High performance Organic Solar Cells through Enhanced Charge Transport (Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon Europe 2009)

Dr. Matt Aldissi is currently on a sabbatical as a director of research with the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiques" (CNRS) in Limoges, France, and is currently working on organic optoelectronics. He is the president of Fractal Systems Inc., an R&D company which he founded in the early part of 1997. The different research areas he has focused on during the past 10 years at Fractal Systems have been funded by a number of Government agencies and branches as a result of proposals he has written and submitted. 20 Phase I and 10 Phase II SBIR (small business Innovation Research) contracts and grants have been awarded. His prior two appointments were at Foster-Miller Inc. and Cape Cod Research as a senior staff scientist for four years. At these two companies, he worked on the development of conducting polymers, ferromagnetic polymers and nanocomposites and semiconductors. He has also developed electronic and electrochemical devices based on those materials. Prior to that, He held the position of research fellow, then vice president for Advanced Technology at Champlain Cable Corp. (Colchester, VT) between January 1990 and October 1993. At Champlain Cable, He developed applications of conductive, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric polymers in the wire and cable industry and commercialized several products while interacting with the marketing and sales team. Prior to that, He was a research staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (January 1983 to January 1990), working on conductive polymers and their applications, on ferroelectric polymers and on biomaterials. Prior to Los Alamos, He held a postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (October 1981 to January 1983) with the late Prof. Alan MacDiarmid, where he explored use of conductive polymers in batteries.

 

Dr. Aldissi received his B.S. in chemistry, M.S. in polymer chemistry and Ph.D. in polymer science, all from the University of Montpellier, France. He is the author of more than 100 publications/reports and more than 25 patents and patent applications, and winner of two R&D 100 awards (1989 and 1990). He is a member of the American Chemical, Electrochemical and Materials Research Societies.

Carnot Institute which incorporates the XLIM laboratory (Limoges, France), where the photovoltaic work is being conducted, is an integral part of the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS), and is. Activities of the laboratory consist mainly of (i) information and engineering sciences and technologies-microwaves, electromagnetism, optics; (ii) mathematics, computer sciences and imagery; and (iii) micro and nano technologies and instrumentation (MINACOM Dept). This last axis is where organic photovoltaics are being developed as a part of a set of research efforts in organic optoelectronics. There are currently more than 400 research personnel at the XLIM laboratory with more than 50 people involved in optoelectronics.