Profile

Emanuele Calabrò was born on 8th August of 1987 in Rome. He obtained his MSc in “Material Science and Technology” at Tor Vergata University in 2015, with a thesis based on the application of Bragg Gratings applied for Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs). He performed his PhD in “Electronic Engineering” under the supervision of Prof. Aldo Di Carlo. His topic was the optimization and scaling-up of Low-T based planar Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules followed by the stability analysis of the as fabricated devices. Currently is a Postdoctoral Fellow at C.H.O.S.E. labs under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Reale.

Research Activity

The research activity of Emanuele Calabrò was based on the development and optimization of highly efficient hybrid-organic perovskite solar cells and modules (PSCs & PSMs) based on a low-T approach. The results obtained due the incorporation of a SnO2 layer as ETL led the achievement of high performances. The easy scale-up of the planar structure, coupled with an optimized selective laser system ablation, permitted the fabrication of PSMs up to 50 cm2 with high aspect and ratio high-performance. Furthermore, the perovskite doping with innovative materials permits to increase the stability of the photovoltaic devices under thermal stress. His research is currently focused on the "COPPER" Project funded by the Lazio and Lazio Innova Region. The aim of the project is the evaluation of the impact of semitransparent organic PV with tunable colors applied to agrivoltaic systems and how it affects the growing plants.

Publications

1) Emanuele Calabrò, Fabio Matteocci, Alessandro Lorenzo Palma, Luigi Vesce, Babak Taheri, Laura Carlini, Igor Pis, Silvia Nappini, Janardan Dagar, Chiara Battocchio, Thomas M. Brown, Aldo Di Carlo; Low Temperature, Solution processed Perovskite solar cell and modules with an Aperture Area efficiency exceeding 11%, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 185, 136-145, (2018).

DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2018.05.001

2) L. Palma, F. Matteocci, A. Agresti, S. Pescetelli, E. Calabrò, L. Vesce, S. Christiansen, M. Schmidt, A. Di Carlo; Laser-Patterning Engineering for Perovskite Solar Modules with 95% Aperture Ratio, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 99, 1 – 7, (2017).

DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2732223

3) Janardan Dagar , Sergio Castro-Hermosa, Matteo Gasbarri, Alessandro L. Palma, Lucio Cinà, Fabio Matteocci, Emanuele Calabrò, Aldo Di Carlo, Thomas M. Brown; Low Temperature Solution-Processed Flexible Perovskite Module and Solar Cell Based on SnO2/meso-TiO2 Scaffold Electron Transport Layer, Nano Research, 5, 11, 2669-2681, (2018).

DOI: 10.1007/s12274-017-1896-5

4) Leyla Najafi, Babak Taheri, Beatriz Martín-García, Sebastiano Bellani, Diego Di Girolamo, Antonio Agresti, Reinier Oropesa-Nuñez, Sara Pescetelli, Luigi Vesce, Emanuele Calabrò, Mirko Prato, Antonio E Del Rio Castillo, Aldo Di Carlo, Francesco Bonaccorso; MoS2 Quantum Dot/Graphene Hybrids for Advanced Interface Engineering of a CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Solar Cell with an efficiency of over 20%, ACS Nano, (2018)

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b05514

5) Aleksandra Furasova, Emanuele Calabró, Enrico Lamanna, Ekaterina Tiguntseva, Elena Ushakova, Eugene Ubyivovk, Vladimir Mikhailovskii, Anvar Zakhidov, Sergey Makarov, Aldo Di Carlo; Resonant Silicon Nanoparticles for Enhanced Light Harvesting in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells, Advanced Optical Materials, 1800576, (2018).

DOI: 10.1002/adom.201800576

6) Diego Di Girolamo, Fabio Matteocci, Enrico Lamanna, Emanuele Calabrò, Aldo Di Carlo, Danilo Dini; Inverted perovskite solar cells with transparent hole transporting layer based on semiconducting nickel oxide, AIP Conference Proceeding 1990,020011 (2018).

DOI:10.1063/1.5047765

7) Alberti Alessandra, Smecca Emanuele, Sanzaro Salvatore, Bongiorno Corrado, Giannazzo Filippo, Mannino Giovanni, La Magna Antonino, Liu Maning, Vivo Paola, Listorti Andrea, Calabrò Emanuele, Matteocci Fabio, Di Carlo Aldo; Nano-structured TiO2 grown by low-temperature reactive sputtering for planar perovskite solar cells, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2019, 2, 9, 6218-6229.

DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b00708

8) Babak Taheri, Emanuele Calabrò, Fabio Matteocci, Diego Di Girolamo, Giorgio Cardone, Aldo Di Carlo, Francesca Brunetti; Automated scalable Spray coating of SnO2 for the fabrication of low temperature perovskite solar cells and modules, EnergyTechnology, 2020, 1901284.

DOI: :10.1002/ente.201901284.

9) Enrico Lamanna, Fabio Matteocci, Emanuele Calabrò, Luca Serenelli, Enrico Salza, Luca Martini, Francesca Menchini, Massimo Izzi, Antonio Agresti, Sara Pescetelli, Sebastiano Bellani, Antonio Esau Del Rio Castillo, Francesco Bonaccorso, Mario Tucci, Aldo Di Carlo; Mechanically stacked, two-terminale graphene-based perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with stabilized efficiency of 25.9%; JOULE, Accepted.