This symposium will focus on emerging photovoltaic materials and related devices, with particular emphasis on halide perovskites and perovskite-based tandems, alongside organic, quantum-dot, and other next-generation solar technologies. Key challenges spanning materials discovery, scalable deposition, interface and defect engineering, charge-carrier dynamics, long-term stability, and environmentally responsible processing will be addressed. The symposium will highlight how advanced characterization, device physics, and multiscale or data-driven modelling can accelerate the development of efficient, stable, and manufacturable photovoltaic platforms. It aims to bring together researchers in synthesis, processing, characterization, modelling, and device engineering to discuss pathways from fundamental understanding to real-world implementation.

Targeted topics :

• halide perovskite materials for photovoltaics

• perovskite/silicon, all-perovskite and other tandem solar cells

• organic, quantum-dot, and other emerging photovoltaic technologies

• nanoparticles in emerging photovoltaics

• thin-film deposition, scalable processing, and manufacturability

• interfaces, defects, and surface passivation in photovoltaic devices

• charge-carrier dynamics, recombination, and ion migration

• advanced operando and multimodal characterization of solar materials

• stability, degradation mechanisms, and lifetime prediction

• multiscale modelling, machine learning, and data-driven photovoltaic design

Organizers:
• Aldo Di Carlo (Istituto di Struttura della Materia - CNR, Rome, Italy)