New materials and technologies for next-gen smart, integrated energy harvesting/storage devices
Content of the lecture:
- Background and motivation
- Printing techniques for new generation energy harvesting/storage devices
- The role of substrates: rigid or flexible?
- Examples of printed energy harvesting system: the case of organic and perovskite solar cells
- Working principles
- Role of architectures
- Material engineering for printing processes
- Scaling up to large scale printed devices
- Stability issue
- Examples of printed energy storage system: supercapacitors and batteries
- What is the difference between a supercapacitor and a battery?
- Working principles
- Devices architecture
- Material engineering for printing processes
- Scaling up to large scale printed devices
- How to integrate solar cells and storage systems?
- Conclusions and future perspectives
Teacher: Francesca Brunetti
Francesca Brunetti received her PhD in Telecommunications and Microelectronics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2005. In 2005, she was awarded of a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship spent in the Institute for Nanoelectronics of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Cofounder of the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy and Associate Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata her current research is focused on the analysis, design and manufacture of electronic and optoelectronic devices through the use of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and graphene), organic semiconductors and perovskites realized on rigid and flexible substrates, including paper. (http://www.chose.uniroma2.it/staff/96-francesca-brunetti.html)