Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (born 1975) is Spanish physicist and materials scientist. Her research focuses on nanotechnology applied in the production of solar cells. She is a Full Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the head of the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials.[1][2]

Professor

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Born1975 (age 45–46)
CitizenshipSpain
AwardsRodolphe and Renée Haenny Fondation Prize (2012)
EPS Emmy Noether Distinction (2015)
Academic background
EducationPhysics
Material Science
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Ecole Polytechnique
Doctoral advisorPere Roca i Cabarrocas
Other academic advisorsHarry A. Atwater
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
Material Science
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsNanotechnology
Semiconductor Nanostructures
Molecular-beam epitaxy
Solar cells
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/lmsc/

Career

Fontcuberta i Morral studied physics at University of Barcelona and received her Bacholar's degree in 1997. In the following year she gained a diploma (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondis, D.E.A.) in material sciences from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. As a graduate student she joined the group of Pere Roca i Cabarrocas at Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, and graduated in 2001 with PhD with a study of polymorphous silicon.[3] She then went to the California Institute of Technology to work as postdoctoral scholar with Harry A. Atwater.[4]

In 2003, she became a permanent research fellow at French National Centre for Scientific Research at the École Polytechnique. From 2004 to 2005 she was visiting scientist at California Institute of Technology. During the time she co-founded the startup company Aonex Technologies specialized in layer in the production of multi-junction solar cells.[5][6] Sponsored by an Marie Curie Excellence Grant she became team leader at the Walter Schottky Institute at Technical University of Munich in 2005, where she also habilitated in physics in 2009.[7][8]

In 2008, she joined the Institute of Materials Science & Engineering at the School of Engineering of EPFL first as an Assistant Professor, and in 2014, she was promoted as Associate Professor. She is the founder and head of Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials.[2][9]

Research

Fontcuberta i Morral works on the boundaries of physics, material science and engineering, and focuses on quantum science, renewable energy production and sustainable material design.[10][11] Her research ventures aim at the synthesis and characterization of semiconductor nano-structures and in particular on nano-wires for the application in new nano-electronic, nano-photonic systems, and biochemical sensors.[12][13] She studies silicon based materials[14] and semiconductor based among other on III-Arsenic and III-Antimony.[15][16]

Distinctions

In 2012, she received EPFL's Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Fondation Prize.[17] In 2015, she was awarded the European Physical Society's Emmy Noether Distinction for "noteworthy women physicists".[6]

Selected works
  • Krogstrup, Peter; Jørgensen, Henrik Ingerslev; Heiss, Martin; Demichel, Olivier; Holm, Jeppe V.; Aagesen, Martin; Nygard, Jesper; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2013). "Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit". Nature Photonics. 7 (4): 306–310. arXiv:1301.1068. Bibcode:2013NaPho...7..306K. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.32. S2CID 6096888.
  • Dumcenco, Dumitru; Ovchinnikov, Dmitry; Marinov, Kolyo; Lazić, Predrag; Gibertini, Marco; Marzari, Nicola; Sanchez, Oriol Lopez; Kung, Yen-Cheng; Krasnozhon, Daria; Chen, Ming-Wei; Bertolazzi, Simone; Gillet, Philippe; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna; Radenovic, Aleksandra; Kis, Andras (2015). "Large-Area Epitaxial Monolayer MoS2". ACS Nano. 9 (4): 4611–4620. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b01281. PMC 4415455. PMID 25843548.
  • Spirkoska, D.; Arbiol, J.; Gustafsson, A.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Glas, F.; Zardo, I.; Heigoldt, M.; Gass, M. H.; Bleloch, A. L.; Estrade, S.; Kaniber, M.; Rossler, J.; Peiro, F.; Morante, J. R.; Abstreiter, G.; Samuelson, L.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2009). "Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/Wurtzite Ga As nanowire heterostructures". Physical Review B. 80 (24): 245325. arXiv:0907.1444. Bibcode:2009PhRvB..80x5325S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245325. S2CID 2683.
  • Colombo, C.; Spirkoska, D.; Frimmer, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2008). "Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of Ga As nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy". Physical Review B. 77 (15): 155326. Bibcode:2008PhRvB..77o5326C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155326.
  • Colombo, C.; Spirkoska, D.; Frimmer, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2008). "Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of Ga As nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy". Physical Review B. 77 (15): 155326. Bibcode:2008PhRvB..77o5326C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155326.
  • Heiss, M.; Fontana, Y.; Gustafsson, A.; Wüst, G.; Magen, C.; o'Regan, D. D.; Luo, J. W.; Ketterer, B.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Kuhlmann, A. V.; Houel, J.; Russo-Averchi, E.; Morante, J. R.; Cantoni, M.; Marzari, N.; Arbiol, J.; Zunger, A.; Warburton, R. J.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). "Self-assembled quantum dots in a nanowire system for quantum photonics" (PDF). Nature Materials. 12 (5): 439–444. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..439H. doi:10.1038/nmat3557. PMID 23377293.
  • Heiss, M.; Fontana, Y.; Gustafsson, A.; Wüst, G.; Magen, C.; o'Regan, D. D.; Luo, J. W.; Ketterer, B.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Kuhlmann, A. V.; Houel, J.; Russo-Averchi, E.; Morante, J. R.; Cantoni, M.; Marzari, N.; Arbiol, J.; Zunger, A.; Warburton, R. J.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). "Self-assembled quantum dots in a nanowire system for quantum photonics" (PDF). Nature Materials. 12 (5): 439–444. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..439H. doi:10.1038/nmat3557. PMID 23377293.

References
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  3. Fontcuberta i Morral, A; Roca i Cabarrocas, P (2001-02-20). "Shedding light on the growth of amorphous, polymorphous, protocrystalline and microcrystalline silicon thin films". Thin Solid Films. 383 (1–2): 161–164. Bibcode:2001TSF...383..161F. doi:10.1016/s0040-6090(00)01596-0. ISSN 0040-6090.
  4. Zahler, J.M.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A.; Chang-Geun Ahn; Atwater, H.A.; Wanlass, M.W.; Chu, C.; Iles, P.A. (2002). "Wafer bonding and layer transfer processes for 4-junction high efficiency solar cells". Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. New Orleans, LA, USA: IEEE: 1039–1042. doi:10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190783. ISBN 978-0-7803-7471-3. OSTI 15006757. S2CID 18500749.
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  8. Hetzl, Martin; Kraut, Max; Winnerl, Julia; Francaviglia, Luca; Döblinger, Markus; Matich, Sonja; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna; Stutzmann, Martin (2016-11-09). "Strain-Induced Band Gap Engineering in Selectively Grown GaN–(Al,Ga)N Core–Shell Nanowire Heterostructures". Nano Letters. 16 (11): 7098–7106. Bibcode:2016NanoL..16.7098H. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03354. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 27766884.
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  11. Krogstrup, Peter; Jørgensen, Henrik Ingerslev; Heiss, Martin; Demichel, Olivier; Holm, Jeppe V.; Aagesen, Martin; Nygard, Jesper; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2013-04-01). "Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit". Nature Photonics. 7 (4): 306–310. arXiv:1301.1068. Bibcode:2013NaPho...7..306K. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.32. ISSN 1749-4885. S2CID 6096888.
  12. McIntyre, P.C.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2019-10-16). "Semiconductor nanowires: to grow or not to grow?". Materials Today Nano. 9: 100058. doi:10.1016/j.mtnano.2019.100058.
  13. Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2020-04-08). "Nanostructured alloys light the way to silicon-based photonics". Nature. 580 (7802): 188–189. Bibcode:2020Natur.580..188F. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00976-8. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 32269348.
  14. Dumcenco, Dumitru; Ovchinnikov, Dmitry; Marinov, Kolyo; Lazić, Predrag; Gibertini, Marco; Marzari, Nicola; Sanchez, Oriol Lopez; Kung, Yen-Cheng; Krasnozhon, Daria; Chen, Ming-Wei; Bertolazzi, Simone (2015-04-28). "Large-Area Epitaxial Monolayer MoS 2". ACS Nano. 9 (4): 4611–4620. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b01281. ISSN 1936-0851. PMC 4415455. PMID 25843548.
  15. Spirkoska, D.; Arbiol, J.; Gustafsson, A.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Glas, F.; Zardo, I.; Heigoldt, M.; Gass, M. H.; Bleloch, A. L.; Estrade, S.; Kaniber, M. (2009-12-31). "Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures". Physical Review B. 80 (24): 245325. arXiv:0907.1444. Bibcode:2009PhRvB..80x5325S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245325. hdl:2445/32932. ISSN 1098-0121. S2CID 2683.
  16. Colombo, C.; Spirkoska, D.; Frimmer, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2008-04-28). "Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of GaAs nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy". Physical Review B. 77 (15): 155326. Bibcode:2008PhRvB..77o5326C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155326. ISSN 1098-0121.
  17. Vandevyver, Caroline (2012-10-10). "Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Prize 2012 - A. i Morral and H. Frauenrath". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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