The aid aims to train doctors through the financing of employment contracts, under the form of a predoctoral contract, so that researchers in training carry out a doctoral thesis associated with a research project funded by aid for R&D projects.
INAM has obtained the provisional approval of the project of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in the call for knowledge generation and scientific and technological strengthening of the Challenge-oriented R&D system, a 2019 call entitled "New Halide Perovskites Obtained Through the Stabilization of the Perovskite Phase through Surface Energy for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices" and lead researchers Iván Mora Seró and Beatriz Julián.
Characteristics of the FPI predoctoral contract:
The aid will have a maximum duration of four years, and the implementation period will start on the date of incorporation of the contracted investigator into his job at the contractor R&D center. The aid will include two concepts: support for the financing of contracts and additional assistance to cover costs arising from the completion of stays in R&D-centres and enrolment in doctoral studies.
They are aid to finance predoctoral contracts in accordance with Article 7 of Royal Decree 103/2019, of 1 March, which approves the Statute of Research Staff in Training. The monthly amount will be 1,151.97 euros for the first two years, EUR 1,234.25 in the third year and 1,542.82 euros in the fourth year. Each year 12 monthly payments and two extraordinary pay will be paid.
Participant Requirements:
Should apply all persons who, at the time of submission of the application are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral programme for the 2020/2021 academic year.
Applicants may also be all persons who are not enrolled or admitted to a doctoral programme, at the time of filing the application, but are in a position to be in a doctoral programme on the date on which the contract is formalized.
Main goals of Stable project:
An extensive use of renewable and clean energies is required to reduce the strong dependence on fossil fuels and its effect on the climate change. At the same time, new and more advanced systems have to be developed in order to allow a real energy savings. Solar energy, the most abundant renewable energy source, became a key actor. Through the photovoltaic effect, this energy can be converted directly into electrical power easy to transport or ready to be consumed in place. In this context, Halide Perovskite (HP) have been emerged as extremely appealing materials with record photoconversion efficiencies higher than 25%. In addition, the goodness of these materials to produce high efficiency solar cells makes them also suitable for the preparation of efficient LED, a key technology to increase energy savings as illumination is the responsible of the 20% of the total electric power consumption. Despite these impressive achievements, ABX3 halide materials suffer for some constrains as not always can crystallize with perovskite structure, where B cation is 6-fold coordinated to X anions (a corner sharing [BX6] octahedra) and the A cation occupying the 12-fold cuboctahedral coordination site. In some cases, depending on the Goldschmid tolerance factor and the octahedral factor (determined by A, B and X radii), the octahedra cannot share the corners. This fact influences dramatically the material properties, increasing significantly the bandgap and affecting deleteriously the transport properties. Thus, the interest of the materials with this non-perovskite phase decreases for the fabrication of optoelectronic devices. Unfortunately this is the case for several very interesting materials as CsPbI3 (inorganic compound with higher stability), FAPbI3 (the 3D system with the bandgap closer to the optimum one for photovoltaics) or CsSrI3 (Sr has no oxidation states higher than 2), just to name a few examples. The central hypothesis of Stable project is that surface energy can counteract the bulk energy stabilizing crystalline perovskite phases in materials in which this phase is not the most stable one at room temperature. We propose two approaches to act on the surface energy: i) increasing the surface/volume ratio through the preparation of nanoparticles (NPs) and ii) extending the interfaces along all the bulk of the thin film of the active material by the introduction of embedded semiconductor quantum dots. Our preliminary results are very promising concerning the feasibility of this project. The main goals of Stable project will be: i) To study the physical mechanisms inducing perovskite phase stability, evaluating the role of surface energy and strain in the phase stabilization and identifying the best material candidates, with interesting optoelectronic properties and easy phase stabilization; ii) To fabricate solar cells and LEDs based on materials with stabilized perovskite phase with properties beyond the current state-of-the-art in terms of light absorption, content of Pb or transport and recombination, optimizing the performance and analyzing the environmental impact of these new materials and devices.
INAM Training Capacity:
INAM has a strong commitment to prepare a new generation of outstanding researchers. INAM aims to attract doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers by providing them with the appropriate training to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to promote their careers in the characterization and development of advanced and functional materials. In addition, INAM also aims to encourage university students to become members of the scientific community. INAM will also ensure access to state-of-the-art equipment and highly specialized scientific staff.
INAM offers the opportunity to enjoy an international and multicultural work environment, seeking to ensure a good balance between personal and professional life. INAM is committed to producing scientific research and fostering scientific talent. The institute believes that gender equality and the creation of equal opportunities are indispensable to facilitate this high-level research and attract highly qualified scientists. An open, discrimination-free environment is the key to successful collaborations at INAM. The measures adopted by the Institute to promote gender equality and equal opportunities are integrated into the main principles described in the II Equality Plan (2016-2020) developed by Jaume I. Finally, highlighting that INAM is also committed to diversity and inclusion of people with disabilities.
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