TOP-SET Seminar: Quantum dot intermediate band solar cells

Federica Cappelluti is associate professor of electronic engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She received her PhD degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2002 with a thesis on electroabsorption modulators, partly carried out at the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. The leitmotiv of her research has been the circuit-level and physics-based modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices for various applications, from telecom to high-frequency electronics to energy. Since a decade, she has been mainly active in the field of photovoltaics, and she has established a new research team in Politecnico di Torino working on modeling of advanced solar cell concepts. Current research topics include quantum dot and intermediate band solar cells, light trapping approaches, novel tandem architectures, and radiative cooling. Federica has a long track record in international collaborations and research projects, either industrial or from public competitive calls, also as principal investigator and coordinator. She has co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and international conferences and two book chapters. She has a consolidated experience as reviewer for several international journals and funding agencies. She teaches electronic devices to master’s students and fundamentals of electronic systems and technologies to undergraduate students. She is involved at the institutional level as the Rector’s advisor for Open Science.