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Prof. Manuel J. Mendes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1982. He received the Engineering licenciatura degree in Physics in 2005 from Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. de Lisboa (IST-UL). In 2008 he completed a Master of Science degree from Rice University (Houston, USA), working in Carbon Nanotubes technology for Energy Harvesting, at the group of the Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley who is considered one of the founding fathers of Nanotechnology. In 2012 he completed the Ph.D. in Photovoltaic Solar Energy in 2012 from Instituto de Energía Solar (Madrid, Spain) on the novel topic of Nanophotonics for Intermediate-Band Photovoltaics. At this point, he was already inventor of 2 U.S. Patents - the first distinguished with an award from NASA Inventions & Contributions Board, and the second opened a new research line in Plasmonic Intermediate-band Solar Cells. This was followed by 2 Post-Docs in IMM-CNR (Italy, 2012-4) and CENIMAT (Portugal, 2014-6), funded by 2 prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowships, in Photonic-enhanced Thin-film Photovoltaics. He is now Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia of Univ. Nova de Lisboa (FCT-NOVA), and Senior Researcher at the R&D center CENIMAT|i3N, associated with FCT-NOVA, where he leads the team of light management for photovoltaics. His main scientific interests are in the domain of photovoltaic (PV) physics, and in the research of innovative photonic concepts that allow enhancing light capturing and, consequently, the sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency of solar cells. He has been involved in 32 scientific projects (21 national, 11 European) in energy-related areas while working in USA (2005-08), Spain (2008-12), Italy (2012-14) and Portugal (2014-present). His research in Portugal has been performed at FCT-NOVA where he has been PI of 5 projects (3 national, 2 European), such as the recently-awarded ERC CONSOLIDATOR 2023 entitled X-Stream (Horizon EU, No 101124803), aimed at developing solar-hydrogen technology powered by perovskite-based intermediate-band solar cells, and the national project SpaceFlex (developing all-thin-film perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells for Space systems). He has also been institution responsible (WP leader) for 7 projects (5 national, 2 European) related with photonic-enhanced solar cells, quantum-structured semiconductors and solar fuels, such as the EU project APOLO (H2020-LCE-2017-RES-RIA) that developed flexible perovskite solar cells improved with light-trapping for building-integration. Overall, he attracted a total funding of about 7 Million Euros to FCT-NOVA via projects that he scientifically coordinate(d) and (co-)authored in the past 5 years. He is author of 80 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals (H-index=35) and conference proceedings, as well as 3 book chapters. He was also awarded with 10 prestigious scientific honours, such as the 2021 IN3+ Award of Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda (INCM), which is the highest national prize for individual innovation projects. This prize was given to his nanophotonics project HIGHLIGHT, delivered in a ceremony with the presence of the President and Prime Minister of Portugal which was broadcasted in major national news channels and websites. The project received a research grant to develop the idea, patent it, and bring it to a commercial reality. He acts as regular reviewer for ~40 scientific journals, and was co-editor of the journal Frontiers in Materials (Nature Publishing Group). Finally, Prof. Mendes is member of two prestigious national scientific societies: "Academica das Ciências de Lisboa" and "Sociedade Portuguesa de Materials". For more information please visit also his institutional website: https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/mj-mendes.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Manuel João Moura Dias Mendes

Citation names

  • Mendes, M. J.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5A17-BD87-D58D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7374-0726
Google Scholar ID
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Researcher Id
K-7215-2015

Email addresses

  • mj.mendes@fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Optics
  • Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Process Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/02 - 2012/06
Concluded
 PhD in Photovoltaic Solar Energy (Doctor)
Major in Photovoltaics
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Instituto de Energía Solar, Spain
"Near-field nanophotonic structures for localized light enhancement in intermediate band solar cells" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Sobresaliente Cum Laude (highest mark in the Spani
2008/02 - 2010
Concluded
 Diploma de Estudos Avançados (DEA)
Major in Photovoltaic Solar Energy
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Telecomunicación, Spain
"Desarrollo de estructuras nanofotónicas de campo cercano para intensificación localizada de luz en células solares de banda intermedia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 9.3/10
2005/08 - 2007/12
Concluded
 Applied Physics Program (Master Universitario)
Major in Nanotechnology
Rice University, United States
"Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Separation by type using Dielectrophoresis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 4.03/4.33
2000/10 - 2005/07
Concluded
 Engenharia Fisica Tecnologica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Micromagnetic Simulations of Spin Valve devices" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17.3/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/11/01 - 2019/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/05/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019/03/01 - 2024/04/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
2018/04/24 - 2019/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/11/01 - 2016/10/31 Marie Curie IEF Post-Doc Fellow under the individual European project DIELECTRIC PV Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2012/09/24 - 2014/09/24 Marie Curie IEF Post-Doc Fellow under the individual European project PROPHET Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2006 - 2009 Development of near-field nanophotonic structures for localized light enhancement in intermediate band solar cells
SFRH/BD/21669/2005
PhD Student Fellow
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Instituto de Energía Solar, Spain
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2006 - 2008 Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Separation by Type using Dielectrophoresis
S01074165
PhD Student Fellow
Rice University, United States
 Rice University
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/05/01 - Current X-STREAM (ERC Consolidator Grant)
101124803
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
 European Research Council
2024/05/01 - Current BURST
101146684
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2025/02/01 - 2029/01/31 SusMatEner
101168616
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2024/11/01 - 2028/10/31 JUMP INTO SPACE
101162377
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2024/07/01 - 2026/06/30 SolarWay
101148726
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
 Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2023/03 - 2026/02 SpaceFlex
2022.01610.PTDC
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2025/12 M-ECO2
AAC 02/C05-iO1/2022
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
 Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 HighLight
HighLight-INCM
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
 Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA
Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 CO2RED
PTDC/EQU-EPQ/2195/2021
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03/15 - 2024/03/14 Células Solares Flexíveis de Filmes Finos de Silício Cristalino e Perovskite com Elevada Eficiência
PTDC/CTM-REF/1008/2020
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/11 - 2024/01/10 Papel Inteligente para sistemas de identificação - IDS-Paper
PTDC/CTM-PAM/4241/2020
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/10/01 - 2022/09/30 ENLIGHTEN
891686
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018/04 - 2022/04 APOLO
763989
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 LocalEnergy
PTDC/EAM-PEC/29905/2017
Supervisor
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 TACIT
PTDC/NAN-OPT/28837/2017
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Plataforma de Microfluidica Integrada para a deteção do cancro através de PCR digital de ADN livre circulante
PTDC/BTM-SAL/31201/2017
Post-doc
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2021/06/30 SuperSolar
PTDC/NAN-OPT/28430/2017
Principal investigator
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016 - 2020 1D-NEON
685758
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2016/05/01 - 2019/10/31 ALTALUZ
PTDC/CTM-ENE/5125/2014
Supervisor
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/05/01 - 2019/10/30 Plataformas descartáveis de microfluídica para a detecção de toxinas alimentares por SERS
PTDC/CTM-NAN/2912/2014
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016 - 2018 BET-EU
692373
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2014/11/01 - 2016/10/31 DIELECTRIC PV
629370
Principal investigator
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2013 - 2015 SiQuaDot
PTDC/CTM-ENE/2514/2012
Post-doc
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Christian Stefano Schuster; Isodiana Crupi; Janne Halme; Mehmet Koç; Manuel Joao Mendes; Ian Marius Peters; Selçuk Yerci. "Empowering Photovoltaics with Smart Light Management Technologies". edited by Maximilian Lackner; Baharak Sajjadi; Wei-Yin Chen, 1-84. Springer, 2021.
    10.1007/978-1-4614-6431-0_112-1
  2. Mendes, Manuel J.; Sanchez-Sobrado, Olalla; Haque, Sirazul; Mateus, Tiago; Águas, Hugo; Fortunato, Elvira; Martins, Rodrigo; et al. "Wave-optical front structures on silicon and perovskite thin-film solar cells". In Solar Cells and Light Management, 315-354. Elsevier, 2020.
    Published • 10.1016/b978-0-08-102762-2.00009-4
  3. António T. Vicente; Andreia Araújo; Diana Gaspar; Lidia Santos; Ana C Marques; Manuel Joao Mendes; Luis Pereira; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Optoelectronics and Bio Devices on Paper Powered by Solar Cells". edited by Narottam Das. InTech, 2017.
    10.5772/62516
  4. Marti, A.; Antolin, E.; Garcia Linares, P.; Ramiro, I.; Artachoa, I.; Lopez, E.; Hernandez, E.; et al. "Six not so easy pieces in intermediate band solar cell research". 2013.
    10.1117/12.2002533
Conference paper
  1. Fortunato, E.; Gaspar, D.; Cunha, I.; Mendes, M.; Vicente, A.; Aguas, H.; Marques, A.C.; et al. "Paper electronics: A sustainable multifunctional platform". 2018.
    10.1109/DRC.2018.8442238
  2. Tobias, I.; Mendes, M.J.; Boronat, A.; Lopez, E.; Garcia-Linares, P.; Artacho, I.; Marti, A.; Silvestre, S.; Luque, A.. "HIT intermediate-band solar cells with self-assembled colloidal quantum dots and metal nanoparticles". 2015.
    10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355804
  3. Morawiec, S.; Mendes, M.J.; Filonovich, S.A.; Mateus, T.; Mirabella, S.; Aguas, H.; Ferreira, I.; et al. "Photocurrent enhancement in thin a-Si:H solar cells via plasmonic light trapping". 2014.
  4. Mendes, M. J.. "Guide to Intermediate Band Solar Cell Research". Paper presented in 27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Frankfurt, 2012.
    Published
  5. Mendes, M. J.. "Characterization of intermediate band solar cells". Paper presented in EMRS 2012 Spring Meeting - Symposium Y: Advanced materials and characterization techniques for solar cells, Strasbourg, 2012.
    Published
  6. Mendes, M.J.; Tobías, I.; Martí, A.; Luque, A.. "Near-field light focusing by wavelength-sized dielectric spheroids for photovoltaic applications". Paper presented in Renewable Energy and the Environment, Optical Society of America, Austin, 2011.
    Published
  7. Manuel Joao Mendes; Ignacio Tobías; Antonio Martí; Antonio Luque. "Near-field light focusing by wavelength-sized dielectric spheroids for photovoltaic applications". 2011.
    10.1364/pv.2011.jthc5
  8. Mendes, M. J.. "Embedment of metal nanoparticles in GaAs and Si for plasmonic absorption enhancement in intermediate band solar cells". Paper presented in 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valência, 2010.
    Published
  9. Mendes, M. J.. "New Approaches to the Intermediate Band Solar Cell Concept". Paper presented in 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, 2009.
    Published
  10. Martí, A.; Antolín, E.; Linares, P.G.; Cánovas, E.; Fuertes Marrón, D.; Tablero, C.; Mendes, M.; et al. "IBPOWER: Intermediate band materials and solar cells for photovoltaics with high efficiency and reduced cost". 2009.
    Published • 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411265
Conference poster
  1. Ugur D. Menda; Mendes, M. J.; Iñigo Ramiro. "Quantum-dot-in-perovskite solids as the new platform for intermediate-band materials". Paper presented in Int. Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV23), 2023.
  2. Joana V. Pinto; Manuel J. Mendes. "Micro and Nano structuring of Parylene C layers for sensors and energy-based devices". Paper presented in 48th international conference on Micro and Nano Engineering - Eurosensors (MNE-ES), 2022.
  3. Crupi, Isodiana; Manuel J. Mendes. "Plasmon-enhanced solar cells". Paper presented in European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Fall Meeting, 2022.
  4. Ribeiro, Guilherme; Manuel J. Mendes. "Colloidal Quantum Dots in Perovskite host absorber for Intermediate Band photovoltaics". Paper presented in SPM Summer School – Materials for Energy Transition, 2022.
  5. Centeno, Pedro; Manuel J. Mendes. "Copper-arsenic-sulfide thin-films from local raw materials deposited via RF co-sputtering for photovoltaics". Paper presented in SPM Summer School – Materials for Energy Transition, 2022.
  6. Jenny L. N. Boane; Manuel J. Mendes. "Colloidal-lithographed front contacts for highly efficient flexible solar cells endowed with light-trapping". Paper presented in 9th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces (RICI IX), 2022.
  7. Ugur Deneb Menda; Manuel J. Mendes. "Wide Bandgap Mixed Cation Mixed Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Fabricated in Ambient High-Humidity Conditions". Paper presented in Int. Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOP22), 2022.
  8. Ramiro, Inigo; Manuel J. Mendes. "Expanding the absorption of lead-halide perovskites via the inclusion of QDs for enhanced photovoltaic conversion". Paper presented in Int. Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOP22), 2022.
  9. Mendes, M. J.. "Colloidal lithography for transparent electronics and light trapping in thin film flexible solar cells". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2020, 2020.
  10. Mendes, M. J.. "Detailed Optical Analysis of Quantum Nanostructured PbS in Perovskite Host". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2020, 2020.
  11. Mendes, M. J.. "Design of optimized photonic microstructures coupled with luminescent down-shifting for high-efficient, flexible and stable perovskite solar cells". Paper presented in VII Annual Meeting of i3N, 2019.
  12. Mendes, M. J.. "Front Contact Light Trapping Structures by Design for Maximum Efficiency Enhancement of Thin Film Solar Cells". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Amorphous and Nano-crystalline Semiconductors (ICANS), 2019.
  13. Mendes, M. J.. "Optimal Design of Luminescent Down-Shifting for High Efficiency and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Amorphous and Nano-crystalline Semiconductors (ICANS), 2019.
  14. Mendes, M. J.. "Ultra-Thin Perovskite/c-Silicon Four-Terminal Tandems: Interlayer and Intermediate Contacts Optimization". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Amorphous and Nano-crystalline Semiconductors (ICANS), 2019.
  15. Mendes, M. J.. "Large-scale substitution of Sn by Sb in CZTS powders: effect on the crystal structure". Paper presented in Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials, 2019.
  16. Mendes, M. J.. "Self-cleaned Solar Cells with Super-Hydrophobic Photonic Nano-structures". Paper presented in Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials, 2019.
  17. Mendes, M. J.. "Thinner and Higher Efficient Silicon and Perovskite Solar Cells with Photonic structuring". Paper presented in Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials, 2019.
  18. Mendes, M. J.. "Near-Field Optics Studies in Nanotechnology". Paper presented in Nano Optics School 2019, 2019.
  19. Mendes, M. J.. "Coating Paper with Paper. A Planarization Strategy towards Efficient Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells to Power Optoelectronic Devices". Paper presented in European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU-PVSEC), 2018.
  20. Mendes, M. J.. "Ultra-Fast Plasmonic Ag NPs Production for Light Trapping in Thin Si Solar Cells". Paper presented in European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU-PVSEC), 2018.
  21. Mendes, M. J.. "High-Performing Photonic-Structured ARCs Enabling Pronounced Efficiency Enhancement in a-Si Thin Film Solar Cells". Paper presented in European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU-PVSEC), 2018.
  22. Mendes, M. J.. "Optimized photonic microstructures for wave-optical light trapping in Perovskite solar cells". Paper presented in Materials for Renewable Energy - International School of Solid State Physics of the Materials Research Society (MRS), 2018.
  23. Mendes, M. J.. "Ion beams to study mixed cation/mixed halide perovskite layers". Paper presented in 20th International Conference on Surface Modification of Materials by Ion Beams (SMMIB), 2017.
  24. Mendes, M. J.. "Macro and micro characterization of a mixed cation/mixed halide Perovskite". Paper presented in Printed Electronics and Solar Cells - Industry Day (COST Action - StableNextSol), 2017.
  25. Mendes, M. J.. "Photonic Nanostructures for Solar Cell Light Trapping with Colloidal Lithography". Paper presented in VI Annual Meeting of i3N, 2017.
  26. Manuel Joao Mendes; Sánchez-Sobrado Olalla; Sirazul Haque; Andreia Araújo; António Vicente; Andriy Lyubchyk; Tiago Mateus; et al. "Photonic-enhanced thin film solar cells with optimized dielectric front scatterers". Paper presented in E-MRS Fall Meeting, 2016.
  27. Mendes, M. J.. "HIT Intermediate-Band Solar Cells with Self-Assembled Colloidal Quantum Dots and Metal Nanoparticles". Paper presented in 42nd IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, 2015.
  28. Mendes, M. J.. "Light Trapping in Thin Film Solar Cells with Self-organized Plasmonic Nanospheres". Paper presented in V Annual Meeting of i3N, 2015.
  29. Mendes, M. J.. "Optical and microscopic study of the plasmonic structures designed as back reflectors for thin film silicon solar cells". Paper presented in E-MRS Spring Meeting, 2014.
  30. Mendes, M. J.. "Colloidal quantum dots and metal nanoparticles team up for plasmon-enhanced intermediate band solar cells". Paper presented in E-MRS Spring Meeting, 2014.
  31. Mendes, M. J.. "High performance plasmonic back reflectors with self-assembled silver nanoparticles for thin film photovoltaics". Paper presented in E-MRS Spring Meeting, 2013.
  32. Mendes, M. J.. "Light Enhancement in Intermediate Band Solar Cells with Near- Field Structures". Paper presented in Materials for Renewable Energy - International School of Solid State Physics of the Materials Research Society (MRS), 2010.
  33. Mendes, M. J.. "Near and Far Field Approaches to Light Enhancement in Intermediate Band Solar Cells using Surface Plasmons and Diffracting Structures". Paper presented in Summer School on Plasmonics of the Institut Fresnel, 2009.
Journal article
  1. Eva Almeida; Miguel Alexandre; Ivan M. Santos; Rodrigo Martins; Hugo Águas; Manuel J. Mendes. "Photonic-Enhanced Perovskite Solar Cells: Tailoring Color and Light Capture". ACS Omega (2024): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c04979.
    10.1021/acsomega.4c04979
  2. Sirazul Haque; Miguel Alexandre; António T. Vicente; Kezheng Li; Christian S. Schuster; Sui Yang; Hugo Águas; et al. "Publisher Correction: Photon shifting and trapping in perovskite solar cells for improved efficiency and stability". Light: Science & Applications (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01637-5.
    10.1038/s41377-024-01637-5
  3. Sirazul Haque; Miguel Alexandre; António T. Vicente; Kezheng Li; Christian S. Schuster; Sui Yang; Hugo Águas; et al. "Photon shifting and trapping in perovskite solar cells for improved efficiency and stability". Light: Science & Applications (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01559-2.
    10.1038/s41377-024-01559-2
  4. Salih Alper Akalin; Tiago Mateus; Guilherme Ribeiro; Jonas Deuermeier; Tomás Calmeiro; Hugo Águas; Rodrigo Martins; et al. "Ultra-flexible, high-performing NAN transparent electrodes for bendable optoelectronic applications". Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 35 25 (2024): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/2e9fa921-19e7-4736-b5f2-039749898ae6.
    10.1007/s10854-024-13442-2
  5. Miguel Alexandre; Ivan M. Santos; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel J. Mendes. "SCATMM: Easy-to-Use Graphical User Interface for Light Propagation in Arbitrary Multilayers". Journal of Open Research Software (2024): https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.511.
    10.5334/jors.511
  6. Miguel Alexandre; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel J. Mendes. "Understanding the Potential of Light Absorption in Dots-in-Host Semiconductors". ACS Photonics (2024): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00760.
    10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00760
  7. Nuno Marques; Santanu Jana; Manuel Joao Mendes; Hugo Águas; Rodrigo Martins; Shrabani Panigrahi. "Surface modification of halide perovskite using EDTA-complexed SnO2 as electron transport layer in high performance solar cells". RSC Advances 14 18 (2024): 12397-12406. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/81801d97-3e85-42c6-85d4-e8eacecbd157.
    10.1039/d3ra08900b
  8. Salih Alper Akalin; Mustafa Erol; Begum Uzunbayir; Sibel Oguzlar; Serdar Yildirim; Fatma Pinar Gokdemir Choi; Serap Gunes; Ugur Deneb Menda; Manuel Joao Mendes. "Physically-Deposited Hole Transporters in Perovskite PV". Advanced Materials Technologies 9 7 (2024): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/ffc77d60-4f8d-454e-ae43-772a0e2d4ba6.
    10.1002/admt.202301760
  9. Inês S. Fernandes; Duarte Antunes; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel Joao Mendes; Ana Machado. "Solar fuels design". Heliyon 10 4 (2024): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/1917531e-16af-4b31-bdfc-9e1da410cabe.
    10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26442
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  13. Ivan M. Santos; Miguel Alexandre; Valentin D. Mihailetchi; José A. Silva; Tiago Mateus; Ana Mouquinho; Jenny Luis Nhaliguangue Boane; et al. "Optically-Boosted Planar IBC Solar Cells with Electrically-Harmless Photonic Nanocoatings". Advanced Optical Materials 11 15 (2023): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/19b5395e-cc7f-4e57-8436-752d09c5ce3a.
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  15. Ana Pinheiro; Andreia Ruivo; João Rocha; Marta Ferro; Joana Vaz Pinto; Jonas Deuermeier; Tiago Mateus; et al. "Parylene-Sealed Perovskite Nanocrystals Down-Shifting Layer for Luminescent Spectral Matching in Thin Film Photovoltaics". Nanomaterials (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13010210.
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  16. Shrabani Panigrahi; Tomás Calmeiro; Manuel J. Mendes; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Observation of Grain Boundary Passivation and Charge Distribution in Perovskite Films Improved with Anti-solvent Treatment". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c05055.
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  17. Pedro Centeno; Miguel Alexandre; Filipe Neves; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Hugo Águas; Manuel J. Mendes. "Copper-Arsenic-Sulfide Thin-Films from Local Raw Materials Deposited via RF Co-Sputtering for Photovoltaics". Nanomaterials (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12193268.
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  19. M. Alexandre; H. Águas; E. Fortunato; R. Martins; M. J. Mendes. "Light management with quantum nanostructured dots-in-host semiconductors". Light: Science & Applications (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-021-00671-x.
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  20. Jenny L. N. Boane; Pedro Centeno; Ana Mouquinho; Miguel Alexandre; Tomás Calmeiro; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel J. Mendes; Hugo Águas. "Soft-Microstructured Transparent Electrodes for Photonic-Enhanced Flexible Solar Cells". Micro (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/micro1020016.
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  21. "Photonic Strategies for Photovoltaics: New Advances Beyond Optics". Modern Environmental Science and Engineering 7 7 (2021): 642-652. http://academicstar.us/UploadFile/Picture/2022-1/2022117123040516.pdf.
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  22. Rui D. Oliveira; Ana Mouquinho; Pedro Centeno; Miguel Alexandre; Sirazul Haque; Rodrigo Martins; Elvira Fortunato; Hugo Águas; Manuel J. Mendes. "Colloidal Lithography for Photovoltaics: An Attractive Route for Light Management". Nanomaterials 11 7 (2021): 1665-1665. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11071665.
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  23. Manuel Joao Mendes. "Novo desenho das células dos painéis solares vai revolucionar o aproveitamento da luz solar". Revista – Agir pelo Planeta (2021): 4-9. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/9486c64c-8421-41d6-9bd5-cf58fe0b1768.
  24. Mendes, M. J.. "Combining Soft with Hard Condensed Matter for Circular Polarized Light Sensing and Logic Operations". Advanced Optical Materials n/a n/a (2021): 2001731-2001731. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adom.202001731.
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  25. Hamed Moeini Alishah; Fatma Pinar Gokdemir Choi; Ugur Deneb Menda; Cihangir Kahveci; Macide Canturk Rodop; Manuel Joao Mendes; Serap Gunes. "Effect of Bathocuproine Concentration on the Photovoltaic Performance of NiOx-Based Perovskite Solar Cells". Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society 65 2 (2021): 149-160. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/ceb5f39b-9ac2-48f6-abe7-c830986f4d39.
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  26. Ugur Deneb Menda; Guilherme Ribeiro; Daniela Nunes; Tomás Calmeiro; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel J. Mendes. "High-performance wide bandgap perovskite solar cells fabricated in ambient high-humidity conditions". Materials Advances (2021): https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MA00432H.
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  27. Sirazul Haque; Miguel Alexandre; Manuel Joao Mendes; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Design of wave-optical structured substrates for ultra-thin perovskite solar cells". Applied Materials Today 20 (2020): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/afc94de7-5e9c-4951-a4b3-4419c8ab8023.
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  28. A. C. Lourenço; Ana Staack Reis-Machado; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel Joao Mendes. "Sunlight-driven CO2-to-fuel conversion: Exploring thermal and electrical coupling between photovoltaic and electrochemical systems for optimum solar-methane production". Materials Today Energy 17 (2020): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/f24ba6a2-5c65-4424-a972-1e850c217f82.
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  30. Olalla Sanchez-Sobrado; Manuel J. Mendes; Tiago Mateus; João Costa; Daniela Nunes; Hugo Aguas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Photonic-structured TCO front contacts yielding optical and electrically enhanced thin-film solar cells". Solar Energy 196 (2020): 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.051.
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  32. Filipe Vieira; B. Sarmento; A. S. Reis-Machado; J. Facão; Maria João Carvalho; Manuel Joao Mendes; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Prediction of sunlight-driven CO2 conversion: Producing methane from photovoltaics, and full system design for single-house application". Materials Today Energy 14 (2019): https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/7736e3bc-9198-4ef7-b276-2b03c002f158.
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  33. Giacomo Torrisi; João S. Luis; Sánchez-Sobrado Olalla; Rosario Raciti; Manuel Joao Mendes; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Antonio Terrasi. "Colloidal-structured metallic micro-grids: High performance transparent electrodes in the red and infrared range". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 197 (2019): 7-12. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/c660ae2e-12ea-4e4b-a733-650fd22b5a5c.
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  34. Manuel Chapa; Miguel F. Alexandre; Manuel J. Mendes; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "All-Thin-Film Perovskite/C–Si Four-Terminal Tandems: Interlayer and Intermediate Contacts Optimization". ACS Applied Energy Materials (2019): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b00354.
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  35. Miguel Alexandre; Manuel Chapa; Sirazul Haque; Manuel J. Mendes; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Optimum Luminescent Down-Shifting Properties for High Efficiency and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells". ACS Applied Energy Materials (2019): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b00271.
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  36. Maria João Brites; Maria Alexandra Barreiros; Victoria Corregidor; Luis C. Alves; Joana V. Pinto; Manuel J. Mendes; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; João Mascarenhas. "Ultrafast Low-Temperature Crystallization of Solar Cell Graded Formamidinium-Cesium Mixed-Cation Lead Mixed-Halide Perovskites Using a Reproducible Microwave-Based Process". ACS Applied Energy Materials (2019): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b02005.
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  40. Rodrigo Martins; Diana Gaspar; Manuel J. Mendes; Luis Pereira; Jorge Martins; Pydi Bahubalindruni; Pedro Barquinha; Elvira Fortunato. "Papertronics: Multigate paper transistor for multifunction applications". Applied Materials Today 12 (2018): 402-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2018.07.002.
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  41. Manuel J. Mendes; Sirazul Haque; Olalla Sanchez-Sobrado; Andreia Araújo; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "Optimal-Enhanced Solar Cell Ultra-thinning with Broadband Nanophotonic Light Capture". iScience 3 (2018): 238-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.04.018.
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  45. Ben Wannes, H.; Zaghouani, R.B.; Ouertani, R.; Araújo, A.; Mendes, M.J.; Aguas, H.; Fortunato, E.; Martins, R.; Dimassi, W.. "Study of the stabilizer influence on the structural and optical properties of sol-gel spin coated zinc oxide films". Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 74 (2018): 80-87. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85032867520&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
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  49. Andreia Araujo; A. Pimentel; Maria Joao Oliveira; Manuel Joao Mendes; Ricardo Franco; Elvira Fortunato; Hugo Águas; Rodrigo Martins. "Direct growth of plasmonic nanorod forests on paper substrates for low-cost flexible 3D SERS platforms". FLEXIBLE AND PRINTED ELECTRONICS 2 1 (2017): https://research.unl.pt/en/publications/direct-growth-of-plasmonic-nanorod-forests-on-paper-substrates-for-lowcost-flexible-3d-sers-platforms(79fa54e4-fb80-49ba-b640-52714617f598).html.
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  50. Antonio T. Vicente; Pawel Jerzy Wojcik; Manuel Joao Mendes; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins. "A statistics modeling approach for the optimization of thin film photovoltaic devices". Solar Energy 144 (2017): 232-243. https://research.unl.pt/en/publications/a-statistics-modeling-approach-for-the-optimization-of-thin-film-photovoltaic-devices(81090296-88ef-4d50-b371-891f5e896159).html.
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  67. Mendes, Manuel J.; Hernandez, Estela; Lopez, Esther; Garcia-Linares, Pablo; Ramiro, Inigo; Artacho, Irene; Antolin, Elisa; et al. "Self-organized colloidal quantum dots and metal nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced intermediate-band solar cells". Nanotechnology 24 34 (2013): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000322642900008&KeyUID=WOS:000322642900008.
    10.1088/0957-4484/24/34/345402
  68. Morawiec, Seweryn; Mendes, Manuel J.; Mirabella, Salvatore; Simone, Francesca; Priolo, Francesco; Crupi, Isodiana. "Self-assembled silver nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar cell back reflectors: correlation between structural and optical properties". Nanotechnology 24 26 (2013): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000320029100009&KeyUID=WOS:000320029100009.
    10.1088/0957-4484/24/26/265601
  69. Marti, Antonio; Antolin, Elisa; Garcia Linares, Pablo; Ramiro, Inigo; Artacho, Irene; Lopez, Esther; Hernandez, Estela; et al. "Six not-so-easy pieces in intermediate band solar cell research". Journal of Photonics For Energy 3 (2013): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000324159000001&KeyUID=WOS:000324159000001.
    10.1117/1.JPE.3.031299
  70. Mellor, A.; Tobias, I.; Marti, A.; Mendes, M. J.; Luque, A.. "Upper limits to absorption enhancement in thick solar cells using diffraction gratings". Progress in Photovoltaics 19 6 (2011): 676-687. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000294777700006&KeyUID=WOS:000294777700006.
    10.1002/pip.1086
  71. Mendes, Manuel J.; Tobias, Ignacio; Marti, Antonio; Luque, Antonio. "Light concentration in the near-field of dielectric spheroidal particles with mesoscopic sizes". Optics Express 19 17 (2011): 16207-16222. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000293894900057&KeyUID=WOS:000293894900057.
    10.1364/OE.19.016207
  72. Mendes, Manuel J.; Tobias, Ignacio; Marti, Antonio; Luque, Antonio; Mendes, M.J.; Tobías, I.; Martí, A.; Luque, A.. "Near-field scattering by dielectric spheroidal particles with sizes on the order of the illuminating wavelength". Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 27 6 (2010): 1221-1231. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000278433500012&KeyUID=WOS:000278433500012.
    10.1364/JOSAB.27.001221
  73. Mendes, Manuel J.; Luque, Antonio; Tobias, Ignacio; Marti, Antonio. "Plasmonic light enhancement in the near-field of metallic nanospheroids for application in intermediate band solar cells". Applied Physics Letters 95 7 (2009): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000269288300005&KeyUID=WOS:000269288300005.
    10.1063/1.3205470
  74. Luque, Antonio; Marti, Antonio; Mendes, Manuel J.; Tobias, Ignacio. "Light absorption in the near field around surface plasmon polaritons". Journal of Applied Physics 104 11 (2008): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000262364000019&KeyUID=WOS:000262364000019.
    10.1063/1.3014035
  75. Mendes, Manuel J.; Schmidt, Howard K.; Pasquali, Matteo. "Brownian dynamics simulations of single-wall carbon nanotube separation by type using dielectrophoresis". Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 25 (2008): 7467-7477. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000256919800018&KeyUID=WOS:000256919800018.
    10.1021/jp711450w
  76. Guedes, A.; Mendes, M. J.; Freitas, P. P.; Martins, J. L.. "Study of synthetic ferrimagnet-synthetic antiferromagnet structures for magnetic sensor application". Journal of Applied Physics 99 8 (2006): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000237404200143&KeyUID=WOS:000237404200143.
    10.1063/1.2162817
Newsletter article
  1. Mendes, M. J.. Corresponding author: Mendes, M. J.. "Investigação-para-Ciência vs. Investigação-para-Indústria", Artigos de Opinião do Seminário de Jovens Cientistas da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, 2023
Online resource
  1. Mendes, M. J.. Solar Charging Tracker with Adaptable Input Current Range. 2017. https://www.instructables.com/Solar-Charging-Tracker/.
Preprint
  1. Miguel Alexandre; Hugo Águas; Elvira Fortunato; Rodrigo Martins; Manuel J. Mendes. "Understanding the Potential of Light Absorption in Dots-in-Host Semiconductors". 2023. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2346995/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-2346995/v1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Mendes, M. J.. "Near-field nanophotonic structures for localized light enhancement in intermediate band solar cells". PhD, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Instituto de Energía Solar, 2012.
  2. Mendes, M. J.. "Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Separation by Type using Dielectrophoresis". Master, Rice University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007.
  3. Mendes, M. J.. "Micromagnetic simulations of Spin-Valve devices". Degree, Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, 2005.
Translation
  1. Mendes, M. J.. Elaborated the Portuguese version of the European standard "Thermal solar systems and components" (EN 12975-2:01). 2001.
    Published
Website
  1. Mendes, M. J.. Pulsar - Revista do Núcleo de Física do Instituto Superior Técnico (NFIST). 2003. http://pulsar.nfist.pt/.

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Mendes, M. J.; A. Martí; I. Tobías; A. Luque. 2013. "Intermediate Band Solar Cell having solution-processed Colloidal Quantum Dots and Metal Nanoparticles". United States.
  2. H. K. Schmidt; H. Peng; M. J. Mendes; M. Pasquali. 2012. "Flow Dielectrophoretic Separation of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes". United States.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/25 Modeling CO2 Electrochemical Reduction in Porous Cathodes for Liquid-Phase Electrolyzers 16th National Physical Chemistry Meeting (16ENQF) and 5th Computational Chemistry Symposium
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/07/15 From Earth to the Cosmos - Reviewing Advanced Nanostructures for Space Solar Powering IEEE 24th International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO)
(Gijon, Spain)
2024/06/03 Photonic Management: Trailblazing New Paths for PV and Solar Fuels Seminar series of i3N-Aveiro
Dep. de Física of Univ. de Aveiro (DF-UA) (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/03/10 Photonic Management: Trailblazing New Paths for Solar Powered Systems Seminar series of Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional (CFTC)
Faculdade de Ciências da Univ. de Lisboa (FCUL) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/03/05 Boosting the Efficiency of Thin Solar Cells with Photonic Structured Layers Fabricated by Colloidal Lithography Global Meet on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (NTNM2024)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/02 Increasing the Efficiency of Solar Cells with Photonic Structured Layers Fabricated by Colloidal Lithography 7th International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials
(Jeju, South Korea)
2023/11 Materials & Sustainability: PRR projects @ DCM-CENIMAT NOVA Science and Innovation Day
Univ. Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
2023/11 Perovskite thin films: Optoeletronic properties Int. Conference on Nanotechnology Research and Innovation
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/09 Armazenamento e sistemas de transformação e controlo de energia: as refinarias solares do futuro Conferência NOVA-USP: Pontes para a Sustentabilidade
Univ. Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
2023/09 Carrier-Thermal-Escape Mitigation in a Quantum-Dot-in-Perovskite Intermediate Band Solar Cell 40th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU-PVSEC)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/09 Micro and Nano structured Parylene C layers for energy based devices E-MRS Fall Meeting
E-MRS (Varsóvia, Poland)
2023/08/03 Aerogel Cathodes for Electrochemical CO2 reduction XXV Meeting of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society
Portuguese Electrochemical Society (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/08/03 2D Modelling of Porous Electrodes for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Aqueous KHCO3 Electrolyte XXV Meeting of the Portuguese Electrochemical Society
Portuguese Electrochemical Society (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/07/05 Novel Concepts for Perovskite Solar Cells 16th Int. Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics (ISFOE23)
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
2023/04/22 Soft-Microstructured Transparent Electrodes for Photonic-Enhanced Flexible Solar Cells 6th European Meeting on Materials Science and Nanotechnology
(Zurique, Switzerland)
2022/09 The New Horizons of Photovoltaics endowed with Photonics SPM Summer School - Materials for Energy Transition
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (SPM) and Ordem dos Engenheiros (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/07 New Horizons for Photonic-enhanced Perovskite Solar Cells 14th International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics (ISFOE)
(Tessalonica, Greece)
2022/07 Dots-in-Host Semiconductors for Improved Light Management AOP2022 - 5th International Conference on Applications of Optics & Photonics
(Guimarães, Portugal)
2022/03/02 The New Horizons of Photovoltaics improved with Light Management 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference
Faculdade de Ciências da Univ. de Lisboa (FCUL) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/12 Transparent Electrodes for Photonic–Enhanced Flexible Solar Cells V-Nanotech – 3rd Edition of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials Virtual
2021/11 Photonic Structures for Solar Cells: A Way to Boost Efficiency ICAE – 6th International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials
(jeju, South Korea)
2021/11 High-performance Wide Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Fabricated in Ambient High-Humidity Conditions ICAE – 6th International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials
(South Korea)
2021/10 Clean and Intelligent Energy from the Sun - New forms of production, storage and application Inspiring Tech Safari – executives training program
FCT-NOVA (Caparica, Portugal)
2021/07 New Horizons in PV with Photonic-structured Solar Cells Summer School in Perovskite Solar Technology
LEITAT under APOLO H2020 project
2021/06 Photonic-boosted perovskite solar cells E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS
2021/04 Os Novos Horizontes da Eletricidade Solar “10º Fórum do Ambiente” on Equality and Sustainability
Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia do Ambiente (NEEA), FEUP (Portugal)
2021/01 Fotovoltaico enaltecido com Fotónica: Desvendando Novos Horizontes para a Energia Solar Circular Economy & Sustainability”, within the cycle of webinars Sci & Tech for Society.
FCT-NOVA (Portugal)
2020/11/11 Estratégias fotónicas para fotovoltaico: novos avanços para além da ótica. 13th Ibero-American Congress & 17th Iberian Congress of Solar Energy
LNEG (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/07/21 Photonic-enhanced Sunlight-driven CO2 conversion: Producing Methane from Photovoltaics improved with Light Management Webinar that I presented via Zoom due to Covid-19 contingency measures
LNEG (Portugal)
2019/09/24 Photonic front structures for Efficiency and Stability improvement of Silicon and Perovskite Photovoltaics 22nd Sede Boqer Symposium on Solar Electricity Production
Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center (Sede Boqer, Israel)
2019/09/22 Photonic-enhanced Flexible Photovoltaics Workshop on “Energy Storage Solutions”, in the framework of SunStorage project
Faculdade de Engenharia da Univ. do Porto (FEUP) (Porto, Portugal)
2019/05/24 Photonic-enhanced Perovskite solar cells: New avenues for Efficiency and Stability improvement E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Nice, France)
2019/04/14 Thin Flexible Perovskite/c-Silicon Four-Terminal Tandems: Interlayer and Intermediate Contacts Optimization Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/14 Optimal Design of Luminescent Down-Shifting for High Efficiency and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/14 Design of photonic microstructures for optimum wave-optical light trapping in Perovskite solar cells. Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/04/14 Photonic-structured front contacts on thin-film solar cells: Novel paths for efficiency and flexibility improvement Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10 Application of Ag nanoparticles grown by dewetting process to SERS and solar cells InterPhotonics 2018
(Antalia, Turkey)
2018/08/13 Direct measurement of optical losses in plasmon-enhanced thin silicon films Optics + Photonics - SPIE
SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics) (San Diego, United States)
2018/08 The effects of rear interface passivation in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 ultrathin film solar cells E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Estrasburgo, France)
2018/07/15 Making Solar Electricity a User-convenient Reality with Light Management in Photovoltaics Encontro Ciência 2018
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/07 Designing the Future with Materials 10th FAME/EMMI Master Research Workshop
(Darmstadt, Germany)
2018/06/08 Optimization of IZO/Ag Mesh/IZO structures for ultra-thin high-performance transparent electrodes E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Estrasburgo, France)
2018/06 Paper electronics: a sustainable multifunctional platform IEEE 76th Device Research Conference (DRC) – Thin-Film Electronics session
IEEE (Santa Barbara, United States)
2018/05 Materials: The Crosscutting Component for the Missions of the Future
Advanced Materials Forum (Hangzou, China)
2018/03/21 Making Silicon and Perovskite Solar Cells Thinner and High Efficient with Photonic-structured Materials Advanced Energy Materials Congress (AEMC)
International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) (Estocolmo, Sweden)
2018/03 Light Management in PV - Towards High Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells Jornadas da NANU 2018
Núcleo de Nanotecnologia da FCT-NOVA (NANU) (Caparica, Portugal)
2018/03 Multifunctional Paper as Photovoltaic Platform Advanced Energy Materials Congress (AEMC)
International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) (Estocolmo, Sweden)
2017/11 Next Generation of Electronic Eco-Systems on Foils VI World Materials Summit of the European Youth Centre
(Strasbourg, France)
2017/10 Light Management and Novel Concepts in Thin film Solar Cells Elbysier Erasmus+ Program - KA2 Strategic Partnerships for higher education
CENIMAT, FCT-NOVA (Caparica, Portugal)
2017/08 A statistics modelling approach for the optimization of thin film photovoltaic devices 7th International Symposium on Energy of North Sea Conference
(Manchester, United Kingdom)
2017/05/27 Capturing light with wave-optical traps on thin and ultra-thin solar cells E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Estrasburgo, France)
2017/04/20 Passivation of interfaces in thin film solar cells: understanding the effects of a nanostructured rear point contact layer MRS Spring Meeting
MRS (Phoenix, United States)
2017/03/25 Optimal Light-capturing with Wave-Optical Traps on Silicon and Perovskite Thin-film Solar Cells Printed Electronics and Solar Cells - Industry Day (COST Action - StableNextSol)
COST (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/02/15 Exploiting Systems on Foils: Papertronics SPIE Photonics West Conference
SPIE (São Francisco, United States)
2016/09/25 Wavelength-sized dielectric structures for light trapping enhancement E-MRS Fall Meeting
E-MRS (Varsóvia, Poland)
2016/07/16 Optimal high-index spheroidal structures for nanophotonic-enhanced thin film solar cells 13th International Conference on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (Nanotexnology - workshop on Nanoelectronics, Photonics and NanoEnergy)
Nanotexnology (Tessalonica, Greece)
2016/05/25 Photonic-enhanced solar cells with plasmonic and wave-optical dielectric nanostructures E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Lille, France)
2015/09/26 Influence of post-deposition annealing on TCOs electrical and optical properties E-MRS Fall Meeting
E-MRS (Varsóvia, Poland)
2015/06 Taking Energy from Light - Nanophotonics in Solar Cells "Noite da Luz" of FCT-NOVA (International Year of Light)
FCT-NOVA Library (Caparica, Portugal)
2014/11 Light Management and Novel Trends in Photovoltaics Jornadas do LNEG
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/06/12 Photocurrent enhancement in thin a-Si:H solar cells via plasmonic light trapping CLEO: Science and Innovations
Optical Society of America (San José, United States)
2014/05/23 Plasmonic and dielectric structures for thin-film solar cells – an experimental comparison E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Lille, France)
2014/05/23 Impact of plasmon-assisted light trapping on photocurrent enhancement in thin film a-Si:H solar cells E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Lille, France)
2014/05/23 Plasmon-enhanced thin film solar cells with self-assembled colloidal metal nanosphere arrays E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Lille, France)
2013/05/22 Review of experimental results related to the operation of intermediate band solar cells E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Estrasburgo, France)
2013/05/22 Colloidal self-assembled nanosphere arrays for plasmon-enhanced light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells E-MRS Spring Meeting
E-MRS (Estrasburgo, France)
2011/11/05 Near-field light focusing by wavelength-sized dielectric spheroids for photovoltaic applications Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Optical Society of America (OSA) (Austin, United States)
2010/09/18 Embedment of Metal Nanoparticles in GaAs and Si for Plasmonic Absorption Enhancement in Intermediate Band Solar Cells 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference
PVSEC (Valencia, Spain)
2007/09 Metallic vs. Semiconducting Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Separation Using Dielectrophoresis 3rd NASA-NIST Workshop on Nanotube Measurements
NIST (Gaithersburg, United States)
2006/11/10 Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Separation by Type Using Dielectrophoresis AIChE Annual Meeting
AIChE (São Francisco, United States)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current Photonic-Enhanced and Flexible Tandem Solar Cells for Space Applications
Supervisor
 Nanotecnologias e Nanociências (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/01 - Current All-thin-film Silicon/Perovskite tandem solar cells for high-efficient and flexible photovoltaics
Co-supervisor of Abbas Ghulam
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2021/03 - Current Highy-efficient Quantum-nanostructured Thin-Film Solar Cells
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 - Current Photonic-enhanced and Self-Cleaned Photovoltaics: Unraveling New Paths for Solar Electricity Development (PhD scholarship funded by FCT-MCTES - Ref. 2020.07882.BD)
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 - Current Marie Curie Post-Doc on intermediate-band solar cell (IBSC) technology based in nanostructured semiconductors composed of arrays of colloidal quantum dots embedded in wide-bandgap Perovskite host (CQD@Perovskite dots-in-host absorber). Marie Curie Experienced Researcher Fellowship under H2020 project ENLIGHTEN (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, Grant No. 891686)
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2020/03 - Current Post-Doc on Photonic substrates for flexible Perovskite solar cells via scalable and low-cost soft-lithography techniques, within the framework of H2020 project APOLO.
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/01 - Current Photonic-enhanced Quantum Nano-structured Perovskite Solar Cells (PhD scholarship funded by FCT-MCTES - SFRH/BD/148078/2019)
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019 - Current Post-doc on the development of novel quantum-dot intermediate band solar cells based on nanostructured Perovskite materials impregnated with PbS/Se colloidal quantum dots and enhanced with light trapping schemes (funded by FCT project SuPerSolar - PTDC/NAN-OPT/28430/2017)
Supervisor of Dra. Ugur Deneb Menda
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
2017 - Current Light management in Perovskite solar cells with dielectric photonic structures and luminescent down-shifting layers (under the AdvaMTech PhD program - grant PD/BD/143031/2018)
Co-supervisor of Sirazul Haque
 AdvaMTech PhD program (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2017 - Current Investigation of scalable wet-coating methods for colloidal lithography, in order to enable the micro-structuring of any material with controlled nanoscopic precision over indefinitely large areas
Co-supervisor of Jenny Boane
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022 - 2033 Computational Design of Colourful and Flexible Photonic-enhanced Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Engenharia de Materiais (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/12 Fabrication and Optoelectronic Characterization of Chalcogenide Thin-film Solar Cells
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/12 Fabrication and characterization of perovskite based photodetectors
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/12 Development of low band gap solar cells for thin film tandem applications
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/12 Improvement of the light stability of perovskite solar cells with metal organic frameworks
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/01/01 - 2024/11/01 Senior researcher (post-doc) under HIGHLIGHT project of INCM - The Outstanding Light Interaction of High-index Dielectric Nanoparticles: A Market-attractive Path for Photonic Authentication
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2020 - 2024 Quantum nanostructured dots-in-host perovskite solar cells
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2024 Development of photonic layers fabricated by colloidal lithography for flexible solar cells and transparent electronics
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Strategies for reducing ITO sputtering-induced damage in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Optimization of RF Magnetron Sputtering of Cerium-Doped Indium Oxide for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Air Processed Stable Wide-Bandgap MAPbBr3 Perovskite Solar Cells
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Structural colour application in photonic-enhanced perovskite solar cells for BIPV
Supervisor
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Photonic inks for advanced security applications
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Building-integrated Photovoltaics via modular assembly of solar cells
Supervisor
 Engenharia de Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Development of Nanoimprint Lithography Processes for State-of-the-art Light Management Strategies to be integrated in CIGS Solar Cells
Co-supervisor of Rita Frija Alexandre
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Solar fuels design: Modeling a proton exchange electrolyser for the production of carbon-based fuels from CO2
Supervisor of Duarte Correia da Fonseca da Silva Antunes
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Light Management in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Photonic Nano-coatings
Supervisor of Ivan Miranda Santos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Fourier microscopy for the characterization of plasmonic solar cells
Co-supervisor of Diogo Gonçalo Alves Castanheira
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Hydrogen-doped Indium Oxide as transparent back contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells
Co-supervisor of Pedro Fernando Santos Sousa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Optimization of MAPbI3-films grown under ambient conditions on Si/SiO2 substrates for electrical characterization of Perovskite materials
Co-supervisor of Guilherme Lopes Costa Ferreira
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/12 Low-cost Ambient Fabricated FAPbI3-based Perovskite Solar Cells
Co-supervisor of Cristiano Henriques Almendra Sequeira Barardo
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/05 Adaptable Power Electronics for Solar Chargers
Supervisor of João Miguel Castilho de Carvalho Antão
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/01 Modelação de Cátodos Porosos para Redução Eletroquímica do CO2
Co-supervisor
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/01 Solution Processed NiOx as a Hole Transporting Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/01 Development of a Polymeric Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Based Photonic Integrated Chip for Optical Sensing
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/01 Strong Light-Matter Coupling for Improved Organic Photovoltaics
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Electrical and Optical Characterization of Ultrathin Solar Cells
Co-supervisor
2020 - 2021 Optimization of Self-Assembled Particle Deposition for Colloidal Lithography Nano/Micro-Patterning
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2020 - 2021 NiOx Hole Transport Layer Optimization for Perovskite Solar Cells with Inverted Architecture
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Point contact structures for thin film solar cells
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/12 Nanoparticles in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells for light trapping
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/12 Ambient-processed Low-cost Perovskite-based Photovoltaics
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/12 Thin-film tandem solar cells based on Perovskite-Si: development of interlayer for 4-terminal device configuration
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/12 A novel plasmonic nanostructure for localized near-field light enhancement
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/11 Sunlight-driven CO2-to-fuel conversion: exploring thermal and electrical coupling between photovoltaic and electrochemical systems for optimum solar-methane production
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/11 Simulation and optical characterization of efficient light-emitting metallo-dielectric micro- and nanopillars
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2015 - 2019 Post-Doc work on the experimental development of light management structures for thin film solar cells based on wave-optical micro-structures fabricated by colloidal lithography (funded by FCT BPD fellowship SFRH/BPD/114833/2016)
Supervisor of Dra. Olalla Sanchez Sobrado
Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Perovskite solar cells: Optimization of Cost-Effective Production
Supervisor of Beatriz Oliveira Esteves
 Mestrado Integrado em Materiais (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Simulation of sunlight driven CO2 conversion to CH4 to satisfy a single-house heating requirements
Co-supervisor of Bernardo Fitas Sarmento
 Mestrado Integrado em Materiais (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Sunlight-driven CO2 Conversion: Producing Methane with Photovoltaics
Supervisor of Fábio Miguel Ferreira Vieira
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Stability for perovskite solar cells (performed in Solliance company)
Co-supervisor of José Luís Ferreira Virtuoso
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 2D Optimization of Thin Perovskite/Silicon Four-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells
Supervisor of Manuel Manta Chapa
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Theoretical Study of Optimum Luminescent Down-Shifting Properties for High Efficiency and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor of Miguel Diogo Furtado Alexandre
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Self-cleaned Solar Cells with Super-Hydrophobic Photonic Nano-structures
Supervisor of Pedro Afonso Magalhães Centeno
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Metal layer for enhancing optical reflection in passivation layers in thin film solar cells (performed in INL. Braga)
Co-supervisor of Tomás Sousa Lopes
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Synthesis of Inorganic Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots for Photoluminescence Applications
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Low Cost Thin Film Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor of Eduardo Manuel Ribeiro Duarte
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Microstructured Transparent Conductive Metallic Electrodes Fabricated by Colloidal Lithography
Supervisor of João Sousa Luís
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Perovskite Solar Cells: Developing a simple, fast and low-cost fabrication technology
Co-supervisor of Alexandro Guerreiro Fonseca
 Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Perovskite PV materials - Towards a flexible & low cost solar cell technology
Co-supervisor of Carolina Fidalgo Marques
Mestrado Integrado em Micro e Nanotecnologias (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Solution Processed Quantum Dot Photodetectors
Co-supervisor of David Magalhães Sousa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/09 - Current EUROMAT 2021 – European Congress & Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes. Symposium: A9 – Advanced Materials, Techniques, and Design Strategies to improve Solar Cells Performance. (2021/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2021/07 - Current Summer School in Perovskite Solar Technology (2021/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal

Leitat, Spain
2021 - Current EUROMAT 2021 – European Congress & Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes - Simposium A9 (2021)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019 - Current Responsible for ExpoFCT theme related with Solar Energy, performed every year in FCT-NOVA (2019)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - 2019 Responsible for Ciência Viva theme related with Solar Energy in CENIMAT, in the Ciencia Viva events organized every year with high-school students (2016)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Materiais, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 Advanced Energy Materials Congress (AEMC) of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) Symposium: Energy Materials and Solar Cells Location: In a cruise between Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland (2018/03)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
2016/06 - 2016/09 E-MRS Fall Meeting Symposium: K - Photonic materials and techniques for SERS and solar cell light trapping Location: Warsaw, Poland (2016/09)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
 European Materials Research Society, France
2014/05 - 2014/05 E-MRS Spring Meeting Symposium: Y - Advanced materials and characterization techniques for solar cells Location: Lille, France (2014/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Materials Research Society, France

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/06 Quantum nanostructured dots-in-host perovskite solar cells
Supervisor
 Miguel Diogo Furtado Alexandre (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/12/14 Structural colour application in photonic-enhanced perovskite solar cells for BIPV
Supervisor
 Eva Jesus Marques Almeida (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2023/12/11 Conformal deposition of SnO2 on Photonic Structured Perovskite Solar Cells via Magnetron Sputtering
President of the jury
 Edgar Afonso Coelho Coimbra (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2023/12/08 Building-integrated Photovoltaics via modular assembly of solar cells
Supervisor
 Rui Guilherme Vaz Gonçalves (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/11/03 Strategies for reducing ITO sputtering-induced damage in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells
Supervisor
 Maria Meireles Ribeiro Magalhães (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2023/11 Optimization of RF Magnetron Sputtering of Cerium-Doped Indium Oxide for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Maria Meireles Ribeiro Magalhães (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2023/11 Optimization of a Scattering Metallic Nanoparticles Array to be implemented in Ultra-thin CIGS Bifacial Solar Cells
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Pedro Miguel Vilela Pereira Valentim Rebola (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2023/07/27 From Lab to Fab: Optimization of a Cost-Effective and Scalable Fabrication Process for Perovskite Solar Cells
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Cristina Ornelas Teixeira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023/07/20 Fabrication of High Efficiency Dye Sensitized Solar Cells using Tailor Made Polymers
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Daniela Filipa da Silva Lopes Rodrigues (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/05/20 Computational Design of Colourful and Flexible Photonic-enhanced Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Miguel Rodrigues Fialho (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2023/03 Quantum Nanostructured Dots-in-Host Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Miguel Alexandre (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/12 Solar fuels design: Modeling a proton exchange electrolyser for the production of carbon-based fuels from CO2
Supervisor
 Duarte Correia da Fonseca da Silva Antunes (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/12 Light Management in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Photonic Nano-coatings
Supervisor
 Ivan Miranda Santos (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/12 Fourier microscopy for the characterization of plasmonic solar cells
Supervisor
 Diogo Gonçalo Alves Castanheira (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/12 Hydrogen-doped Indium Oxide as transparent back contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells
Supervisor
 Pedro Fernando Santos Sousa (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/11 Development of Nanoimprint Lithography Processes for State-of-the-art Light Management Strategies to be integrated in CIGS Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Rita Frija Alexandre (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/09 Transition-Metals doped In2O3 thin films as TCO for photovoltaics applications
(Thesis) Arguer
 Melanie Micali (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Catania Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Italy
2022/06 Adaptable Power Electronics for Solar Chargers
Supervisor
 João Miguel Castilho de Carvalho Antão (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 Modelação de Cátodos Porosos para Redução Eletroquímica do CO2
Supervisor
 Inês Sitéria de Sousa Rodrigues Fernandes (Master)
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
2022/01 Solution Processed NiOx as a Hole Transporting Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor
 André Morujo Ramos (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 Development of a Polymeric Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Based Photonic Integrated Chip for Optical Sensing
Supervisor
 Joana Isabel Craveiro Tátá (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 Strong Light-Matter Coupling for Improved Organic Photovoltaics
Supervisor
 Tomás Alexandre de Sousa (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2022/01 Light management in perovskite solar cells with dielectric photonic structures and luminescent down-shifting layers (CAT defense)
Supervisor
 Sirazul Haque (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/11 New ZnO-based core-shell nanostructures for perovskite solar cells
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tânia Cristina Antunes Frade Costa (PhD)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/06 Modelling and characterization of doping-free carrier selective contacts for advanced c-Si solar cells
Thesis Member
 Daniele Scirè (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
2021/01 Wearable Integrated Devices for Sustainable Energy: Self Powered e-Cloths
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Guilherme Miguel Melo Coelho (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 Estudo dos efeitos plasmónicos em sistemas híbridos de nanopartículas metálicas (Au, Ag)-GaN
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Diogo Fernando Roque Carvalho (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2021/01 Optimization of Self-Assembled Particle Deposition for Colloidal Lithography Nano/Micro-Patterning
Supervisor
 Rui Daniel de Oliveira (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/01 NiOx Hole Transport Layer Optimization for Perovskite Solar Cells with Inverted Architecture
Supervisor
 Mariana Peyró Moniz (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2020/12 Python-based MEMS inertial sensors design, simulation and optimization
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rui Amendoeira Esteves (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/12 Thin-film tandem solar cells based on Perovskite-Si: development of interlayer for 4-terminal device configuration
Supervisor
 Guilherme António Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/12 Ambient-processed Low-cost Perovskite-based Photovoltaics
Supervisor
 Guilherme Ramos Castelo (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/12 A novel plasmonic nanostructure for localized near-field light enhancement
Supervisor
 Maria Inês Caramelo Duarte (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/11 Sunlight-driven CO2-to-fuel conversion: exploring thermal and electrical coupling between photovoltaic and electrochemical systems for optimum solar-methane production
Supervisor
 André Castanheira Lourenço (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/09 Estudo de um processo de crescimento de silício cristalino por zona fundida eléctrica
(Thesis) Main arguer
 David Miguel Rodrigues Pera (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/12 Development of Plasmonic Nanosandwiches for Biosensing Applications
(Thesis) Main arguer
 André de Távora Vasconcelos de Moura (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/12 Self-cleaned Solar Cells with Super-Hydrophobic Photonic Nano-structures
Supervisor
 Pedro Afonso Magalhães Centeno (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/12 Sunlight-driven CO2 Conversion: Producing Methane with Photovoltaics
Supervisor
 Fábio Miguel Ferreira Vieira (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/12 2D Optimization of Thin Perovskite/Silicon Four-Terminal Tandem Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Manuel Manta Chapa (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/12 Perovskite solar cells: Optimization of Cost-Effective Production
Supervisor
 Beatriz Oliveira Esteves (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/11 Stability for perovskite solar cells
Supervisor
 José Luís Ferreira Virtuoso (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/11 Theoretical Study of Optimum Luminescent Down-Shifting Properties for High Efficiency and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Miguel Diogo Furtado Alexandre (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/10 Design and simulation of a direct and indirect drive electrostatically actuated resonant micro-mirrors for scanner applications
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Marco António Cavaco Rodrigues (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/07 Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticles by Dewetting process: Applications in SERS and Thin Film Solar Cells
(Thesis) Arguer
 Andreia Cristina Jóia Araújo Cardoso (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/07 Low-Cost Thin Film Perovskite Solar Cells
Supervisor
 Eduardo Manuel Ribeiro Duarte (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
2018/06 Microstructured Transparent Metallic Electrodes Fabricated by Colloidal Lithography
Supervisor
 João Sousa Luís (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2018/01 Silicon thin film solar cells on paper-based substrates with applications in optoelectronic biodevices
(Thesis) Arguer
 António Miguel Teixeira Vicente (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2017/12 Optimization of Printed Inverted Organic Photovoltaics
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria Inês Lopes Caupers (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2017/11 Photoluminescent properties of doped alkali borosilicate glasses
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mário André Madeira de Almeida (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal
2017/10 Perovskite Solar Cells: Developing a simple, fast and low-cost technology
Supervisor
 Alexandro Guerreiro Fonseca (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2017/09 Contributions to the development of novel solar cell concepts
(Thesis) Arguer
 Juan Villa Morales (PhD)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Instituto de Energía Solar, Spain
2017/06 Perovskite Photovoltaic Materials: towards a flexible and low cost solar cell technology
Supervisor
 Carolina Fidalgo Marques (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016/12 Silicon waveguides analysis and simulation
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Paulo Jorge Passos Sério Lourenço (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/11 Thin Film Coated Energy-efficient Glass Windows
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Andreia Sousa Neto (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016/11 Influence of Degradation on the Charge Transport and Recombination Dynamics of Organic Solar Cells
(Thesis) Main arguer
 André Miguel Martins do Nascimento (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016/07 Research on intermediate band solar cells and development of capacitive techniques
(Thesis) Arguer
 Esther López Estrada (PhD)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Instituto de Energía Solar, Spain
2015/11 Solution Processed Quantum Dot Photodetectors
Supervisor
 David Magalhães Sousa (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/11/01 - Current Academia de Engenharia
2021 - Current Academia das Ciências de Lisboa - Seminário de Jovens Cientistas (SJC) Member
2020 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Materials (SPM) Partner/Member
2018 - Current Associação ZERO Partner/Member
2018 - Current EPKI (European Perovskite Initiative) Member
2015 - Current Quercus - National Association for Nature Conservation Partner/Member
2017 - 2021 CO2 Value Europe Member
2016 - 2020 LPN - Nature Protection League Partner/Member
2002 - 2004 Núcleo de Física do Instituto Superior Técnico (NFIST) Member of the board of NFIST and Director of its magazine - Pulsar

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/09 - Current Member of the Scientific Commission of the Micro & Nanotechnologies Engineering Licenciatura (LEMN) - I am member of the Scientific Commission of the academic studies of the LEMN degree of the Department of Materials Science (DCM) of FCT-NOVA.
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021 - Current Member of the Pedagogical Commission of the Micro & Nanotechnologies Engineering Licenciatura (LEMN) of the Department of Materials Science (DCM) of FCT-NOVA.
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2020/12 - Current Member of the electoral commission that nominated the coordinator and the representative of the MEON sector in the Dep. of Materials Science of FCT-NOVA
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/04 - Current Committee Member and Session Chaair in Materials 2019 – XIXth Congress of Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais & Xth International Symposium on Materials , Symposium C
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/05 - 2021/07 Member of list for Faculty Council (Conselho da Faculdade) board - I was involved as member of List D (Tempo de Crescimento, Tempo de Conquista), candidate for the Faculty Council representing the professors and researchers in the Directive board of FCT-NOVA. Our List D was ranked 2nd place in the elections, so two of its members (Prof. Maria Ascenção Reis and Prof. Telmo dos Santos) were nominated to integrate the council.
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Co-editor of the international journal: Frontiers in Materials (Nature Publishing group), under the topic: Colloidal Materials and Interfaces
Coordinator
2009 - 2015 Co-editor of the international journal: "Topics in Particle and Dispersion Science" (TPDSci, online free-access), under the topic of Nanophotonics.
Coordinator

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2018/06 - 2018/07 4th International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI) Palermo, Italy
2016/07 - 2016/08 26th International Photovoltaic Science and Eng. Conference (PVSEC-26) Singapore
2016/06 - 2016/07 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Fall Meeting Warsaw, Poland

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/09 - Current Nanomaterials and Energy (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021/09 - Current Photovoltaic Energy: Materials and Applications Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2021 - Current Materiais para a Conversão e Conservação de Energia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/02 - Current Electronic Processes and Materials (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019/02 - Current Computer assisted Technical Drawing (Mestrado integrado)
2019 - Current Opto-Electronics Opto-Electronica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - Current Instrumentation Techniques Instrumentation Techniques (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016/02 - Current Photonics in Materials (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016/02 - Current Materials for Energy Conversion and Conservation (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016/01 - Current PIIC Program - Introduction to Scientific Research (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2016 - Current Semiconductor Materials (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Alternative Energies Alternative Energies (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2018/05 - 2018/06 Evaluator of project proposals for the call: Call title (Reference): Smart FUNctional MATerials for social grand challenges (FUNMAT-FIP-2018). Topic evaluated: Clean and Secure Energy.
Evaluator

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024/09/12 Photon shifting, trapping enable 28.2% higher photocurrent in perovskite solar cells PV Magazine
2023/11/25 ERC Consolidator Grant to generate hydrogen from solar energy FCT-NOVA News
2021/04 Novo desenho das células dos painéis solares vai revolucionar o aproveitamento da luz solar Agir pelo Planeta, Nº 2
2021/03/23 3 Ideias para mudar o Futuro - Presentation of the 3 top-ranked projects of the IN3+ award of INCM (Imprensa Nacional da Casa da Moeda) - the highest award for scientific innovation in Portugal. My project HIGHLIGHT, on photonic nanostructures for anti-counterfeiting, was one of the finalists. Público
2020 Micro-patterned perovskite solar cells trap light better Materials Today magazine
2020 Desenho inovador melhora eficiência dos painéis solares Energiser
2020 Investigadores de Portugal e Reino Unido propõem desenho de painéis solares mais eficiente Observador
2020 Investigadores de Portugal e Reino Unido propõem desenho de painéis solares mais eficiente Visão
2020 Painéis solares mais eficientes propostos por cientistas de Portugal e Reino Unido Publico
2020 Descoberta portuguesa promete revolucionar energia solar Expresso
2013/09 Plasmonics and quantum dots team up for solar harvesting - Colloidal metal nanoparticles and quantum dots may be the building blocks of future photovoltaic devices Nanotechweb.org Lab Talk, article 54813
2011/08 Separation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with DEP-FFF NASA Tech Briefs, New Technology Item. MSC-24368-1/70-1

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/01/11 - Current Antena 2 Ciência (Ep. 4) Solar Hydrogen in the frame of ERC project
2021/03 - Current TVI24, a top news channel in Portugal, covered the delivery of the IN3+ awards ceremony in INCM, counting with the participation of the President and Primer-Minister of Portugal! My project HIGHLIGHT was awarded with the 3rd place, receiving an 150 k€ R&D grant. Prémio de Inovação IN3+ entrega 1 milhão de euros a projetos inovadores
2020 - Current Investigação portuguesa pode revolucionar preços da energia solar

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/09 - Current Surfaces and Interfaces Elsevier
2023 - Current Results in Physics Elsevier
2023 - Current Joule Cell Press
2022 - Current Nature Communications Nature
2021/12 - Current Advanced Energy Materials Wiley
2021 - Current Journal of Viticulture and Enology EDP Open
2020/03/30 - Current Advanced Optical Materials (2195-1071) Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2020 - Current Nano Energy Elsevier
2020 - Current Nano Research Springer
2019 - Current Journal of Applied Physics (1089-7550) American Institute of Physics
2019 - Current Advanced Materials Interfaces (2196-7350) Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2018 - Current Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (1369-8001) Elsevier
2018 - Current Electronics Letters (1350-911X) Institution of Electrical Engineers
2018 - Current Physica B Condensed Matter (0921-4526) Elsevier
2017 - Current Optics Communications (0030-4018) Elsevier
2017 - Current Journal of Nanomaterials (1687-4129) Hindawi Limited
2017 - Current Optics & Laser Technology (0030-3992) Elsevier
2017 - Current Applied Surface Science (0169-4332) Elsevier
2016 - Current ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (1944-8252) American Chemical Society
2016 - Current Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (1463-9084) The Royal Society of Chemistry
2016 - Current Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (1941-7012) American Institute of Physics
2015 - Current Journal of Materials Hindawi
2015 - Current ACS Nano (1936-086X) American Chemical Society
2015 - Current Applied Optics (1539-4522) The Optical Society
2015 - Current Applied Physics A (1432-0630) Springer-Verlag
2015 - Current Nanoscale (2040-3372) The Royal Society of Chemistry
2014 - Current Journal of the Optical Society of America B (1520-8540) The Optical Society
2014 - Current Journal of the Optical Society of America A (1520-8532) The Optical Society
2014 - Current IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2156-3403) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2014 - Current Solar Energy (0038-092X) Elsevier
2013 - Current Thin Solid Films (0040-6090) Elsevier
2012 - Current Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (0927-0248) Elsevier
2012 - Current Nanoscale Research Letters (1556-276X) Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)
2010 - Current Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications Wiley
2008 - Current The Journal of Physical Chemistry (1541-5740) American Chemical Society
2006 - Current Chemical Engineering Science (0009-2509) Elsevier
Distinctions

Award

2023 1st Honourable Mention from Ordem dos Engenheiros of Master thesis
Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal
2021 IN3+ Award of INCM (Highest National Prize for Individual Innovation Projects)
Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA, Portugal
2020 FEMS Communication Award for Excellence in Materials Science & Engineering
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais, Portugal
2019 Best poster award at ICANS28 conference
2018 IAAM Scientist Medal
International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden
2011 NASA Tech Brief Award (MSC-24368-1-PCT)
NASA, United States

Title

2025 Agregação
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
1999 Certificate of Advanced English
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2023 FCT PhD project ranked 1st place in Materials & Nanotechnologies panel
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 Cover article featured in Editorial Highlights of Nature-group journal
Springer Nature America Inc, United States
2019 Honourable Mention of APREN due to top-3 Master thesis in Energy
2018 Article in top 10 of Journal of Materials Chemistry C (JMC C)
Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom
2006 Dean's Fellowship
Rice University, United States