Lab'InSight Surface Treatments & Solar Energy - Focus on the Photovoltaic Electricity Sector - 21.11.2013

1. Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials
UMONS
Watching the Lab’s video
Prof. Roberto Lazzaroni
Head of laboratory
Lab’Insight Bruxelles , 21-11-2013
Brussels – 21st November 2013
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2. Fields of expertise and industrial targets
Fields of expertise
• Design of organic materials
• Modeling of materials properties (structural, optical, electronic)
• Organic thin film fabrication and characterization
• Fabrication and testing of light-emitting and photovoltaic
devices
Industrial applications fields
• Lighting
• Photovoltaics
• Functional coatings
• Optical sensing
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3. Applied research projects
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) Polymer solar cells
on glass, metal and flexible substrates
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4. Special equipments
Equipment for thin film deposition, device
fabrication and characterization
• Spin-coating, dip-coating, spray-coating
• Thermal evaporation of metals and
molecular materials
• Atomic Layer Deposition
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• Electrical measurements and solar
simulator
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5. Services provided to companies
Examples
→ Screening of organic materials for optical and electronic
applications
→ Experimental development of formulations for functional
layers (electrodes, active layers, encapsulation,…)
→ Modeling the structural and electronic properties of
interfaces (organic/organic, organic/carbon, organic/oxide)
→ Training in modeling protocols and device fabrication
techniques
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6. CONTACT
Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials
http://morris.umons.ac.be/default.aspx
Prof. Roberto Lazzaroni - UMONS
Head of laboratory
Roberto.lazzaroni@umons.ac.be ; Phone : +32 65 37 38 62
Dr. Pascal Viville – Materia Nova
Research coordinator – Materia Nova
Pascal.viville@materianova.be ; Phone : +32 65 55 49 60
Brussels – 21st November 2013
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