Profile

Giuseppina Polino was born in 1980. She graduated in Electronic Engineering at University of Rome "Tor Vergata" in 2011 after completing her thesis on "Deposition techniques of large area polymer solar cells" at research Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy C.H.O.S.E.

Since November 2011 she is Ph.D. student in Telecommunication and Microelectronics engineering at C.H.O.S.E.

Research Activity

Her research activity on polymeric solar cells is focused on:

• Characterization and realization of ITO-free BHJ through spray coating technique for the scaling up of polymeric solar cells

• Evaluation of the degradation phenomena(ageing) of polymeric solar cells and hence to find the best material to encapsulate them and the technique to use it

•  She have also carried out a preliminary analysis of BHJ's electrical characteristic by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
• Since April 2012, she also involved in a project with PPG industries Milan, Italy

Publications

ARTICLE

• G. Polino, S. Casaluci, M. Dianetti, S. Dell’Elce, A. Liscio,V. Mirruzzo, G. Cardone, L. Salamandra, G. Susanna, F. Brunetti, T. M. Brown, A. Reale, A. Di Carlo,” Investigation of Polyethylenimine-ethoxylated  full-aqueous dispersible as electron injection layers for inverted bulk heterojunction solar cells”, Energy Technology 3,11(2015) DOI: 10.1002/ente.201500154
• M. Dianetti, F. Di Giacomo, G. Polino  ,A. D’Epifanio , S.  Licoccia , A. Reale ,T. M. Brown, F. Brunetti and A. Di Carlo, “TCO-free and flexible organo metal trihalide Perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar cell , Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells , 140, (2015)
• Review: A. Reale, L. La Notte, L. Salamandra, G.Polino, G. Susanna, T. M. Brown, F. Brunetti, A. Di Carlo, “Spray Coating for Polymer Solar Cells: an Up-To-Date Overview”, Energy Technology,3,4, (2015), DOI: 10.1002/ente.201402180
• L. La Notte†, G. Polino†, C. Ciceroni, F. Brunetti, T. M. Brown, A. Di Carlo. A. Reale,  “Spray-Coated Polymer Solar Cells based on Low-Band-Gap Donors Processed with ortho-Xylene”, Energy Technology Volume 2, Issue 9-10, pages 786–791,(2014) DOI: 10.1002/ente.201402059

• L. La Notte, G. Polino, P. Verzola, L. Salamandra, T. M. Brown, A. Di Carlo and A. Reale ,"Influence of encapsulation materials on the optical properties and conversion efficiency of heat-sealed flexible polymer solar cells", Surface & Coatings Technology 255 (2014) 69–73 DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2013.12.058 

• Luca La Notte, Daniel Mineo, Giuseppina Polino, Gianpaolo Susanna, Francesca Brunetti, Thomas M. Brown, Aldo Di Carlo and Andrea Reale,"Fabrication of fully-spray processed organic photovoltaic modules by using an automated process in-air " , Energy Technology, 1,12 (2013) 709. DOI: 10.1002/ente.20139002

POSTER COMMUNICATION

• International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV15): Giuseppina Polino, Santhosh Shanmugam, Guy J.P. Bex, Robert Abbel, Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di carlo, Ronn Andriessen, Yulia Galagan, Photonic Flash Sintering of Inkjet Printed Back Electrode for Organic Photovoltaic Application, Rome, Italy,10-13 May 2015

• International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV14):Luca La Notte, Giuseppina Polino, Gianpaolo Susanna, Luigi Salamandra, Thomas M. Brown, Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, Andrea Reale, Non-halogenated solvents for fully spray-coated organic photovoltaic modules: fabrication by using an automated in-air process and preliminary results on stability , Lausanne, Switzerland 11-14 May 2014

• International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE2014): Giuseppina Polino, Simone Casaluci, Martina Dianetti, Valentina Mirruzzo, Giorgio Cardone, Luigi Salamandra, Gianpaolo Susanna, Thomas M. Brown, Andrea Reale, Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, Investigation of Polyethylenimine-ethoxylated from a full-aqueous dispersion as surface modifier for inverted bulk heterojunction solar cells,  Modena, Italy 11-13 June 2014

• International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV14): Martina Dianetti, Francesco Di Giacomo, Giuseppina Polino, Alessandra D'Epifanio, Silvia Licoccia, Thomas M. Brown, Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, TCO-free and flexible organo metal trihalide Perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells, Lausanne, Switzerland 11-14 May 2014

• International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV14): Giuseppina Polino, Simone Casaluci, Martina Dianetti, Valentina Mirruzzo, Giorgio Cardone, Luigi Salamandra, Gianpaolo Susanna, Thomas M. Brown, Andrea Reale, Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, Investigation of Polyethylenimine-ethoxylated full-aqueous dispersible as electron transporting layers for inverted bulk heterojunction solar cells, Lausanne, Switzerland 11-14 May 2014

• International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV13): Giuseppina Polino, Martina Dianetti, Gianpaolo Susanna, Luigi Salamandra, Thomas M. Brown, Andrea Reale, Fancesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, Strategies to improve PEDOT:PSS wettability in a TCO-free inverted solar cells” , Seville, Spain 5-8 May 2013

ORAL CONTRIBUTION

• European Material Research Society Spring (E-MRS ) 2015: Giuseppina Polino , Santhosh Shanmugam, Guy J.P. Bex, Robert Abbel, Ronn Andriessen, Yulia Galagan, Photonic flash sintering of inkjet printed back electrodes for OPV application, Lille, France, 11-15 May 2015
• International Conference on Organic Electronics (ICOE) 2014: Andrea Reale, Luca La Notte, Giuseppina  Polino, Luigi Salamandra, Gianpaolo Susanna,  Giorgia Paronesso, Thomas M. Brown, Francesca Brunetti, Aldo Di Carlo, Fully-spray coated semitransparent organic photovoltaic modules fabrication by using automated in-air process, Modena, Italy, 11-13 June 2014.