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Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability

Department of Physics
 

Biography

2021: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Cambridge

2017: M.Phil. in Scientific Computing, University of Cambridge

2016: M.Sc. in Organic and Molecular Electronics, TU Dresden, Germany

2014: B.Sc. in Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Research

I am interested in the electronic and optical properties of organic semiconductor materials with potential applications in different areas of technology, such as organic solar cells and LEDs. Specifically, I focus on the theoretical understanding of ultra-fast processes in these materials, including charge transfer, singlet exciton fission and exciton transport. These processes may all be encountered in different devices based on organic semiconductors, and understanding how realistic conditions affect them is a crucial step towards wide-spread application. To this end, factors such as  molecular vibrations and environment polarity are included in our models, capturing effects that have long remained out of reach. Understanding the quantum mechanical dynamics of these systems could contribute towards a next generation of efficient optoelectronic devices based on organic materials.

Publications

Key publications: 

A molecular movie of ultrafast singlet fission, Nature Communications (2019)10:4207; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12220-7

Switching between coherent and incoherent singlet fission via solvent-induced symmetry-breaking, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141, 44, 17558-17570; https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b05561 

Non-equilibrium relaxation of hot states in organic semiconductors: impact of mode-selective excitation on charge transfer,                     J. Chem. Phys. 151, 084104 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115239

First principles modeling of exciton-polaritons in polydiacetylene chains, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 084103 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0019009

Impact of exciton delocalization on exciton-vibration interactions in organic semiconductors, Phys. Rev. B 102, 081122(R) (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.081122

 

 

 

Winton Exchange Fellow
Ph.D. Supervisors: Dr Alex Chin and Dr Akshay Rao
Optoelectronics Group
 Antonios  Alvertis

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