Universita di Genova

Diego Colombara

Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry @ DC Group
Università degli Studi di Genova

Diego Colombara

Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
Marie Curie

  • Chalcogenide materials

    Can we improve their structural qualities to improve the performance of technologies such as photovoltaics and quantum computing?

  • Solid state atomic diffusion

    Can small amounts of dopants catalyze the diffusivity of matrix atoms in 3D and 2D chalcogenide materials, thus reducing defect densities?

  • Microfabrication

    Can we envision a paradigm shift in microfabrication based on the new concept of reusable mask patterning?

About me

My research activities in brief

I am a solid state scientist with expertise in chalcogenide materials for photovoltaic solar energy conversion. Recently, besides looking into green microfabrication, I am seeking to extend my personal take on extrinsic doping to other 2D and 3D chalcogenides with exotic applications.

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Research

Principal research interests

My expertise stands at the junction between Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, as reflected in my publication output. From 2008 to 2017, I have been studying photovoltaic (PV) materials, processes, and devices. Then, my career took a diversion when I joined the International Nanotechnology Laboratory in Portugal to develop a novel surface patterning technique, thus investing in microfabrication training. This deliberate choice meant a drop in my publication and citation records, but this effort was re-paid by one patent application on surface patterning and by the establishment of the large REMAP consortium -funded by the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder Open schemethat is entirely devoted to demonstrate my surface patterning invention applied to microconcentrator PV.

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Professional achievements

My most cherished scientific achievements are the rejection of a 20-years old assumption on sodium doping in Cu(In,Ga)Se2, the subsequent single-author study, both of which result from my first independent project GALDOCHS, and the coordination of the EIC project REMAP devoted to the demonstration of a paradigm shift in microfabrication.

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    Partnership

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    University of Bath, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Sapienza University of Rome, Université de Versailles UFR des Sciences (UVSQ), Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Drexel University, Ion Beam Centre, AVANCIS GmbH Research & Development Institute, Solvionic, UCLouvain, Empa, Colorado School of Mines, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Center for Convergent Technologies (CCT@Morego), Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, Aalto University, Istituto di Struttura della Materia CNR, Institut Photovoltaïque d’Ile-de-France (IPVF) Palaiseau, IREC Fundación Instituto de Investigación de la Energía de Cataluña, Bosch, NCSR Demokritos, CNRS, Northwestern University, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, RINA.