Nikos Kopidakis
Department of Engineering
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr. Kopidakis started his research career in 1994, studying defects in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H). After receiving his PhD in 1998, he joined the group of Prof. Eric Schiff in the Department of Physics of Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, where he shifted his interests from pure semiconductor physics to solar cells. At SU he worked on interfaces in a-Si:H solar cells and on dye-sensitized titania solar cells. In 2001 he transitioned to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, where, as a postdoctoral researcher, he continued working on dye-sensitized solar cells, studying charge transport and recombination mechanisms. In 2004 he became a Research Scientist at NREL, working on a number of emerging solar cell technologies such as quantum dot solar cells, quantum dot - polymer composites and organic photovoltaics (OPV). He was part of the OPV research group at NREL from 2007 and in the period 2014-2016 he was the lead PI of the OPV research program, that comprised theory, synthesis, spectroscopy and device physics to advance OPV as a commercial technology. He joined Macquarie University in 2016, as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering. His research interests cover solar energy conversion, solution-processed semiconductors, OPV and novel microwave-based techniques for studying their conducting properties.
Research Interest
• Leadership • Teams • Employee attitudes and performance
Publications
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Neale NR, Kopidakis N, van de Lagemaat J, Grätzel M, Frank AJ. Effect of a coadsorbent on the performance of dye-sensitized TiO2 solar cells: shielding versus band-edge movement. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2005 Dec 15;109(49):23183-9.
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Kopidakis N, Benkstein KD, van de Lagemaat J, Frank AJ. Transport-limited recombination of photocarriers in dye-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2003 Oct 16;107(41):11307-15.
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Frank AJ, Kopidakis N, van de Lagemaat J. Electrons in nanostructured TiO 2 solar cells: transport, recombination and photovoltaic properties. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 2004 Jul 31;248(13):1165-79.
