Profile

Alessandro Lorenzo Palma obtained the Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering cum laude at University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2013 with a thesis on: "Water Splitting through Solar Cells with Perovskite" (Supervisor: Prof. Aldo Di Carlo). He carried out his thesis in the laboratories of C.H.O.S.E. (Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy) in Rome, Italy.
He obtained the European Label PhD in Electronics Engineering at University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2017 with a thesis on Laser Processing over Large Area Perovskite based Photovoltaic Modules.
Currently he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at C.H.O.S.E. Labs

Research Activity

Alessandro Lorenzo Palma is involved in the modelling and realization of up-scaling of large area solar devices. In particular, his research topic is focused on the study and implementation of laser processes with micrometric precision for the realization of photovoltaic devices. Due to the solidity and scalability of the laser techniques, this particular research activity drives the realization of large area perovskite based solar modules, in the view of a forthcoming industrialization of this solution-process PV technology.

Publications

Emanuele Calabrò, Fabio Matteocci, Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Luigi Vesce, Babak Taheri, L. Carlini, Igor Pis, Silvia Nappini, Janardan Dagar, Chiara Battocchio, Thomas M. Brown, and Aldo Di Carlo, Low temperature, solution-processed perovskite solar cells and modules with an aperture area efficiency of 11%, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018, 185, 136–144

doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2018.05.001

Janardan Dagar, Sergio Castro-Hermosa, Matteo Gasbarri, Alessandro L. Palma, Lucio Cina, Fabio Matteocci, Emanuele Calabrò, Aldo Di Carlo, and Thomas M Brown, Efficient fully laser-patterned flexible perovskite modules and solar cells based on low-temperature solution-processed SnO2/mesoporous-TiO2 electron transport layers, Nano Research, 2018, 11 (5), 2669–2681

doi: 10.1007/s12274-017-1896-5

Luca La Notte, Giuseppe Valerio Bianco, Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Aldo Di Carlo, Giovanni Bruno, and Andrea Reale, Sprayed organic photovoltaic cells and mini-modules based on chemical vapor deposited graphene as transparent conductive electrode, Carbon, 2018, 129, 878-883

doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2017.08.001

Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Fabio Matteocci, Antonio Agresti, Sara Pescetelli, Emanuele Calabrò, Luigi Vesce, Silke Christiansen, Michael Schmidt, and Aldo Di Carlo, Laser-Patterning Engineering for Perovskite Solar Modules with 95% Aperture Ratio, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 2017, 7 (6), 1674 - 1680

doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2732223

Antonio Agresti, Sara Pescetelli, Alessandro L. Palma, Antonio E. Del Rio Castillo, Dimitrios Konios, George Kakavelakis, Stefano Razza, Lucio Cinà, Emmanuel Kymakis, Francesco Bonaccorso, and Aldo Di Carlo, Graphene Interface Engineering for Perovskite Solar Modules: 12.6% Power Conversion Efficiency over 50 cm2 Active Area, ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (1), 279–287

doi: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00672

Luca La Notte, Enrica Villari, Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Alberto Sacchetti, Maria Michela Giangregorio, Giovanni Bruno, Aldo Di Carlo, Giuseppe Valerio Bianco, and Andrea Reale, Laser-patterned functionalized CVD-graphene as highly transparent conductive electrodes for polymer solar cells, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 62-69

doi: 10.1039/C6NR06156G

Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Lucio Cinà, Yan Busby, Andrea Marsella, Antonio Agresti, Sara Pescetelli, Jean-Jacques Pireaux, and Aldo Di Carlo, Mesoscopic Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016, 8 (40), 26989–26997

doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b07750

Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Lucio Cinà, Yan Busby, Andrea Marsella, Antonio Agresti, Sara Pescetelli, Jean-Jacques Pireaux, and Aldo Di Carlo, Hybrid perovskite as substituent of indium and gallium in light emitting diodes, Physica Status Solidi C, 2016, 13, 958–961

doi: 10.1002/pssc.201600101

Alessandro L. Palma, Lucio Cinà, Sara Pescetelli, Antonio Agresti, Michele Raggio, Roberto Paolesse, Francesco Bonaccorso, Aldo Di Carlo, Reduced graphene oxide as efficient and stable hole transporting material in mesoscopic perovskite solar cells, Nano Energy, 2016, 22, 349-360

doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.02.027

Girolamo Mincuzzi, Alessandro L. Palma, Aldo Di Carlo, Thomas M. Brown, Laser Processing in the Manufacture of Dye-Sensitized and Perovskite Solar Cell Technologies, ChemElectroChem, 2016, 3, pp 9-30

doi: 10.1002/celc.201500389

Azhar Fakharuddin, Alessandro L Palma, Francesco Di Giacomo, Simone Casaluci, Fabio Matteocci, Qamar Wali, Muhammad Rauf, Aldo Di Carlo, Thomas M Brown and Rajan Jose, Solid state perovskite solar modules by vacuum-vapor assisted sequential deposition on Nd:YVO4 laser patterned rutile nanorods, Nanotechnology, 2015, 26 (49), 494002

doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/49/494002

Azhar Fakharuddin, Francesco Di Giacomo, Alessandro L. Palma, Fabio Matteocci, Irfan Ahmed, Stefano Razza, Alessandra D'Epifanio, Silvia Licoccia, Jamil Ismail, Aldo Di Carlo, Thomas M. Brown, and Rajan Jose, Vertical TiO2 Nanorods as a Medium for Durable and High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Modules, ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (8), 8420–8429

doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03265

Stefano Razza, Francesco Di Giacomo, Fabio Matteocci, Lucio Cinà, Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Simone Casaluci, Petra Cameron, Alessandra D'Epifanio, Silvia Licoccia, Andrea Reale, Thomas M. Brown and Aldo Di Carlo, Perovskite solar cells and large area modules (100 cm2) based on an air flow-assisted PbI2 blade coating deposition process, Journal of Power Sources, 2015, 277, 286-291

doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.12.008

Fabio Matteocci, Lucio Cinà, Francesco Di Giacomo, Stefano Razza, Alessandro L. Palma, Andrea Guidobaldi, Alessandra D’Epifanio, Silvia Licoccia, Thomas M. Brown, Andrea Reale and Aldo Di Carlo, High efficiency photovoltaic module based on mesoscopic organometal halide perovskite, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 2016, 24, 436-445

doi: 10.1002/pip.2557