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Solenn BERSON

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Published on 4 March 2025
 

Solenn BERSON

Dr. Hab.​

Senior Expert​

Solenn Berson's research focuses on materials for renewable energy and, especially, new-generation photovoltaic cells.

In 2004, she earned her master's in engineering from CPE Lyon, an engineering school associated with the University of Lyon 1. She then went on to earn a PhD in materials chemistry from Grenoble Alpes University in 2007.

She completed several postdoctoral fellowships during her early research career, including one at CNRS and rubber manufacturing company Hutchinson in Strasbourg in 2008, and one at CEA-INES from 2008 to 2010. She joined CEA-INES in 2010, where she conducted research on organic photovoltaic (OPV) module processes and architectures.

From 2014 to 2020, she headed the organic photovoltaic modules laboratory. In 2021, she obtained her accreditation to supervise research (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, or HDR) at Grenoble Alpes University Doctoral School IMEP2.


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Do​​mains​​​​

 

Team

  • ​​15 staff​​
  • 3 postdocs​​
  • 5 PhD students​​

Research Activities​​​

- Development of perovskite photovoltaic tandem architectures, with a focus on perovskite-silicon tandem and perovskite-perovskite tandem architectures;

- Printing and vacuum processes for the production of perovskites;

- Interfaces: passivation and transparent semiconductor oxide;

- Characterization of materials and optoelectronic performance of PV devices at t0 (baseline) and during aging.​


Selected publications and conferences:  


  • Challenges for the Upscaling of Perovskite/silicon Tandem Technology​PVSEC-35 Asia​, 2024, invited.
  • Organic Interlayers for Hole Transfer in MA-Free Mixed PB/SN Halide Perovskites for All-Perovskite Tandem Solar CellACS Applied Energy Materials, 2025,
    DOI: ​10.1021/acsaem.4c02962
  • Solvent-vapor assisted conversion process for hybrid perovskites coupling thermal evaporation and slot-die coating​​Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2023,
    DOI: ​10.1016/j.mssp.2023.107358​
  • Slot-die coated methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells with 18% efficiency​Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2022,
    DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111189
  • A machine vision tool for facilitating the optimization of large-area perovskite photovoltaicsnpj Computational Materials, 2021,
    DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00657-8

Selected patents: ​​

  • 2024 | Procédé de fabrication d’un dispositif optoélectronique, XXXX
  • 2024 | Procédé de fabrication d’un dispositif optoélectronique, XXXX
  • 2023 | Structure photovoltaïque tandem de type pin à base de pérovskite comportant une couche tampon en AlOx, 20230100974