TRYSTAN WATSON

EDUCATION

Dr Trystan Watson is group leader of photovoltaics at the SPECIFIC Innovation and knowledge centre, based at Swansea University. SPECIFICs aim is to turn buildings into powerstations using functional coatings that capture, store and release energy. Trystan started his academic career with a Chemistry degree at Swansea University before transferring in 2001 to the College of Engineering to carry out a Doctorate in Steel Technology. In 2005 Trystan then moved to Corus Strip Products (now Tata Steel) as a product development engineer in new steel products. In 2007 Trystan returned to academia to take up a post-doctoral research position on the development of dye-sensitized solar cells on metal substrates. In 2011 Trystan became the lead in the photovoltaics scale-up activity at SPECIFIC growing the group to over 15 in 4 years publishing over 70 papers during this period. His current research area is thin film printed PV in particular perovskite with a specialism in developing new technologies for the manufacture of these devices including deposition and curing processes.

CONTRIBUTION TO OUR SCHOOL

Third generation solar cells from laboratory to factory; developing a scale-up route for perovskite solar cells

LAST 5 RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

One-step deposition by slot-die coating of mixed lead halide perovskite for photovoltaic applications
Cotella, G., Baker, J., Worsley, D., De Rossi, F., Pleydell-Pearce, C., Carnie, M., & Watson, T.
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 159, 362–369 (2017)

Highly efficient, flexible, indium-free perovskite solar cells employing metallic substrates
Troughton, J., Bryant, D., Wojciechowski, K., Carnie, M. J., Snaith, H., Worsley, D.A ., & Watson, T. M.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(17), 9141–9145 (2015)

Rapid processing of perovskite solar cells in under 2.5 seconds
Troughton, J., Charbonnaeu, C., Carnie, M. J., Davies, M. L., Worsley, D. A., & Watson, T. M.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9123–9127 (2015)

A Transparent Conductive Adhesive Laminate Electrode for High-Efficiency Organic-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
Bryant, D., Greenwood, P., Troughton, J., Wijdekop, M., Carnie, M., Davies, M. K Wojciechowski, H. Snaith , T. Watson, Worsley, D.
Advanced Materials, 26(44), 7499–7504 (2014)

Perovskite processing for photovoltaics: a spectro-thermal evaluation
Williams, A. E., Holliman, P. J., Carnie, M. J., Davies, M. L., Worsley, D.A., & Watson, T. M.
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2(45), 19338–19346 (2014)