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SOPHY will develop the tools and knowledge to probe optoelectronic processes at buried interfaces, in devices, at operating conditions, delivering a long time pursued target in many fields of nanotechnology.

Semiconducting metal halide perovskites, and devices based on them, will be the primary technology under investigation, given its potential to represent the merging point between the efficient inorganic and the chameleonic organic electronics.

The presence of various types of chemical interactions in such complex ionic solids gives them a characteristic “soft” fluctuating structure, prone to a wide set of defects which span from lattice distortions to the presence of mobile ions. These are sensitive to the device operating conditions, thus, the control of structure-properties relationship, especially at interfaces, becomes elusive, and the prediction of device operation, necessary to engineer reliable systems, is not possible without an “in vivo” approach.

SOPHY addresses the above challenge combining fundamental investigations, material processing, devices fabrication. It will understand the role of structural deformations in determining the “defectiveness” of perovskites and its link to the optoelectronic materials properties. It will put in place an experimental tool which will map in space, with a resolution below 50nm, electronic structures and their excitations, and how they evolve in time over a timescale from fs to microseconds to follow a wide set of cascade phenomena.

Such approach, implemented for the first time on diodes’ cross-sections, will allow their study at different operation conditions. The broad impact of this approach will be demonstrated in a series of case studies selected from different key technologies.

Finally, SOPHY will model, for the first time, the operating mechanisms of perovskite based diodes, by being able to take into account the structural and energetic transformations each interface will undergo during operation

The success of the research program will go through the achievement of three main targets, each of them with the potential of producing breakthroughs:

  1. the understanding of the role of structural deformations in determining the defectiveness of pristine perovskites and how this is linked to their fundamental optoelectronic properties, in particular to the nature of carriers and their dynamics;
  2. the realization of an experimental tool which allows to resolve interfacial opto-electronic processes such as charge transfer and localization, band bending and Fermi level equalization, in time and space at buried interfaces in operating devices;
  3. modelling, for the first time, perovskite based diodes, being able to take into account the structural and energetic transformations each interface – from a molecular to a mesoscopic level – will undergo during operation as a consequence of the intrinsic defectiveness of this class of materials.

LATEST NEWS

Foreign Excursion Tour 2022  – Technologisch Gezelschap (TG)

Foreign Excursion Tour 2022 – Technologisch Gezelschap (TG)

15 September 2022

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Annamaria Petrozza honored 2022 MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award

Annamaria Petrozza honored 2022 MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award

12 May 2022

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SOPHY’s PI is at Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE)

SOPHY’s PI is at Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE)

8 August 2019

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Annamaria PETROZZA Interview at the E-MRS 2019 SPRING MEETING [Video]

Annamaria PETROZZA Interview at the E-MRS 2019 SPRING MEETING [Video]

8 August 2019

Interview at Corriere Innovazione [ITA]

Interview at Corriere Innovazione [ITA]

8 August 2019

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