Shahidul Alam, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow in Laquai group

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Research Interests

Shahidul’s research interests are charge transport in organic semiconductors, device performance, and stability of solution-processed polymer solar cells. He focuses on understanding the degradation mechanism of organic and perovskite solar cells upon aging and investigates potentials losses. He is also working towards the surface and interface engineering by tuning the charge transport layer and controlling aggregation and crystallinity in bulk-heterojunction to improve device performance and stability.

Selected Publications

  • Alam, Shahidul; Nádaždy, Vojtech; Váry, Tomáš; Friebe, Christian; Meitzner, Rico; Ahner, Johannes; Anand, Aman; Karuthedath, Safakath; De Castro, Catherine S. P.; Göhler, Clemens; Dietz, Stefanie; Cann, Jonathan; Kästner, Christian; Konkin, Alexander; Beenken, Wichard; Anton, Arthur Markus; Ulbricht, Christoph; Sperlich, Andreas; Hager, Martin D.; Ritter, Uwe; Kremer, Friedrich; Brüggemann, Oliver; Schubert, Ulrich S.; Egbe, Daniel A. M.; Welch, Gregory C.; Dyakonov, Vladimir; Deibel, Carsten; Laquai, Frédéric; Hoppe, Harald; "Uphill and downhill charge generation from charge transfer to charge separated states in organic solar cells" (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2021-10-06).
  • S. Alam, R. Meitzner, Christian Kästner, U. S. Schubert, H. Hoppe et al., “Entanglement of degradation mechanisms by analyzing ageing dynamics of environmentally-friendly processed polymer solar cells”, Energy Technology, 2000116, 2020. • R. Meitzner, T. Faber, S. Alam, A. Amand, R. Roesch, M. Büttner, et al., Impact of P3HT materials properties and layer architecture on OPV device stability, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, vol. 202, p. 110151, 2019.
  • S. Alam, A. Gavrik, R. Meitzner, S. Hoeppener, V. Dyakonov, A. Baumann, et al., Thermally induced degradation of PBDTTT-CT: PCBM based polymer solar cells, Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics, vol. 52, p. 11, 2019.
  • S. Alam, P. Fischer, C. Kastner, C. R. Singh, U. S. Schubert, and H. Hoppe, High-temperature stable single carrier hole only device based on conjugated polymers, Journal of Materials Research, vol. 33, pp. 1860-1867, 2018.
  • S. Alam, R. Meitzner, O. V. Nwadiaru, C. Friebe, J. Cann, F. Laquai, et al., Organic solar cells based on anthracene-containing PPE-PPVs and non-fullerene acceptors, Chemical Papers, vol. 72, pp. 1769-1778, 2018.
  • S. Alam, R. Meitzner, C. Kaestner, C. Ulbricht, S. Hoeppener, D. A. M. Egbe, et al., Controlling donor crystallinity and phase separation in bulk heterojunction solar cells by the introduction of orthogonal solvent additives, MRS Advances, vol. 3, pp. 1891-1900, 2018.
  • E. Hleli, S. Alam, A. Saaidia, C. Kastner, S. Hoeppener, C. Ulbricht, et al., Improvement of polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology via temperature and anti-solvent effect, Synthetic Metals, vol. 243, pp. 8-16, 2018.
  • A. Saaidia, M. A. Saidani, E. Hleli, S. Alam, C. Ulbricht, S. Romdhane, et al., Temperature-tuning of optical properties and molecular aggregation in AnE-PVstat copolymer solution, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 122, pp. 3965-3969, 2018.
  • D. Heinrich, M. Hufnagel, C. R. Singh, M. Fischer, S. Alam, H. Hoppe, et al., Nanoscale Morphology from donor-acceptor block copolymers: Formation and Functions, in Elementary Processes in Organic Photovoltaics. vol. 272, pp. 157-191, 2017.

Education

  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, 2020
  • M.Sc., Electronics Engineering, Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany, 2011
  • B.Sc., Physics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2006

Professional Profile

  • 2020-2021: Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
  • 2013-2015: Scientific researcher, Institute of Physics, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany

KAUST Affiliations

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

Research Interests Keywords

Organic and perovskite solar cells non-fullerene based polymer solar cells charge transport charge carrier mobility charge carrier recombination in organic semiconductors surface and interface engineering in organic and perovskite solar cells controlling aggregation and crystallinity in bulk-heterojunction lifetime and stability of organic and perovskite solar cells