Profile

Simon Ternes obtained his Master's degree in Physics from the University of Heidelberg in Germany (2017), where he worked on bar-coating of perovskite solar cells in Prof. Yana Vaynzof’s group. He completed his PhD thesis ‘In Situ Characterization and Modelling of Drying Dynamics for Scalable Printing of Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics’ at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2022) under the supervision of Prof. Wilhelm Schabel, Prof. Bryce S. Richards and T.T. Prof. Ulrich W. Paetzold. One year later, Simon was granted the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, ‘An intelligent perovskite solution printing line’, in cooperation with Prof. Alessio Gagliardi (Technical University of Munich, Germany) and Prof. Aldo Di Carlo (University of Tor Vergata, Italy) which he conducts at CHOSE since 2023.

Research Activity

The work of Simon Ternes focuses on in situ characterization and advanced modelling concepts for enhancing process control of large-scale perovskite printing. In particular, he is interested in non-invasive, rapid optical haracterization techniques such as reflectance, absorption and photoluminescence for developing data-intensive models of perovskite drying and crystallization processes to address the challenges of scaling and reproducing hybrid perovskite solar cell fabrication.

Publications

• Simon Ternes, In Situ Characterization and Modelling of Drying Dynamics for Scalable Printing of Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-7315-1255-4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000152603

• Simon Ternes, Jonas Mohacsi, Nico Lüdtke, H. Minh Pham, Meriç Arslan, Philip Scharfer, Wilhelm Schabel, Bryce S. Richards, and Ulrich W. Paetzold*, Drying and Coating of Perovskite Thin-Films: How to Control the Thin-Film Morphology in Scalable Dynamic Coating Systems, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 9, 11300–11312, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.1c22363

• Simon Ternes, Felix Laufer, Philip Scharfer, Wilhelm Schabel, Bryce S. Richards, Ian A. Howard, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Correlative In Situ Multichannel Imaging for Large-Area Monitoring of Morphology Formation in Solution-Processed Perovskite Layers, Sol. RRL, 6: 2100353, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/solr.202100353

• Simon Ternes, Tobias Börnhorst, Jonas A. Schwenzer, Ihteaz M. Hossain, Tobias Abzieher, Waldemar Mehlmann, Uli Lemmer, Philip Scharfer, Wilhelm Schabel, Bryce S. Richards, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Drying Dynamics of Solution-Processed Perovskite Thin-Film Photovoltaics: In Situ Characterization, Modeling, and Process Control, Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 9, 1901581, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aenm.201901581.

• Paul Fassl, Simon Ternes, Vincent Lami, Yuriy Zakharko, Daniel Heimfarth, Paul E. Hopkinson, Fabian Paulus, Alexander D. Taylor, Jana Zaumseil, and Yana Vaynzof Effect of Crystal Grain Orientation on the Rate of Ionic Transport in Perovskite Polycrystalline Thin Films, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 2490-2499, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.8b16460