Events
New Perovskite Seminar Series
September 15, 2015 at
Metal-halide perovskites are creating a great deal of recent attention for their use in high performance solar cells. Power conversion efficiencies have jumped from 3% to over 20% in just 3 years, making them competitive with commercially available thin film technologies. They also show tremendous promise in a variety of optoelectronic applications including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers. There are several efforts on perovskites already under way at MIT, and there are many others who are interested in working with these materials.
Figure: Left: The perovskite ABX3 crystal structure, where A is typically an organic cation such as methylammonium (CH3NH3), B is a metal cation such as lead (Pb), and X is a halide such as bromide, iodide, chloride, or mixtures thereof. Right: Power conversion efficiencies of a variety of commerical photovoltaic technologies over the years, with perovskite solar cells showing remarkable progress over the last 3 years.
The Perovskite Seminar Series provides a platform to connect researchers at MIT working on perovskite solar cells and other optoelectronics and to keep us all up-to-date with the latest in the field. The series, sponsored by the Center for Excitonics, will be monthly and consist of seminars with invited faculty or lunch talks with postdocs or senior graduate students. We hope the seminar series will be of interest to faculty, staff and students and will facilitate fruitful discussions and collaborations.
For a list of upcoming seminars: https://excitonic.mit.edu/event-type/perovskite-seminar-series/
To sign up for the mailing list: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/perovskite-seminars.
Contact the series coordinator, Sam Stranks (stranks@mit.edu) if you are interested in giving a seminar or with any questions.
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Useful links:
Metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaic and light-emitting devices:
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v10/n5/abs/nnano.2015.90.html
Outshining Silicon:
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v313/n1/full/scientificamerican0715-54.html
