and MRS conferences do no get canceled, Thibaut will give a talk on how stoichiometry alters the stability of MAPI at MRS. Evandro will give a turorial on Scanning Probe Microscopy, Christian will present a poster on CIGS and Alex will give a talk on KPFM of perovskite/CIGS at EMRS.
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01/03/2020
We welcome our new PhD student, Himanshu Phirke, who will work on the optical and electrical characterization of perovskite, CIGSe and photoferroelectric materials. This includes the development of a hyperspectral TRPL imaging setup and SPM measurements.
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06/02/2020
Our new conference papers of the IEEE PVSC 2019 are out. You can read them here:
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05/12/2019
The AFM under ambient conditions has been moved to its new room in the basement. It is now enclosed in a tight box which will be filled with nitrogen, and on an anti-vibration table.
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01/11/2019
The bakeout of the Omicron VT-AFM is finished. We added an alkali evaporator, a mass spectrometer, a STM tip preparation tool.
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15/09/2019
We welcome our new PhD student, Jonathan Rommelfangen. He won a FNR AFR PhD grant and will be working on the 2D materials MoS2. We also welcome a new Master student, Ricardo Gonçalinho who will be working with us and together with IEE on perovskite grown on graphene.
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12/09/2019
Our new paper on Physical routes for the synthesis of kesterite is out in Journal of Physics Energy. Read it here:
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02/09/2019
Our new paper on Fermi-level pinning in methylammonium lead iodide perovskites is available in Nanoscale. Read it here:
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08/07/2019
Our new paper on the impact of energy alignment and interfacial recombination on the internal and external open-circuit voltage of perovskite solar cells is out in Energy & Environmental Science. Read it here:
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20/06/2019
Evandro and Thibaut presented their work at the IEEE conference in Chicago. 2 conference proceedings will be published in November this year.
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26/04/2019
Alex and Christian gave talks at the MRS conference in Phoenix.
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15/09/2018
Thibaut presented his work on co-evaporated methylammonium lead iodide perovskites in the poster session of the EUPVSEC in Brussels.
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15/07/2018
We welcome Evandro from Brazil in our group. He will start his PhD on the characterization of expitaxially grown CIGS.
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01/12/2017
We welcome Christian from Cameroun in our group. He will start his PhD on the characterization of polycristalline CIGS.
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15/09/2017
Arrival of the evaporator and the glovebox for the growth of the hybrid organic/inorganic perovskites.
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30/08/2017
Acceptance test of the Omicron VT at the University of LuxembourgFirst atomically resolved STM images on Si(111).
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First atomically resolved STM images on Si(111).
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15/07/2017