Dr Pablo Docampo

Reader (School of Chemistry)

telephone: 01413300699
email: Pablo.Docampo@glasgow.ac.uk

Joseph Black Building, University Pl, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

Dr Docampo received his DPhil in 2012 from the University of Oxford focussing on the electronic properties of mesostructured metal oxides in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. He subsequently became interested in hybrid halide perovskites which he further developed in his postdoctoral research stay with Thomas Bein at the LMU Munich in 2013. There, he was appointed assistant professor and Marie Curie Fellow between 2014 and 2016 and obtained his 'habilitation' in Physical Chemistry. Dr Docampo has led a research group investigating the long-term applications of hybrid halide perovskite materials, from the development of new materials and solar cell device architectures to new lighting applications such as lasers, LEDs and LECs.

Research interests

Solar cells based on perovskite absorbers are the fastest growing photovoltaic technology in history. Since their introduction in early 2008 with a starting point power conversion efficiency of ~4%, they have now matched industry staples such as polycrystalline Silicon at 24%+ power conversion efficiencies. Perovskite solar cells have the potential to become a serious contender for the photovoltaic market due to their already demonstrated high device efficiencies, the low-cost of their starting materials and their compatibility with large-scale, solution processing techniques such as roll-to-roll printing on flexible substrates.

My multidisciplinary research lies at the interface between Chemistry, Physics and Engineering; and is centred on the development of hybrid halide perovskite devices, both in photovoltaic and light-emitting applications. More specifically, I'm interested in:

Understanding crystallization processes of new hybrid lead halide perovskite materials, focussing on the development of device architectures.
Perovskite LEDs and perovskite light-emitting electrochemical cells.
Perovskite degradation and stability.
Sustainability of perovskite solar cells.

Research groups

Energy Conversion & Storage

Publications

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Number of items: 71.

2024

Angus, F. J. et al. (2024) Understanding the impact of SAM Fermi levels on high efficiency p-i-n perovskite solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02345) (PMID:39413427) (Early Online Publication)

Blakesley, J. C. et al. (2024) Roadmap on established and emerging photovoltaics for sustainable energy conversion. Journal of Physics: Energy, 6(4), 041501. (doi: 10.1088/2515-7655/ad7404)

Vella, B. et al. (2024) Overcoming the mobility penalty introduced by dipole disorder in small-molecule HTM films. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, (doi: 10.1039/D4TA00956H) (Early Online Publication)

Glück, N. et al. (2024) The balancing act between high electronic and low ionic transport influenced by perovskite grain boundaries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12(19), pp. 11635-11643. (doi: 10.1039/d3ta04458k) (PMID:38751728) (PMCID:PMC11093097)

Tsui, H. C. L., Sirbu, D., Alsaif, N., Hill, N., Tizzard, G., Docampo, P. and Healy, N. (2024) Few-mode metal-free perovskite optical fiber with second-order optical nonlinearity. APL Photonics, 9(3), 036106. (doi: 10.1063/5.0186789)

Balogun, F. H., Gallop, N. P., Sirbu, D., Hutchinson, J. D., Hill, N., Woolley, J. M., Walker, D., York, S., Docampo, P. and Milot, R. L. (2024) Untangling free carrier and exciton dynamics in layered hybrid perovskites using ultrafast optical and terahertz spectroscopy. Materials Research Express, 11(2), 025503. (doi: 10.1088/2053-1591/ad14c2)

Seddon, A. A., Hill, N. S., El-Zubir, O., Houlton, A., Errington, R. J., Docampo, P. and Gibson, E. A. (2024) Post transition metal substituted Keggin-type POMs as thin film chemiresistive sensors for H2O and CO2 detection. Chemical Communications, 60(14), pp. 1876-1879. (doi: 10.1039/d3cc05660k) (PMID:38273815)

2023

Gallop, N. P., Sirbu, D., Walker, D., Docampo, P. , Lloyd-Hughes, J. and Milot, R. L. (2023) Efficient Terahertz Generation via Optical Rectification in Halide Perovskites. In: 48th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 17-22 Sep 2023, ISBN 9798350336603 (doi: 10.1109/IRMMW-THz57677.2023.10299221)

Hill, N. et al. (2023) Ionic accumulation as a diagnostic tool in perovskite solar cells: characterising band alignment with rapid voltage pulses. Advanced Materials, 35(32), 2302146. (doi: 10.1002/adma.202302146) (PMID:37145114)

Docampo, P. (2023) A focus on sustainable energy management for self-powered IoT devices via indoor photovoltaics. Chemical Science, 14(26), pp. 7101-7102. (doi: 10.1039/D3SC90109B) (PMID:37416709)

2022

Hossain, M. S., Ahmed, F., Karakalos, S. G., Smith, M. D., Pant, N., Garashchuk, S., Greytak, A. B., Docampo, P. and Shimizu, L. S. (2022) Structure–property investigations in urea tethered iodinated triphenylamines. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(31), pp. 18729-18737. (doi: 10.1039/D2CP01856J) (PMID:35899998)

Cariello, M. , Pant, N., Harkiss, A. H., Tracey, F. M., Cameron, J. , Skabara, P. J. , Holliman, P. J., Docampo, P. and Cooke, G. (2022) Synthesis of SOT-OH and its application as a building block for the synthesis of new dimeric and trimeric Spiro-OMeTAD materials. Molecular Systems Design and Engineering, 7(8), pp. 899-905. (doi: 10.1039/D2ME00038E)

2021

Sirbu, D., Tsui, H. C. L., Alsaif, N., Iglesias-Porras, S., Zhang, Y., Wang, M., Liu, M., Peacock, A. C., Docampo, P. and Healy, N. (2021) Wide-band-gap metal-free perovskite for third-order nonlinear optics. ACS Photonics, 8(8), pp. 2450-2458. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00687)

Sirbu, D., Balogun, F. H., Milot, R. L. and Docampo, P. (2021) Layered perovskites in solar cells: structure, optoelectronic properties, and device design. Advanced Energy Materials, 11(24), 2003877. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.202003877)

2020

Biewald, A., Giesbrecht, N., Bein, T., Docampo, P. , Hartschuh, A. and Ciesielski, R. (2020) Local disorder at the phase transition interrupts ambipolar charge carrier transport in large crystal methylammonium lead iodide thin films. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(38), pp. 20757-20764. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06240)

2019

Moia, D. et al. (2019) Ionic-to-electronic current amplification in hybrid perovskite solar cells: ionically gated transistor-interface circuit model explains hysteresis and impedance of mixed conducting devices. Energy and Environmental Science, 12(4), pp. 1296-1308. (doi: 10.1039/C8EE02362J)

2018

Petrus, M. L. et al. (2018) New generation hole transporting materials for perovskite solar cells: amide-based small-molecules with nonconjugated backbones. Advanced Energy Materials, 8(32), 1801605. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201801605)

Hu, Y. et al. (2018) Understanding the role of Cesium and Rubidium additives in perovskite solar cells: trap states, charge transport, and recombination. Advanced Energy Materials, 8(16), 1703057. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201703057)

2017

Puscher, B. M. D., Aygüler, M. F., Docampo, P. and Costa, R. D. (2017) Unveiling the dynamic processes in hybrid lead bromide perovskite nanoparticle thin film devices. Advanced Energy Materials, 7(15), 1602283. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201602283)

Hutter, E. M., Hofman, J.-J., Petrus, M. L., Moes, M., Abellón, R. D., Docampo, P. and Savenije, T. J. (2017) Charge transfer from methylammonium lead iodide perovskite to organic transport materials: Efficiencies, transfer rates, and interfacial recombination. Advanced Energy Materials, 7(13), 1602349. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201602349)

Grill, I., Handloser, K., Hanusch, F. C., Giesbrecht, N., Bein, T., Docampo, P. , Handloser, M. and Hartschuh, A. (2017) Controlling crystal growth by chloride-assisted synthesis: Towards optimized charge transport in hybrid halide perovskites. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 166, pp. 269-275. (doi: 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.11.021)

Senanayak, S. P. et al. (2017) Understanding charge transport in lead iodide perovskite thin-film field-effect transistors. Science Advances, 3(1), e1601935. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601935) (PMID:28138550) (PMCID:PMC5271592)

2016

Tong, Y. et al. (2016) Highly luminescent cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals with tunable composition and thickness by ultrasonication. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 55(44), pp. 13887-13892. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201605909) (PMID:27690323)

Oesinghaus, L., Schlipf, J., Giesbrecht, N., Song, L., Hu, Y., Bein, T., Docampo, P. and Müller-Buschbaum, P. (2016) Toward tailored film morphologies: the origin of crystal orientation in hybrid perovskite thin films. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 3(19), 1600403. (doi: 10.1002/admi.201600403)

Petrus, M. L., Hu, Y., Moia, D., Calado, P., Leguy, A. M. A., Barnes, P. R. F. and Docampo, P. (2016) The influence of water vapor on the stability and processing of hybrid perovskite solar cells made from non-stoichiometric precursor mixtures. Chemsuschem, 9(18), pp. 2699-2707. (doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600999) (PMID:27624589)

Hanusch, F., Petrus, M. and Docampo, P. (2016) Towards optimum solution-processed planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells. In: Da Camo, E., De Angelis, F., Snaith, H. and Walker, A. (eds.) Unconventional Thin Film Photovoltaics. Series: RSC energy and environment series (16). Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK, pp. 32-56. ISBN 9781782622932 (doi: 10.1039/9781782624066-00032)

Hu, Y., Schlipf, J., Wussler, M., Petrus, M. L., Jaegermann, W., Bein, T., Müller-Buschbaum, P. and Docampo, P. (2016) Hybrid perovskite/perovskite heterojunction solar cells. ACS Nano, 10(6), pp. 5999-6007. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b01535) (PMID:27228558)

Binek, A., Petrus, M. L., Huber, N., Bristow, H., Hu, Y., Bien, T. and Docampo, P. (2016) Recycling perovskite solar cells to avoid lead waste. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8(20), pp. 12881-12886. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b03767) (PMID:27149009)

Hu, H., Wong, K. K., Kollek, T., Hanusch, F., Polarz, S., Docampo, P. and Schmidt-Mende, L. (2016) Highly efficient reproducible perovskite solar cells prepared by low-temperature processing. Molecules, 21(4), 542. (doi: 10.3390/molecules21040542) (PMID:27120590) (PMCID:PMC6274524)

Binek, A., Grill, I., Huber, N., Peters, K., Hufnagel, A. G., Handloser, M., Docampo, P. , Hartschuh, A. and Bein, T. (2016) Control of perovskite crystal growth by methylammonium lead chloride templating. Chemistry: An Asian Journal, 11(8), pp. 1199-1204. (doi: 10.1002/asia.201501379) (PMID:26928877)

Jumabekov, A.N., Cordes, N., Siegler, T.D., Docampo, P. , Ivanova, A., Fominykh, K., Medina, D.D., Peter, L.M. and Bein, T. (2016) Passivation of PbS quantum dot surface with l-glutathione in solid-state quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8(7), pp. 4600-4607. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b10953) (PMID:26771519)

Handloser, K., Giesbrecht, N., Bein, T., Docampo, P. , Handloser, M. and Hartschuh, A. (2016) Contactless visualization of fast charge carrier diffusion in hybrid halide perovskite thin films. ACS Photonics, 3(2), pp. 255-261. (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00562)

Docampo, P. and Bein, T. (2016) A long-term view on perovskite optoelectronics. Accounts of Chemical Research, 49(2), pp. 339-346. (doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00465) (PMID:26807593)

2015

Sadhanala, A. et al. (2015) Blue-green color tunable solution processable organolead chloride–bromide mixed halide perovskites for optoelectronic applications. Nano Letters, 15(9), pp. 6095-6101. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02369) (PMID:26236949) (PMCID:PMC4762541)

Petrus, M.L., Bein, T., Dingemans, T.J. and Docampo, P. (2015) Correction: A low cost azomethine-based hole transporting material for perovskite photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(32), p. 16874. (doi: 10.1039/C5TA90163D)

Bader, K., Ciesielski, R., Giesbrecht, N., Hanusch, F. C., Bein, T., Docampo, P. , Handloser, M. and Hartschuh, A. (2015) Time-Resolved Microscopic Study of Charge Carriers in Newly Developed Perovskite Thin Films. In: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2015, Munich, Germany, 21-25 June 2015, CE_12_1. ISBN 9781467374750

Petrus, M.L., Bein, T., Dingemans, T.J. and Docampo, P. (2015) A low cost azomethine-based hole transporting material for perovskite photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(23), pp. 12159-12162. (doi: 10.1039/C5TA03046C)

Aygüler, M. F., Weber, M. D., Puscher, B. M.D., Medina, D. D., Docampo, P. and Costa, R. D. (2015) Light-emitting electrochemical cells based on hybrid lead halide perovskite nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(21), pp. 12047-12054. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02959)

Minar, N. K., Docampo, P. , Fattakhova-Rohlfing, D. and Bein, T. (2015) Guided in situ polymerization of MEH-PPV in mesoporous titania photoanodes. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7(19), pp. 10356-10364. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b01262) (PMID:25893850)

Leguy, A. M. A. et al. (2015) Reversible hydration of CH3NH3PbI3in films, single crystals, and solar cells. Chemistry of Materials, 27(9), pp. 3397-3407. (doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00660)

Binek, A., Hanusch, F. C., Docampo, P. and Bein, T. (2015) Stabilization of the trigonal high-temperature phase of formamidinium lead iodide. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6(7), pp. 1249-1253. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00380) (PMID:26262982)

Schlipf, J., Docampo, P. , Schaffer, C. J., Körstgens, V., Bießmann, L., Hanusch, F., Giesbrecht, N., Bernstorff, S., Bein, T. and Müller-Buschbaum, P. (2015) A closer look into two-step perovskite conversion with X-ray scattering. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6(7), pp. 1265-1269. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00329) (PMID:26262985)

2014

Docampo, P. , Hanusch, F. C., Stranks, S. D., Döblinger, M., Feckl, J. M., Ehrensperger, M., Minar, N. K., Johnston, M. B., Snaith, H. J. and Bein, T. (2014) Solution deposition-conversion for planar heterojunction mixed halide perovskite solar cells. Advanced Energy Materials, 4(14), 1400355. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201400355)

Tan, Z.-K. et al. (2014) Bright light-emitting diodes based on organometal halide perovskite. Nature Nanotechnology, 9(9), pp. 687-692. (doi: 10.1038/nnano.2014.149) (PMID:25086602)

Hanusch, F. C. et al. (2014) Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells based on formamidinium lead bromide. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5(16), pp. 2791-2795. (doi: 10.1021/jz501237m) (PMID:26278080)

Sadhanala, A. et al. (2014) Preparation of single-phase films of CH3NH3Pb(I1–xBrx)3 with sharp optical band edges. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 5(15), pp. 2501-2505. (doi: 10.1021/jz501332v) (PMID:26277936)

Docampo, P. , Hanusch, F. C., Giesbrecht, N., Angloher, P., Ivanova, A. and Bein, T. (2014) Influence of the orientation of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite crystals on solar cell performance. APL Materials, 2(8), 081508. (doi: 10.1063/1.4890244)

Raavi, S. S. K., Docampo, P. , Wehrenfennig, C., Alcocer, M. J. P., Sadoughi, G., Herz, L. M., Snaith, H. J. and Petrozza, A. (2014) Impact of molecular charge-transfer states on photocurrent generation in solid state dye-sensitized solar cells employing low-band-gap dyes. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(30), pp. 16825-16830. (doi: 10.1021/jp5000667)

Docampo, P. , Guldin, S., Leijtens, T., Noel, N. K., Steiner, U. and Snaith, H. J. (2014) Lessons learned: from dye-sensitized solar cells to all-solid-state hybrid devices. Advanced Materials, 26(24), pp. 4013-4030. (doi: 10.1002/adma.201400486) (PMID:24729301)

Pathak, S. K., Abate, A., Leijtens, T., Hollman, D. J., Teuscher, J., Pazos, L., Docampo, P. , Steiner, U. and Snaith, H. J. (2014) Towards long-term photostability of solid-state dye sensitized solar cells. Advanced Energy Materials, 4(8), 1301667. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201301667)

Sivaram, V., Crossland, E. J. W., Leijtens, T., Noel, N. K., Alexander-Webber, J., Docampo, P. and Snaith, H. J. (2014) Observation of annealing-induced doping in TiO2 mesoporous single crystals for use in solid state dye sensitized solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(4), pp. 1821-1827. (doi: 10.1021/jp410495k)

Eperon, G. E., Burlakov, V. M., Docampo, P. , Goriely, A. and Snaith, H. J. (2014) Morphological control for high performance, solution-processed planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells. Advanced Functional Materials, 24(1), pp. 151-157. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.201302090)

2013

Passoni, L. et al. (2013) Hyperbranched quasi-1d nanostructures for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS Nano, 7(11), pp. 10023-10031. (doi: 10.1021/nn403979h) (PMID:24180577)

Docampo, P. , Ball, J. M., Darwich, M., Eperon, G. E. and Snaith, H. J. (2013) Efficient organometal trihalide perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells on flexible polymer substrates. Nature Communications, 4, 2761. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms3761) (PMID:24217714)

Docampo, P. et al. (2013) The influence of 1D, meso- and crystal structures on charge transport and recombination in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1(39), pp. 12088-12095. (doi: 10.1039/C3TA11855J)

Weisspfennig, C. T. et al. (2013) Optimizing the energy offset between dye and hole-transporting material in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(39), pp. 19850-19858. (doi: 10.1021/jp405734f)

Abrusci, A., Stranks, S. D., Docampo, P. , Yip, H.-L., Jen, A. K.-Y. and Snaith, H. J. (2013) High-performance perovskite-polymer hybrid solar cells via electronic coupling with fullerene monolayers. Nano Letters, 13(7), pp. 3124-3128. (doi: 10.1021/nl401044q) (PMID:23772773)

Docampo, P. , Guldin, S., Steiner, U. and Snaith, H. J. (2013) Charge transport limitations in self-assembled TiO2 photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4(5), pp. 698-703. (doi: 10.1021/jz400084n) (PMID:26281921)

Abate, A. et al. (2013) Lithium salts as “redox active” p-type dopants for organic semiconductors and their impact in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(7), pp. 2572-2579. (doi: 10.1039/C2CP44397J) (PMID:23310946)

Sadoughi, G., Sivaram, V., Gunning, R., Docampo, P. , Bruder, I., Pschirer, N., Irajizad, A. and Snaith, H. J. (2013) Enhanced electronic contacts in SnO2–dye–P3HT based solid state dye sensitized solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 15(6), pp. 2075-2080. (doi: 10.1039/C2CP43434B) (PMID:23288145)

2012

Docampo, P. , Hey, A., Guldin, S., Gunning, R., Steiner, U. and Snaith, H. J. (2012) Pore filling of spiro-OMeTAD in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells determined via optical reflectometry. Advanced Functional Materials, 22(23), pp. 5010-5019. (doi: 10.1002/adfm.201201223)

Docampo, P. , Tiwana, P., Sakai, N., Miura, H., Herz, L., Murakami, T. and Snaith, H. J. (2012) Unraveling the function of an MgO interlayer in both electrolyte and solid-state SnO2 based dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(43), pp. 22840-22846. (doi: 10.1021/jp305727j)

Tiwana, P., Docampo, P. , Johnston, M. B., Herz, L. M. and Snaith, H. J. (2012) The origin of an efficiency improving "light soaking" effect in SnO 2 based solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Energy and Environmental Science, 5(11), pp. 9566-9573. (doi: 10.1039/C2EE22320A)

Docampo, P. , Stefik, M., Guldin, S., Gunning, R., Yufa, N. A., Cai, N., Wang, P., Steiner, U., Wiesner, U. and Snaith, H. J. (2012) Triblock-terpolymer-directed self-assembly of mesoporous TiO2: high-performance photoanodes for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Advanced Energy Materials, 2(6), pp. 676-682. (doi: 10.1002/aenm.201100699)

Guldin, S., Docampo, P. , Stefik, M., Kamita, G., Wiesner, U., Snaith, H. J. and Steiner, U. (2012) Layer-by-layer formation of block-copolymer-derived TiO2 for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Small, 8(3), pp. 432-440. (doi: 10.1002/smll.201102063) (PMID:22174177)

2011

Tiwana, P., Docampo, P. , Johnston, M. B., Snaith, H. J. and Herz, L. M. (2011) Electron mobility and injection dynamics in mesoporous ZnO, SnO 2, and TiO 2 films used in dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS Nano, 5(6), pp. 5158-5166. (doi: 10.1021/nn201243y) (PMID:21595483)

Docampo, P. and Snaith, H. J. (2011) Obviating the requirement for oxygen in SnO 2-based solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Nanotechnology, 22(22), 225403. (doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/22/225403)

Snaith, H. J., Stavrinadis, A., Docampo, P. and Watt, A. A.R. (2011) Lead-sulphide quantum-dot sensitization of tin oxide based hybrid solar cells. Solar Energy, 85(6), pp. 1283-1290. (doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2011.01.019)

Guldin, S. et al. (2011) Improved conductivity in dye-sensitised solar cells through block-copolymer confined TiO2 crystallisation. Energy and Environmental Science, 4(1), pp. 225-233. (doi: 10.1039/C0EE00362J)

Guldin, S., Docampo, P. , Hüttner, S., Kohn, P., Stefik, M., Snaith, H.J., Wiesner, U. and Steiner, U. (2011) Self-assembly as a Design Tool for the Integration of Photonic Structures into Excitonic Solar Cells. In: Next Generation (Nano) Photonic and Cell Technologies for Solar Energy Conversion II, San Diego, CA, US, 21-23 Aug 2011, (doi: 10.1117/12.893798)