Hannu Pasanen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow in Laquai Group

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Research Interests

Specialist on time-resolved reflectance and transmittance spectroscopy. Interests include photophysics of perovskites and other materials and development of novel spectroscopy techniques.

Selected Publications

  • Triple A-site cation mixing in 2D perovskite-inspired antimony halide absorbers for efficient indoor photovoltaics (Advanced Energy Materials 2022), DOI 10.1002/aenm.202203175
  • Fast non-ambipolar diffusion of charge carriers and the impact of traps and hot carriers on it in CsMAFA perovskite and GaAs (Materials Advances 2021), DOI 10.1039/D1MA00650A
  • B‐site co‐alloying with germanium improves the efficiency and stability of all‐inorganic tin‐based perovskite nanocrystal solar cells (Angewandte Chemie 2020), DOI 10.1002/anie.202008724
  • Monitoring charge carrier diffusion across perovskite film with transient absorption spectroscopy (Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2019), DOI 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03427
  • Refractive index change dominates transient absorption response of metal halide perovskite thin films in near infrared (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2019), DOI 10.1039/C9CP02291K

Education

  • Ph.D., Chemistry, Tampere University, Finland, 2021
  • M.Sc., Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2015

Professional Profile

  • Postdoc in Tampere University, Photonic Compounds and Nanomaterials group, under Professor Nikolai Tkachenko in 2022.
  • PhD student in Tampere University, Photonic Compounds and Nanomaterials group, under Professor Nikolai Tkachenko from 2018 to 2021.
  • Research assistant in Aalto University, Nanomaterials group, under professor Esko Kauppinen from 2015 to 2016.

KAUST Affiliations

  • ​KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
  • Division of Physical Science and Engineering (PSE)​

Research Interests Keywords

photophysics photovoltaics Perovskites time-resolved spectroscopy