Summary
Nicola Gasparini is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Chemistry Department. His interest lies in the fundamental and application-oriented research in lab-scale and large-area printed electronics, in particular organic and perovskite photovoltaics and photodetectors. His efforts have focused on the design of highly efficient photodiodes and on electro-optical and structural characterization techniques for probing charge generation, transport, recombination processes and morphology of these devices. His research continues on the understanding and control of the degradation and reliability of semiconducting devices under light and thermal stress. In addition, he is exploring new applications of printed electronics, particularly narrowband organic photodetectors, which have resulted in the first demonstration of high responsivity in the near-infrared region. This development is particularly interesting for biomedical applications, where cost-effective material choices remain scarce, and mechanical flexibility is required, a technological challenge for incumbent inorganic devices.
Prior to joining Imperial College with an Imperial College Research Fellowship in late 2019, Nicola received his BSc and MSc in Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, and Photochemistry and Molecular Materials from the University of Bologna, Italy, respectively. In 2014 he joined the group of Prof. Christoph J. Brabec in the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) as Marie-Curie Fellow and received his Ph.D in 2017. For two years (09/2017-09/2019) he was a postdoctoral fellow at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) working on organic semiconductors with particular interests in charge transport and recombination processes in organic solar cells.
The full list of publications can be found here: Nicola Gasparini Scholar
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Gasparini N, Salleo A, McCulloch I, et al., 2019, The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells, Nature Reviews Materials
Baran D, Gasparini N, Wadsworth A, et al., 2018, Robust nonfullerene solar cells approaching unity external quantum efficiency enabled by suppression of geminate recombination, Nature Communications, Vol:9, ISSN:2041-1723
Gasparini N, Lucera L, Salvador M, et al., 2017, High-performance ternary organic solar cells with thick active layer exceeding 11% efficiency, Energy & Environmental Science, Vol:10, ISSN:1754-5692, Pages:885-892
Baran D, Ashraf RS, Hanifi DA, et al., 2016, Reducing the efficiency-stability-cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells, Nature Materials, Vol:16, ISSN:1476-4660, Pages:363-369
Gasparini N, Jiao X, Heumueller T, et al., 2016, Designing ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with reduced carrier recombination and a fill factor of 77%, Nature Energy, Vol:1, ISSN:2058-7546, Pages:1-9