Pushing up the Performance of Colloidal Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells (Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon Europe 2009)

Iván Mora Seró (1974, M. Sc. Physics 1997, Ph. D. Physics 2004). During his Ph.D. his research was dedicated to the study of epitaxial growth technique MOCVD. On February 2002 he joined the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices of University Jaume I (Spain), where he is now researcher. Recent research activity was focused on new concepts for photovoltaic conversion based on nanoscaled devices following two mean lines: The characterization of monocrystalline ZnO nanowire/nanotube arrays and on the other hand in the characterization of the injection, transport and recombination in TiO2 nanoporous electrodes using as absorbing materials both dye and quantum dots.

The University Jaume I of Castelló is a public educational and research center created in the year 1991, which possesses little more than 13.000 students and which pursue the social, economic and cultural development of the society of its environment across the creation and transmission of knowledge. The University Jaume I dedicates a special effort to the research and the development, conscious of their importance in the educational quality and in the real interaction between university and society. The University Jaume I is one of the first universities of Spain obtaining external resources for research and development.