MAE Seminar Series: Makhsud Saidaminov
May 10 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Title:
Perovskite Solar Cells and X-ray Detectors
Abstract:
In this seminar, I will discuss our recent advancements in the field of solution-processible semiconductors and their applications in renewable energy and imaging systems. I will cover our progress in engineering semiconductor films with tens of nanometer thicknesses (1); and how these films are being incorporated into affordable and efficient perovskite solar cells (2). Time permitting, I will also present our advancements in the automated synthesis of centimeter-scale perovskite single crystals (3); and how these crystals are being integrated into X-ray detectors, with a potential to democratize safer medical imaging (4).
- Advanced Energy Materials, 2024, DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202303858
- Science 2024, 383, 855 DOI: 10.1126/science.adj608
- Nature Synthesis, 2024, pending.
- ACS Energy Letters 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c02399
Bio:
Makhsud is a Canada Research Chair Tier II in Advanced Functional Materials, and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and ECE at the University of Victoria. Prior to this position, he was a Banting PDF at the University of Toronto (2017-2019), a Visiting Scholar at MIT (April-July 2018), and a PDF at KAUST (2014-2016). Grown-up in Tajikistan, he received his Ph.D. from Lomonosov Moscow University (2013). Makhsud was named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (2021-2023) and Rising Star of Science by Research.com (2022-2023). He authored 140+ publications in peer-reviewed journals which were cited 21k+ times with an h-index of 63. Makhsud serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Photonics.