Maria Antonietta Loi

Maria Antonietta Loi (born 4 May 1973) is an Italian physicist who is a Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Groningen and member of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Her research considers the development of functional materials for low-cost, high efficiency photovoltaics. She was awarded the 2018 Netherlands Physical Society Physics prize (Physicaprijs). In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Loi is Deputy Editor of Applied Physics Letters.

Maria Antonietta Loi
Born (1973-05-04) May 4, 1973
Quartu Sant'Elena
Alma materUniversity of Cagliari
Scientific career
InstitutionsItalian National Research Council
Johannes Kepler University Linz

Early life and education

Loi was born in Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia.[1][2] She studied physics at the University of Cagliari. She was awarded honours for her undergraduate degree in 1997, before embarking upon a doctoral research program. After earning her PhD she moved to the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on organic solar cells.[3] After one year in Austria she returned to Italy, where she joined the Italian National Research Council Institute for Nanostructured Materials.[4]

Research and career

In 2006, Loi was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, and awarded a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship. Her early work considered the development of carbon nanotubes for photonics devices.[5] She was made Chair of the Department of OptoElectronics in 2011, and Full Professor in 2014.

Loi's research considers the development of hybrid nanomaterials.[6] In particular, she has explored perovskites for solar cells and X-ray detectors.[7][8] She has shown that Sn-based perovskites have good optical and electronic properties and high charge carrier mobilities. At the same time, the perovskites show photoluminescence from hot-carriers with long lifetimes.[9]

Awards and honours

Selected publications
  • Haotong Wei; Yanjun Fang; Padhraic Mulligan; et al. (21 March 2016). "Sensitive X-ray detectors made of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals". Nature Photonics. 10 (5): 333–339. doi:10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.41. ISSN 1749-4885. Wikidata Q60670575.
  • Shuyan Shao; Jian Liu; Giuseppe Portale; Hong-Hua Fang; Graeme R. Blake; Gert H. ten Brink; L. Jan Anton Koster; Maria Antonietta Loi (22 September 2017). "Highly Reproducible Sn-Based Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with 9% Efficiency". Advanced Energy Materials. 8 (4): 1702019. doi:10.1002/AENM.201702019. ISSN 1614-6832. Wikidata Q60670424.
  • Markus C Scharber; Markus Koppe; Jia Gao; et al. (1 January 2010). "Influence of the bridging atom on the performance of a low-bandgap bulk heterojunction solar cell". Advanced Materials. 22 (3): 367–370. doi:10.1002/ADMA.200900529. ISSN 0935-9648. PMID 20217720. Wikidata Q60671035.

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae". University of Groningen. 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  2. Perelaer, Jolke (2019-07-12). "Researcher Highlight: Maria Antonietta Loi". Advanced Science News. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  3. "Women in Energy". 2021-01-14.
  4. "Curriculum Vitae". University of Groningen. 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  5. "Minerva Prize 2011 for Maria Antonietta Loi". University of Groningen. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  6. "Professor Maria Antonietta Loi receives Physics Prize 2018". University of Groningen. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  7. "'Gronings' materiaal vergroot mogelijk opbrengst zonnecel". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  8. "Op zoek naar de betere zonnecel". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  9. "Dr. Maria Antonietta Loi". 2019-Conference. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  10. "Minerva Prize 2011 for Maria Antonietta Loi". University of Groningen. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  11. "Three ERC Starting Grants awarded". University of Groningen. 2012-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  12. "Prof. Dr. Maria Antonietta Loi - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  13. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.; https://www.physica.nl/
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