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Mr. Catalin Mihai Ticos

Dr, Senior scientist

Senior scientist I - INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA " HORIA HULUBEI " - IFIN - HH

Researcher | Scientific reviewer

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Strain and bandgap engineered InGaN/BGaN superlattice solar cells Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2021-3525 2022 - 2024

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Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE- DEZVOLTARE PENTRU MICROTEHNOLOGIE - IMT BUCURESTI INCD

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE- DEZVOLTARE PENTRU MICROTEHNOLOGIE - IMT BUCURESTI INCD (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA (RO)

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Project website: https://www.imt.ro/superCell/index.php

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Energy conversion efficiencies over 47% have been recently achieved using conventional III–V semiconductor compounds as photovoltaic materials in tandem cells. The revision of InN bandgap to a much narrower value has extended the fundamental bandgap of the group III-nitride alloy system over almost the entire spectral region (from 0.64 eV for InN to 3.4 eV for GaN or 6.2 eV for AlN), raising the possibility of a variety of new applications. The tunable bandgap, predicted high radiation resistance, and strong absorption coefficient of the InxGa1−xN material system are promising for high-efficiency photovoltaic tandem systems. During the past few years, the interest in InxGa1−xN solar cells has been remarkable. The development of high-performance solar cells using InxGa1−xN materials is one of the most important goals when compared with the existing solar cells using Si and other III–V materials. Significant efforts and progress have been made toward this goal, while great opportunities and grand challengies exist. Most of the today’s research and progress in III-nitride have been made on the heterojunction structure, e.g., p-GaN/InGaN/n-GaN structure, where an InGaN as an absorption layer or InGaN/(Al)GaN superlattice (SL) structure is sandwitched by p- and n-GaN layers. However, despite challenging results, the use of InGaN-on-GaN as a veritable photovoltaic material is still at early stages mainly due to the severe deterioration of material quality with high-In incorporation (phase segregation and highly compressive strain) necessary to achive the desired low bandgap cell in multijunction tandem cells. Our approach comes to aleviate this annoying botleneck in development of InGaN/GaN solar cell technology by proposing an innovative InGaN/BGaN superlattice capable to be grown lattice compatible to GaN, yet allowing the desired bandgap shrinking by dual incorporation of In and B. This opens the door for a completely lattice matched InGaN-based tandem on GaN templates

Romanian participation to EUROfusion WPMAT and complementary research Call name:
WPMAT-RO 2016 - 2018

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA MATERIALELOR BUCURESTI RA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA MATERIALELOR BUCURESTI RA (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA MATERIALELOR BUCURESTI RA (RO)

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Accelerations of electron to 1 GeV with high power lasers Call name:
E06 2014 - 2016

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA (); UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA ()

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Technology for removing dust on Mars missions Call name:
100 2013 - 2016

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA (); INSTITUTUL DE FIZICA ATOMICA ()

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA ()

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Interaction of plasma jets with dust crystals: an experimental study bridging the fields of strongly coupled plasmas and strongly ionized plasmas Call name:
RP-10 2007 - 2009

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA ()

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA ()

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