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My passions are material science research, education and art. My research group's work focusses on the development and understanding of functional optoelectronic thin film materials: hybrid halide perovskites, transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and p-type transparent conducting materials. We explore and develop physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques to achieve thin film growth control, tune optoelectronic material properties and even discover new materials. Our optoelectronic thin film materials find application in energy conversion and/or efficient devices like solar cells, light emitting diodes, photonics andĀ transparent electronics.
Before coming to UTwente, I have beenĀ team leader for the transparent electrodes development at theĀ Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PVLab) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. I obtained my Ph.D. in Physics from Leiden University, The Netherlands in 2012, working on resistive switching memories.
Expertise Material Science Solar Cell Oxide Electrode Pulsed Laser Deposition Temperature Devices Thin Films Chemistry Organisations More information about our research in the link:
https://www.utwente.nl/en/tnw/ims/research/research-morales/
Publications Jump to: 2025 | 2024
Template-Assisted Growth of Csx FA1-x PbI3 with Pulsed Laser Deposition for Single Junction Perovskite Solar Cells (2025) Advanced energy materials (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Kralj, S., Artuk, K., Wieczorek, A., Orlov, N., Eftekhari, Z., Saive, R., Garnett, E., Siol, S., Wolff, C. M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202406033 Cu-based transparent conductive materials with enhanced conductivity (2025) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Mirza, A. S. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563772 Comparative life cycle assessment of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices based on lead-free halide perovskite materials (Figures open data) (2025) [Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Franco, I. P., Mora-Seró, I., Vidal, R. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14756480 Titanium Dioxide: A Versatile Earth-Abundant Optical Material for Photovoltaics (2024) Advanced Optical Materials, 12 (36). Article 2401423. Marcelis, E. J., ten Elshof, J. E. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202401423 Single-source pulsed laser-deposited perovskite solar cells with enhanced performance via bulk and 2D passivation (2024) Joule, 8 (12), 3412-3425. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Azmi, R., Reus, M. A., Solomon, J. S., Cunha, D. M., Soltanpoor, W., Utomo, D. S., Ugur, E., Vishal, B., Ledinsky, M., Müller-Buschbaum, P., Babbe, F., Lee, D. K., Sutter-Fella, C. M., Aydin, E., De Wolf, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.09.001 Single-Source Vapor-Deposition of MA1āx FAx PbI3 Perovskite Absorbers for Solar Cells (2024) Advanced functional materials, 34 (50). Article 2300588. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Soltanpoor, W., Solomon, J. S., Gómez, J. S., Zanoni, K. P. S., Paliwal, A., Bolink, H. J., Baeumer, C., Kentgens, A. P. M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300588 Growth and stabilization of cubic FAPbI3 : On the interaction between phosphonic acids and co-evaporated perovskites (2024) Matter, 7 (10), 3238-3240. Kralj, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2024.09.007 2D/3D Epitaxial Halide Perovskites by Pulsed Laser Deposition (2024) [Contribution to conference › Poster] MESA+ Day 2024 . Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S., Soto Montero, T., Birkholzer, Y. A., M. Cunha, D., Soltanpoor, W., Kliner, V., Ledinský, M., Orlov, N., Garnett, E. C., Haward, T. B., Lilly, J. R. A., Herz, L. M., Koster, G., Rijnders, A. J. H. M., Leppert, L. & Morales Masis, M. Impact of the valence band energy alignment at the hole-collecting interface on the photostability of wide band-gap perovskite solar cells (2024) Joule, 8 (9), 2585-2606. Torres Merino, L. V., Petoukhoff, C. E., Matiash, O., Subbiah, A. S., Franco, C. V., Dally, P., Vishal, B., Kosar, S., Rosas Villalva, D., Hnapovskyi, V., Ugur, E., Shah, S., Peña Camargo, F., Karalis, O., Hempel, H., Levine, I., Pradhan, R. R., Kralj, S., Kalasariya, N., ā¦ De Wolf, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2024.06.017 Laser Deposition of Metal Halide Perovskites (2024) ACS Energy Letters, 9 (8), 4199-4208. Soto-Montero, T. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01466 From Design to Device: Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Discovery of p-Type Transparent Conductors (2024) PRX Energy, 3 . Article 031001. Woods-Robinson, R., Morales Masis, M. , Hautier, G. & Crovetto, A.https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.3.031001 Cs-Doped and Cs-S Co-Doped CuI p-Type Transparent Semiconductors with Enhanced Conductivity (2024) Advanced functional materials, 34 (30). Article 2316144. Mirza, A. S., Vishal, B., Dally, P., Schnohr, C. S., De Wolf, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202316144 Quantifying Organic Cation Ratios in Metal Halide Perovskites: Insights from X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2024) Chemistry of materials, 36 (14), 6912-6924. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Gómez, J. S., Wolffs, J. W., Rodkey, N., Kentgens, A. P. M. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00935 Single-source pulsed laser deposition of hybrid halide perovskites for solar cells (2024) [Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Soto Montero, T. d. S. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560023 Exploring the Dynamics of Formation of Pulsed Laser Deposited Halide Perovskite Through In-situ Photoluminescence at High Deposition Rates (2024) [Working paper › Preprint] (In preparation). Soto Montero, T. D. S. & Morales Masis, M. Highly conductive p-type nc-SiOX :H thin films deposited at 130Ā°C via efficient incorporation of plasma synthesized silicon nanocrystals and their application in SHJ solar cells (2024) Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 266 . Article 112675. Olivares, A. J., Seif, J. P., Repecaud, P. A., Longeaud, C., Morales-Masis, M. , Bivour, M. & Roca i Cabarrocas, P.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2023.112675 Microwave-Mediated Synthesis of Lead-Free Cesium Titanium Bromide Double Perovskite: A Sustainable Approach (2024) Chemistry of materials, 36 (3), 1728-1736. Reyes-Francis, E., Echeverría-Arrondo, C., Esparza, D., López-Luke, T., Soto-Montero, T., Morales-Masis, M. , Turren-Cruz, S. H., Mora-Seró, I. & Julián-López, B.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c03108 Impact of the TCO Microstructure on the Electronic Properties of Carbazole-Based Self-Assembled Monolayers (2024) ACS Materials Letters, 6 (2), 366-374. Kralj, S., Dally, P., Bampoulis, P., Vishal, B., De Wolf, S. & Morales-Masis, M. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.3c01166 Single-Source Pulsed Laser Deposited Perovskite Solar Cells with > 19% Efficiency (2024) [Working paper › Preprint]. Soto Montero, T. D. S., Solomon Sathiaraj, J. S. S., Kralj, S., M. Cunha, D., Morales Masis, M. & Soltanpoor, W. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3671187/v1 Vapor phase deposition of perovskite photovoltaics: Short track to commercialization? (2024) Energy & environmental science, 17 (5), 1645-1663. Abzieher, T., Moore, D. T., Roß, M., Albrecht, S., Silvia, J., Tan, H., Jeangros, Q., Ballif, C., Hoerantner, M. T., Kim, B. S., Bolink, H. J., Pistor, P., Goldschmidt, J. C., Chiang, Y. H., Stranks, S. D., Borchert, J., McGehee, M. D., Morales-Masis, M. , Patel, J. B., ā¦ Paetzold, U. W.https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ee03273f Research profiles Courses academic year 2025/2026 Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
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