Sofia Apergi
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
As part of the Computational Materials Physics group of Shuxia Tao, Sofia's work revolves around metal halide perovskites. Specifically, she makes use of computational methods, in order to study the surfaces and interfaces of materials that are present in perovskite devices. The goal is to reveal the physicochemical processes that govern the operation of perovskite devices and to find ways to improve them.
To harvest the energy that comes from something as big as the sun, we need to start from something as small as atoms...
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Sofia Apergi received her Master diploma in 2019, from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Her diploma thesis focused on the computational studies of materials for photovoltaic applications using density functional theory (DFT). She joined TU/e in September 2019 and she is currently working on the physics and chemistry of the interfaces between perovskite absorbers and charge transport layers using DFT.
Recent Publications
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Sofia Apergi,Geert Brocks,Shuxia Tao,Selina Olthof
Probing the Reactivity of ZnO with Perovskite Precursors
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2024) -
Sofia Apergi,Geert Brocks,Shuxia Tao
Calculating the Circular Dichroism of Chiral Halide Perovskites
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2023) -
Sofia Apergi
Formation and Optimization of Halide Perovskite Interfaces from First Principles
(2023) -
Ningyu Ren,Pengyang Wang,Junke Jiang,Renjie Li,Wei Han,Jingjing Liu,Zhao Zhu,Bingbing Chen,Qiaojing Xu,Tiantian Li
Multifunctional Additive CdAc2 for Efficient Perovskite-Based Solar Cells
Advanced Materials (2023) -
Xin Zhang,Weiming Qiu,Sofia Apergi,Shivam Singh,Paulo Marchezi,Wenya Song,Christian Sternemann,Karim Elkhouly,Dong Zhang,Aranzazu Aguirre
Minimizing the Interface-Driven Losses in Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules
ACS Energy Letters (2023)
Ancillary Activities
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