Profile

Narges Yaghoobi Nia has received a PhD degree of Electronics Engineering in March 2017, from University of Rome (Tor Vergata), Italy.
Narges Yaghoobi Nia was awarded in 2014 a MARIE CURIE Fellowship as part of the EU-funded project DyE SensiTized solar cells wIth eNhanced stabilitY (Destiny)
Title of PhD thesis: Study and Optimization of Materials for Large Area Perovskite Solar Cell
- MSc degree of Physical Chemistry received in February 2013.
Title of MSc thesis: Experimental and Computational Study of the Optical Electron Transfer in D5 and D35 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Cobalt Redox System

Research Activity

- Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in European Union Seventh Framework Program [FP7/2007- 2013] DESTINY project, University of Rome (Tor Vergata), Rome, Italy.
- Research Period on Perovskite Solar Cells in Prof. Gratzel Research Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
* My activity is focused on Perovskite and HTM layers. Improvement the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells and modules using different deposition techniques, crystallographic methods and molecular engineering.

Publications

A - Papers:

1. A Crystal Engineering Approach for Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules Fabrication: Full Out of Glove Box Procedure
   N Yaghoobi Nia, M Zendehdel, F Matteocci, L Cinà, A Di Carlo
   J. Mat. Chem. A, 6, 659-671 - 2018
   DOI: 10.1039/C7TA08038G

2. High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT): The Influence of P3HT Molecular Weight and Mesoscopic Scaffold Layer
   N Yaghoobi Nia, F Matteocci, L Cinà, A Di Carlo
   ChemSusChem, 10, 3854-3860 - 2017
   DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201700635

3. High Efficiency MAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cell Using a Pure Thin Film of Polyoxometalate as Scaffold Layer
   M Khaledi Sardashti, M Zendehdel, N Yaghoobi Nia, D Karimian, M Sheikhi
   ChemSusChem, Assigned for back cover of Perovskite Special Issue - 2017
   DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201701764
4. High Efficiency MAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cell Using a Pure Thin Film of Polyoxometalate as Scaffold Layer
   M Khaledi Sardashti, M Zendehdel, N Yaghoobi Nia, D Karimian, M Sheikhi
   ChemSusChem, 10, 3773-3779 - 2017
   DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201701027
5. A Combined Computational and Experimental Study of the Hydrogen Bonding with Chloride Ion in a Crab-claw Like Site of a New Chromium Schiff Base Complex
   Mahmoud Zendehdel, Narges Yaghoobi Nia, Mojtaba Nasr-Esfahani, Pooria Farahani, Mohammad Reza Karbaschi
   Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2016
   DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2016.03.040
6. A Combined Computational and Experimental Study of the [Co(bpy)3]2+/3+ Complexes as a One-Electron Outer-Sphere Redox Couple in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Electrolyte Media
   Narges Yaghoobi Nia, Pooria Farahani, Hassan Sabzyan, Mahmoud Zendehdel and Mohsen Oftadeh
   Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Advance Article, 2014
   DOI: 10.1039/C3CP55034F
7. Fabrication and characterization of a new dye sensitized solar cell with a new Schiff base cobalt complex as a redox mediator
   Mojtaba Nasr-Esfahani, Mahmoud Zendehdel, Narges Yaghoobi Nia, Behroz Jafari and Mohsen Khosravi Babadi
   RSC Adv., 4, 15961-15967, 2014
   DOI: 10.1039/C3RA46531D, Paper

B - Conferences and Workshops:

1. A Crystal Engineering Approach for Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules Fabrication
   Oral - Solid State Ionics (SSI) 2017, Padua - June 2017

2. A Crystal Engineering approach for scalable Perovskite Solar Cells Fabrication: Full Out of Glove Box Procedure
   Oral and Poster - PSCO 2016, Genoa, Italy - September 2016

3. Dopant Effect in PbI2 Layer Deposition for Enhancement the Photovoltaic Performance of CH3NH3PbI3-based Perovskite Solar Cells
   Oral - EMRS 2016, Lille, France - May 2016
4. Towards Enhancing Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
   Poster - HOPV 2015, Rome, Italy - May 2015
5. Perovskite and a-Si:H/c-Si tandem solar cell
   Poster - PVSC 2015 IEEE, New Orleans, USA - June 2015
6. Anodized aluminum on transparent substrates as scaffold for perovskite growth
   Poster - 15th IEEE-NANO, July 2015
7. Enhancement of the Perovskite Solar Cell Performance by Crystal Engineering Process
   Poster - PSCO 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland - September 2015
8. International School on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics - 9th edition
   School - ISOPHOS 2015, Tuscany, Italy - September 2015
9. Anodized aluminium on transparent substrates as scaffold for perovskite growth
   Poster - IEEENANO 2015, Rome, Italy - July 2015
10. High Efficiency Solid State Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as HTM with Evaluation of Molecular Weight Values on Stability and Photovoltaic Parameters
    Poster - HOPV15, Rome, Italy - May 2015
11. DESTINY project
    Oral - Oxford Annual meeting 2, Oxford, UK - January 2015
12. Effect of P3HT molecular weight on stability and photoelectrochemical parameters of solid-state perovskite solar cell
    Poster - Photovoltaics: new frontiers and applications, Lecce, Italy - October 2014 
13. Experimental and Computational Study of the Optical Electron Transfer in D5 and D35 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Cobalt Redox System
    Poster - 20th IACC, Isfahan, Iran - May 2014
14. Fabrication of efficient dye sensitized solar cells with new cobalt redox system: synthesis, characterization and DFT calculation of electron transfer process
    Oral - NSSC91, Tehran, Iran - October 2012
15. Fabrication and characterization of thin film Titania as a blocking under layer in organic dye sensitized solar cells with cobalt and ferrocene mediators base by sol-gel method
    Poster - 4th Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV12), Uppsala, Sweden - May 2012                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Reports

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